...a Whole Foods or a Wegman's or a Wild Oats or come on!--a Trader Joe's! This huge expanse of supermarket space has been used up for something that's not even as good as the Shaw's (also pretty new) a stone's throw away.

Now, I don't live near Philbrick's Fresh Market (which I love) so I only get to go when I'm down in that area, and I prefer to buy from local shops for stuff like wine and cheese and produce and meat, but that's a drive too, so often Shaw's it is. At least they have a decent ethnic food section with more than just Chinese duck sauce and some taco shells, they actually have exotic stuff!

True story---my friend went to the grand opening of the Stop n' Shop last week and the managers or "suits" by the "international section" told her that the reason they don't carry a lot of ethnic ingredients is that they did demographic studies and found that in our area there aren't a lot of diversity or numbers ethnic populations---you know, not many Japanese or Thai people or Spanish. DUH! But that doesn't mean we don't COOK with ethnic ingredients!!! What, we live in New England so all we can cook is baked beans and clam chowder? I think not, oh ignorant marketing guys at Super S n' S!

Believe you me, the ethnic foods section and the health food section and the wine section at Shaws or Market Basket now look really good right about now.

So thanks, Exeter planning board, for giving us something else we don't need. Oh and while you're at it--take one of those dozen or so gas stations every 1/4 mile and put up a White Castle burger place.

You go, Rachel Woman!!
Wegman's would be heaven, right next to Trader Joe's. My only remark after my first shopping experience at Stop 'n Shop was 'It's just another grocery store.' I hope it helps the tax-base; that's about the best thing we could get from having it in town...since it WON'T be exotic foods, eh?

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