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Since "Princeton" is now unofficially one of the largest towns in NJ (saying that you are located in Princeton has quite a bit of cachet, apparently, even if you aren't really located in Princeton), you should bear in mind that the Whole Foods "Princeton" store is actually located in West Windsor, on Route 1, just south of Meadow Road:
Located on US Route 1 Southbound in the Windsor Green Shopping Center
GPS address: 3495 Brunswick Pike South, West Windsor, NJ
I'll meet you at the salad bar on Sunday!
Omg u are so right. I had family living in Montgomery with a Princeton address and they glommed onto that for dear life. They moved in town and now have a skillman addy, but where do they say they live? Princeton. Cracks me up.
Wegmans is supposedly coming to Whippany. Long way to go (from West Orange) for groceries, but closer than Woodbridge.
Wegmans has a lease signed for a store just off rte 10 and Ridgedale Ave. (in Hanover Twp, right on the Cedar Knolls border) it is just off the rte 10 and 287 interchange. I can hardly wait, as currently I have to drive to Bridgewater to go to a Wegmans, and this one will be closer to home, and on my way to several places I visit regularly.
The Princeton/West Windsor area has a Whole Foods AND a Wegmans. And a Trader Joes.
Yup! You have described my typical Sunday itinerary.
1) Stop at Whole Foods for lunch. The salad bar is really amazing! Then, a cup of Allegro coffee from their coffee bar. Perhaps I might buy one or two items after eating lunch.
2) Continue southward for a mile or so, to Wegman's--my main destination. Many of the items that I buy here are cheaper than they are at Shop-Rite. And, they have several reasonably-priced wines that I enjoy.
3) Use the cloverleaf just south of Wegman's to get back on Rt. 1 North, go a little over a mile, and stop at Trader Joe's, which is located almost directly opposite Whole Foods. Yes, TJ's also carries reasonably-priced wine, but the ones that I like are sold at Wegmans.
Although the Bridgewater Wegmans location is actually closer to my house than the one in West Windsor, by making the Wegmans in West Windsor my destination, I am able to include those two other stores in one trip. Needless to say, I bring a cooler chest in order to keep everything at the proper temperature until I return home.
I'd love to see a Christmas Tree Shoppe go into the old PathMark on Route 1 in North Brunswick that's been sitting empty for 2 years. Actually, at this point, I'd like to see ANYTHING go in there.
(FTR: They don't actually sell Christmas Trees.... http://www.christmastreeshops.com/ )
Screw Wegmans. My wife and I went there several months ago to check it out. She was standing in line behind me during checkout and the cashier refused to sell me a bottle of wine because my wife did not have her ID on her, citing "store policy." Are you kidding me? So if I had my 10 year old kid with me they wouldn't sell me wine? What if I had my wife wait in the car; do they put people's family members in a database and look them up? "Sorry buddy, says here you have a wife. You'll need to go home and get her so I can see her ID before selling this to you." What if she left the store five minutes before I checked out, then can I buy my wine? What sense does that make? What if there was a random teenage in line behind me? If I talk to him/her, do I not get to buy wine? Ridiculous. I'll never step foot in a Nazi "show me your papers" Wegmans again. Between Shoprite and Wholefoods you can get just about anything you can get a Wegmans and usually for cheaper.
LOL, i've ran into a problem before with that stupid policy, my wife usually doesnt take anything with her when we go out together and i wanted to buy some beer and was refused because she didnt have ID. We are both 30. dumb policy for all the reason you stated already.
I have only recently heard them advertised on the radio, and for a location in the city. I was confused, because I was thinking of the supermarket by the train station in Long Branch, which certainly doesn't seem to be the upscale place the ads are trying to promote.
I visit Wegmans once each week, in addition to a couple of quick pick-up visits to Shop-Rite.
However, no one store carries everything that I might want or need, hence the desire to go to a different store like Fairway once in a while.
For instance, Fairway has many more varieties of smoked salmon than Wegmans does, and Fairway's olive bar selection is second to none. The selection of premium imported olive oils and vinegars at Fairway puts the selection at Wegmans (or any other market) to shame. Fairway's roasted-on-premises coffee varieties are also incredible in their scope.
LOL, I would never buy either of those items, so I'm OK with Wegman's.
I have a Trader Joe's a hop, skip, and jump away from my house, but it's small and doesn't carry all the things a Wegman's or Whole Foods does. And curiously, their produce sucks. I mean, I bought Yukon Gold potatoes there last week and ended up cutting big brown spots out of all of them. I've gotten apples that tasted as if they had been allowed to freeze at some point, and I bought oranges there last year that were about as tasty as the webbed bag in which they were encased. Fortunately, Delicious Orchards is a ten-minute ride away, but I'm kind of disappointed that TJ's produce is so bad. They do have the best pineapple juice in the world, though.
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