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[Admiral Yi]

It's the French word for it. In Polish, it's called "white cheese" (as opposed to "yellow cheese" and "mold cheese"). Is "fromage" used in English too?

It's the French word for all cheese.

[Berkut]

My God, is there anything that Wegman's *can't* do?

There has to be something, I am sure.

[Martinus]

It's the French word for it. In Polish, it's called "white cheese" (as opposed to "yellow cheese" and "mold cheese"). Is "fromage" used in English too?

It's the French word for all cheese.

You are right. I must have been confused. 

[DGuller]

How can you keep all those 356 kinds of cheese fresh anyway, if you don't have 1,000,000 customers keeping down the turnaround times?  Last time I visited a supermarket with a large selection of cheese, a lot of their cheese had mold all over it.

[Martinus]

How can you keep all those 356 kinds of cheese fresh anyway, if you don't have 1,000,000 customers keeping down the turnaround times?  Last time I visited a supermarket with a large selection of cheese, a lot of their cheese had mold all over it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

 

[alfred russel]

I presume this specifically references food, and not the other types of products, but yeah it certainly sounds like the ballpark.

I'm blown away.  Here 300 gets you just to the types of breakfast cereal.

Wegmans: 224 choices of breakfast cereal.

121 here.

The space for the remaining 100 or so breakfast cereals is filled with different types of sausage.

[garbon]

Wegmans has thought of that, actually.

If you just want your basic cheese, you go over to the cheese section by the dairy aisle. Maybe 30 choices (the standard fair - cheddar, sharp, mild, American, swiss, etc., etc.).

If you want to go gourmet, then you go to the Cheese Shop, and they will actually cut you cheese to order and such. I am always tempted to buy one of those 40 pound wheels of something, just to keep in the living room.

I don't think that is specific to Wegmans. Most of the grocery store chains have the small section of cheaply priced nice every day cheeses by dairy, a section of gourmet cheeses and then the cheeses that you can get sliced behind the deli counter.

[Martinus]

Incidentally, does anyone here regularly order groceries online? I started doing so about a year ago and never looked back.

[Norgy]

I like the idea, but I want to buy at least fruit and vegetables and meat/fish cuts in person.

Obviously, since there's only one type of cheese and other stuff, I could order that with my local Party-run shop.

[Martinus]

I like the idea, but I want to buy at least fruit and vegetables and meat/fish cuts in person.

Obviously, since there's only one type of cheese and other stuff, I could order that with my local Party-run shop.

Well, the products they deliver are fresh and I'm not one of the people who knock on melons or rub avocados before buying, so that's not a problem for me.

But for me the main benefit are products like bottled water, milk and other stuff you can buy in larger quantities - I don't own a car and it is a pain to carry all that back home from the store.

The shop I order online from has a section associated with a gourmet Polish food company (the shop is actually is a brick and mortar chain, they just have an online store too) so it is easy to order good food like meat or eggs or vegetable products from them too. They told me when you order from them, they do not collect that stuff from the warehouse but rather have some assistant pick them from an actual store before delivery.

[The Brain]

Why would you buy bottled water?

[Martinus]

Why would you buy bottled water?

I like sparkling water.

[Norgy]

I like sparkling water.

Soda machine.

[Tamas]

Why would you buy bottled water?

it's an east euro thing