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| - Here is the tale of what changed me from absolutely loving this 5-star grocery store and encouraging all of my friends to go to it, to rarely going at all and having an overall negative view of the whole Giant Eagle chain.
As a preface to this story:
When I was growing up, my mom always went to multiple grocery stores each each week to buy various things from various stores. She typically did this because some things were cheaper at Marc's than Fishers while other things were cheaper at Giant Eagle than Target, etc. I always thought it was kind of silly to waste the gas money and time to go to so many places rather than just paying a little more and buying it all at Giant Eagle. So since I have been old enough to buy my own groceries I have always just gone to Giant Eagle for 95% of my grocery needs.
Fast Forward to December 2014:
Even though I lived only minutes away from a Giant Eagle, I fell in love with the new Market District and it became worth driving 15 minutes away to go to.
This store is really is what jump-started my love of cooking in general. I started eating out less and finding that I could buy high quality ingredients and follow fancy recipes to make food even better than what I could get from most restaurants in the area.
It was so fun to be able to walk in after work and check out their selection of exotic meats and hard-to-find produce. I have lost track of how many times I would spend $80+ for a weeknight meal for myself based on some of the neat things I would find there.
I have bought kangaroo, quail eggs, python, rabbit, boar, various caviars, skate wing, dragon beans, fruits from all over the world and so many more fun things. But for while now they have been carrying less and less of the things that made Market District different than any regular Giant Eagle.
They also used to be more than willing to consider ordering in special meat or cheese requests for me or consider a manufacturer's product request form. But now any of these requests seem to just be ignored.
They also carry a nice selection of local and dry-aged meats. However it seems that more and more they are out of the dry-aged beef and since their carry so many local options they carry less and less higher end cuts such as many of the USDA Prime options.
All of this slowly made me spend less and less money since there was less and less things to spend my money on but what really changed my overall opinion of Market District was that they stopped carrying the 24-packs of Dasani water so there would be less competition to their store-brand. This is literally nearly all I drink.
So Market District opened up the love of cooking within me, and then removed the catalyst of what set off that flame; I was no longer able to find the interesting things that intrigued me and allowed me to creatively explore the fun world of cooking.
So I started looking elsewhere. I started buying my water at Target, my ice cream from Mustard Seed and my meat from a butcher's shop or farmer's market. Then I realized that I am turning into what I thought was so silly when my mom did it; going so many different places for different things. Now clearly I am doing it for different reasons than she did since cost has never been a huge issue for me. But I have since realized that since I have to go to these other places now to get the things that I really enjoy, I may as well get everything else from these places too while I am already there.
So now that I truly enjoy food and cooking I have no reason to go to Market District or any Giant Eagle any more.
Much Shorter Recap:
I used to almost exclusively shop at Giant Eagle and then they introduced me to and got me hooked on the fancier and more exotic aspects of cooking but then took it all away. Also I hate that they selfishly took away my Dasani water. Now I go elsewhere.
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