Third Decade reports:

While walking through the produce area of the South Bay Stop & Shop I saw a man in his late-30s to early-40s walk up to the avocados and make the sign of the Cross before picking one.

Alan "Bubba" Daughtry of Dorchester pleaded guilty last week to a string of robberies of bakeries, convenience stores and other small shops last year, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.

Boston Police report arresting two Dorchester teens, 15 and 16, on charges they took a shopper's iPod at knifepoint outside the South Bay Stop & Shop around 2 p.m. yesterday.

Police say they found the pair at Columbia Road and Dorchester Avenue - and recovered the victim's iPod.

That would be the South Bay shopping center, which has gotten so bad that Jason reports he was forced to drive to Braintree to shop this past weekend:

... The parking lot is undergoing major renovations, and is currently a war zone. The traffic patterns at South Bay have always been chaotic, but adding random jersey barriers, loose blacktop, torn up roadways, heavy ground-moving equipment, clueless pedestrians with small children in carriages, and entitled Boston drivers, and it's a recipe for a sludgy disaster. ...