Big Y Vs. Market Basket? (Somerville, Chelsea: neighborhood, store, roach)

[snatale1]

Big Y = Large higher end nice shopping experience.
Market Basket = Filthy craphole usually in run down neighborhoods.

[wolfgang239]

Originally Posted by snatale1

Big Y = Large higher end nice shopping experience.
Market Basket = Filthy craphole usually in run down neighborhoods.

If you have no idea what you are talking about you should probably not comment. I'm no Artie T shill but I regularly shop at 4 different market baskets (Westford, Somerville, Chelsea, and Nashua) and none of them are in run down neighborhoods and they are never filthy. You should try going to one and then forming an opinion.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by Boston_Burbs

Wegmans is a combination of everything that is bad about Shaws and Whole Foods. They had a huge buffet like Whole foods but it was all crap. They had someone in the fish department filleting a farm raised salmon. It seems like a huge gimmick to get rich people to spend money on crap.

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This is no joke ,you are the first and only person I have ever heard say a bad thing about Wegmans and while I will admit I have not been to the same one you have I have been to quiet a few of them and I will at best say you caught the store at a bad day.Wegmans is what everyone wants to be and they got that formula from a grocery store in the MD,DC and VA area known as Giant Food of Maryland .It was once on the verge of being the best grocery store in the country ,until Royal Ahold got ahold of them and has been running them into the ground ever since .

[Brave Stranger]

If I can save a buck I'll shop in a tent.....could care less about the "experience".

[MocDoc]

Originally Posted by snatale1

Big Y = Large higher end nice shopping experience.
Market Basket = Filthy craphole usually in run down neighborhoods.

The new MB in Waltham off of 128 is quite nice.

[xo_kizzy_xo]

Originally Posted by mdovell

Reminds me why does star market still exist? I know shaw's owns them but frankly why not just convert?

By law they can't convert because otherwise 1) it'd create a monopoly, and 2) Stop & Shop's owners would jump in there so fast it'd make everyone's head spin, especially in areas where they and Shaw's already overlap.

The Star Markets which have have been transitioned to the Shaws name are in areas where Stop and Shop isn't a direct competitor. For example, the Star Market in Marshfield easily became a Shaw's because the nearest Stop and Shop is X miles down Rte 139 in Pembroke. If it was closer it would've remained Star.

[opus123]

Originally Posted by FCMA

Big Y has extremely high everyday prices, and only things on sale are decently priced. I kind of hate them. MB has much lower everyday prices than Big Y for the same products. Big Y may have some higher quality products than MB, but you sure will pay for it. Personally I rarely shopped at Big Y when I lived near one in Western Mass- I'd shop at Trader Joe's and Stop and Shop instead. That's actually one negative thing about Western Mass, Big Y and Stop & Shop are the only two grocery chains, and their prices are extremely high compared to Hannaford's and Market Basket - some things are a dollar or more higher at Big Y / S&S for certain products. Because of this, Western Mass has very high grocery prices compared to Central and Eastern MA, where there is more competition between chains.

It appears Big Y is expanding out of Western MA, into CT, Central Mass, and they even have stores in Walpole MA and Franklin MA now. (Check out their store locator map, BigY ) Stay away! I don't think their locations overlap with MB at all, probably because then people would catch on to how much of a ripoff they are.

When I lived in Western Mass there was also Price Chopper - is that still around?

[FCMA]

Originally Posted by snatale1

Big Y = Large higher end nice shopping experience.
Market Basket = Filthy craphole usually in run down neighborhoods.

The old Market Baskets resembled this a little more, but you obviously haven't been in any new ones. Even many of the ones in rundown neighborhoods (I still call the Water St Fitchburg one "ghetto basket" out of habit) have been renovated and are REALLY nice now. Do you enjoy paying 50-100% more for the same product? If so have fun at your sterile, faux-yuppie Big Y.

[FCMA]

Originally Posted by opus123

When I lived in Western Mass there was also Price Chopper - is that still around?

Price Chopper seems to only be in the Berkshires and Central Mass, none in Pioneer Valley that I know of, except in Brattleboro VT right over the line.

[western mass and love it]

Western Mass has , Big Y , Stop and Shop , Price Rite , Guisslers(sp) , Big E's , Super Wal Marts ,Aldi's , Trader Joes and Whole Foods. Would love a MB or Wegmans but that will never happen