Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World
Speaker 1: to Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're all done on sleep issues. That's fine, We're
Speaker 2: gonna move on to the second topic of the night.
Speaker 2: There was an article which I'm sure most of you
Speaker 2: saw today that Stop and Shop has decided they're going
Speaker 2: to close a bunch of stores, a group of stores
Speaker 2: in the Massachusetts area other states as well. The stores
Speaker 2: that are being closed is one down in Brockton, one
Speaker 2: in Raynham, one in Halifax, one on the Boston Turnpike,
Speaker 2: which I assume is Route nine in Shrewsbury, one on
Speaker 2: Neaedham Street in Newton, which I guess is a new
Speaker 2: version of Stop and Shop it's called be Fresh. Okay,
Speaker 2: one in Springfield and one in Worcester on West Point Street,
Speaker 2: and then one in Pembroke. So there's eight Stop and
Speaker 2: Shop stores now. Stop and Shop used to be a
Speaker 2: family owned company. It is no longer a family owned company.
Speaker 2: It is now a Dutch supermarket company that owns the chain.
Speaker 2: Stop and Shop president Gordon reid So, according to an
Speaker 2: article in the Boston Herald, said the company decided to
Speaker 2: close the stores to create quote a healthy base for
Speaker 2: the future growth of our brand. Where do you come
Speaker 2: up with those? You talk about euphemisms, and you talk
Speaker 2: about pr companies coming up. We're going to close the
Speaker 2: stores so we'll have a healthy base for the future
Speaker 2: growth of our brand. You're going to take your brand
Speaker 2: out of eight communities in Massachusetts. So apparently the company
Speaker 2: that owns Stop and Shop up is a hold del Hayes.
Speaker 2: Two words a ho l d a hold. Anyone who
Speaker 2: knows Dutch can explain to me what this means. And
Speaker 2: the second word is del Hayes d e l h
Speaker 2: ai Ze. A Dutch supermarket company that owns the chain,
Speaker 2: said that in May that it planned to close some
Speaker 2: Stop and Shop locations to strengthen the brand. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: get that right. That is just perfect consultant speech. The
Speaker 2: company said it wants to build new stores and remodel
Speaker 2: the remaining ones, increase the number of store brand products
Speaker 2: it offers, and reduce prices. Well here's the problem. Here's
Speaker 2: the problem. You may not live in any of these
Speaker 2: communities Brockton, rain m Halifax, Shrewsbury, Newton, Springfield, Worcester or Pembroke,
Speaker 2: but a lot of people do. And the more supermarkets
Speaker 2: that disappear in these various communities, the less choice people
Speaker 2: will have, and the less choice that people have, the
Speaker 2: more likelihood that the remaining stores will be able to
Speaker 2: run and sell their products without a whole lot of competition.
Speaker 2: Meaning if it's just basic economics one on one, and
Speaker 2: you don't have to be a Harvard economics major to
Speaker 2: understand this. But if within a period of within a
Speaker 2: I don't know, a circle of four or five miles,
Speaker 2: you have three or four different store brands, and you
Speaker 2: can visit each of those brands, whether it's a Roach
Speaker 2: Brothers or a Shaws, or Shaws now has Shaws and Star,
Speaker 2: which confuses me as well. My favorite remains market Basket. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I'm not yet a location right now where there's a
Speaker 2: market Basket nearby, but I'll tell you I noticed the
Speaker 2: price differential in market Basket. Every time I go in there,
Speaker 2: I saved money. There's one that when I'm you know,
Speaker 2: back in home in the Boston area, I go to
Speaker 2: that market Basket in Wallfam a little bit out of
Speaker 2: the way, I will admit that, but well worth the drive,
Speaker 2: well worth the effort, particularly when I'm going over to
Speaker 2: pick up a bunch of items, you know, and to
Speaker 2: stock up. But so I'd love to know. Just open
Speaker 2: this up here. There's some statistics out which are stunning.
Speaker 2: I just didn't do a whole lot of researcher on
Speaker 2: this today, but I did some. And US retailers, so
Speaker 2: this includes supermarkets as well as big box stores, are
Speaker 2: closing stores at a record pace in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: This is an article written by CNN about a week
Speaker 2: ago October twenty fifth. Will get into more than that,
Speaker 2: get into more of that. Major retailers, I guess. Family
Speaker 2: Dollar Store, not one that I necessarily go to, has
Speaker 2: announced six hundred and seventy seven store closings this year.
Speaker 2: Walgreen is closing two hundred and fifty nine stores, Big
Speaker 2: Lots is closing three hundred and sixty. Another company which
Speaker 2: I'm unfamiliar with, L Flooring, is shutting down entirely. Major
Speaker 2: retailers have announced six one hundred eighty nine store closures
Speaker 2: so far this year, already outpacing last year's total of
Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty three. According to coresite research, chains
Speaker 2: are on track to close the highest number of stores
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four than in any year since twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: when the COVID nineteen pack pandemic decimated the industry. So
Speaker 2: if there's a store that you've lost lately, I would
Speaker 2: love to hear from you on it. And also I'd
Speaker 2: like to we talk about this, and it's a popular topic.
Speaker 2: What stores do you rely upon. I am not a
Speaker 2: digital shopper. That's just me. That's just me. There were
Speaker 2: people out there and I have family members who loved
Speaker 2: the shop digitally, and there is a convenience about that.
Speaker 2: The problem is I recently went to a Target store
Speaker 2: and I had to buy products that I wanted to
Speaker 2: look at. I don't like buying products, getting them in
Speaker 2: the mail, and if the products are not what I
Speaker 2: want or they don't fit, I'm in a bit of
Speaker 2: a buying because I'm not somebody who wants to spend
Speaker 2: a lot of time going back to the to the
Speaker 2: post office and sending a product back and not knowing
Speaker 2: if I'm going to get refunded, et cetera. So I
Speaker 2: tend to be a brick and mortar person, which maybe
Speaker 2: makes me an achronism, but maybe not. Six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten, thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Are you bemoaning as I am, the the lessening number
Speaker 2: of not only supermarkets, but but stores, stores that you
Speaker 2: can walk into and you can look at a product,
Speaker 2: you can hold them in your hand, and you can
Speaker 2: decide whether you want to buy or not. That's what
Speaker 2: we'd be talking about. Right after the news break, joined
Speaker 2: the conversation on Nightside.
