Star Market
Is there a black market in price scanners?
By adamg - 10/26/11 - 8:40 am
Dedham and Foxboro police are both looking for a guy who walked into stores and walked out with expensive price scanners.
On Oct. 15, he walked out of the Star Market in Dedham with five scanners, each worth $1,000 apiece, police say. The same day he walked out of the Bed Bath & Beyond in Foxboro with four MC 3000 price scanners, worth a combined total of $6,000, police say.
He didn't even change his clothes between heists, based on the photos supplied by the two departments.
Imagine Roche Bros. at a higher elevation
By adamg - 11/1/09 - 5:43 pm
The amazing cartveyor.
Armed with a $5 coupon, we trekked to Chestnut Hill today to check out the new Star Market (question for Shaw's/Star: Why do you want to encourage people in 02131 to travel to Rte. 9 when you've got perfectly serviceable Shaw's in West Roxbury and Hyde Park?).
A BU student dines out
By adamg - 4/28/09 - 8:25 amThe Daily Free Press reports a BU junior was arrested at the Comm. Ave. Star Market around 3 a.m. on April 24 for wandering around the store, opening packages and eating the stuff inside:
The officer confronted the suspect when he tried to leave the store with his fingers covered in mashed potatoes from an open package he still had in his hands.
That's not kosher
By adamg - 11/10/08 - 10:25 amShaw's rejects kosher butcher shop for renovated Chestnut Hill Star Market.
Via Marc Stober, who adds:
... I guess if Jews have waited thousands of years for a return to Zion and are still waiting for the Messiah, we can wait a bit longer for a place to buy kosher meat with adequate parking. :)
Unhealthy food: Every other aisle in the store
Shane Curcuru loves the signs at Shaws/Star Markets.
Will Shaw's make up its mind already?
By adamg - 7/9/08 - 7:23 amCall them Shaw's or Star Market or Shirley, but just make a decision and stick with it already.
A New Yorker poem about Star Market
By adamg - 1/12/08 - 8:51 pmThe poem by Marie Howe (who used to live around here) starts:
The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday.
An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout
breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps.
Pie!
By adamg - 10/25/06 - 3:42 pmSpatch pens an ode to joy, the hyper-exclamation-pointed freezer section at his local Shaw's.
Earlier:
Buy it! Cook it! Eat it!
Why the Shaw's card readers suck
By adamg - 8/31/06 - 7:24 pmMarc 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.
The world's most annoying credit-card devices
By adamg - 8/30/06 - 9:48 pmFor the past few months, Shaw's and Star Market have been taping up their credit/debit card readers with these stupid notes that tell you to hit "Enter" instead of "Yes" when the readers tell you to hit "Yes." I know I invariably hit "Yes," because that's what the stupid thing tells me to do. Dudes, bite the bullet and hire some programmers to rewrite the damn interface already, will ya?
Krissy in Boston writes one of these jerkwad devices helped add to her already sucky day:
... I went to the Auburndale Shaw's to get some tissues, throat lozenges, etc ... and the stupid teenage cashier started yelling at me because when it says: "$XX.XX is your total. Is that correct?" I pressed YES, but apparently you're supposed to press ENTER. (Apparently I forgot about that after a similar debacle at the same supermarket last October.) I swear, when interviewing at Shaw's they must ask: "Are you surly, unfriendly, and kind of nasty?" And if you answer yes, they give you the job. ...
