Yep, and my guess is there’s a competitive pricing element. I don’t know this but I’m surmising that malls can rent space at whatever rate they want so they may give grocery stores a discount so the grocer will make a profit even they it’s a weird place for most people to do grocery shopping.

I’ve also assumed that’s how they attracted an Apple Store.

Anyone: let me know if this is at all how it works or if I’m totally off base.

Huh!

Really good reviews, pics look promising, tiny menu so they have focus…

Thanks! I kinda sorta heard of them but the name seems so…generic and unrelated to much of anything, I guess…I never would have looked into them but they seem promising.

Paradise Deli, the bodega on Newark off Coles, has 3 or 4 listings in Grub Hub - one for sandwiches, one saying the specialize in Philly Cheesesteaks, etc. Funny thing is, if you’ve ever seen the place it’s not somewhere you’d ever order food from, all their GH reviews are awful (spoiled food, terrible product, etc.) and yet they push their food really hard - (misspelled) menus items plastered all over the storefront, pushing different “specials” every day, etc. It all seems so bad that they can’t be making any money from it and yet they persist.

Do you have a link? I googled but didn’t find anything and am looking for a good Nashville hot chicken place.

🎶🎵 How do you talk to an angel…? 🎵🎶

I don’t drive so honestly curious - it’s really better for you to take a trip down to Bayonne rather than 8 miles to Yonkers? That’s wild! Why?

I’ve always thought that was the best photo of him I’ve ever seen.

Yep, the raptor trust is great. And, despite the name, they’ll take and care for any bird.

> “Opening soon” in Jersey City means years away. I keep my expectation low.

Yeah but I think beginning to rent an existing space in a mall is a whole different thing than a regular storefront. I think…we shall see.

There’s also Cafe Madelaine. It’s more of a cafe but they do have some food.

Iirc the people who live there were actually down with the buyout deal so will be glad to have it go through.

It was awhile ago though so (anyone) correct me if I’m wrong here,

Oh gotcha. I totally get what you mean but I asked because in other instances (I suspect this one included) the “one bad thing” never even happens, it’s just some weird, unjustified fear. Like, we all know about the “razor blade in an apple” fear but that literally never happened anywhere. But parents have checked their kids candy for decades. This year there was the rumor that drug dealers were (for some reason) disguising fentanyl as candy and giving it to kids which, of course, makes no sense.

So I totally get what you were saying and agree that it happens but I’d bet this 7pm curfew is more the result of baseless fear than any specific event.

What’s the “one bad thing?”

Hoboken Hot Bagels (6th and Washington) is great - best bagel around imo. People don’t care for their hot sandwiches (ham, egg and cheese, etc.) because they don’t have a kitchen to do them properly but the bagels themselves are great and their cold cut sandwiches are good too.

They deliver to JC but are currently closed for renovations.

Yep! Those were my favorite Family Circuses.

Thanks for the response!

Yeah, I’ve used things like that for 2 factor authentication when connecting to work networks remotely. But I’m not sure if I can see that working in this scenario - if I steal the dongle I can now associate any bag with the token while also making the authentic bag valueless.

I’d think the actual bag itself would need to unalterably be connected to the token. Like, if this were science fiction, I’d have some unique ID encoded into the bags fabric at the molecular level or something like that.

Or am I missing something?

This area is new to me so I find it really interesting. In yo7r bag example, how do you keep the physical bag indisputably paired with the digital token to guarantee its authenticity? In other words, why couldn’t I just counterfeit the bag with the same physical characteristic (whatever that may be) that points to the same digital token?

I prefer Dorsia.