Signs are one of the things that shape the food-shopping experience in North Jersey.
At Corrado's Family Affair in Clifton and the cavernous Costco Wholesale in Hackensack, you won't find any signs telling you what is in the aisles, making shopping at the two stores a treasure hunt.
At Fairway Market in Paramus, you're constantly lectured about how good the food is and how great the prices are -- and both are an exaggeration.
In the years since the New York chain opened its Paramus store at the out-of-the-way Fashion Center, I have simply been unable to warm up to it.
I'm from Brooklyn, but I'm sick of Fairway's New York attitude.
Good coffee beans
I go there every couple of months to buy whole-bean coffee, but on Tuesday, I was suckered by a coupon for $10 off of a $75 purchase that I got in the mail.
We once bought 1-pound packages of salted cod from Fairway for $8.99, but then switched to Corrado's, which charged $6.99 and now charges $7.99 a package.
On Tuesday, I found out Fairway has raised the price for a 1-pound package of salted cod to $9.99.
So, I bought 7 packages (the cod freezes beautifully), a pound of custom-ground coffee beans for $6.99 and sweet potatoes for 69 cents a pound.
With $10 off, I paid $68.66.
Does the cod smell?
I loved the young, female cashier, who picked up each sealed plastic package of cod by a corner to scan them and place them in my reusable bag as if they were so many dead rats.
She said she didn't want to get the smell of the salted fish on her hands, but when I sniffed a package and my hand, I couldn't smell anything.
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