I am predicting a Shop Rite will be built in Rotterdam and/or Glenville within the next 2 years --- maybe even a Wegman's and a Whole Foods should be built on Broadway or Erie Boulevard in Schenectady.

I believe 2012 may be the year we see the Golub Corporation come under increased scrutiny for its Union Busting techniques -- furthermore I predict this will lead to eventual bankruptcy of the company as it runs afoul of the rules of fair play and it continues its insults to our political leaders..... I hope they burn in HELL.......

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I am predicting a Shop Rite will be built in Rotterdam and/or Glenville within the next 2 years --- maybe even a Wegman's and a Whole Foods should be built on Broadway or Erie Boulevard in Schenectady.

Hey, do you have a brain??????     Tell us where the people are going to get money to spend at these stores when your dems are raising taxes on them?   Where are the people going to get the money from to buy things when they are losing their homes to the high taxes????    Tell us?

Working people live on budgets, DV.   They have X dollars for groceries.   They are NOT going to spend MORE money simply because there are more stores.  

You have such a wild imagination.   If a person shops at Price Chopper and spends $100 a week and then goes to Hannaford to spend $100 a week, now, we have a Shop-Rite you actually think the person is going to go there and spend $100 a week. and then if other stores open, then they'll go there and spend that money too?

DV, open your eyes   People do NOT have money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   People are NOT going to be driving around to 5 different stores to shop.   Gas is high.  And yes, maybe you can go to Shop-rite to save 50 cernts on a bottle of laundry detergent, but you are spending it in gas and wear and tear on your car to get there.   And then on top of that, when you are driving all over the place to many stores that takes TIME.   Unlike you living of the public dole (regardless of source), NORMAL people have jobs and many must get second jobs in order to pay for the property taxes of the millionaires in downtown Schdy.  So people do NOT have time to run to Price Chopper, then go to Hannaford, then go to Shop rite, then to go Walmart, then go to Target, then whatever other stores open.   Come on, DV, you DO have a VERY WILD imageination.

Just go shopping at Hannaford these days (even before Shop-Rite).  The place is DEAD.   YES, you CAN get in and out of there really fast, and I do like their prices---not trying to discuss price comparisons between stores on this thread, but, when Walmart opened in Glenville, Hannaford lost lots of business.  Tell us DV, please explain to us why the courtesy desk was open til 10 and now it's only til 8?     Tell us WHY, DV , tell us WHY Hannaford in Glenville used to be open 24 hours and now they close at 11 pm now that Walmrat is open there for groceries?

When we had Price Chopper and Grand Union here, tell us how the addition of Hannaford to this area helped Grand Union?   Tell us!!!!!!!     A new store came in and another closed leaving an empty building that has become an eyesore.     And you have this imagination that opening more stores will result in the existing stores thriving?   YES, DV, YES, I can hear you now trying to tell me that it results in competition and lower prices.   I understand that.  HOWEVER, I am not as dumb as you.  Nor are other people.   We like some of the buys we've gotten at Shop-Rite.   So as we load up a cart at Shop-Rite because they have some good buys, but I see the detergent is 50 cents more at Shop-Rite than Hannaford, well, MOST people DV, will just buy it at Shop-Rite.   Go home from Shop-Rite for example unload and put away the groceries and then go back out to go to Hannaford?   Oh, stop at Hannaford on the way home?   But if there's stuff that needs to go ina freezer and it's summer, you're not going to leave groceries in your car shopping at another stores.   When people work to pay the property taxes of the millionaires downtown, and when they pay for those on the public dole, they don't have time to be going from store to store to store.    Can you imagine this.  In Shop-Rite, item for $2.00 and you think, "oh, it's only $1.75 at Hannaford, I'll stop at Hannaford on the way home.   On the way home, you stop at Hannaford, the item is now $2.25 at Hannaford, oops, the price went up.   Gee, should I go back to Shop-Rite and pay only $2.00?   Well, people who don't work living off of mama, might be able to do that, but most people work, don't have time, and are struggling to pay taxes

