Oh don't get me started with the Russian Jews who ride their cart right up your butt. I am sorry, but that is who does it. Otherwise it is some maniac parent who allows a way too big child for cart riding kick you as you wait while they read COSMO.

Acme used to carry a decent sourdough. Good stuff, and then they stopped.

As for baggers just do like others do, and stand there just watching. The cashier will find one to bag for you. I don't mind bagging though.

Yes, they alays seem to have it. It's about a 10 minute drive from Lawndalwe.

Here in Indiana, I haven't seen those locking-wheeled carts YET, but by the number of "lost" carts from various stores that I see littering the neighborhoods around here, I guess we WILL get them soon enough. It's amazing that you'll find a BIG LOTS cart parked in someone's driveway...or a KROGER cart on another street. Seems they NEED those locking wheels!
Personally, I don't get it....every mook around here has a car (or several POS junkers), and they're always getting a ride from someone else as well, so WHY on God's green earth would womeone puch a damn cart across busy intersections to get something home, when there are buses, freinds and even the good old reliable OWN TWO HANDS available.
That's "right up there" with walking down the MIDDLE of the damn strret, when you have two perfectly good sidewalks about a FOOT away! (that's not a hood ornamant on your car...that's a TARGETING DEVICE for morons)...LOL!

The stores don't seem to bothered to pick them up (and the police?..BWAHAHHA, yeah right, like THEY are gonna do anything about the carts either...best to call neighborhood code enforcement).

There is ONE bad thing here....NO ITALIAN ROLLS...or ANY rolls for that matter that are CRUSTY (like the kaisers or star rolls we used to acll them). Everything here is SOFT...and no matter what you do, you can't even fake a hoagie or cheesesteak here with ANY kind of SOFT roll...that's just NOT American!

Or, as the politically-correct would say...ITALIAN-American...ROFL!

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We're ALL in the same boat...just at DIFFERENT oars!

Bob G.

I was at that pathmark last week, I was all confused.
How many times have they renovated that place now!?

Also friday was the worst, we went to Wal*Mart at grant & the boulavard, and holy crap so many kids roaming, and people acting stupid, and the registers look like a mob scene,
We just left without getting anything and went to the target greatland at haldeman, and what a difference, so much nice and stuff, and while I will admit I to run into the carts in aisle problem at target as well, I dont seem to mind that much, as ill usually just move it or the person will move.

Shortly after I moved to my first house in Ardmore, I went to the Genuardi's in Wynnewood one Sunday morning. Just minding my own shopping business, going up and down the aisles. Come out of one and go to turn into the next and almost hit someone standing in the front aisle of the store. I see that in front of her, turned 1/2-way into the aisle is another woman with a cart. No one was moving and I needed whatever was in that aisle, so I just pulled my cart over to the side and walked around. When I enter the aisle I see two middle-aged main line matrons, dressed to the nines (pearls, hats and everything except the white gloves). Apparently one had been coming in each direction and they both refused to move out of the way. So here they are, cart-to-cart, facing each other down and other shoppers are just lining up behind them.

This is how I knew that I had arrived on the Main Line (and would be leaving post-haste!)

So I have been driving all the way to King of Prusia still to get there!!!lololol..I seriously did`nt think they would have one here in Philly. I always pick up a Taramisu cake there..

It's not in the City, per se, but just outside. The Genuardi family would never come into the city. That store that Geno is referring to is on Huntingdon Pike, just over city limits. No need for that long drive. There is also another one in Glenside.

When I was a kid growing up in Fishtown I never knew Of all these different hoods(shall I say)lol...I moved to Florida back in 93 when i was 16,only knowing of The Northeast as just that.And I basically never left fishtown besides going to Center City and penns landing alot..Then when I moved back to philly in march I was like where did all these neighborhoods come from?
I am going back to florida next yr, and I wanted this to be like a permanant goodbye to my old friends and relatives(the ones who arent dead that is), but I would have to say that I am very disapointed at how these once wonderful little towns in the NE have turned into West Philly..I do not remember it being this way at all..
And of course noone told me that I should have stayed in King of prussia back in march when i decided to move here for one yr..
This has been the worst time of my life and my chldrens..They do not know what a yard is ,,or what its like to ride their bikes and dirtbikes to the park any longer..
That is why a smoking ban being first on the agenda makes me sick,more then the second hand smoke does!!
Question? Do alot of these bad kids who have guns and cause all this trouble come from Section 8 housing and welfare?
Put me in there as mayor and I will make it where each person on welfare ,ssi and section 8 have to undergo a drug test at least once a month and go back to school no matter what(and parenting classes). And DHS should have open cases on all families on such programs where they check up on them weekly or monthly..Oh and mandatory tubes tieing after 2 kids (if you obviously cant handle the 7 you already have)
If they started even with such things as this ,,there would be a signifigant change in a few short yrs!!

Sorry just rambling...Malisa

The Genuardi Family never wanted to come into the City from many years ago, and it wasn't a crime issue. It was over the unions. They are a non-union shop, and most places in the City have a union, and I am drawing a blank on the exact name of it, but Wendell Wilkie was the head of it for years. To be sure, not the same type as the Building Trades unions.

Also, I would suggest you get out of Oxford Circle and head north a bit, not even that far, but Rhawnhurst and Fox Chase are much nicer, even if only to do errands or to take your children to the playground.