Speaker 3: It's night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, that's interesting that we're talking about a hardware
Speaker 2: store closing again. You need these small stores. I think
Speaker 2: it's it's just incredible, just incredible. Let's let's see what
Speaker 2: people think here. I'm gonna go first off to JD
Speaker 2: and Lemonster. JD. Welcome to Nightside. Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, Hi, JD Dan, How you doing. I'm
Speaker 2: doing just great, appreciate your call. We're talking about the
Speaker 2: disappearance of again, in this case, eight Stop and Shop stores,
Speaker 2: but it could apply to a lot of stores. And
Speaker 2: I love the fact that now we find out that
Speaker 2: Stop and Shop is owned by a company, a Danish company.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not even owned by an American company anymore.
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't know that until tonight, but did I Yeah,
Speaker 4: I got agree with you. Market Basket religious is I
Speaker 4: don't know how anybody could compete with them. Their prices
Speaker 4: are so good and their product is really just the best.
Speaker 2: Well, I want I want competition, okay, because I think it,
Speaker 2: uh it's important for all of us uh to to
Speaker 2: have choice. But but yeah, I mean, market Basket is
Speaker 2: a terrific store, There's no question about that.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: At every and I go out of my way to
Speaker 2: get there. It's I'm not near. How close are you
Speaker 2: to a mask market Basket?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: Uncle?
Speaker 4: Out here in the Twin Cities, we have two in
Speaker 4: Fitchburg and Malummas there and then Littleton has one. But
Speaker 4: there was a Shaws here for a while and that
Speaker 4: was closed down and was Amazon Fresh, and I guess
Speaker 4: that just kind of a went away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not a huge fan of Shaws,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. And one of the reasons
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of Shaws, although I have to
Speaker 2: go to Shaws because it's one of the closer uh one,
Speaker 2: it's the closest grocery store I have. In order to
Speaker 2: save money at Shaws, you have to use their app,
Speaker 2: and in using the app, it's really the worst app
Speaker 2: I've ever seen in my life. It's so confusing, and
Speaker 2: you give up on it, and you can you can
Speaker 2: go by no, just just lower the prices and give
Speaker 2: them to everybody. Whether because most older people aren't comfortable
Speaker 2: using an app, and I don't understand the marketing of
Speaker 2: a Shaws why they would force people to use an
Speaker 2: app which is gonna, which is which is difficult to use.
Speaker 2: It's a horrible app. It's just a horrible app. Have
Speaker 2: you ever tried to use a a grocery store app to,
Speaker 2: you know, to get some some coupons and prices, price
Speaker 2: price breaks.
Speaker 4: So around here, the only time we ever really had
Speaker 4: to use out of the stores is when the market
Speaker 4: Basket had their big I wouldn't call it a strike,
Speaker 4: but when the company was being and the old owners
Speaker 4: were trying to buy the owners or how that worked.
Speaker 4: So we're forced to go to the other stores. And
Speaker 4: that's what we really kind of appreciated around here, how
Speaker 4: much market bask is important to the community. The other
Speaker 4: one that we can do sometimes too, which is I
Speaker 4: think the second is I do like Hannifford. Hanniford's a
Speaker 4: good second. They don't really have an app, but they
Speaker 4: do have.
Speaker 7: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: I just I'm just I have enough apps I have
Speaker 2: to deal with in my job, so I know how
Speaker 2: to use apps. But but if you've ever tried the
Speaker 2: Shaws app, if anyone out there has tried the Shaws app,
Speaker 2: it's impossible to navigate. They make it difficult. It's like
Speaker 2: one of these it's one of these apps. It's almost
Speaker 2: like be you a corn maze. You go this way
Speaker 2: and next thing you realize there's nowhere to go, so
Speaker 2: you got to go backwards and you've got to take
Speaker 2: another turn. It's it's it's it's terrific to use. And
Speaker 2: I don't know why they do it, because it's not
Speaker 2: consumer friendly. It's it frustrates me. I'm sure it frustrates
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 4: Well, I think that's what they do to get you
Speaker 4: to come back. But Marcat Baskett really just has their
Speaker 4: weekly fire and then they're putting sales, and then the
Speaker 4: prices for everything else are just pretty much always the best,
Speaker 4: so you really don't have too much shopping. There's really
Speaker 4: no nonsense there.
Speaker 6: It's just easy.
Speaker 2: Well, the Flyer is great, but I'm saying you do
Speaker 2: not have to use an electronic device to get those.
Speaker 2: It tells you. It's telling you, Okay, this is on
Speaker 2: sale this week. You can get this. It just take
Speaker 2: the flyer. Is it's really old school, but the flyer
Speaker 2: tells you what you bring that with you and say, oh,
Speaker 2: I want to get those strawberries because the strawberries are
Speaker 2: three ninety nine or whatever it is. You don't have
Speaker 2: to go into your phone and pull down the market
Speaker 2: basket app I don't think and then click on something
Speaker 2: to make sure you just you get the best price available.
Speaker 2: And that's what that's the magic, in my opinion of
Speaker 2: market basket. If you walk out of there and you think, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna they're gonna they're gonna hit me for a
Speaker 2: hundred for one hundred bucks here, and you realize, no,
Speaker 2: it's sixty five dollars. That's it. Okay, here's the sixty
Speaker 2: five dollars. You go the other way to some of
Speaker 2: these other stores and you say to yourself, well, this
Speaker 2: can't be more than thirty five bucks, and you reach
Speaker 2: it for a couple of forties and they'll say, well
Speaker 2: that's fifty nine to sixty and it's like, what what
Speaker 2: did I buy? Anyway? Hey, JD, have you called before.
Speaker 2: This your first time. I don't recall a JD from
Speaker 2: Lemonster before.
Speaker 4: I've called a few times, mostly after the elections or
Speaker 4: after the debates in recent times.
Speaker 2: All right, you're going to vote on Tuesday?
Speaker 8: Sure?
Speaker 2: Did your vote? Or have you voted already?
Speaker 4: Have going already? But the biggest uh, the biggest thing
Speaker 4: I could see you, mastresses, is uh No one question five.
Speaker 4: I know you've covered a few times and it was
Speaker 4: too busy to get in, but question five is a
Speaker 4: definite note for me. It's gonna crush all the small businesses.
