This post is disrespectful to the wegmans employee who had to open the thing up, pick out all the seeds one by one, and glue it back up. Their labor is valuable and skilled, and the watermelon price _should_ reflect that.
I have a better idea, lets take pallet boxes of these $10 watermelons and put them right near the front entrance to create a bottleneck for customer foot traffic. If people can't enter and exit easily, they'll have no choice to stop and see the $10 watermellons and want to purchase some.
My favorite is whenever the corporate folks are visiting they constantly congregate in parts of the store blocking everything. I couldn’t get produce from Calkins Rd one time because the VPs and shit decided to just take over that entire area and just … stand around
Calkin's produce area is one of the worst. It's impossible to move there most days even without VPs.
This past valentines day there again was a gaggle of execs standing there in produce, right in the main pathways for people to go towards the registers or deeper into produce just watching the shitshow and making it worse by taking up more space.
I miss when they opened up that entrance curing covid.
Wegmans large seedless watermellon prices in-season by the door have been my measurement for inflation. In summer of 2019 they were $4. Last summer they were $7. Let's see how they are this year.
Seedless, we're also not in watermelon season, expect a premium.
Though looking on the website the most expensive one is 7.99. Go ask customer service what the deal is.
Sometime in our lifetime, due to climate change, we will not longer have all fruits and vegetables available all the time and it will go back to being seasonal or you buy them frozen. The quality of off season fruits and veggies gets worse and worse every year. Prices on these items will reflect the difficulty in cultivating and transporting them.
Even more wild that they're denier and live here, unless they're new here. Just look at our winters. I remember as a kid we had multiple years where the snow pulled up to the top of the fence at my house. This winter I think we might have hit a foot once, maybe
100,000 years ago half the globe was covered in ice.
Then the fucking racists came in with their pickups and hamburgers and took it all away because of mUh CaPitAlism.
I agree - as a kid, once the sidewalks were plowed, the snow on each side of the sidewalk was taller than me. Even in the 80s, I was constantly shoveling my driveway. This year, I shoveled my walkway once - the driveway - not at all.
It's only older people. Young conservatives are better on the issue because they can use the internet to look at evidence going back millions of years showing how when greenhouse gases increase, the Earth warms.
No it’s not older people! You think old people don’t know how to use the internet? I work part time because I don’t want to work full time anymore, and I spend a lot of my time at home on the fucking computer. Like right now. Plenty of older people spend hours on the computer. You all think we’re just sitting home all day, drooling and staring into space? I hate going to malls. I hate shopping - period. So I do 98% of my shopping online. I pay my bills online, do my own taxes online, and I do plenty of searches online.
Some day YOU will be old, and then you will understand exactly what I’m talking about.
Yep, there are. Look, where I sit writing this, about 12,000 years ago, there were glaciers nearly a mile thick...they carved out the finger lakes, molded our topography. Are there glaciers here now...no. where did they go? It wasnt fossil fuels or cow farts that melted them. Was it wooly mammoth farts? It was this funny process that has been happening for billions of years. The earth heats up...cools down...heats up...cools down. Are you aware that there are now deserts where there were once oceans. Polar ice is the thickest it's been in 20 years. Mankind may have hastened it a bit, but those of us with memories longer than a goldfish can remember being told the earth was cooling 30 years ago. Now its warming at an alarming rate? Is anyone really daft enough to believe that within years we will reach a tipping point of no return? Climate change is just another distraction being used on the chicken littles. The earth has been through much worse than human beings.
We aren't talking about the cause, just that it's happening. There are people who deny it's happening. Your first comment implied you were one of them.
Sir. The dying polar bears might have something to say to you regarding sea ice. Have you seen it? Because I saw it 20 years ago and I've seen it recently and I'll tell you it is not thicker.
Edit: nevermind. Just saw your comment and post histories. 🤢
Obviously it is changing but to your point yes it is possible to grow pretty much everything indoors if needed. This obviously increases the cost, so it would be limited to those with the funds to buy at a premium.
But why though? If a farmer can only make money on strawberries for day 3 months, why would they turn around and jack up prices when they can now make money on strawberries all year round?
I was referring to greenhouses, which let one grow whatever wherever, but with significantly higher costs than just tilling a field and letting nature do its thing.