We have friends who live in Colonie, they used to go to the Walmart supercenter in Glenville.   Since the Walmart on Washington Ave extension was turned into a super center, they have not once gone anywhere near the supercenter in Glenville.   Imagine the total population of Colonie and Guilderland and imagine that they all went to the Glenville supercenter.   And figure that once the supercenter opened on Wash Ave, that all those people stopped going to the Glenville store.   That would be HUGE reduction in shoppers coming into the store in Glenville.  The Walmart company still will sell the same number of boxes of cereal, but the amount sold at each store would drop.

And when business get's reduced at Glenville because half the shoppers to to Wash Ave Ext, then Walmart demands a property assessment reduction on their Glenville store, and because of their wealth, they can afford the priciest lawyers so they win their case, then that reduces the tax base in Glenville & Sch Co.   And if a new supercenter for Walmart does get built/open in Latham, then that will take some Colonie people away from the Wash Ave ext store.   And the cycle continues.

DON'T get me wrong, I'm NOT saying we should have only one grocery store.   But oversaturation is a problem too.

I've hear rumors of sorts that Wegmans will come into this area.  And I've heard they are excellent.   I also heard they could put Price Chopper out of business.   But then, I guess since Golub endorsed Hull, you would prefer to see Golub fail.

Wegmans may eventually come to the area - but not Whole foods.  Unfortunately the size of the area's population just wouldn't meet their needs I would think.

Shop Rite is awesome --- Wegman's is great --- and Whole Foods would be a great destination anchor store

People would still shop at Price Chopper and Hannaford's -- but we need more choices when it comes to purchasing our groceries and produce.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Shop Rite is awesome --- Wegman's is great --- and Whole Foods would be a great destination anchor store. People would still shop at Price Chopper and Hannaford's -- but we need more choices when it comes to purchasing our groceries and produce.

Rotterdam needs a Shop Rite and had one back in the day. Insiders are still buzzing about the $2.5 MILLION first week of the Niskayuna Shop Rite. Hannaford is getting creamed and PC is way down. Competition is great but the pie can only be sliced in so many smaller pieces.

Quoted from benny salami

Rotterdam needs a Shop Rite and had one back in the day. Insiders are still buzzing about the $2.5 MILLION first week of the Niskayuna Shop Rite. Hannaford is getting creamed and PC is way down. Competition is great but the pie can only be sliced in so many smaller pieces.

Well -- competition is the American Capitalist way -- and I am all for it   ... you nayboobs are only for American ideals if you can put it on a bumper sticker or say something cute about it in a speech ... I BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN IDEALS of free markets without corporate welfare and bailouts --- and open government with full citizen participation --- I am willing to walk the walk -- not just talk the talk like the tea baggers.  I believe Rotterdam and Schenectady County -- indeed ALL of America would be a whole hell of lot better off with MORE  economic and political freedom -- not less.

So put that in your tea bag and swallow it.

Except when it comes to political choice. Then you do a abrupt 180. One party rule is your game. If you are not for bailouts how can you support the current DEM disaster? Or your buddy Taxin Tonko who is hardly Mr Capitalism. The usual double talk from those that "understand the importance of high taxes".

Quoted from JackBauer

Wegmans may eventually come to the area - but not Whole foods.  Unfortunately the size of the area's population just wouldn't meet their needs I would think.

There is a Whole Foods near Amherst, MA --- and that area is a lot less densely populated than the Capital District is ------------  I believe the area can support a Whole Foods and other similar big name national retailers ... we just need to invite them to come and check us out.

Quoted from benny salami

Except when it comes to political choice. Then you do a abrupt 180. One party rule is your game. If you are not for bailouts how can you support the current DEM disaster? Or your buddy Taxin Tonko who is hardly Mr Capitalism. The usual double talk from those that "understand the importance of high taxes".

I have absolutely no problem with a two party system of government --- I believe having political choices is just as important as having economic choices.

