Stewart’s Shops is trying to fill the needs of local grocery shoppers — without having them make an extra trip to crowded supermarket lines.
Stewart’s has started asking customers to fill out suggestion notes at its registers, telling it what they would like the gas station and convenience store chain to stock in its shops. Stewart’s has already jumped head first into the prepared food business and it also offers grab-and-go snacks for lunch and breakfast. And their ice cream and other dairy products are second to none.
“Lettuce be your grocery store!” the note reads.
Would that mean actual heads of lettuce in a Stewart’s shop in the future? Maybe a fruit counter just like in a New York City bodega? Cumberland Farms is probably the closest to being a restaurant in a convenience store, but Stewart’s seems to be going more toward the produce side, if that suggestion note is any indication.
France to Cobleskill
Forget those expensive streaming services to get your international news.
For those who have a powerful enough digital over-the-air antenna for their TV at home, getting international 24-hour news is easy and free.
WYBN-LD, a low-power TV station in Cobleskill, broadcasts eight digital channels to the Capital Region market as an affiliate of Buzzr. The channels are 14.1 to 14.8.
Perhaps the best offering is the 24-hour news channel called France 24 (YBNNEWS, Channel 14.4) that is broadcast from Paris and includes pithy international news from a really interesting perspective. And it’s in English. The coverage of the coronavirus, Syrian war and issues in Africa is especially good.
The signal isn’t great but that is sort of the fun of it sometimes. The signal comes off a Helderberg TV antenna site. It’s also fun to see commercials for tractors and Schoharie News in the middle of the high-end French news programming.
Taste test
The Buzz decided to do a taste test of Stewart’s Shops’ new non-dairy Mint Cookie Crumble and the traditional Mint Cookie Crumble.
The vegan version is not bad. Its mint ice cream is much greener than the traditional version and has a more coconut taste to it, considering all the coconut oil used, but it holds its own if you absolutely won’t eat dairy.
Of course there are more calories and fat in the vegan version than the traditional, although it tastes much lighter than the dairy version. One can easily sit down and eat a whole pint of the non-dairy version and somehow not feel guilty.
We think it’s a success, but if we were not vegan or didn’t want to avoid dairy, we would stick to the traditional version. It just tastes more like what we expect in Stewart’s Mint Cookie Crumble.
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