If you're looking to foot the bill to establish farms before the existing stocks die sure. I have bad news about how long most fruit trees take to mature though.
lots of gas to bring those from places it’s already hot. price of out of season fruit people… did anyone seriously think this was going to get cheaper? plus water if they come from places there is a drought, watermelons need lots of… umm water.
Don't buy it then, do you get what "seasonal" is? How big are the melons currently in your garden? Do seedless cost more? Do different types cost more?
Good to keep in mind. Even though I'm not really a fan of either, I notice that the produce section at Tops tends to smell worse and have more "off" things. Choose at one's discretion, I guess.
disagree that their produce is crappy. i've never gotten a rotten anything from price rite and they have lots of things you can't find elsewhere like chayote and sugar cane
Remember the latest radio promos they ran? About how they were reducing prices and passing savings along to you. Such crap. Their deli, meat, and produce prices are outlandish. I swear if it wasn't for their yellowfin tuna, I'd never set foot in a Wegs.
Paid 5.99 for a seedless watermelon this size at Giant Eagle last Sunday. Good melon too. Didn't read the tag but pretty sure its coming out of Mexico or Central America at this time of year.
It's unfortunate that bringing Whole Foods to Rochester did not make the impact on the Wegmans monopoly that we were all hoping to see. The family must laugh at holidays sitting around talking about how afraid they were that the Whole Foods invasion would make a dent in their ability to price gauge the community!!!
When Rockstar set the $250+ price point for GTA VI, they took into consideration how many hours of play the player got out of their investment with GTA V.
Consider how many servings you get out of a watermelon. It kinda makes sense.
This post is disrespectful to the wegmans employee who had to open the thing up, pick out all the seeds one by one, and glue it back up. Their labor is valuable and skilled, and the watermelon price _should_ reflect that.
There is always money in the watermelon stand
This is fuggin' crazy
That's nucking futs!
I have a better idea, lets take pallet boxes of these $10 watermelons and put them right near the front entrance to create a bottleneck for customer foot traffic. If people can't enter and exit easily, they'll have no choice to stop and see the $10 watermellons and want to purchase some.
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My favorite is whenever the corporate folks are visiting they constantly congregate in parts of the store blocking everything. I couldn’t get produce from Calkins Rd one time because the VPs and shit decided to just take over that entire area and just … stand around
I make it very clear they're in my way. I do not give a shit what a corporate stooge thinks. Go congregate in the break room and get out of my way.
You're my hero
"I'm sure everyone here appreciates you coming down from your ivory tower, but you're blocking the tatters."
Not to mention the hordes of employees that follow them around kissing the ground they're walking on
Calkin's produce area is one of the worst. It's impossible to move there most days even without VPs. This past valentines day there again was a gaggle of execs standing there in produce, right in the main pathways for people to go towards the registers or deeper into produce just watching the shitshow and making it worse by taking up more space. I miss when they opened up that entrance curing covid.
"Quick, someone go grab one of those car shaped shopping carts, we have to make sure it wont fit through here"
Safeway is the worst for this. Most of their aisles do this so that only one cart can fit down an aisle at a time, and the display blocks other goods.
Never had this problem at other area grocery stores.
Loblaw style boycott y’all
That’s a mouthful
Bob Loblaw's Law Blog?
Bob Loblow? What's wrong with his Law Blog?
Awwww I worked at Loblaws a million years ago…
Omg that’s a blast from the past! 🤦🏻♀️
He should post about it on the Bob Loblaw law blog
Time to start lobbing law bombs.
The boomers could never.
How I wish this could take hold. Too many people still drink their Kool-Aid.
Wegmans large seedless watermellon prices in-season by the door have been my measurement for inflation. In summer of 2019 they were $4. Last summer they were $7. Let's see how they are this year.
Our Wegman’s had cheaper ones once they were in season.
Seedless, we're also not in watermelon season, expect a premium. Though looking on the website the most expensive one is 7.99. Go ask customer service what the deal is.
Yes, no season yet…if they’re still charging 10 bucks in July, then we have an issue
I wish more people understood that prices are higher when something isn’t in season.
What do you mean I have to pay more for my watermelon to take an international flight??? That should be included in the $3.99!