Speaker 2: Got you? Okay, Well, thanks j D. I appreciate you
Speaker 2: taking the time at pall.
Speaker 4: Have a great night, take care your typical bite.
Speaker 2: All right, let me can I get one in here? Sure?
Speaker 2: Let me go to James and Boston. James, you are
Speaker 2: next on nightside.
Speaker 9: Go right ahead, Well, Hi in good afternoon.
Speaker 2: Let's good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are, don't worry,
Speaker 2: go right there.
Speaker 9: I've got work anywhere. It's the fun bar, Shaws and
Speaker 9: Stop the Shop. I can't tell them different between the
Speaker 9: two because they're both expensive and they both wat As
Speaker 9: you said about competition, that's how market Basket got in
Speaker 9: here marking back to the old people who have but
Speaker 9: don't have like a million dollar account. And you're right,
Speaker 9: that app is our hot math.
Speaker 2: Oh, the the Shaw, the Shaws app.
Speaker 9: It's as our hot math.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm I'm gonna steal that line from you, James,
Speaker 2: because that's exactly what it is. I feel like you
Speaker 2: don't no matter how often I tried to utilize it.
Speaker 2: You almost have to be a nuclear scientist.
Speaker 9: Even with that, you need extra education. I tried that
Speaker 9: thing once and happened. I said that hot mess ain't happening.
Speaker 9: It's just not going to do it now.
Speaker 2: If I yes, yeah, if I had a choice between
Speaker 2: the market Basket five miles away and and in Shaws
Speaker 2: or Star Market closer, I'm going to market Basket every time.
Speaker 9: Same it. Oh, and there's another at least in my neighborhood.
Speaker 9: We have Tropical Foods, which is the next competition for
Speaker 9: market Basket. And they're trying to open up another supermarket.
Speaker 9: And prices are great in Detile Square or Newberry Square. Now,
Speaker 9: YEA love it. And it's all international plus regular food. No,
Speaker 9: they don't do an app. Yes, it's a brand new
Speaker 9: supermarket and it's put in Shaws or Star or whatever
Speaker 9: they call it.
Speaker 2: Now, Well, good good for that. You know. Look, uh,
Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of communities which are uh, you know,
Speaker 2: stores to close en up. Walgreens has closed up a
Speaker 2: lot of their their drug stores. Every community needs a
Speaker 2: couple of drug stores and they need a couple of
Speaker 2: good supermarkets.
Speaker 9: My neighborhood, they close them all, the Walgreens and the CBS,
Speaker 9: so we have to go to town to get them. Unfortunately, Well,
Speaker 9: I gotta tell you, so we deal it.
Speaker 2: Let me make a suggestion to you, James. Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: aware of that. I am aware of that. I'm a
Speaker 2: I'm a city kid. I think it's up to the
Speaker 2: city councilors and the mayors and the mayor specifically to
Speaker 2: call up CBS and call up Walgreens and say, hey,
Speaker 2: we need to get a store in this community because
Speaker 2: I don't want people my constituents having to get on
Speaker 2: the train or the bus to go all the way
Speaker 2: downstairs to get a prescription downtown to get a prescription filled.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: And that's where the politicians could really help out their
Speaker 2: constituents if they were so interested. But they're not.
Speaker 9: Well, we know they're not Walgreen turned into a foot locker. Yeah,
Speaker 9: well we need another sneaker store.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Oh, exactly, James, you're reading my mind. Man, this
Speaker 2: is scary.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 9: I'm a brick and mortar guy. I don't want to
Speaker 9: internet it. I mean, I've done a couple of things,
Speaker 9: but I'm not intneted and re write. Most of these
Speaker 9: clothing stores are going out of business. And guess what,
Speaker 9: Guys like you and me, we're not sized thirty two
Speaker 9: or twenty eight. We're men, you know, get the men
Speaker 9: clothes out for our size because we got the money. Yes,
Speaker 9: the one thing we want with skinny jeans and skinny teans.
Speaker 9: I'm not a girl. I don't want no, I don't
Speaker 9: want my one see me skinny jeans because you're gonna
Speaker 9: look at me like, really, you're not trying to be
Speaker 9: twenty get a life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm telling you you might be a brother from
Speaker 2: another mother here. I just gotta tell you, man, it's
Speaker 2: you you think like I do. Hey, thanks so much
Speaker 2: for the call. Please keep calling this program. Okay, I
Speaker 2: would get around and flows from our first real studio
Speaker 2: audience here a digital studio audience.
Speaker 9: James, I love your audience.
Speaker 2: Keep with us, Keep with us, my friend.
Speaker 9: Remember market Basket forever I'm with you. We should pay
Speaker 9: as conversation. Get all stopping shops and what I want
Speaker 9: shaws and put them into market Basket.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't want a monopoly anywhere, but but if
Speaker 2: I have a choice people for a monopoly, I'll take
Speaker 2: market Basket every day because they they seem to be
Speaker 2: interested in doing business and treating people right. So that's
Speaker 2: getting paid.
Speaker 9: I'm not getting paid either. I'm going to March Basketball
Speaker 9: and we're going shopping, and we're going way to Revere.
Speaker 9: It just take all the shopping.
Speaker 2: Good you, Good for you. We'll get the.
Speaker 9: Real guys on and whoever comes up next. Remember market
Speaker 9: Basket the better. Okay, how good James will look forward.
Speaker 2: I look forward to James's second call a lot, Thank you,
Speaker 2: my friend, talk to you soon. All right, good night.
Speaker 2: That's a great call. You know, it's a call like
Speaker 2: that that makes my night. I can sometimes get one
Speaker 2: or two or three calls folks who have enthusiasm, passion,
Speaker 2: new calls so important six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, we'll talk some politics later on tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: For sure, we look the election. I think most people
Speaker 2: have figured the election out now one way or the other.
Speaker 2: Let's see what the results are. But we're talking tonight
Speaker 2: some issues that affect people, and and I think that's
Speaker 2: it's an important issue. The only line that's opened six one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. If you want to keep talking about this,
Speaker 2: we certainly can keep talking about this. But I think
Speaker 2: it's important that that we have options, uh, and that
Speaker 2: we need to say to these doors that are closing,
Speaker 2: if you don't want our business, you know, just leave.
Speaker 2: Don't let the door hit you on the rear end,
Speaker 2: particularly if you're now a foreign owned you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: stopping shop. My first job was at stopping shop. Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean it was owned by the rab family. It was.
