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  • #594863
    ☕️coffee addict
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    I want to get this straight (b/c i married a NYer and she used to do the same thing)

    why do NYers only shop in kastners (in Miami Beach) when you can get the same stuff in a goyish brand for cheaper in Publix

    I can understand if you totally keep pas or bishul yisrael but how many NYers do that!

    and kastners gets soooooo packed that noone can move

    (Either way theres a new kosher grocery store down the block from kastners (in my direction) so you might just as well keep it

    #737825

    funny.

    never heard of kastners

    yet been to publix like 200 times

    #737827
    Sender Av
    Member

    Beats me…Publix is awsome!!! and the publix in Atlanta has a kosher bakery(dairy mostly, but some parve stuff like kichel) and a deli(mmm..fried chicken).

    #737828
    Health
    Participant

    Two reasons -1. They like heimish products which they are used to.

    2. They want to give their business to a Yid.

    #737829
    ☕️coffee addict
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    sender av

    youre making me soooooooo jealous (im serious)

    #737830
    Sender Av
    Member

    mbachur 1) I never said I was in Atlanta(or am I?), just stating a fact.

    2) I always wondered why a publix somewhere in Florida has never done the same thing

    and 3) I am sorry to cause jealousy (please moichel me).

    #737831
    ☕️coffee addict
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    theres a store chain called albertsons in boca raton and they have a very nice kosher section and bakery

    #737832
    m in Israel
    Member

    I always was under the impression that the Halacha requires one to patronize a Jewish store when possible as opposed to a non-Jewish one. (Assuming the Jewish store’s prices are not extremely overpriced.) Why would the OP be trying to convince someone to not patronize a Jewish store? (the Kastner’s I remember in Miami was only a bakery — I guess things have changed in the many years since I’ve been there!)

    #737833
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    yup they have,

    jewish companies as a klal are priced higher than the goyishe brands and the goyishe companies that are sold there are priced higher

    #737834
    Bowwow
    Participant

    Are you perhaps a manager at Publix or the new Kosher store? Why should it bother you so much if people are willing to spend extra to support Jewish owned businesses?

    #737835
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Bowwow,

    you’ve never been in kastners at the height of snowbird season

    my reason was in my OP

    Think of it as the Beis Hamikdash if there was no neis that no one said tzar li b’makom hazeh

    <d: mbachur :p>

    #737836
    ☕️coffee addict
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    and if u ask why don’t i shop in publix myself?

    I do, just when i need to get a roll of challah or CY yogurt or kosher brocolli I have to go to Kastners.

    and if you say maybe thats all they are getting too, thats not true b/c there are numerous people there with full shopping carts of stuff

    <d: mbachur :p>

    #737837
    ☕️coffee addict
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    mods,

    please close this thread (I figured out my answer)

    I get most of my CY stuff (cheese, pizza) from my yeshiva’s Ko-Op so therefore i don’t need to get it from Kastners, this wouldn’t apply to NYers b/c they can’t be a part of it, so by default they have to go to Kastners, and once they are there they get everything else

    (I get CY milk from WIC which kastners doesn’t accept)

    <d: mbachur :p>

    #737838
    Bowwow
    Participant

    I have been to kastners during the height of the snowbird season. Yes it gets crowded, but I’ll suffer with the crowding to support a jewish business owner.

    People see all too willing to forgoe the local jewish merchant for the larger chain stores etc.. But let me ask you a question. Who do you think contributes more to Jewish causes? Are the owners of publix making contributions to local tzedoka’s? Maybe they donate food for tomchei shabbos or are giving free items to local frum people who couldn’t otherwise afford to make shabbos.

    #737839
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Idk if kastner’s does that (as least not openly)

    #737840
    aries2756
    Participant

    Kastners has been improving on a regular basis. All last year (winter season) I shlepped to Kosher Kingdom for Shabbos Food because the food was better there than Kastners. This year I found that the food is much improved and they have a broader variety of things. Meat & Wine department still no comparison to KK.

    Where is there a new grocery near Kastners?

    #737841
    ☕️coffee addict
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    further down 41st from collins (before 195 though)

    they told me last night they are opening next week though

    :p> mbachur <d:

    #737842
    NoNonsense
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    In my day, Kastner’s was just a bakery! Haven’t beeen back to Miami in years (unfortunately). Wish I still lived there!

    #737843
    ☕️coffee addict
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    yeah i saw an old d’var torah sheet from a shul in my yeshiva, it said Kastner’s bakery it was from 1992 i think

    :p> mbachur <d:

    #1356155
    Lightbrite
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    Is a Yeshiva Co-Op one of those Co-Op grocery stores, and with the owners all being part of a Yeshiva?

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