Produce at Target. Photo courtesy of The Midwood Blog.
You may or may not have heard that the Target in Flatbush has produce now, and it appears likely that the Atlantic Center store is soon to follow. We’ll use any excuse for a Target run, and bananas and apples are certainly less dangerous than the forthcoming Missoni collabo. Our big questions, of course: is the produce any good, is it cheaper than the local supermarket, and if so, is it worth a trip?
To find out, I first went to the two markets nearest my Greenpoint apartment: Key Foods on McGuiness Boulevard and the Associated on Manhattan Avenue, chosen here to represent the average Brooklyn supermarket. I recorded the prices of 10 common fruits and vegetables, then went to Target to compare. Read the rest of this entry »
This Memorial Day, set fire to the grill, not your wallet. Photo via Flickr's Nick Sherman.
Memorial Day is upon us, along with the inevitable pre-holiday hunt for BBQ provisions. Good news, Brokesters: we just found out that grocery store prices in NYC are actually cheaper than in the rest of the country. Team Brokelyn is here to help you maximize those savings. We’ve scoured grocery stores across the borough and compiled a price index to find which have the best (and worst) prices for your outdoor feasts. We concentrated on the basic stuff here from buns to beers. Here are the results from our price scouts: Read the rest of this entry »
When is it worth braving the full-contact shopping?
We all know Trader Joe’s houses a bounty of economical delights and a helpful army of Hawaiian-shirted staffers… but, guh, the fustercluck of a crowd, always, during most of the store’s hours. And oy, for many of us, the schlepping. So here’s what’s worth dragging your cart on the subway and getting mauled by urban assault strollers for, and what’s better bought at your corner bodega. Read the rest of this entry »
In this week’s bag of supermarket circulars:
We know a cute gay hiker type who swears by the men’s department at Sears. We’ll have to investigate soon, but mean time Sears is offering a decent special through June 30. Spend $50 on Levi’s (and a couple of other brands) and you get $50 in “Sears Rewards Cash” by mail. What’s that? A $50 certificate that you can redeem in for more men’s clothes. You can’t use it to buy Land’s End—phooey—but worst comes to worst you get fifty bucks worth of socks, underwear and pajamas. Read the rest of this entry »
Fairway photo by Gretchen Muller
We’ve long been defenders of the Park Slope Food Coop, but the place has been a raging nut house lately. According to the Linewaters’ Gazette, the coop’s biweekly newsletter, membership is up 10 percent in the last year, causing aisle gridlock, endless lines and a pervasive crankiness about the place. Do coop members really save enough to make it all worthwhile? Not necessarily. We crunched some numbers. Read the rest of this entry »
Greene Hill Food Co-op, opening Saturday.
Just because you’re getting public assistance doesn’t mean you’re stuck at Pathmark. The Greene Hill Food Co-op in Clinton Hill officially opens this Saturday much to the delight of locals or anyone caught up in work shift purgatory at the Park Slope Food Co-op. In true food co-op fashion, they’re offering discounted memberships to low-income residents enrolled in some form of public assistance (SSI, Medicaid, SNAP/Food stamps, etc.) under the ecologically themed “Apple Plan.” If you qualify, you save $20 on your administration fee and can pay off the $150 member fee over five years, instead of six months. Fresh, local food, now even fresher for your wallet. Read the rest of this entry »
Produce at Target. Photo courtesy of The Midwood Blog.
You may or may not have heard that the Target in Flatbush has produce now, and it appears likely that the Atlantic Center store is soon to follow. We’ll use any excuse for a Target run, and bananas and apples are certainly less dangerous than the forthcoming Missoni collabo. Our big questions, of course: is the produce any good, is it cheaper than the local supermarket, and if so, is it worth a trip?
To find out, I first went to the two markets nearest my Greenpoint apartment: Key Foods on McGuiness Boulevard and the Associated on Manhattan Avenue, chosen here to represent the average Brooklyn supermarket. I recorded the prices of 10 common fruits and vegetables, then went to Target to compare. Read the rest of this entry »
This Memorial Day, set fire to the grill, not your wallet. Photo via Flickr's Nick Sherman.
Memorial Day is upon us, along with the inevitable pre-holiday hunt for BBQ provisions. Good news, Brokesters: we just found out that grocery store prices in NYC are actually cheaper than in the rest of the country. Team Brokelyn is here to help you maximize those savings. We’ve scoured grocery stores across the borough and compiled a price index to find which have the best (and worst) prices for your outdoor feasts. We concentrated on the basic stuff here from buns to beers. Here are the results from our price scouts: Read the rest of this entry »
When is it worth braving the full-contact shopping?
We all know Trader Joe’s houses a bounty of economical delights and a helpful army of Hawaiian-shirted staffers… but, guh, the fustercluck of a crowd, always, during most of the store’s hours. And oy, for many of us, the schlepping. So here’s what’s worth dragging your cart on the subway and getting mauled by urban assault strollers for, and what’s better bought at your corner bodega. Read the rest of this entry »
In this week’s bag of supermarket circulars:
We know a cute gay hiker type who swears by the men’s department at Sears. We’ll have to investigate soon, but mean time Sears is offering a decent special through June 30. Spend $50 on Levi’s (and a couple of other brands) and you get $50 in “Sears Rewards Cash” by mail. What’s that? A $50 certificate that you can redeem in for more men’s clothes. You can’t use it to buy Land’s End—phooey—but worst comes to worst you get fifty bucks worth of socks, underwear and pajamas. Read the rest of this entry »
Fairway photo by Gretchen Muller
We’ve long been defenders of the Park Slope Food Coop, but the place has been a raging nut house lately. According to the Linewaters’ Gazette, the coop’s biweekly newsletter, membership is up 10 percent in the last year, causing aisle gridlock, endless lines and a pervasive crankiness about the place. Do coop members really save enough to make it all worthwhile? Not necessarily. We crunched some numbers. Read the rest of this entry »