Speaker 2: It's it's what we're supposed to be about, you know,
Speaker 2: American family owning a business. Now it's owned by some
Speaker 2: company out of Denmark. Give me a break. Coming back
Speaker 2: on nightside.
Speaker 3: Now, back to Dan ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 3: night Side Studios on w b Z, the news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, well take him, as they called in we got
Speaker 2: full lines, which is great. Let's keep rolling here, Let's
Speaker 2: go to Tina. Tina is down in Rhode Island. Tina
Speaker 2: one of my favorite callers. Tina, bring them bringing Tina
Speaker 2: up for me, if you would please Dan real quickly?
Speaker 2: There there we go, Hey, Tina, thank you. I was
Speaker 2: having a little trouble with my mouse hit Tina, and
Speaker 2: I gotta get Tan to Dan to be aware of that.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Tina, how are you?
Speaker 10: I just love, I'm wonderful, I'm just fine.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 10: I don't know if those communities in Massachusetts where the
Speaker 10: stopping shop are closing, if they're well to do communities.
Speaker 10: But I know where I live in one socket up
Speaker 10: in the corner on the right hand side of the state, well.
Speaker 2: Many times, many times, go.
Speaker 10: Ahead, yeah, And the stopping shop is in where I
Speaker 10: go is in one time is the North Smith Deal
Speaker 10: on the one socket border less than a mile from
Speaker 10: my house. Now, the within i'd say a mile and
Speaker 10: a half maybe two miles at the most. In my
Speaker 10: community there's a stopping shop. There's all these, there's Walmart,
Speaker 10: and there's four of them, all these. Oh, price right now,
Speaker 10: price right is more for people like on the low
Speaker 10: associated economic level. But what I like about stopping shop
Speaker 10: is where we live. Is it used to be open
Speaker 10: until twenty four hours, seven days a week. Then that stopped.
Speaker 10: Then it was open till midnight, that stopped, and now
Speaker 10: it's open every day until ted. But the one thing
Speaker 10: I noticed about my stopping shop is I do not
Speaker 10: have to run to hold foods to buy organic. I
Speaker 10: eat a lot of organic food, and Stopping Shop in
Speaker 10: North Smithfield has a lot of organics. They call it
Speaker 10: Nature's promise, and Nature's promise is very good. I read
Speaker 10: all the ingredients.
Speaker 2: I look, you know what, Tina, the stopping shop should
Speaker 2: take that that standard and that practice and put it
Speaker 2: in other stores. You asked about the stores in Boston.
Speaker 2: In Massachusetts, Look, you know Massachusetts, Brockton's that's not a
Speaker 2: wealthy community, Rayom, Camifax, Shrewsbury, Newton there he is, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: is Newton can be. Springfield is not a wealthy community. Worcester, Pembroke.
Speaker 2: So these you know again, First of all, you have
Speaker 2: you have wealthy communities who generally approximate to For example,
Speaker 2: your Weston which is close to Wellesley, and Weston doesn't
Speaker 2: have to come up with a lot of commercial stuff,
Speaker 2: but they have it next door. In Wellesley. I just
Speaker 2: think it's it's unfair to poorer communities. I'm glad that
Speaker 2: you're well served in Moon Socket, Tina, because you should be.
Speaker 2: That means that a lot of people there, and I
Speaker 2: hope that the competition keeps the prices down.
Speaker 10: Market Basket is about ten miles from me, the one
Speaker 10: in Petucket right now. The other one is up in Bellingham.
Speaker 10: It's too far.
Speaker 11: I don't like.
Speaker 10: I don't like market Basket. It's too big. I get overwhelmed.
Speaker 10: Stopping shops are smaller, they're a little bit more money
Speaker 10: holeful just Marrie.
Speaker 2: Okay, whatever, whatever works for you, Tina. I gotta get
Speaker 2: one more in here before the break, So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: let you. Oh. I'm glad that you're happy. You're the
Speaker 2: happiest caller of the night so far. Okay, thanks Dan,
Speaker 2: doctor lady. Let me get Florence and Groveland, Florence. I
Speaker 2: don't want you have to wait through the news. You
Speaker 2: go right ahead, Florence.
Speaker 12: Well, I'm another happy Macas get cooked me too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, their prices agreed. And I gotta tell you, Dan,
Speaker 12: they make up now. You know, there are lots of
Speaker 12: brand name frozen foods in the cases there. But they
Speaker 12: make up meals they cook right there and they seal
Speaker 12: them up, and you can buy meals already cooked, just
Speaker 12: bring it home and warm it up in the microwaves.
Speaker 2: Yep, that is important, particularly for folks who live alone.
Speaker 2: They don't want to cook a big, big meal for
Speaker 2: you know, two people or three people or four people,
Speaker 2: but they want to have a Yeah, that's another good reason.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: And they also make up sandwich to go if you
Speaker 12: want a sub samdwich instead of your regular subplaces. They're
Speaker 12: cheaper there, like six dollars and you can get whatever
Speaker 12: you want and what whatever you want on it good
Speaker 12: and it's sambulous.
Speaker 2: Well again, I have heard very few people say anything
Speaker 2: negative about a market basket. For Tina, one of them
Speaker 2: is a little too far away and she thinks the
Speaker 2: store might be a little big, and she gets overwhelmed
Speaker 2: and she should stay with Stop and Shop.
Speaker 12: But for you and me, three miles I.
Speaker 2: Wish my I wish my market basket was three miles away.
Speaker 2: We we will, we will stick with market Basket whenever
Speaker 2: we can. Florence, I got you before the break. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to have to have to stand and wait
Speaker 2: through the news. But I got the news coming at
Speaker 2: me right now, so we'll talk soon. Okay, Thanks Florence,
Speaker 2: always great to your voice. We'll take a break. We'll
Speaker 2: say with this in Freetown, Jack and Aileen. You guys
Speaker 2: stay right there. Six one seven two five four to
Speaker 2: ten thirty. One line there actually two lines there, six
Speaker 2: one seven two five four to ten thirty. The other
Speaker 2: line's full up, so try up. Try six one seven
Speaker 2: two five four to ten thirty. We're talking about stores closing,
Speaker 2: which is not a good sign for Massachusetts for sure.
