There’s a road test here? I thought they just checked if you know how to turn the car on.

We absolutely need to walk defensively, it’s true. It would just be nice if defensive walking wasn’t as necessary here. Not every city is like this.

Agreed. So many people try to rush and do the pittsburgh leftas soon as the light turns green without looking for pedestrians. I had to learn to not just look both ways, but backwards and forwards too to avoid getting hit when crossing the street.

Having some stop signs on the north side of Hope would help - crossing Hope anywhere between Rochambeau and Lippet Park is harrowing

Sounds amazing, I’ll have to give it a shot

Really? I had their two-alarm chicken sandwich and it left a lot to be desired in my opinion. Glad to know the burgers are good!

We got laughed at when we asked around 2 months ahead, then one month ahead we couldn’t find anything.

Sounds like market basket has a better supply chain, it seems unlikely that they are making negative profits.

Oh this is amazing! Nice to see confirmation that the stores I ended up shopping at are the best options. I’m surprised to see how much more expensive it can get than shaw’s honestly.

It would help if east side marketplace had more competitive prices. When every item is a couple dollars more than elsewhere, it’s not hard to see why sales would go down. I hope you get more hours, and I hope management can help make it a better store to shop at.

I agree, but I’ll also throw in that there are different schools of thought here. One is that tipping itself is silly. The other is that tipping is fine, but inequitable, since tips are correlated with how attractive patrons find the server to be. The flat charge addresses the second issue, while keeping the idea of a tip in place.

Only place I’ve seen it was at a bar where there are only a couple seats, so you get a drink and go to a table

It’s one of the places I’ll go if there’s one or two random things I can’t find somewhere else and I want to avoid driving half an hour to Walmart or Target. I probably won’t find it at a dollar store either, since they’re often a disorganized mess, but sometimes I’ll get lucky.

Every time I’ve gone there they’ve had massive lines and 3 or 4 unfortunate clerks trying to keep up. They are so short staffed, it’s worth driving somewhere else—it’s faster to add half an hour to the driving time!

They asked about shrinkflation, which is when the company decreases the size of the product instead of increasing the price.

I walk to work every day. Sure, there are more cars than people. But I’m not the only one waking out there. Lots of people walk.

that’s a very long reply to begin with an incorrect first sentence.

Same!

They have a great cheese selection for sure! Interesting dipping sauces too.

I’m not bothered by the curation part. Having 1 instead of 20 items is fine. My issue was I can’t reliably find one thing in a category sometimes. The produce selection leaves a lot to be desired, for example. I still go to TJ’s and find good things, I just have to plan to go to another store afterwards to get the rest, that’s all.

Something can be a cliche and still be true

Trader Joe’s is a strange place. It’s got lots of great tasting stuff at pretty reasonable prices, way better than, say, East Side Market or Shaw’s. But it’s such a limited supply, I’ve never been able to find a full week’s grocery list there. I went in to the new location this weekend and it was pretty full. Employees were cheerful and the line moved really quickly despite the line being long. I’ll go back for specialty items but it’s not going to be a weekly visit for me.

Which part is pricey? The DnD nights are $6/person which seems reasonable to me.

I should have been more specific. There isn’t a fee to look at listings on a realtor website, but if you want a realtor to spend time looking for a place for you then it will cost you.

The hard part there is that there’s often steep fees involved there, so even if it’s worth it long term you have to have extra cash on hand.