Reply To: shopping at a new super grocery store vs the corner grocery store.

Assuming the smaller store offers a reasonable selection of grocery and specialty/heimeshe items in a clean facility with good service and the price differential is reasonable (for me thats about 10-20 percent premium), I will always patronize a smaller local store even with the higher price. However, for fresh produce, I find the smaller stores cannot really offer the selectoin and freshness of the larger stores and I generally go to the larger markets. Smaller heimeshe markets deservedly got a bad rap years ago for poor selection and service. As another poster commnted above, today, there are many moderately size kosher markets that offer a reasonable compromise between th two alternatives. Most OOT locations generally have only one successful location (e.g. Seven Mile in Baltimore) making the decision pretty obvious. The lack of competition sadly results in some markets that start out really good but gradually fail to maintain the quality of selection, don’t maintain their facilites and allow the service to deteriorate