Speaker 1: It's nice eyes, I'm telling you crazy. Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, that was an interesting story about the guy in
Speaker 2: Cohassett being arrested for allegedly painting a swatsticker onto a
Speaker 2: Trump campaign sign. I wonder where you got that idea from.
Speaker 2: And of course, you know Trump has no no chance
Speaker 2: of carrying Massachusetts. So this this seventy four year old
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like a refugee from the hippie
Speaker 2: days of the sixties. I was in Quincy District Court today. Look, uh,
Speaker 2: that's a pretty serious thing when you do that, Okay,
Speaker 2: and are you know just it's amazing It's amazing the
Speaker 2: amount of disdain that people have in this country for
Speaker 2: people who have a different point of view. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he considers himself a First Amendment guy. As he was
Speaker 2: painting the swatsticker, he must have been caught in the act.
Speaker 2: Oh so there must be some video footage of him.
Speaker 2: He's a fairly with the with the beard and the
Speaker 2: long hair. He's a pretty identifiable character, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: But we're not talking about that right now. We may
Speaker 2: talk about that tomorrow and I let me go, but
Speaker 2: we're talking about basically some brick and mortor stores, including
Speaker 2: eight Stop and shops which are now closing here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: I did not realize that Stopping Shop is no longer
Speaker 2: a US company. I should be up to date on
Speaker 2: some of this stuff. It is now a company that
Speaker 2: is owned by a it's a Dutch company. So, you know,
Speaker 2: just just just thought you'd like to know where are
Speaker 2: we going next. Let's go to Andy and Freetown. Hey, Andy,
Speaker 2: welcome next to II. Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Dan, I did seventeen years with a Hold and
Speaker 8: they're the fourth largest grocer in the country now with
Speaker 8: all their mergers. They run under oh I think thirty
Speaker 8: or forty different names, and I know the stores well.
Speaker 8: Like Halifax was a fantastic store that they built from
Speaker 8: the ground up, but it had a Walmart supercenter next
Speaker 8: door to it, and it never it never took off.
Speaker 8: Unfortunately the area wouldn't support it. And many of the
Speaker 8: stores get ripped blind and they get driven out of
Speaker 8: business practically, I mean, they's just the shoplifting in them.
Speaker 8: They just can't handle it. But one thing that.
Speaker 2: That is a big problem. You go into more stores
Speaker 2: now and everything's under lock and key. So how long
Speaker 2: has this company, I'll hold del Hayes, a Dutch supermarket
Speaker 2: company owned stop and Shop? How how many years have
Speaker 2: it they owned stop and around?
Speaker 8: The merger took place around two thousand and just one
Speaker 8: of your one of your other callers mentioned, just so
Speaker 8: you know who you're doing business with. They own Haniford's
Speaker 8: also also so if you're going to Hannifords, you're going
Speaker 8: to an Rhold location.
Speaker 2: Now, the management, it was American management. It says here
Speaker 2: that stopped and shot President Gordon Reid? Uh? Did they did?
Speaker 2: They have people coming over from from Holland and uh
Speaker 2: and making decisions here that That's what's crazy to me.
Speaker 2: I call me old fashioned, but why don't they if
Speaker 2: they're owned by by a foreign national, why don't they
Speaker 2: post it somewhere so people know where they're where they
Speaker 2: buy it?
Speaker 8: Well, because it's it's it's not popular and it basically,
Speaker 8: you know, it's a holding company. I believe they own
Speaker 8: about eleven huge corporations and you know they just everything's
Speaker 8: run on numbers and they they just want the boatload
Speaker 8: of money that floats across the Europe if week, and
Speaker 8: that's all they're in it for. They don't have their
Speaker 8: heart and soul isn't in the country like it was
Speaker 8: with a rab family.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you I've got my first job at Stop
Speaker 2: and Shop. I was one of those bundle boys, you
Speaker 2: know at the back and stuff. I still pack my
Speaker 2: groceries when I go to the store, and I do
Speaker 2: it because I enjoy, you know, if I need one
Speaker 2: bag fitting everything in neatly, if I need two bags,
Speaker 2: balancing the way and all of that. And that was
Speaker 2: my first job at Stop and Shop. I remember my
Speaker 2: manager was a fellow named Murray Cohen. I'm sure Murray
Speaker 2: has long passed on, but he was a great guy.
Speaker 2: I was a young kid, fifteen, sixteen years old, first
Speaker 2: job making a buck and a quarter an hour.
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, you used to have to know someone
Speaker 8: to get a job at stop and shop.
Speaker 2: Well you know that was true. Well, let me tell
Speaker 2: you you're right. My family, it was the stop and
Speaker 2: shop on Truman Highway in Hyde Park. We lived in
Speaker 2: Reidville and that was our store of choice. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: just think that that I got to do a little
Speaker 2: bit more research here and let people know who owns
Speaker 2: these companies. Obviously, market Basket's my favorite. It's owned by
Speaker 2: local people. That's yes, you can get So what how
Speaker 2: is this going to impact you? Are you still with
Speaker 2: with this company or no? Have you moved on?
Speaker 8: No, I've retired. I just I did my seventeen years
Speaker 8: and hell but you know, it just wasn't good.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a good company to work for.
Speaker 8: I just didn't care for the fact that I didn't
Speaker 8: feel they had America's interests in mind. It was more
Speaker 8: I mean that. I mean I retired out of there,
Speaker 8: so I mean they I benefited from them. It was
Speaker 8: a decent job, but I never was very comfortable with it.
Speaker 8: I mean I just knew they were all good for
Speaker 8: you money?
Speaker 2: If I could ask what what what type? You obviously
Speaker 2: were above my rank of a bundle boy, what did
Speaker 2: you do with them? Were you a manager?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 8: No, No, I was in transportation. But I I know
Speaker 8: all of the stores intimately that you're you're discussing, and
Speaker 8: I know exactly why they closed. And the random store
Speaker 8: was it never it never took off. They have a
Speaker 8: market basket on one side and they have a Walmart
Speaker 8: supercenter on the other, and it just that. And it's
Speaker 8: also about turnover, you know, like Somerset, mass is a
Speaker 8: is a rocking store that's like a million dollars a week,
Speaker 8: and you're all that store turns over constantly. There's never
Speaker 8: old old food and in a in a store that
Speaker 8: does wicked business, slow stores, you know, stuff gets old.
