City Gourmet: Subsidy Free Shopping
I visited the former City Grocers this afternoon, and I was thrilled to see its new City Gourmet concept in place. Although the store’s full line of grocery items is now only a memory, City Gourmet today offers its customers better quality, better priced sandwiches, salads, stir fry, baked goods, prepared foods, beer, and wine than Culinaria.
It seems counterintuitive, I know. Shouldn’t the big name store offer lower prices through its economies of scale?
As I told my downtown resident friend over lunch this afternoon, she actually pays twice for all groceries purchased at Culinaria: once as a taxpayer and again as a consumer. So, if you’re looking for the best deal, then look no further than local, subsidy free City Gourmet. Its staff are experienced, dedicated, and friendly, while its $1.99 slices of chocolate creme pie are absolutely scrumptious even without an earmark in the city’s budget. Give City Gourmet a try; I assure you that it is a good way to avoid Francis Slay over lunch hour.
Tags: City Gourmet, city grocers, Culinaria, Downtown St. Louis, schnucks
August 25, 2009 at 1:08 am |
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September 17, 2009 at 12:52 pm |
Get a life and do the Math — Culinaria is the best downtown idea yet!. City Grocery ripped off people for years with Whole Foods prices and ghetto produce and ridiculous prices for basics and now they are playing victim.
Yes taxpayer money helped get Schnucks to open Culinaria — you crybabies don’t want to pay for anything — cities work because of taxpayer dollars!!!
And the truth is the Culinaria offers the same prices as other Schnucks, I know this for a fact because I shopped 3 different Schnucks around the city for basic items.
And speaking of facts, New City Grocers is simply a pastry shop version of the old rip off City Grocers.
September 17, 2009 at 1:40 pm |
Rift, please explain the math to me for a Schnucks in St. Louis County. I’m resentful of Schnucks’ refusal to develop equitably. If you would like to avail yourself of numbers for the store as reported publicly, I invite you to peruse this blog further. To my knowledge, Federal tax credits subsidized some of the store’s inventory. Hence, my contention that you and other Culinaria shoppers pay twice–once as a taxpayer and again as a consumer. We simply have a different ideological outlook. I will not question your knowledge of how cities work, if you are willing to accept that there are different ways to achieve desired ends.