Just Powers

My entries seem to have been somewhat spread out lately, and seem to happen only once a month or so - I guess I am due.

I am sitting in a new Wegman’s supermarket in Chester Springs, PA (or somewhere near there, everything kind of looks the same out here in the ‘burbs). They designed this SUPERmarket with a cafe for the weary shopper who might be overcome by hunger pangs as they wander the aisles. And this store is so big, a shopper could definitely require sustenance by the time she or he finishes finding everything on their list.

So anyway, they have a cafe that Mike and I came to for lunch. Once we stepped inside the doors we found ourselves whisked away to a provincial town in Tuscany. The whole thing is made to look like a town square and each food stall is like a little shop in said town. It is like it’s own little pavilion at Epcot, without the warm weather and a heck of a lot cheaper, if not a little cheesier.

We were both sort of amazed by the whole thing, until Mike pointed out that what they are going for here is the feel of a place like Reading Terminal Market without the pesky independent foodsellers to contend with. Oh yeah, and free wireless.