Speaker 8: People don't like that. It's just it's a downward spiral.
Speaker 8: So it's no surprise to me the stores and the
Speaker 8: Springfield store that gets ripped blind you. You know, there's
Speaker 8: there's all kinds of commotion out there and and no
Speaker 8: one backs backs it up up. You know that there's
Speaker 8: no police anymore, and they can't be bothered with you know,
Speaker 8: a guy stealing a box of crackers or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, the problem is the problem is that in you know,
Speaker 2: in poorer communities. I assume that in the Wellesley type
Speaker 2: stores you don't get a lot of that shoplifting, But
Speaker 2: in the poorer communities you only have a small percentage
Speaker 2: of that community that's going in and taking a five
Speaker 2: finger discount. But when it reaches a point where the
Speaker 2: company can't turn a profit, they close the store, and
Speaker 2: then you have what's called food deserts in poorer communities,
Speaker 2: and the people who are most adversely impacted, the poor
Speaker 2: people who live in those communities. And it's just you're
Speaker 2: the harm.
Speaker 8: You're absolutely right, You're absolutely right. And they I mean
Speaker 8: the Roxbury store they went crazy on us for because
Speaker 8: they wanted to close one They had a door on
Speaker 8: each side and they just run out of the store
Speaker 8: with merchandise and I forget who the who the representatives
Speaker 8: in in there. Well, they didn't want them to close
Speaker 8: one side of the store for for the exit, to
Speaker 8: try to control the shoplifting. You know, the community. Anything
Speaker 8: they tried to do to help the store from being stolen,
Speaker 8: the community wouldn't support anything to help them. So that
Speaker 8: store is still in business and doing okay. But but
Speaker 8: you're right.
Speaker 2: So the other thing too, is that sometimes it's the
Speaker 2: loudest voices in the community who are going to, you know, claim, oh,
Speaker 2: you're you're being unfair to us, whereas the vast majority
Speaker 2: of people in the community would want the store to
Speaker 2: be safer and more secure. I mean, the average person
Speaker 2: who's going in there to conduct business. They're not going
Speaker 2: in there looking to get to get rolled, or to
Speaker 2: or to be inconvenience or to be threatened, you know.
Speaker 2: And and the stores haven't. They have an obligation and
Speaker 2: make sure the customer is going to come in and
Speaker 2: feel safe and comfortable as well.
Speaker 8: Well. I always enjoyed the one next to the right
Speaker 8: on the Expressway. They used to have a stuff and
Speaker 8: job had a they'd steam a lobster for you and
Speaker 8: you could just have a fresh lobster and we'd find,
Speaker 8: you know, they they'd eat it through the stores they
Speaker 8: were quote shopping, and there were so many lobster shells
Speaker 8: around the store and in the aisles. They just stopped
Speaker 8: doing it. So, yeah, we're feeding the world lobster. But
Speaker 8: they were a decent company for me and stuff like that.
Speaker 8: But I it's it. I don't like working for foreign entities,
Speaker 8: even if they're not the worst in the world or anything.
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't like I don't like shopping
Speaker 2: for foreign entities because I want to support, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: my fellow Americans. I want them to support me absolutely.
Speaker 8: And they promise brand is doing pretty well. And that
Speaker 8: is someone else mentioned that it is a they are
Speaker 8: trying to do a good thing with that brand that
Speaker 8: they control that very heavily. The chicken is decent and
Speaker 8: stuff like that, so they do decent things too. I'm
Speaker 8: not trying to paint them as black.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Okay, Andy, I appreciate you call. Thanks very much.
Speaker 2: I know you've called before. Always great to hear from
Speaker 2: someone in Freetown.
Speaker 8: Thank you very good.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan, talk to you soon. All right, let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling here. We're gonna take a quick break when
Speaker 2: I get back. I got Jack. We talked to Andy
Speaker 2: in Freetown. We get Jack on the Cape. Coming up next,
Speaker 2: Kennis and Hudson, Davidson Jamaica Plane, and we've got Eileen
Speaker 2: to coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ news radio.
Speaker 2: Talking about American stores going out of business. Go to
Speaker 2: Jack on the Cape. We were with Andy in Freetown
Speaker 2: and we get Jack on Cape Cod whereabouts in the.
Speaker 9: Cape, Jack mid Cape.
Speaker 2: We arm it ll all right, beautiful community.
Speaker 9: So I want to I want to try to do
Speaker 9: a projection of the fact what you're referring to as
Speaker 9: the closing of stores and whatnot, grossing stores. I want
Speaker 9: to address this. Am Uh they want to close out
Speaker 9: the AM band.
Speaker 2: Well that's yeah, we're concerned about that as well.
Speaker 9: Trust me on that one, okay. And so I you know,
Speaker 9: they for whatever reasons behind this, I have no no
Speaker 9: idea because it's ludicrous to even conceive of it. But
Speaker 9: I want to touch on two points. One is a
Speaker 9: it's called sd R. It's called software defined radio. Okay,
Speaker 9: now I've experimented with it. It's a chip. It's a
Speaker 9: chip you buy and undo a computer, and this this
Speaker 9: chip will basically create any spectral radio frequency you want
Speaker 9: to listen in and or transmit on. So that's cool,
Speaker 9: and I think, you know, put that in your file,
Speaker 9: find somebody that we can bring on and talk about.
Speaker 2: That, okay.
Speaker 9: And so what they're what it seems like they want
Speaker 9: to limit the frequency of our in other words, freedom
Speaker 9: of speech, and I've heard this project does not mean
Speaker 9: freedom of reach. Now I'm speaking with Dan Ray on
Speaker 9: wb Z, I'm speaking to a huge audience. Why because
Speaker 9: of rf AM Yeah okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: No, we're absolutely right. And by the way, just so
Speaker 2: you know, it's something that is a great concern to iHeart.
Speaker 2: And as a matter of fact, Senator Marky here in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts has been on the show talking about this a
Speaker 2: couple of times, briefly, but he's actually fighting for it.
Speaker 2: And the reason why we need AM radio is, first
Speaker 2: of all, it's just it's what a lot of people
Speaker 2: rely upon and when there is a crisis, when there
Speaker 2: is a natural disaster, as we've seen down in South Carolina,
Speaker 2: North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, with you know all of this,
Speaker 2: having a transistor radio that can pick up a strong,
Speaker 2: powerful radio station. FM stations are great, but they're primarily
Speaker 2: designed as music stations. One of the AM stations with
Speaker 2: the original sort of Conrad stations back in the day.
