While Philly EDGE loves markets where the aisles are so small that you can’t turn a grocery cart around in them, there’s something wonderfully, suburban-ly decadent about a grocery store larger than the Pentagon. (Inky)

 

By summer there will be three such mega-stores nestled around the Bucks-Mont border.

 

-         a 97,300-square-foot SuperGiant Super Food Store set to open Wednesday is the company’s largest location. (And, apparently, the record holder for superlatives as well.)

 

Among its amenities: a cooking school, a dietitian's office, a day-care center and valet checkout. …Giant was not able to go the extra mile and actually staff little people inside each individual cart to zip line to shelves and nab items while shoppers stroll the store. Pffft, amateurs.

 

 

-         a 125,000 square foot Wegmans in Warminster, which wants to eventually serve wine and beer.

 

That is a great idea, though may we suggest with the current cougar coefficient in the prepared foods area of said Wegmans approaching McCaffery’s of Yardley-level saturation, this move to serve alcohol may hurt places like this, this and this more than it ever could another market.

 

-         a 195,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Montgomery County Supercenter.

 

Truth is Mr.Walton’s grocery stores are always a bit of a letdown. …Though anyone can appreciate a whole aisle of jerky, the real draw to a WMSC is that one can buy Clementines, SpaghettiOs (with the little meatballs, bitches!), a birthday card, shotgun shells, a six-pack of white tube socks, an air compressor and a 50 lb. bag of potting soil…. HST would have been proud of that list.