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| - In my younger and more vulnerable years I remember thinking Zagaras was the hip grocery store. This was pre-trader joes/whole foods, pre-bi-rite buyout. Back when Zagaras was still the old store, before they built the new store.
Yet every time I go there now it is the old Ray Kroc proverb, "As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot." Apparently Zagaras has been ripe for a few years now because they are selling rotten moldy veggies and fruit.
At first I passed it off as my bad selection techniques, but then all the seedless cucumbers I would buy were slimy, some with mold hidden beneath packaging, all the apples would have a well hidden soft spot, and bananas would never ripen properly and go from green to black faster than marker day at Kermit the Frog's house.
Aside from the fruit/veggie situation... they have a pretty small selection of items. I.e. they have a million types of cereal, but little variety of other items. The bakery bread is a let down and the best choice you have is buying the Stone Oven bread they sell. And the baggers have no qualms about throwing your bread underneath your cans of soup while talking to the cashier and treating you like you are wasting their time by shopping.
In short, I was sad to see Zagaras take this turn, I wanted to have a reason to shop there and not Whole Foods/Giant Eagle. I wanted a local neighborhood place that I remember from my childhood to withstand the test of time and not race to the bottom. I guess I wanted a lot out of the store. But all I really wanted were vegetables that I could enjoy and fruit that wasn't more rotten than Cleveland winters.
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