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To: GraceZ who wrote (47110)	1/15/2006 7:32:21 PM
From: Live2Sail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Wegman's is the most amazing grocery store in country (the pride of Rochester, NY), but only the people in NE and N-mid Atlantic get to enjoy it. So, not everyone's living standards are going up ;). Out west, we still have Albertson's and Safeway. It looks like Trader Joe's is going to make them up their game.

To: GraceZ who wrote (47110)	1/15/2006 10:06:20 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Grace, RE: "Anyone who thinks that the American standard of living isn't getting higher has never walked into a Wegman's." wegmans.com Product Recall Information Hatfield Beef Franks, 1 lb package Reason for Recall: This product is carried only at the following Wegmans stores

To: GraceZ who wrote (47110)	1/16/2006 9:42:13 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The professor that wrote that article for harvard magazine gave some specific data points - which of those do you specifically disagree with? Or are you just making a general observation as I often do? Elizabeth Warren is Gottlieb professor of law and faculty director of the Judicial Education Program. This article is based in part on “Rewriting the Rules: Families, Money, and Risk,” a paper written for the nonprofit Social Science Research Council (see privatizationofrisk.ssrc.org. Warren and her daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, are the authors of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (see “The Middle-Class Trapdoor,” January-February 2004, page 10) and All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan. I have never walked into a wegmans or even heard of it - are they common in the southeast, south, midwest, or north west where I travel? I just went to thier webpage - I have only been to the NE a couple times in my life - and that was on the way to canada - I get all the Ny city slicker types I can stand here in fla during the annual snowbird migration - you remind me of a social science professor on the krugman board called emma - she is big on whole foods - I dont know how fresh they are - but I bet they aren't as fresh as what my grandaddy grew in his garden. Imported from gautemala or california is not as close as outside your backyard - hehe. His farm and all his land became a new development last year in lakeland fl, publix is close though and their groceries are pretty good. Most of my uncles worked helping to build publix - they are a grimy lot that fight chickens - chew tobacco - kill deer - slop hogs - smell "woodsy" most of the time and are pretty dirty - probably not the kind of people you would feel comfortable with your family shopping at wegmans - but just one of the crowd at any typical walmart - hehe. I saw this show dsc.discovery.com - you should watch it grace - get a taste for the other half. I make the assumption that most of these people working the "DIRTY JOBS" that makes an ivory tower like wegman possible perhaps dont feel as materially rich as the typical NY city slicker type? pbs.org I just watched manor house for a few hours yesterday too - lots of the women quit the program - they couldn't hang 3 months living 1900's style lifestyle - wimps. Miss Anson was my favorite - she was the lonely sister - she quit the show and was able to generate anger for people that died over 100 years ago. pbs.org Miss Anson "I was amazed to discover just how angry I became on behalf of the women of that time - how suppressed and frustrated some of them must have felt." The show clearly demonstrated she had a much better life than the male and female servants living below - but she couldn't become ANGRY for them - no - she could only see the world from her on shoes living high up in the house with servants and be upset for her own small issues. There was this show on national geographic too - they take these city slicker types and send them to live with the tribes and such in africa - boy you never seen so many grown adults cry like babies when they dont have a nice toilet and paper to wipe with - hehe.