Roche Bros.

Will tonight's game be a cakewalk?

adamg — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:39:40 +0000

Steve Garfield spotted this Patriots cake at the West Roxbury Roche Bros.

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Shocker: Roche Bros. changes uniform colors

adamg — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:03:56 +0000

Veteran Roche Bros. shopper Matt O'Malley reports Roche Bros. has abandoned its long-time maroon uniforms. But he was apparently so stunned by the largest change since the Great Aisle Re-Ordering of '08 that he forgot to mention the new color. Anybody know? And does Rochie's sell smelling salts for Matt?

UPDATE: Matt revives long enough to reveal the new uniforms are black.

Nothing says Christmas dinner quite like turducken loaf

adamg — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:26:29 +0000

Not skinned armadillo Roche Bros., which clearly has its thumb on the gastronomic pulse of the region, is offering Boneless Fresh Turducken Breast this Christmas season. $48.93 gets you a seven-pound bundle of chicken breast embraced by duck breast lovingly cradled in turkey breast.

Thanks to Brad Moore for making us wonder if Roche Bros. is a great store or the greatest store.

We score some of the last eggs at Roche Bros.

adamg — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:05:29 +0000

Last eggs: How much could I get for them on Craigslist?

By 5:20 p.m., it was so bad people were desperately grabbing at cartons of Egg Beaters. The store still had plenty of bread and milk.

Refugees from Roche Bros.

adamg — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:55:38 +0000

It was so crowded at the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury this morning that some people just gave up trying to find a parking space and fled to the Shaw's down the road on Spring Street - and even there parking was tight (God, people were parking as far away as the Finagle-a-Bagel).

"I made three loops around the parking lot before I gave up," one refugee exclaimed in the Shaw's check-out line.

In addition to the usual French Toast fixins, people at both stores seemed to be stocking up on paper towels - shoppers were emerging from both locations with those giant packages filled with enough towels to normally last a month or so.

Will Roche Bros. be having a sale on smoked meats?

adamg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:56:47 +0000

Around 8:45 p.m., Local 718 tweeted BFD was racing over to Roche Bros. in West Roxbury for "a smoke condition in the rear of the store." There weren't any further tweets, so it probably wasn't anything major, so Westie residents can rest easy, right?

Recreating the fabled Orange Julius

adamg — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:34:05 +0000

Matt O'Malley reports that with some orange-smoothie powder ($1 at Roche Bros.), some oranges and a blender, you can re-create the Orange Julius drinks of your youth:

... Ambrosia!

The next day I went back to Rochies and bought 5 more packets (there are plenty more in the produce section on a rack across from the pre-made salads, go buy one for yourself -- they also have banana smoothie mix). I've treated myself to one every other day.

Never stand in the way of a Roche Bros. employee armed with shopping carts

adamg — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:26:30 +0000

Steve Garfield reports he was standing in front of Roche Bros. in West Roxbury - talking to Kevin McCrea of all people - when one of the 115-year-old guys who work there plowed into him at ramming speed with a line of shopping carts:

... "Hey!" I yelled. "Watch where you are going."

"You're in the way." he replied. ...

Shoppingcartcam

adamg — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:39:22 +0000

It was only supposed to be a joke when I proposed aisle reports on the threes at Roche Bros.

Steve Garfield, however, is bringing us a step closer to that useful service: He took a Panasonic camera, mounted it on a shopping cart and took it for a spin down the Roche Bros. cookie aisle. Yes, Shoppingcartcam! Sadly, it appears the video ends rather suddenly when the cart crashes into the milk shelves.

Bag lady at Roche Bros.

adamg — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:03:57 +0000

Photo of a woman covered in a year's worth of plastic bags, standing outside the West Roxbury Roche Bros. She was there as part of an effort by West Roxbury Saves Energy to get people to stop using the bags, although she looks kind of fetching and like she could burst into "America the Beautiful" at any moment.

Via ParkwayBoston.

Roche Bros. messes with our minds again

adamg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:57:38 +0000

Is nothing sacred over there anymore? Apparently not content to just move the bread and seltzer around, now Roche Bros. in West Roxbury has removed the white frosting from the Triple Berry Blast muffins, Matt O'Malley reports. O'Malley quickly adds he hopes this was just a mistake by the bakery department:

... However, if this frosting-free change is permanent, then God save the Commonwealth.

Bringing in reinforcements

adamg — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:02:48 +0000

The parking lot at Roche Bros. in West Roxbury was insane tonight. Oh, right, it's always like that. Inside, they had plenty of milk and eggs, but looks like they had to break out the emergency bread replacements.

Can the Roche Bros. deli counter become even delier?

adamg — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:54:20 +0000

The Swellesley Report points us to this press release about Roche Bros. installing a sophisticated DeliVision system designed to make ordering stuff at the deli faster and funner than ever before, by letting you order at a self-serve kiosk rather than taking some Beetlejuice-like number.

Now, obsessive Roche Bros. customers are probably already scratching their heads, since the West Roxbury store has had a self-serve deli kiosk for several months now. And, to be honest, I can't really tell from the product sheet how DeliVision is superior to the current system, but with a name like DeliVision, it just has to be awesome. Well, there is one difference: DeliVision will let the store show ads to people ordering at the kiosk, rather than the simple, boring list of deli meats the current system provides. And who doesn't need more ads in their life? Especially when sliced up thin by DeliVision.

Westwood Wegmans

DaveA — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:34:34 +0000

It appears the legislative wrangling that has been stalling activity on Beacon Hill since August is finally over. This afternoon, Westwood's home rule petition to allow an off-premises beer and wine license for potential Westwood Station tenant Wegmans, was passed in the House after Canton Representative Galvin dropped his objections.

Why don't they have traffic reports at Roche Bros.?

adamg — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:52:15 +0000

And now, the Subaru Dealers of New England All-Wheel Drive Shopping Report on the Threes brought to you by Toyota, let's go over to Steve Garfield in the Commerce Insurance shopping cart - Steve, how's the shopping today? "It's terrible, Bob! The wait at the deli department is backed up beyond the apples and we've got some crawl-and-stall down on LaGrange Street as people try to figure out the new water-bottle lane configurations. And there's police action over by the olive bar, where a man just stuck his hand right in one of the containers and grabbed an olive!"