Monday in Burien:
Newman’s Own thin crust frozen pizzas $3.99.
Also a few CBD waters, I was wondering if those would show up. The grapefruit ‘Lei Back’ was $1.50, unsweetened with 20 mcg, Also grabbed a ‘CBD living’ black cherry with 30mcg but it has weird added sweeteners, wouldn’t get again.
I was in the Oakland GO the other day and they rearranged the isles and the NOSH section disappeared. I think they’re moving towards less bargains and weird stuff, and more mainstream, or I’m not seeing stuff in the new arrangement.
As far as frozen pizzas go Newman’s Own are pretty good. I usually doctor them up with chopped onions and pickled jalapeños.
You’re right. That’s what I experienced here in Medford. Did you get the new coolers and freezers?
I was confused at first because all the spices and various ethnic categories were all in one aisle. This is repeated in a bunch of categories. Looks more like a Trader Joe’s. Now we’ve got spices on at least 3 different aisles. I think we have more product but it is in different places.
Plain (delicious!) and herb varieties are at Marina (south of Santa Cruz); same price.
Also more .99 28 oz cans of Muir Glen whole tomatoes and chili starter, and Theo chocolate bars. Marina usually has great produce.
Agree with ML8000: I’m also finding fewer interesting items.
No new coolers, just all the isles moved. It makes sense to do this every so often but no more rote memory for me. It does seem they’re remaking their image or what they sell.
the influx of their in house brand is truly concerning. used to see Tillamook cheeses pretty regularly, now it’s almost solely their far inferior house brand as an example. I can just go to Safeway if I wanted that crap
How buffalo mozzarella is made -
Well their “elsewhere” prices are definitely inflated, and I sometimes see items cheaper at regular grocery stores. Eggs for instance are priced higher at GO than Safeway or Lucky’s these days. GO has changed quite a bit from when I first started going.
Speaking of eggs - large ones were $1.98 a dozen at the Mission store today! I stocked up.
I don’t know why they are suddenly cheap after months of bird flu-related spikes, but the price ending in “8” is usually a sign of a one-time clearance deal at GO, I think. Maybe there’s some weird temporary glut in the supply chain and they suddenly ended up with too many?
Seems like the strength of the lawsuit hinges on how a court reads the language “elsewhere.” Does it mean “literally someplace anywhere else in the world has this price for this item”? Or “someplace else where you, a Portland, Oregon grocery shopper, could realistically buy this during your normal grocery shopping has this price for this item”? Maybe you could make the case that insisting on the former reading is misleading - why would a consumer in Portland’s first thought be that maybe GO really means that Pringles are $5.99 in Manhattan, Monte Carlo, or Muscat?
The writeup does look like the second reading might be written into the law, or at least written into subsquent rulemaking around the law. IANAL and maybe I have the relevant section wrong, but see Section 5(c):
“Competitor” means a retail outlet in the person’s geographic market area with whom the person in fact competes for sales;
So under Oregon law, it sure seems like “this was the price of this item - at, uh, a tiny farmstand in Vermont six months ago, but we’re not telling you that second part explicitly on the tag in our store” might well qualify as a misleading representation of fact on an item’s “reduced” price.
In any case I kind of think that they should be obligated to make it really easy for the consumer to find out exactly where their supposed “elsewhere” price comes from.
Turned out the sell-by date was the next day. The two I just tried after boiling them tasted okay, though! I don’t think I’ve noticed this brand before (Sunrise Acres free range) at GO - maybe the wholesaler had an unexpected overrun because nobody was buying them at retail when prices spiked?
Yes, I also find the new configuration horrible!! And I think they are trying to push their Simply GO (store-branded) products over markdowns from last-minute offloading from brands.
I have seen all of the stuff from NOSH scattered throughout the store, and a few true closeout deals, but I think the reconfigured layout and some surveys from the app suggest that they are pushing for more consistent “deals” rather that the weird closeouts I have come to love.
Maybe it’s the manufacturer or distributor’s suggested retail price?
Picked up one of each of these at Alameda GO, .99¢. One of the few non-usual food items. Alameda has NOT transformed into more mainstream store. Still has NOSH section.
In any case, the can says to add a pound of ground animal protein and a 15 oz can of beans. Usual seasonings, chiles, chile powder, cumin. I’d add onion as well. Might be a while until I make it, but might need to push that up to see if it’s anyone good. At .99¢ hard to go wrong.
That looks like the TJ’s fire-roasted tomatoes with chilis.
Maybe! The point is that it should be their responsibility to disclose it, whatever the actual source is. Put it in the fine print at the bottom of the tag, or put a little QR code on the tag, if you must.
Label says fire roasted tomatoes.
Geary Blvd (San Francisco) location:
