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  • Giant Eagle Market District is a previously low-budget grocery store's attempt to get in on the Whole Foods trend, & I'll be honest: It's working on me. I'm a diehard, live-long Acme fan, but GEMD sells things I could never dream of buying at my usual go-to store - including hugely basic items like Brie & prosciutto, apparently. As other local chains fail to present shoppers with the level of product they seek - particularly in their efforts to keep up with more impressive, upscale areas - GEMD has a leg up. I appreciate GEMD's hot foods section, with its own checkout & everything, but it still tastes like, well, Giant Eagle food. The wok bar takes upwards of 20 minutes per dish, which is wholly unacceptable for a lunch joint, & the rest of the food (sushi excluded) is, well, just not very good. I ordered the BBQ brisket once & hardly ate any of it for all the fat on the meat; huge waste of $7. In this aspect, GEMD is trying to be a big- city Whole Foods but falling very, VERY short. That said, I'm still giving GEMD a four-star rating because it's leaps & bounds better than anything else in the Falls. You can buy brands & items here that are simply unavailable elsewhere, unless you want to travel to Cleveland, & there's something to be said for that. I love their bakery section, & they sell yogurt & fruit crisps I can't buy anywhere else - thank you, GEMD! The other exciting thing about GEMD is that it offers events, like wine tastings & painting nights & guest chefs, which you can't usually find at other venues. It also has a bar & a Starbucks, so you can sip booze or caffeine as you choose your produce. Stars for THAT because suburban grocery shopping is not necessarily the most fun chore. The cost, though, is much like Whole Goods: more expensive than you'd hope, especially in an area like this. I've regularly spent upwards of $100 here buying the sort of crap I spend $70 on at Acme. Is it worth to do one-stop-shopping AND to earn FuelPerks for everything I buy? I haven't decided yet. I'll keep shopping at GEMD because it's the best CF has got, but frankly, I hope our other grocery stores will step up so that I don't have to.
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