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How do you justify.... — Brooklynian

How do you justify....

the drunken guest
the drunken guest
edited November -1 in Park Slope
1. Living in a city with amazing, family owned grocery stores on nearly every corner... not to mention plenty of decent "super" markets, yet still demand that a 3 ton fresh direct truck roam the streets of your neighborhood to bring to you 19 pounds of food?

Don't even open your mouth if you are going to say "time" or "convenience" because it would be really convenient for me if you managed your time better and stopped killing the environment and my neighborhood ambiance. Thanks.

2. Make up your own #2, I'm sure you have plenty.
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  • rose
    rose
    There's an amazing, family-owned grocery store on my corner???

    There's a bodega on the corner that went "upscale" a couple of years ago. I sent my kid there to buy something last night and when he brought it home I saw that the expiration date was over a month ago. :? Typical for that place, and the only "amazing" thing about it is that I ever buy anything there.
  • erikka
    erikka
    Four flights of stairs times nineteen pounds of food is a fucking pain in my neck/shoulders that will cost more than five dollars to fix at the chiro/PT. $5 more than justifies saving an hour and a half of my precious, all too spare shopping time. Not to mention I will do just about anything to avoid a grocery store on the weekend--especially one in Park Slope. I wanted to spend my time going to and from grocery stores I'd live in a suburb.

    And where are these "amazing family owned grocers" anyway? For every one of those there's twenty bodegas full of expired milk and food that's been on the shelf since the Reagan administration. In South Slope FD is about your only option unless you are willing to schlep (and I'm not-see aforementioned neck/back problems)--otherwise it's C Town and their rotting shelves.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    I'm just wondering how anyone justifies answering him... :wink:
  • the drunken guest
    the drunken guest
    First off.. I am a woman.

    Second off, as expected, you are justifying your laziness rather than addressing my point.

    I don't shop.. but "rotting shelves"? Doubtful. It seems to be just fine for everyone there on the weekends.
  • drano
    drano
    Time & Convenience.
  • shishkab
    shishkab
    yeah, i'd have to say "time" & "convenience".
  • cythren
    cythren
    Herniated disc and third-floor walk-up. Thus I use Fresh Direct.

    Otherwise I'd be all into the GAP greenmarket and the co-op.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    I mostly do it to piss off the self-righteous.

    BTW, you don't shop?! What do you eat?
  • willregistersoon
    willregistersoon
    There are not many corner places that have a good or wide selection of produce like FreshDirect has. If you talk about places that sell meat, its even less.
  • belzjm
    belzjm
    please ignore the drunkenguest. if you will note in the shoe suggestion thread "she" just said he was a guy.

    loser.
  • veets
    veets
    WhyFi wrote: I'm just wondering how anyone justifies answering him... :wink:
    Ditto!
    Have nothing else to say!
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    My reasons for Fresh Direct: Key Food.

    'nuff said.

    In all seriousness, the local grocery options are not the pretty picture you paint. The bodegas are generally ok, but produce quality can be iffy. The 'gourmet' grocers like D'Vine taste and Bierkraft are good for one-offs like olives or cheese, but I'm not going to assemble an entire meal there. At the end of the day, it comes down to the convenience factor. I work a lot, as does my husband, and we usually don't get home until at least 8:00 or 9:00. Before Fresh Direct, this usually led to us ordering take out every night... So, long way to say that it's the convenience factor.

    Also, I have to say that I've lived in Fresh Direct neighborhoods for something like 6 years now and I've never been bothered by their trucks. I gather this is a bigger problem on the Upper West Side, where the FD trucks have regular idling areas, but I haven't seen anythign like that here in PS.
  • willregistersoon
    willregistersoon
    In the old days you'd stroll though the neighborhood, stopping at all the specialty shops for your different needs. Corner market for produce, then down to D'vine Taste for some middle eastern foods, cheeses, or what not, then down to the butcher on 5th, then the fish store, etc etc. I actually like this. But unfortunately it's so time consuming to shop this way, not to mention carrying around all your bags from place to place. Hence the one stop shops.

    There's C-Town - I actually like this place. But they don't always have everything I'm looking for - or high qualitiy meats. Key Food on 5th isn't so bad, but horrible produce. Key Food on 7th - forget it. D'ag - too expensive. If you have a car, you can head to Fairway. We do this sometimes - but even this takes hours and hours of time. So, we started using Fresh Direct recently. They have everything I want, its easy to order, and they bring everything to me. I think it's great. I do kind of miss strolling through the aisles and deciding what to cook. I'm sure we'll still do that every once in a while.
  • username: *
    username: *
    This is off the thread, but this thread is stupid, anyway.

    What I want to say is: It irritates me that all you people can get Fresh Direct to toe the line. I have ordered from them probably a dozen times, and not once did it come on time. Not once. ](*,) Several times, they had to deliver (late, again) the next day. Not to mention that a further several times my orders were all fobbed up, which meant another delivery time that they did not keep. All I have for my trouble is a letter of apology from some white-collared loser and a stack of $5-off coupons ...and a belly full of vinegar.

    I would love to have a Fresh Direct truck idling in front of my apartment, because that would mean those ham-fisted pinheads would be bringing me my stuff.
  • greene-eyed monster
    greene-eyed monster
    Once our "amazing" grocery stores start carrying both quality meats and produce and deliver it to me at a time that's convenient for me, I'll happily drop Fresh Direct. Unfortunately, as a Fort Greener (formerly a Park Sloper), I'm stuck with bodegas that carry only over-ripe (read: rotten) lemons & bananas and Bravo. Have you ever been to Bravo on Myrtle? Birds flying in the store, mouse droppings on cereal boxes... I wouldn't even trust the canned goods there.
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave

    Subject: Re: How do you justify....