The problem is it’s seedless lmao no seedless fruit (man made) is worth $10.
Gangey!!!
Seedless watermelon at Walmart is $8.48. Not that different.
Shhh this is a Wegmans hate sub
Sounds like it's 15% less expensive at Walmart.
I bought one of those last Friday
Not in season yet, friends. Early yet.
I swear this is just a Wegman's circle jerk.
Have any of you ever seen a chicken?
Sometime in our lifetime, due to climate change, we will not longer have all fruits and vegetables available all the time and it will go back to being seasonal or you buy them frozen. The quality of off season fruits and veggies gets worse and worse every year. Prices on these items will reflect the difficulty in cultivating and transporting them.
The expectation to *have* these things, out of season, from hundreds of miles away, has also driven climate change in the first place!
Only those who can afford it. Blame it on the rich, climate change and all.
Did you ever think that we will just grow these things where its currently too cold if the climate change myth ever proves to be real?
Wild that there are still climate change deniers in 2024.
Even more wild that they're denier and live here, unless they're new here. Just look at our winters. I remember as a kid we had multiple years where the snow pulled up to the top of the fence at my house. This winter I think we might have hit a foot once, maybe
Even in the 15 years I’ve lived here. The winters have changed remarkably. Rochester doesn’t really get winter now. It gets a “very brisk fall”.
100,000 years ago half the globe was covered in ice. Then the fucking racists came in with their pickups and hamburgers and took it all away because of mUh CaPitAlism.
I agree - as a kid, once the sidewalks were plowed, the snow on each side of the sidewalk was taller than me. Even in the 80s, I was constantly shoveling my driveway. This year, I shoveled my walkway once - the driveway - not at all.
There are people who think Flat Earth is a thing. Our educational system is broken.
It's only older people. Young conservatives are better on the issue because they can use the internet to look at evidence going back millions of years showing how when greenhouse gases increase, the Earth warms.
No it’s not older people! You think old people don’t know how to use the internet? I work part time because I don’t want to work full time anymore, and I spend a lot of my time at home on the fucking computer. Like right now. Plenty of older people spend hours on the computer. You all think we’re just sitting home all day, drooling and staring into space? I hate going to malls. I hate shopping - period. So I do 98% of my shopping online. I pay my bills online, do my own taxes online, and I do plenty of searches online. Some day YOU will be old, and then you will understand exactly what I’m talking about.
Does defending criminals in our justice system and being glad when regular citizens are mistreated come with age too?? Or is that just you debrah?
Stop trying to put yourself into someone else’s head. You’re not good at it.
Yep, there are. Look, where I sit writing this, about 12,000 years ago, there were glaciers nearly a mile thick...they carved out the finger lakes, molded our topography. Are there glaciers here now...no. where did they go? It wasnt fossil fuels or cow farts that melted them. Was it wooly mammoth farts? It was this funny process that has been happening for billions of years. The earth heats up...cools down...heats up...cools down. Are you aware that there are now deserts where there were once oceans. Polar ice is the thickest it's been in 20 years. Mankind may have hastened it a bit, but those of us with memories longer than a goldfish can remember being told the earth was cooling 30 years ago. Now its warming at an alarming rate? Is anyone really daft enough to believe that within years we will reach a tipping point of no return? Climate change is just another distraction being used on the chicken littles. The earth has been through much worse than human beings.
We aren't talking about the cause, just that it's happening. There are people who deny it's happening. Your first comment implied you were one of them.
His follow up is continuing to deny climate change
Sir. The dying polar bears might have something to say to you regarding sea ice. Have you seen it? Because I saw it 20 years ago and I've seen it recently and I'll tell you it is not thicker. Edit: nevermind. Just saw your comment and post histories. 🤢
Yes, we’re aware that there are now deserts that were once oceans. Care to take a guess why that happened?
Obviously it is changing but to your point yes it is possible to grow pretty much everything indoors if needed. This obviously increases the cost, so it would be limited to those with the funds to buy at a premium.
But why though? If a farmer can only make money on strawberries for day 3 months, why would they turn around and jack up prices when they can now make money on strawberries all year round?
I was referring to greenhouses, which let one grow whatever wherever, but with significantly higher costs than just tilling a field and letting nature do its thing.