Speaker 2: In case, back in the nineteen fifties that President Eisenhower
Speaker 2: would have had to have spoken to the nation, BZ
Speaker 2: would have been one of those stations because we have
Speaker 2: such a terrestrial, you know impact. I mean, there are
Speaker 2: people listening to us tonight. We've already had, you know,
Speaker 2: calls from people in Rhode Island, but you hear we
Speaker 2: have calls from the Midwest, the Southern States all the time.
Speaker 2: So it's important that AM radio survives. I don't know
Speaker 2: what's going on, whether they're trying to get bandwidth back,
Speaker 2: but there's an agenda at play here. And I got
Speaker 2: to tell you, you know, Ed Markey, who's who's I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I disagree with any number of issues. On some issues
Speaker 2: I agree with them on, but he's a He's someone
Speaker 2: who I know pretty well, and we're trying to get
Speaker 2: him back on the show to talk about it. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I'll remake that phone call tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But he's been a leader down there. Uh. And there
Speaker 2: are others in the Massachusetts delegation who have been leaders
Speaker 2: as well. Steve Lynch has been particularly good on it.
Speaker 2: Laurie Trehanna has been good on it. Congress Congressman Seth
Speaker 2: Molton has been good on it. The solid people, so
Speaker 2: whether you regret them in so many different ways, there
Speaker 2: is something that Democrats and Republicans agree on, agreed.
Speaker 9: We need things we agree on. This is a thing
Speaker 9: that gathered around the wireless you know, the the transmitter
Speaker 9: you'd hear, I mean, is what rate? It was wonderful.
Speaker 2: Look look when I was when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure just about every person in this audience
Speaker 2: can identify with this, when all you have with the
Speaker 2: three TV networks. I would listen we had a big
Speaker 2: radio in the back porch, and I'd listen to baseball
Speaker 2: games or Tiger games, or White Sox games, or Yankee games,
Speaker 2: or Mets games or Oriole games. And it really made
Speaker 2: me think about radio. And for a long time I
Speaker 2: wanted to be a sportscaster. Well I ended up in
Speaker 2: the same business, but in a different you know, same church,
Speaker 2: same cathedral, different view from what I'm saying. So I'm
Speaker 2: a talk show host and before that, I was in television.
Speaker 2: But it lit a fuse in my mind the idea
Speaker 2: that there was this communication ability I remember, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if anybody can can identify with this. Sounds
Speaker 2: to me like you might be able to remember in
Speaker 2: high school and I don't know what year you were
Speaker 2: in high school. But I was in high school in
Speaker 2: the sixties. You're in high school, and they used to
Speaker 2: do announcements every day over the last interviewing Wild Speaker,
Speaker 2: and normally he was one of the either the head
Speaker 2: master we had a head master at Latin School, or
Speaker 2: as a teacher, and they would make three or four
Speaker 2: announcements that everybody needed to know about. And I thought
Speaker 2: to myself, Wow, what a cool way to communicate this
Speaker 2: one person speaking to We had two thousand kids in
Speaker 2: the school at the time, two thousand people, two thousand
Speaker 2: kids students plus teachers, and I thought, this is like
Speaker 2: a private radio station. Of course, it wasn't a radio station.
Speaker 2: It was simply allow speaker, but the concept was the same.
Speaker 2: And that made me think about this and I think
Speaker 2: it might have helped me find find my career path
Speaker 2: to be really honest with you for what that means.
Speaker 2: If anyone else can identified with that.
Speaker 9: That's awesome, man. But let's keep keep the heat on,
Speaker 9: AM and get market back on.
Speaker 2: I promise I will. I'm going to mention it to
Speaker 2: one of his people tomorrow. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: get market back. You got it, because this is one
Speaker 2: I can mark you on in a lot of things
Speaker 2: and disagree with them, and we can be friends. But
Speaker 2: I got to tell you on this one, he's he's
Speaker 2: right on the money. He's absolutely righting the money. Thanks Jack,
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon. Okay. We got a couple of
Speaker 2: lines open one six, one, seven, two, five, four to
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Let me get I lean. I lean you
Speaker 2: in next on nights.
Speaker 5: I go right ahead, Eileen, Well hi, I just I
Speaker 5: called because you were talking about supermarkets.
Speaker 2: Yes, and go right ahead, bring us back, and I said,
Speaker 2: bring us feel free to bring us back to that point. Sure.
Speaker 13: Oh all right, Well I have to go to Walmart
Speaker 13: first thing tomorrow morning. And I'm going to go to
Speaker 13: the Walmart superstore in Avon.
Speaker 5: And I.
Speaker 13: I have a a son who lives in a group
Speaker 13: home and they just changed his home and I had
Speaker 13: to buy some bedding. And I went in that store
Speaker 13: and I where do I but people? The people who
Speaker 13: worked there were just wonderful, especially a young lady named Heather,
Speaker 13: who helped me out pick out exactly what I needed.
Speaker 13: I got it done very quickly.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 13: You were talking about stop and shop. My sons all
Speaker 13: worked at the local stop and shop during this back.
Speaker 2: To your experience today. I mean, it's so important when
Speaker 2: we go into one of these stores that there'd be
Speaker 2: people on the floor that you can talk to. All
Speaker 2: go into Shaws and there's no one. There are a
Speaker 2: couple of cashiers, and there's a couple of managers and
Speaker 2: a couple of bag people, but you don't find anybody's
Speaker 2: So if you're looking for a product, you can just
Speaker 2: roam around from without without finding the product. I was
Speaker 2: in a store recently I really love.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the store, the local store, grocery store that I
Speaker 13: really love is Trader Joe's and hang them and the
Speaker 13: all of the staff talk to you. They they they
Speaker 13: come up and say, do you need any help? Can
Speaker 13: you Are you finding everything you need there? I think
Speaker 13: they're they've been trained that way to uh, you know,
Speaker 13: to do their job that way.
Speaker 2: It's that interpersonal relationship that makes you want to go
Speaker 2: back to that store. That's that's the point. And you
Speaker 2: compare that to trying to get on the internet and
Speaker 2: order an item uh that that maybe it is not
Speaker 2: going to fit, or an item that isn't going to work.
