When you walk into Shaw's on Spring Street now, the very first thing you see is a display of Passover foods (except, strangely, macaroons).

Call them Shaw's or Star Market or Shirley, but just make a decision and stick with it already.

No, it's not rapidly increasing food prices. It's that we're all in a food rut:

Shaw's Supermarkets said Tuesday it has forged a partnership with America's Test Kitchen that aims to get shoppers out of what they call a "food rut."

West Bridgewater, Mass.-based Shaw's said the initiative, called "Get Inspired," was designed specifically to stop New Englanders from sleep-shopping through the grocery aisles, cooking the same uninspired meals, week after week. ...

What?!? The signs in the freezer aisle aren't inspiration enough?!?

According to witnesses who reported it on b0st0n LiveJournal. Bus traffic was substantially delayed.

Update, from Cambridge Chronicle: Harvard student dead after being hit by truck.

Because Dippin' Dots are now available at Shaw's.

If you have the mind of a 12-year-old, at least (possibly NSFW):

Carmen knows this because she got his autograph yesterday at the Mt. Auburn Street Shaw's, which snagged him to help celebrate the re-opening of its pharmacy (really).

Marty gives an online attaboy to the guy he spotted doing the Macarena in the baking aisle at the Allston Shaw's when the song came on the PA yeterday:

... Who knew people still knew how to do that one?

Spatch details just how bad these things are:

... I'm not sure who designed the checkout points of purchase at Shaw's supermarkets, but I'm willing to bet it was a friend of the lowest bidder who designed the Charlie Card machines. There are so many stupid little user interface problems with things that it's amazing any actual currency-based commerce is conducted successfully there on a daily basis. I think we'd be much better off going back to the bartering system, only I'd hate to be out of chickens when I need to buy more toilet paper. ...

Oh, yes, he also wishes to have a word with the idiot who designed the self-checkout lanes at Shaw's.

Earlier:
The world's most annoying credit-card devices.
Why the Shaw's card readers suck.

Marc Stober, a programmer, concludes that the problem with those stupid card readers at Shaw's and Star Market is not stupid programming but bad hardware:

... Theoretically you can touch "Yes" on the touchscreen - I've actually gotten this to work before they started with the tape and notes–but the touchscreens are so flighty that it hardly ever reads your response (or reads it as "No"), so the only reliable way to complete the transaction is to use the Enter button. ...

He also discusses problems with Stop & Shop's card readers.

Earlier:
The world's most annoying credit-card devices.