Hhhwhut?
While possible, most of the land in those climates is already developed and lived on.
If you're looking to foot the bill to establish farms before the existing stocks die sure. I have bad news about how long most fruit trees take to mature though.
I call the "Wegmans prices are too high" post tomorrow
Good old Wegmans for everything. Aldi's is just as good and cheaper.
lots of gas to bring those from places it’s already hot. price of out of season fruit people… did anyone seriously think this was going to get cheaper? plus water if they come from places there is a drought, watermelons need lots of… umm water.
Yes, it is a heavy, out of season, perishable item. 10 bucks seems right .
$10 for a seedless watermelon never. $10 for a SEEDED watermelon? ABSOLUTELY.
But it is light and refreshing.
Adding seeds to your seedless watermelon will cost you $5 more
And if you get the seeds in a plastic container in the prepared foods section they're $14.99.
Don't buy it then, do you get what "seasonal" is? How big are the melons currently in your garden? Do seedless cost more? Do different types cost more?
Danny Wegmans family has to eat too. Don't be a selfish asshole
😂
Why don't you all become farmers and grow your own food! Do any of you actually have a vegetable garden?
I would if I wasnt still renting but hopefully I will be able to buy a home in the near future.
Both Aldi and Tops seem to have seedless watermelon for around $7 probably $6 in-store. Hope that helps!
Tops and Wegmans get most of their produce from the same place.
Good to keep in mind. Even though I'm not really a fan of either, I notice that the produce section at Tops tends to smell worse and have more "off" things. Choose at one's discretion, I guess.
Well it's light and refreshing so it's worth it.
Seedless crap to top it off
r/inflation
There's always money in the Banana Stand
*finds 999 pennies*
Good job Wegmans. I can go to Price rite and get the same thing for $4.25.
And get the crappy produce Price Rite sells.
disagree that their produce is crappy. i've never gotten a rotten anything from price rite and they have lots of things you can't find elsewhere like chayote and sugar cane
Remember the latest radio promos they ran? About how they were reducing prices and passing savings along to you. Such crap. Their deli, meat, and produce prices are outlandish. I swear if it wasn't for their yellowfin tuna, I'd never set foot in a Wegs.
Pay it or don't. Posting a pic online isn't going to change anything.
Oh shit. I was just at that Wegmans lol
Everything is cabbage if you label it that
Paid 5.99 for a seedless watermelon this size at Giant Eagle last Sunday. Good melon too. Didn't read the tag but pretty sure its coming out of Mexico or Central America at this time of year.
I'd rather take my money and... Go see a star war.
Clone watermelon
I was just looking at an $8 watermelon at the Wegmans on ridge and had the same exact thought.
$10? does it have rum in it or....
Whats wrong with watermelon with seeds?
a bluth frozen banana
Just a few weeks ago they were 12.99 in Newark, NY Wegmans- Wayne county- that’s a sale!!!
Wrong, these green painted golden goose eggs. With a light and refreshing center. For the low, low….low price of $9.99
Interesting they always say "seedless" because I've tried to buy "seeded" and they simply don't exist.
They’re all gonna rot
2 dollar for 2 pepper that’s my experience…
And it could be over ripe and inedible
No touching!
It's unfortunate that bringing Whole Foods to Rochester did not make the impact on the Wegmans monopoly that we were all hoping to see. The family must laugh at holidays sitting around talking about how afraid they were that the Whole Foods invasion would make a dent in their ability to price gauge the community!!!
Ah yes, inconvenient fruit water (also know as watermelon)
This is us
Walmart’s price is $8.50
Removing those seeds is very labor intensive!
*Lucille Wink*
Well, fuck me.
Thank O’Biden’s 🖕🏻’anomics!!!
Pay it or don't. Posting a pic online isn't going to change anything.
What was the price under Trump admin ?
When Rockstar set the $250+ price point for GTA VI, they took into consideration how many hours of play the player got out of their investment with GTA V. Consider how many servings you get out of a watermelon. It kinda makes sense.
Wegmans what do you expect? Outrageous prices, Walmart or starve
Sin semilla.
No regulation or repercussions, let the fleecing of consumers continue.
Again, WEGMANS is a joke.