On 11/16/2018 at 11:12 AM, rotuts said:they were at a suburban Shaw's , but only for 3 days a few weeks ago.
its the only one that does this , and they do it every year.
3 days only, way before the Thanksgiving rush.
Thanks for the heads up! I'll look for them next year. Wouldn't have had room in the freezer this year anyway...sigh.
On 11/16/2018 at 11:12 AM, rotuts said:I think the TB's were 99 cents at Star Market , again possibly for 3 days only
Fri , Sat , Sun.
but those two chains split up several years ago
It's...weirder than that -- they're both still under the same ownership, but have been handed off a few times. And after renaming all but a handful of Star Markets to Shaw's a while back, they reversed course and switched a bunch of Shaw's to Star. The one closest to me was built as a Shaw's, and is now a Star, but the receipts still say Shaw's several years after the name change. Puzzling.
With regard to the sales -- one thing I've found is that they have (at least) two circulars some weeks, and different stores get different ones. The tall circular (in a newspaper format) tends to have better prices and is used at stores in more price sensitive areas; the tabloid format circular has higher prices and is at stores in more affluent areas.
At least the last time I looked at it, the "tall" one was used at the Twin City Plaza (Camb/S'ville line) Star, the Porter Square Star, and the Waltham Shaw's; the "tabloid" one was used in the Belmont Shaw's and the Mt Auburn Star in Cambridge.
Of course, this week there's only one, for Thanksgiving.
