On Friday, January 11, 2013 1:04:59 PM UTC-6, l not -l wrote:
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> > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>http://caloriecount.about.com/calori...ay-pork-sausag...
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> > > > The folks who gave it an F can get prison F'd with a broomstick
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> > > Predident's Choice, sold by Loblaws, Zehrs and No Frills.
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> > Jewel Food Stores in Chicago carried President's Choice products for
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> > The funny thing was their long term competitor National Foods (RIP)
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> > had been owned by Loblaw's. National carried no Loblaw's private
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> The National stores in the St. Louis area carried a wide variety of
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> President's Choice products; all that I tried were excellent.
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I agree. I especially liked the PC chocolate chip cookies. They had all natural ingredients too. Global Foods in Kirkwood used to be a National, and the National here in Richmond Heights is now an Office Depot. Interestingly, the Schnucks at Brentwood and Manchester was being built as a Kroger, but Schnucks was having none of that, and paid off Kroger to leave St. Louis.
I really don't understand how Shop 'n Save undersells Schnucks and Dierbergs so consistently, yet folks still shop Schnucks and Dierbergs, even in a depressed economy. It really seems like a bourgeois thing, like folks think that shopping at Shop 'n Save is an admission of low socio-economic status..
--Bryan