(Narrator’s voice) “in terms of ego, they were not jumbo at all.”
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I find vain shrimp annoying, and wouldn’t consider them.
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Also technically, it’s digestive tract, not track, and it’s a little unwieldy to have “dedigestive tracted” on a package. Everybody knows what deveined means. And devained.
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…and it’d be distracting. 
I demand a retraction.
I apologize, and redact my vain tract.
Our first Wegman’s was magic when it first opened. Has been declining in the quality and quantity of offerings ever since. Still the best of the chains, however.
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I’m very glad the MA store I go to hasn’t shown any indication of doing so. 
I am getting tired of grocery chains advertising buy one get one free without the price. I go there and find they only doubled the previous week’s price for one.
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If you have proof they’ve doubled a single item price, maybe report them to a consumer commission.
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Along those lines… don’t give me a digital coupon that says 30% off or 45 cents off. Just tell me how much you want for the item, and I’ll decide if I want it.
Don’t make me do math, I did enough math when I worked.
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If they were vain shrimp, they’d insist on being called ‘prawns’.
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Costco does this all the time with their “coupon books” (which are not coupons, but sale ads). Drives me nuts! (Unless it’s stuff I regularly buy anyway.)
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When Wegmans first opened in the boonz in 2004, rumors abound well ahead of the grand opening day about how we were getting a gourmet grocery store. There was excitement in the air, and justifiably so, as the grocery options were crap in the aughts.
The seafood counter offered a variety of prepared shrimp (Thai chili, lemon pepper, buffalo, etc.), several seafood salads (Neptune, mixed seafoods, shrimp), there were tasting stations all over the store — and no, this did not stop with covid, it stopped many years before that shit went down.
The meat counter people knew what they were doing, and the cheese counter was fantastic. Their international section provided me with German and other European products I would otherwise not have been able to shop for elsewhere locally.
They never carried many national brands, but now it’s almost entirely the Wegmans brand — which isn’t bad, per se, but it’s merely a few-items-stop now.
I can get almost everything else at TJ’s, 2 Aldis, several Asian grocers of various provenance, a Turkish store, an Indian grocer, an international store, an East European store, a fishmonger…not to mention our local farmers markets.
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I just called 1-800-SHOPRITE and complained about the app: everything being labeled “other”, inconsistent units for unit pricing, circular no longer available in the app, things in the app not in the store, and things not in the store in the app. We’ll see if anything gets fixed.
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Did you talk to a live human being?
Yes, although even that was broken. I got put on the queue and was told there were four people ahead of me. Then after a minute or so, I was told there was one person ahead of me. Then after another minute or so, I was told there were three people ahead of me. After a couple of iterations of this, a real person did pick up.
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That’s how the Wegmans I shop at was in the beginning. Gourmet stuff. Fabulous butchery. Prepared foods to make you swoon. Incredible seafood. They even had a small, actually kosher, deli/prepared foods counter. Exotic produce. A whole international grocery section with shelves for each country. Fabulous housewares. It was, in fact, too good to be true. I first missed the giant grilled shrimp. Other stuff disappeared. The only thing left is their better-than-average staff.
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