We’re lucky to live in a city with handy access to a variety of Asian supermarkets, where grocery shopping often doubles as full-immersion education, but by far our favorite is Spring Garden Market at 4th and Spring Garden. Of the ones we’ve visited in the city, SGM is the largest/cleanest/best organized, and its aisles are [...]
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Dept. Of Things We Found At Spring Garden Market: Xiao Meng Xiang Hot Pot Soup Mix
Aired February 8th, 2012 on Asian Fusion, Noodles, Pho, Ramen, Spicy, Supermarkets and soup.0 CommentsThe way we live now: Bottom Dollar Food is making its Philly debut in the fall. The chain, found mostly in the south — North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, will open 21 stores in Philly and its surrounding counties. And with a name like Bottom Dollar, there’s no mistaking it: It’s a discount grocery store. You’ll [...]
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: [...]
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Whole Foods Knows How To Fix ‘Merica’s Health Care System
Aired August 13th, 2009 on Supermarkets.1 CommentAmid the current maelstrom of birthers, deathers, out of control town hall meetings, and short-tempered politicians, it seemed that all we had to do was cling tightly to our evergreen lefty-centric institutions and eventually we could weather the storm with our long-held values intact. Or could we? In a recent Wall Street Journal article, John [...]
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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