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There’s always time to shop for groceries A ROBERT LEBZELTER column for May 9, 2009 Star BeaconFeeding Louise's Giant Eagle addiction is our GPS, which can tell us no matter where in the U.S. or Canada we are where the closest Giant Eagle can be found. When you are around Hopkins, you learn there is one approximately one every three blocks. (But they can't keep one two miles from my house.) Consumer Reports doesn't give Giant Eagle as good of a report as wife does . It ranks the chain a mere 46th out of 59 stores. It says Giant Eagle is average for service, perishables and cleanliness, but not good at price. Giant Eagle says its gasoline deal makes up for it. Shoppers give better grades to stores like Aldi's and Save-A-Lot. But the store the 32,599-shopper study found the best in the whole U.S.? Wegman's. That's a 72-store chain out of Rochester, N.Y., which is rated tops in cleanliness, service, price, checkout speed and perishables. It has also won awards in the past as a good place to work. Best yet, there are two stores in the Erie area, within a half-hour drive for us. Wegman's also has an excellent vegetarian section. If you happen to be my friend on Facebook, you can see the slideshow of grandson Henry sleeping through aisles and aisles at a Rochester area Wegman's several weeks ago. Henry ranked it a fine store for snoozing. So no matter where our journeys take us, the Lebzelter quest is to buy whole-wheat hamburger buns from as far-flung areas as possible. Oh that President Barack Obama comes through and improves our economy so another store is actually interested in locating in the long-vacant Giant Eagle building at Conneaut's Gateway Plaza, or what about where Tops was located in Ashtabula? If you have some time on your hands, go over to www.wegmans.com and click on "contact us" and ask pretty please if it will locate a store or two in Ashtabula County. Or write to Wegmans Food Markets, 1500 Brooks Ave., P.O. Box 30844, Rochester, N.Y. 14603-0844. When I mention to Louise how nice it would be if Wegmans would locate here, she always says, "You are dreaming." Or after a root canal, "Urr drrrr in." But it doesn't hurt to try. Lebzelter is special sections editor. E-mail him at bobleb@starbeacon.com. 
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