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Is it just my imagination, or does the selection at the Allston Stop & Shop really suck compared to the nearby Shaw’s?

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

November 22, 2009

Store Manager
Stop & Shop
60 Everett Street
Allston, MA 02134

Dear Sir or Madam,

I like your store for several reasons: it is the closest supermarket to my house; I like the “Scan It!” system; and you give five cents back for reused bags.

Unfortunately, these positives only go so far, since your inventory lacks many things I need. Today, I walked out of your store empty-handed when I found that you were missing so many items that it wasn’t worth my time to ring up a purchase, and I went to Shaw’s and spent $137 there instead.

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StarKist Chunk Light Tuna goes head-to-head with Stop & Shop’s and loses

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Cans of tuna in American supermarkets used to hold 6 ounces.  Then, a number of years ago, the manufacturers all decided to shrink their cans to 5.5 or 5.45 ounces without lowering the price.  More recently, they all decided to go down to 5 ounces, again without lowering the price.

Annoyed by this most recent change, I decided during a recent trip to the grocery store to reevaluate our tuna buying habits rather than blindly continuing to buy StarKist, the brand we had settled upon a number of years ago for unremembered reasons.  Therefore, although I did throw a few cans of StarKist chunk light tuna in water, SKU 806730, in my cart, I also threw in a few cans of Stop & Shop’s, SKU 21120 02522, which were needless to say cheaper than the StarKist.

The next time I made tuna salad, I opened two cans of the StarKist and two cans of the Stop & Shop tuna, drained them all, visually inspected them for quality, and weighed the tuna left in the cans after draining.  The results surprised me.

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