And who said that Mr. Tonko is my buddy --- I have known him for years .. we are cordial and I would consider him a friendly long-time acquaintance but hardly a buddy  .. but even he knows that our political views are often quite different.   My political philosophy runs more along the more conservative philosophy (strong defense, strong foreign policy)  of the late Congressman Sam Stratton  and the more moderate philosophy of  former Congressman Mike McNulty.

Please do not compare the legendary Sam Stratton to McNulty. Shop Rite would do very well in Rotterdam. Rotterdam residents need shopping alternatives, lower prices and edible bialis. The old Grand Union would be an excellent site as would Curry Road Plaza. Get these properties back on the tax rolls and give the homeowners a break. If Harry could expedite this he would be off to a great start.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Well -- competition is the American Capitalist way --

... I BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN IDEALS of free markets without corporate welfare and bailouts --- and open government with full citizen participation --- I am willing to walk the walk -- not just talk the talk like the tea baggers.  I believe Rotterdam and Schenectady County -- indeed ALL of America would be a whole hell of lot better off with MORE  economic and political freedom -- not less.

It's ironic that you and the DEM party touts 'free enterprise' and 'open capitalist market' when the Metroplex has created a government supported Downtown area..excuse me..government supported City and County (Cornell's, Marcella's - all government funded).  

How do you explain the millionaires in Downtown Schenectady who have been given hundreds of thousands in metroplex grants (not loans) and do not contribute to the City's property tax base? The PILOT payments aren't made public and no one (other than Gillen) knows how much these businesses pay.

You can't speak for free enterprise when your own party has created such a socialist atmosphere. It's destroyed free enterprise and given an advantage to the government funded businesses and has no accounting for the PILOTs.

He's talking out of both sides of his mouth like all the crony socialists. Take a peek at McCarthy's lousy Conservative numbers. He only got 234 votes for Mayor! A real Conservative like Phil Tiberio for City Council got 3X that. You no likey McCarthy's EMS tax? How about his idiotic golf course "improvements"? If you want to implode a third party put Gary McCarthy's name on it. The circular firing squad of DEMS has begun. Led by the Gazetto editorial. Pass the low salt popcorn!

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He's talking out of both sides of his mouth like all the crony socialists. Take a peek at McCarthy's lousy Conservative numbers. He only got 234 votes for Mayor! A real Conservative like Phil Tiberio for City Council got 3X that. You no likey McCarthy's EMS tax? How about his idiotic golf course "improvements"? If you want to implode a third party put Gary McCarthy's name on it. The circular firing squad of DEMS has begun. Led by the Gazetto editorial. Pass the low salt popcorn!

Anyone know what access a City Council person has.  ie.  Do they still have to FOIL everything or do they have full access at request?  RIGGI.  He will be providing some answers to some questions we have all had for a while.  Believe it.    

Quoted from benny salami

Rotterdam needs a Shop Rite and had one back in the day. Insiders are still buzzing about the $2.5 MILLION first week of the Niskayuna Shop Rite. Hannaford is getting creamed and PC is way down. Competition is great but the pie can only be sliced in so many smaller pieces.

it all levels out....water always goes down and levels out.....just like $$$$$......oh,,,wait....that's what Stratton was talking about...the water goes up and the water goes down...oh wait...there was
this other very wise man who said "I pick things up and I put them down".......

it's all math....the prices fluctuate for a while, some low here some low there...but with ATM/DEBIT/CREDIT/FOODSTAMP/CLUB cards guess what....THEY ALL KNOW WHAT WE BUY, AND WHERE
WE BUY IT AND THEN WE NICKELED AND DIMED TO DEATH.....I don't know about anyone else but coupons belong in a hampster cage....I ain't a hampster.....just give me the straight up price..

I've dont the compare thing between walmart, price chop and hanaford....it's a JOKE.....and I am not driving around all weekend trying to save $5.00 when a gallon of gas is almost $4.00.....

my time is worth more than that.....