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| - I have shopped at Lina's for many years. Actually, since she was on the west side of Center street and my family and I have always loved it. The in store lunch counter and bakery were amazing or at least they used to be. We have continued to shop there since the store sold to new owners, and it appeared to be business as usual but, I am sad to say over the past 4 months, product quality, variety and the feel of the store is in a sad state of rapid decline. In the bakery area there is a shelf with a jumble of files, papers, messy, unkempt small equipment that resemble a garage sale table that nobody buys from.
I was really hopeful that things weren't going to change but it is obvious that isn't the case. Variety has declined as well as the quality as I have already mentioned, to the point where it is no longer interesting. Prices have increased to the point that the same pedestrian brands of ice cream and the more authentic gelato are $2-3 more expensive than they are at Safeway, a few blocks south of Lina's. I'd never have considered price checking before because Lina's had products you just couldn't get anywhere else. I am probably going to give Lina's a miss from now on and drive to the Italian Supermarket or over Scarpone. Maybe once the new owner drives their business into the ground, perhaps Lina will buy it back and restore it to its former impressive glory!!
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