It’s a little ridiculous, some of the things that people boast are vegan, like Oreos. Seriously? So, no animals, no dairy, but it’s cool to pump your guts full of fat and refined sugar? That’s not to say that all vegans believe in this, but we can count at least a handful that have brought [...]
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7-11 Dabbles In Veganism
Aired December 17th, 2010 on Animal Rights, Fast Food, Junk Food, Retail and Trends.3 CommentsReading Terminal Does Biggest Year Ever
Aired March 4th, 2010 on Locavore, Phoodies and Retail.5 CommentsIt’s such good news we almost can’t comprehend it: Philly’s Reading Terminal Market enjoyed 5.8 million visits in 2009, the highest total in the Market’s storied 118-year history, it was announced yesterday. And in a recession year (boy, was it ever), RTM vendors also did $21.4 million in business last year — an increase of [...]
Pathmark to rock a Whole Foods move in NoLibs? More details at Philebrity.
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Your New Philadelphia Target Store: I’ll Take a Twelve-Pack of Boxer Briefs, and a Half-Pound of Bologna
Aired October 29th, 2009 on Retail and Supermarkets.0 CommentsMinneapolis-based Target has just announced that they’re going to start selling produce, fresh meat, and baked goods at 30 of their stores in the Philadelphia area. The P-Fresh or SuperTarget brands follow in the footsteps of other big-box stores such as the Wal*Mart Superstore and the failed K-Mart Foods to offer one-stop shopping (new genre: [...]
The Fresh Market Opening A Second Philly-Area Location
Aired August 11th, 2009 on Retail and Supermarkets.1 CommentMove over Wegmans; back up, Whole Foods; and look out, Trader Joe’s — there’s a new Fancy, Organic and Attractive supermarket on the block. The Fresh Market, a North Carolina based supermarket chain, is growing steadily up and down the east coast and is setting up their second Philadelphia-Area store in Horsham, PA. According to [...]
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Tony Smyrski Takes You To The Reading Terminal
Aired March 6th, 2009 on Phoodies, Props Is Due, Retail and video.0 CommentsMegawords honcho Tony Smyrski has been doing some videos for the travel website WeJetSet lately — here, he gives an overview of the beloved Reading Terminal Market, which should A) serve well in your efforts to convince your friends in other cities to move here immediately and B) inspire you to get up and suss [...]
Sources are telling us — and Klein bears out — that Chef’s Market has closed their retail operation on South Street, remodeling the space and will have offices and catering run out of their South Street Location. For more than a year, 65% of the longstanding Phoodie valhalla’s total business was catering; they’d even opened [...]
Olive Juice. Olive Juice So Much That Sometimes I Just Can’t Take It!
Aired January 19th, 2009 on Drinks, Phoodies, Props Is Due and Retail.2 CommentsBehold the ongoing concern of the serial extra-dirty martini drinker: Any moment now, you or the barkeep is going to run out of olive juice. There’s just nothing you can do about it. Until now. OliveJuiceForSale.com sells six different kinds of olive juice, all of which I am pouring all over my body as we [...]
Capogiro Gelato Quietly Begins Conquest Of The Other Five Boroughs
Aired August 7th, 2008 on Retail, Superfoods and Sweets.0 CommentsClick image to enlarge. When no one was looking, Center City fave/future Starbucks-size gelato juggernaut Capogiro Gelato has been creeping onto the dessert menus of finer NYC restaurants, as described in this New York magazine sidebar. While we in Philly famously do not like to share home-grown delicacies (if I catch you touching my Pennsylvania [...]
Hey Mikey, We Like It! Metropolitan Granola Converts Even The Most Devout Of Scrapple Eaters
Aired May 13th, 2008 on Brunch, HealthCheck, Retail and Superfoods.1 CommentI think I can say with some degree of confidence that Metropolitan Bakery’s All-Natural Granola is the healthiest thing to pass through my body at least in this century. And it is here that I gently whisper in your ear with the fervor of a new convert, I really, really liked it! From their unassuming [...]