    I like fresh direct trucks. I'm ordering from them right now in fact :D
  • oneasternparkway
    oneasternparkway
    Again, I acknowledge troll-feeding here, but I've seen the freezers at the Key Foods on both Washington and Flatbush completely broken on at least 5 occasions. I'd like to think that all affected inventory is discarded, but you and I both know that is a dubious assumption.
  • the drunken guest
    the drunken guest
    Gotta love a drunken guest who knows exactly where to troll....

    Anyway, you guys really brought me around... I mean, I remember the days before FD. I'd sit in fourth floor apartment kitchen, back aching, feet sore from treking about, reciepts from 12 different stores stuffing my pockets, all so I could enjoy a rotten banana and coffee lightened with 47 day old milk.... sucked man.. fucking sucked.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    And you wonder why you can't find anyone to "hook-up with"... :roll:

    http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=33897
  • the drunken guest
    the drunken guest
    Hold on just one second there caaaaaaaaahoyoko.... You're smart, you are thoroughl, MMmmmm - I like that. What are you doing later?

    You ever make out with a stud after downing 3 bottles os St. Ides? It's a rush. Interested? mmmmmph. Hope you're married, I dig that.

    Fresh directs sucks... whoooaa.. wooooo!!!
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    Username: * wrote: This is off the thread, but this thread is stupid, anyway.

    What I want to say is: It irritates me that all you people can get Fresh Direct to toe the line. I have ordered from them probably a dozen times, and not once did it come on time. Not once. ](*,) Several times, they had to deliver (late, again) the next day. Not to mention that a further several times my orders were all fobbed up, which meant another delivery time that they did not keep. All I have for my trouble is a letter of apology from some white-collared loser and a stack of $5-off coupons ...and a belly full of vinegar.

    I would love to have a Fresh Direct truck idling in front of my apartment, because that would mean those ham-fisted pinheads would be bringing me my stuff.
    Interesting... FD has never been late with an order. They occaisionally forget something, which they always credit me for, and sometimes you get the random computer-gone-wild addition, like the time I got 9 jumbo cans of clam chowder... eww! But they've never been late and occaisionally even call me to ask if I'm available for an early delivery.
  • oiseau
    oiseau
    Fresh Direct is overpriced, plus it's more fun going to Fairway.
  • sennheiserz
    sennheiserz
    FD has the best Chocolate Croissants, you buy em' frozen and heat one up while shaving, all I can say is "Wow".

    Plus in the South Slope a nice colorful truck is better than the scenery.
  • drano
    drano
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  • caseopele
    caseopele
    Drano, I can always count on you to know exactly what to post to make me laugh. I've heard the internet is serious business.

    And as for the amazing family owned grocery stores, are they invisible? Can only message board rabble rousers see them? I remember the store on 5th Ave and 5th St before the renovation. It was a shithole. During the blackout they kept all the dairy and tried to sell it later. Plus it was a great place for drug dealers.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    Oiseau wrote: Fresh Direct is overpriced, plus it's more fun going to Fairway.
    I agree completely. Fresh Direct has seen its business from us plummet since Fairway opened. Of course, this will no doubt anger Drunken Guest bc we drive our car there, no doubt spending some time idling in front of her apartment.
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    The Drunken Guest wrote: Hold on just one second there caaaaaaaaahoyoko.... You're smart, you are thoroughl, MMmmmm - I like that. What are you doing later?

    You ever make out with a stud after downing 3 bottles os St. Ides? It's a rush. Interested? mmmmmph. Hope you're married, I dig that.

    Fresh directs sucks... whoooaa.. wooooo!!!
    Insert projectile vomiting here.
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave
    I JUST got back from shopping at an amazing invisible family grocery store on the corner across from the other one on the corner, across from my apartment just now. I bought 10 dollars worth of spoiled food (juuust shy of 19 lbs, btw), and called my friendly fresh direct guys who loaded it into their truck for me and delivered it to my apartment after driving around PS for a while looking for a drunken Mel Gibson man-woman. But now that it's all here (and I tipped the guys for the convenience of carrying it up my stairs cause I'm too lazy) I think I'll order take out.
  • the drunken guest
    the drunken guest
    Kosher Dave: "I tip the fresh direct guys 'cause I use them to deliver all my heavy shit. Boxes of cat litter, shit loads of gatorade, cans of soup, and some hot pockets..."

    You should have just said that in the first place man... hot pockets rock. Why not have the delievery guy in, blaze up a douber, and nuke up a few hot pockets... you could even try to get your cat stoned...sweet.

    and, caaahyoko, you didn't tell me you were into projectile vomiting. Do you have a clear line of site to the street? The fun we could have... call me.

    Well.. I need to find a new fishing spot.
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave
    The Drunken Guest wrote: Kosher Dave: "I tip the fresh direct guys 'cause I use them to deliver all my heavy shit. Boxes of cat litter, shit loads of gatorade, cans of soup, and some hot pockets..."

    You should have just said that in the first place man... hot pockets rock. Why not have the delievery guy in, blaze up a douber, and nuke up a few hot pockets... you could even try to get your cat stoned...sweet.

    and, caaahyoko, you didn't tell me you were into projectile vomiting. Do you have a clear line of site to the street? The fun we could have... call me.

    Well.. I need to find a new fishing spot.
    If they eat my hotpockets (assuming I've invited them in, and not that they just decided to heat them on the grill of their truck before delivery) does that count as a tip?
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