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Originally Posted by Collegeguy12
umm...fair lawn is a white area hahaha.
And Shop Rite is by far the best of the regular grocery stores, although I find the A&P in Washington Twp (Bergen) to be quite nice...always clean...and my mom always goes there if certain things are on sale. We hate stop and shop. And I've only been to a Pathmark once and hated that place too.
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The Fair Lawn Pathmark and Shop-Rite are actually quite diverse in terms of clientele, as both stores tend to draw large crowds from nearby Paterson.
I HATE both of those stores. The people there, both the Fair Lawn people and the Paterson people, are mean, nasty, and rude. Both stores are always out of items. There's never enough help, especially at night at the Pathmark. And the crowds can get rough, especially at night at the Pathmark.
When I want to go to Shop-Rite, I either go to the one in Rochelle Park or the one in Ramsey (it's a trip, but it's SO much better than the Fair Lawn store). The Rochelle Park customers are also pretty diverse, but they seem to be more civilized than the Fair Lawn crowd. The store is much better managed as well. The Ramsey Shop-Rite is owned by the same family that owns the Fair Lawn store, and yet, the Ramsey store is so much better managed.
I also like the A&P in Midland Park. The yuppies can get annoying there (as well as in the Shop-Rite in Ramsey), but I can deal with them better than a person telling their two-year-old kid to "Shut the f--k up before I beat the snot out of you in front of everyone" and then doing it. The Washington Township A&P is OK, but last time I went there, they had yet to update the store like they have most of the others. Sometimes I hit the Saddle Brook A&P, but the people there can be pretty surly as well.
I don't know how Foodtown stays in business, but I'm glad they do, because the Foodtown in North Haledon is BEAUTIFUL since they completed their remodel. Their deli is terrific. They have a trained chef in charge of the deli, and he makes some incredible stuff. (For those of you who watched Real Housewives of NJ, do you remember when the housewives went shopping in the yuppie supermarket? It was the North Haledon Foodtown.)
But Fairway has become my favorite. Great food, great sale prices, lots of obscure (yet delicious) gourmet items. And the crowd is TRULY diverse. People of all races, ethnicities and socioeconomic levels shopping together in harmony. That's the way it should be everywhere.