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https://www.imperialbuffetus.com/ is my go-to for such things.

Corporations only think in the timelines of their CEOs, so a bit less than 50 years at most. It’s all about the short term profits

>but I'm still surprised by the hype. It's just a grocery store.

You must be new here. Just chalk it up to one of our parochial quirks.

Here's a documentary film that should help explain things.

This is cool but it’s kinda a “we should do things by doing things” answer which isn’t very helpful

It's mediocre stuff for cheap. So if you mostly care about the price it is good.

Considering Boston's likely going to be under water in 100 years, I don't understand why there isn't an active campaign to encourage corporations and universities to migrate here.

The Boynton

The first four items are what every milquetoast member of city council has run on in the past couple of decades.

Quinns?

Early morning was great. Tons of parking, easy access, not super busy. The people there said it would be very busy in the afternoon though.

If I remember correctly, Stop&Shop has a few different price tiers that they operate different stores at. When the Market Basket in Maynard opened a few years ago, suddenly the Stop&Shop in South Acton couldn’t keep the same higher priced tier that Acton and neighboring Concord could “afford”, and they had to drop it to a lower priced tier.

It's a generic answer that works for most places. chatgpt is great if you want surface level answers.

Encourage tourism hahaha

This was around 1pm. It was moving, there weren't many parking spaces available but people were coming in at about the same rate.

There was someone at the entrance asking which town you were from. Every checkout was open and they even had temporary checkouts set up.

It looks like they're trying to compete with Wegmans and Total Wine. This location has the largest prepared food section I've seen. The liquor store was also really well stocked and pretty similar to the one in Waltham.

I only grabbed a few items but prices were the same as the other market baskets, so no changes there!

OP, care for a trip report? Was going to go today but thought damn that place is going to be packed !

Yep! It’s less organized than hmart and less selection, but still awesome enough for being 13 min from our house!!!

If you need sports on TV, Funky's is a good spot.

If you're flexible on that, I'm a huge fan of the Sundown on Green St.

Boland's bar and patio just opened up as an Irish pub where the Rock Bar once was in the canal district at 81 Water St. Great owners, should bring something new to the area.

The DeMoulas treat their workers well too compared too other stores. Hell they had a strike when Arthur T. DeMoulas was fired.

Not Closed.

I like the banner but aren’t they closed now?

In Worcester it’s mostly street parking odd sides only during snowstorms but they also open up the public garages for free

Seconding Steel and Wire, great cocktails and good liquor selection

The Banner and Funky Murphy’s are pretty solid