<p>The whole cashier/bagger model was new to us when we moved to the Northeast. We are not fans. It bugs me to pay quite a lot for groceries and then also give away my labor to the grocery chain by doing the bagging job that a teen or young adult or perhaps developmentally disabled person could be doing. I get it that supposedly by doing our own bagging we are holding down the cost of the groceries. Baloney! We are simply working for TJ’s.</p>
<p>My Wegman’s has cashiers AND baggers. Never a long line. Even at holidays, they move people through so much faster than the chains who took away the baggers.</p>
<p>I guess I still see it as kind of a novelty, so I don’t expect it. OTOH, you moved to the only state that (as I warily referenced above) provides lots of jobs by not expecting you to pump your own gas!</p>
<p>I don’t know where the Wegman’s are in NJ. Haven’t run into one yet. But, again: TJ’s in Westfield = maintenance of my wine habit…:)</p>
<p>MY trader Joe’s is a newly renovated one in Florham Park NJ.<br>
Way bigger than the one it replaced nearby and staff is great.
NO wine though :(</p>
<p>Wegman’s is terrific but not close to us for regular shopping. We enjoy stopping in for lunch on our way to Flemington or Princeton.</p>
<p>A Trader Joes without wine? What’s the point?</p>
<p>One of the reasons our TJs moved. They have some funny laws in MA over selling alcohol. They just moved over the border to NH, land of low alcohol taxes.</p>
<p>I miss Wegmans. TJs is opening here tomorrow. No wine either.</p>
<p>NJ has some kind of law that only a certain number of a grocery chain’s stores can get liquor licenses, so I think only the one TJs sells wine. A new one is opening near me; i have my fingers crossed, but not really hopeful.</p>
<p>Today I went from Nordstroms, to Wegman’s, to Trader Joe’s (all within a 2 mile radius of home). Talk about customer service nirvana…</p>
<p>No need to spoil the day with a trip to the local Starbucks with the inconsistent service.</p>
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<p>It looks like the only real difference is the fat content – probably from the bacon instead of the ham slice. Fortunately, I’m on a high-fat diet to control my weight and improve my cholesterol numbers, so the occasional bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit is OK. I could do without the carbs, but it’s tough to find a breakfast you can hold in your hand while driving that doesn’t have carbs. And, I’m burning it off as soon as I get out of the car.</p>
<p>I wish there were good biscuit places in NH. I’d kill for a Bojangles biscuit breakfast on the way to the mountains. McDonalds is a weak substitute, but what can you do? I won’t eat their burgers.</p>
<p>“I wish there were good biscuit places in NH.”</p>
<p>Or CT or RI or NY. There does seem to be an inverse relationship between high SAT scores and good biscuits … though surely there must be some other explanation,</p>
<p>You can probably get biscuits at Denny’s and the Diners in the bigger cities. Manchester has at least one diner with biscuits and gravy and eggs. I don’t know if they will do something to go.</p>
<p>I’ve never had biscuits and gravy in NH outside of my wife making something like that.</p>
<p>KFC has biscuits but they come with chicken.</p>
<p>Bojangles chicken biscuit is awesome. That’s actually what I would probably get for a pre-hike breakfast. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that Cracker Barrel has biscuits. As far as I know, they are the only place in NH that serves country ham. But, the idea is to not spend an hour stopped at a restaurant eating breakfast!</p>
<p>Oh no interesteddad, have you run out of your home stash of country ham with Christmas still 5 months away?</p>
<p>I had my last slice for dinner tonight! I want to order three more packages, but the website of the North Carolina company that has had the three package deal “is not found”. Looks like they may have gone out of business. Gotta find a new place, I guess. Shame. It was so easy. $21 and a Priority Mail envelope with ham arrives a few days later… Most of the places price it like fancy gift boxes.</p>
<p>Starbucks has always been overrated to me but I do love their Mocha Fraps. 
I live in Stamford, CT and we have eight Dunkin Donuts and six Starbucks here! I prefer DD - Starbucks coffee is good, no doubt, just too strong for my tastes. At DD, the prices are better too.</p>
<p>“If there’s a vendor that we otherwise like, we can contact management to see if they will change things.”
-Everybody has a right to dream on…</p>
<p>Y’all are killing me with the BEC biscuit talk! I put catsup on mine and am in heaven. Sadly, I had to kick the habit in favor of fitting in my clothes. 
It’s very unfair when we can’t eat what we want and still be a sz2 like we could in our 20’s.</p>
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<p>Some people dream. Some people do.</p>
<p>Buy a share of Berkshire Hathaway and attend the annual meeting. I’m sure that you’ll find it an interesting experience.</p>
<p>I spend a lot of effort keeping up with the companies that I own and don’t like to see them doing the wrong thing that will eventually nick their profits. I’ve worked in corporate organizations and realize that employees are individuals and you can’t control them all - you can set policies, provide training, provide customer service avenues, etc., and then monitor and police.</p>
<p>I have called the offices of CEOs before to complain about consumer issues. The latest was Fairpoint’s handling of the power outage in New England last October.</p>
<p>"Buy a share of Berkshire Hathaway and attend the annual meeting. I’m sure that you’ll find it an interesting experience.</p>
<p>-Too high price in terms of time (which is the most valuable resource of them all). I rather do what I love and settle for cup of coffee at the office. But again, it is just me, simpleton non-dreamer. Others will choose to spend their time differently, why not? Spend your resources as your heart desires!!!</p>