2000+ Words on Market Basket

[daviscubed.livejournal.com]

"Not far from this chaos is my favorite spot, the quietest in the store. If you follow the produce section’s outer wall it takes you to a corner where the vegetables get more interesting. Here, you are still half in the produce and half in a weird, untidy seam between sections. All within 15 feet are garlic croutons, popsicles, trail mix, bouquets of flowers, and yucca roots. It is the place where everything meets and touches, the items’ weird proximity creating both a palpable strangeness and a low-traffic oasis — complete with coconuts — that I sometimes pop into, enjoying the stillness as if I’d been swimming underwater and suddenly came up into the air pocket of an overturned raft. "

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2010/09/by_steve_macone_guest_columnis.html?comments=all

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

aww, man. they make a note of the place, and now EVERYONE will shop there.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

too late :)

the yelp entries on that Markey Basket are really amusing, too.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Having moved to NJ, I miss Market Basket a lot. I learned over the years when to shop to avoid the crowds and the prices.... wow. It was a shocker to my wife when we went to the stores down here. $4.25 for a gallon of milk and $2 for a loaf of white bread? Fortunately, we found some cheaper places but none compare to MB. And I cannot count how many times I bought the $3.99 cooked chicken. If only they would open a MB down here. Sigh.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

One of the things I like about them is that they are a small enough chain to actually still feel like a "local" business. I think having a reach that gets you to cover NJ and MA pretty much means your operating costs start looking mroe like Stop n Shops and then so do your prices.

[turil.livejournal.com]

Occasionally you can find Jicama there. And very inexpensive portobello mushrooms. It is indeed probably the best spot in the store.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Geez, I just buy my groceries there--I didn't realize I was supposed to have a whole post-modern ironic hipster meditation on the place.

Also, I bought yucca and trail mix and popsicles there on Saturday, so I guess I am Mr. Macone's ideal MB shopper.

[diatomacearth.livejournal.com]

Well, that was my Saturday afternoon in a nutshell.