So the big news in Warwick today is that a Price Chopper has opened nearly across the street from its main competitor – Shop Rite.
I had some shopping to do, so I figured ‘why not?’
Nice parking lot, nice wide aisle, decent selection of products, pricing is… not all that impressive.
Sure, they had a bunch of nice deals, but they were mainly for store brand products. Â The meat selection looked good, but their burgers and steaks are HUGE. Â That’s fine and dandy, but why spend $20 for 8 big ass burgers at PC when I can spend $8 for 8 fresh ground quarter pounders at Shop Rite? Â Everything’s bright, and clean, but perhaps one day when I’m not towing along my 4 year old I’ll get a better look around. Â I also noticed – no dark chocolate hersheys baking powder… WTF? Â I didn’t get to see if they had a gluten free section either.
My first impression is that PC has a VERY large hill to climb if they expect to threaten SR. Â The only supermarket I think that will be threatened is A&P in Vernon, which is very similar to PC in price, selection and size, and has plenty of NY plates in the lot every time I go.
I really don’t care for the ‘no turn on red’ crap leaving the lot either. Â The visibility looks adequate for me, but then again local drivers are such retards I wouldn’t want to put money on them NOT having a dozen wrecks a day due to some impatient idiot.
My prediction, yuppies will go to PC, everyone else will go to SR, and A&P will continue to scrape by.