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A grinch from the NY Post tries to ruin our fun at Wegmans

We are all spoiled by Wegmans markets. Growing up here, you and I know what Wegmans means.

If you don't know, learn about the excitement of many, courtesy of NBC4 New York below.

Apparently a crotchety old columnist from the New York Post doesn't feel our holiday joy when we experience what Wegmans shopping is all about.

This writer is named Maureen Callahan, and I wonder with that name if she is truly Irish. Because growing up in an Irish brood, we're normally very positive people.

Not Ms. Callahan. She wrote an article November 5, 2019 blasting not only Wegmans and its shoppers, but also the home of the supermarket industry leader, Rochester, NY.

Or as the Crotchety Callahan labeled it "grim and depressing Rochester".

She grew up on Long Island. We upstaters know too well that some from the lower corner of our Empire State think they are more worldly, wiser, more sophisticated and, just plain better than we are.

So Ms. Crotchety Callahan seems to think. I'm guessing she has never made a trip north of the Westchester County line.

Too bad for her. But luckily for downstaters like her, Wegmans has brought their expertise to them. And many are much happier than the surly scribe who still writes in a dying newspaper industry which loses readers on a daily basis.

Just ask any child you see today, when was the last time they read a newspaper column?

I would love to see the look on that kid's face when you ask that. Perhaps their reply will be "what's a newspaper"?

Crabby Crotchety Callahan wrote..."why are New Yorkers losing their s--- over a grocery store?".

Her journalism teacher must be proud of that classy sentence.

She wrote how New Yorkers have always been rebels, in a "city built on danger, striving, exclusivity, VIP lists, velvet ropes..." blah, blah, blah.

Apparently, we are not cool because we don't get to stand in line to be snarled at by a goon guarding a velvet rope.

This next line exposed her ignorance and lack of class. Callahan implied that hanging at a corner bar named Kokie's in Williamsburg in the 90's was much cooler "because you could literally buy cocaine there".

Happily, Wegmans does not sell cocaine. Maybe that's what upset Crotchety Callahan.

Or maybe just the thought that rednecks from upstate know how to do something better than smarter New York City elites like her.

I would provide a link to her original diatribe, but why should I link her rambling, useless prose about her disgust with a supermarket and its millions of loyal fans?

Why give her the click hits that would look good to her editors on a spread sheet? A sheet that shows sinking numbers in circulation sales.

I will say the wonderful staff of the Rochester Red Wings baseball organization are the ones who tipped me off to this Witch from Westchester, or whatever downstate location that Callahan calls home. The International League AAA team announced over the weekend a promotion at a summer ball game celebrating "grim and depressing" Rochester.

I'm sure that Crotchety Callahan won't have time to come so far north of the Hudson to enjoy what she would symbolize as a minor league event in a minor league city that she could care less about.

Maybe she should just take a walk into the Wegmans in Brooklyn and see what hard working upstaters succeed at. Style and class in a friendly, clean atmosphere and environment.

I guess Maureen Callahan did not learn about any of those qualities in journalism school. If she ever attended one.


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