Speaker 2: It's it's so much nicer, I think to buy something
Speaker 2: from a brick and mortar store. I really there are
Speaker 2: certain things that you need to now go on the
Speaker 2: internet and do, but I do it as little as possible. Ireena,
Speaker 2: I got the news coming at me, so I gotta
Speaker 2: let you go. Best of luck when you go to
Speaker 2: the Walmart superstore in Avon tomorrow. Okay, did I lose her?
Speaker 2: Her think I did? Seem must have dropped off. Okay,
Speaker 2: we got the news coming right up. We'll be back
Speaker 2: on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 3: You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we had a little bit of a glitch there.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness, David and Ken have called back. There were
Speaker 2: a couple of other folks who were dropped off. If
Speaker 2: you remember I Lean, I couldn't say good night to
Speaker 2: her because she had gone away, and then David and
Speaker 2: Ken for some reason mysteriously dropped off. Sometimes we have
Speaker 2: the gremlins. This is Halloween night, but it's got nothing
Speaker 2: to do really with Halloween. So Dan is going to
Speaker 2: ripe that up so that our craw technical people can
Speaker 2: find out what happened. But in the meantime, if you
Speaker 2: were on, please call back and you get your space
Speaker 2: in line. We are talking about the closure of big stores.
Speaker 2: Thousands of big stores have closed across this country in
Speaker 2: the last year, thousands, thousands, and that is not good
Speaker 2: for consumers. It's not good for consumers choice. They're driving
Speaker 2: us to try to do everything through Amazon, and that
Speaker 2: doesn't work for me. Let's go to David and Jamaica
Speaker 2: Plane David Europe next, followed by Ken go ahead, David, Dan,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 11: For taking my call. Dan. I'm putting one hundred and
Speaker 11: one dollar bet that the voice of Reason will not
Speaker 11: maintain in the next ten days. It's gonna get lost.
Speaker 11: It certainly has to get the voice of reason that
Speaker 11: you command. I don't know whether you're gonna be.
Speaker 6: Hold on to it, but we'll see.
Speaker 2: Well, let me just say that I have every intention
Speaker 2: to hold on to it. I have staked out of position, David,
Speaker 2: which is I hope that whoever wins the White House
Speaker 2: wins with a clear, decisive margin, because I do not
Speaker 2: want to see us go through what we've gone through
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen and even more importantly, in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: So I will relieve the voice of reason here.
Speaker 11: Okay, Love, I love I love that strategy, and also again.
Speaker 11: You know the shades of Ireland with collect when you
Speaker 11: when you started mentioning Truman Highway and read built, do
Speaker 11: you do an opposite wave? You do a shades of
Speaker 11: Boston for people from that side and the other side
Speaker 11: of the pond. You you bring you know what I mean,
Speaker 11: you gathered groups from over there and bring them here.
Speaker 11: I mean not that Truman Highland reedbuil a tourist attraction,
Speaker 11: But I'm just thinking that your knowledge, you know what
Speaker 11: I mean. You never do a reverse one, right, you always?
Speaker 11: You always?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, we we went to we took listeners
Speaker 2: to Italy.
Speaker 11: In in Uh yeah, you went to the You went
Speaker 11: to the Mouthy Coast and everything, didn't you yeap.
Speaker 2: Maufy Coast in Rome. We've done Wow. We did a
Speaker 2: river cruise a few years ago and and the Danube,
Speaker 2: which which I liked a lot. It was a fun
Speaker 2: really a fun fun way to get there. Uh so yeah,
Speaker 2: and we've done the Rhyan River, we did Alaska a
Speaker 2: few years ago, and we'll do some more and hopefully
Speaker 2: at some point you can join us in one of
Speaker 2: these trips. They're great fun because bucket.
Speaker 11: List you you're definitely uh having a cold Beer with
Speaker 11: you is on my bucket list also, but I will
Speaker 11: that one that one will have to see.
Speaker 2: But uh, I could be I could be convinced into
Speaker 2: a cold beer, trust me on that.
Speaker 11: Okay, you know A quick one about the market basket.
Speaker 11: I stay with my ninety four year old veteran dad
Speaker 11: who's gonna turn ninety five in November, God bless them,
Speaker 11: and I stay there occasionally, and we worked it out
Speaker 11: that I buy the groceries of I'm gonna stay there,
Speaker 11: and uh, I said, said, why don't you come with
Speaker 11: me to uh, you know, so I can really see.
Speaker 11: He goes, okay, we what the market basket. He gets
Speaker 11: in one of them motorized cots. He thinks he's Mario Andretti.
Speaker 11: He's going everywhere, you know, scar of the Tower and
Speaker 11: he comes back and goes, fuck, what eye bottom?
Speaker 9: Look what eye up?
Speaker 11: He's cut sick lobsters already cooked, and he's like, they
Speaker 11: weighed them after they cooked him. We gotta buy them
Speaker 11: six lobsters I'm paying. I'm like, oh, you're not coming
Speaker 11: to the Store of be A yet.
Speaker 7: I you know, what did you do?
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. When they cook a lobster
Speaker 2: I'm not a lobster guy, but when they cook a lobster,
Speaker 2: you can only eat one at a time. I think,
Speaker 2: what did you do with the.
Speaker 11: He wanted to do the twin lobster? Especially, he thought
Speaker 11: he was that legal seafood. I don't know, I mean
Speaker 11: it was. It's how long?
Speaker 2: That serious? When they ad I met? This is a
Speaker 2: serious question, David. How long would they last? So you
Speaker 2: go home and you have a couple for dinner. Now
Speaker 2: you've got four lobster. You want to put him in
Speaker 2: the fridge and then you bring him out the next night?
Speaker 2: How long did they last?
Speaker 11: They only weigh they only weigh less than they weigh
Speaker 11: less than a pound. You know they're a pound, they're
Speaker 11: a pound and a quarter pound and a half. Once
Speaker 11: they cook them, they weigh less than a pound. We'll
Speaker 11: leave these lay my bothery, three lobsters each like it's
Speaker 11: like it's going out of business. No problem.
Speaker 2: Were good for you and good for your daddy, hot butter.
Speaker 2: Thank your dad for his service. Boy.
Speaker 11: That's I know he's uh, he's sometimes, but what I
Speaker 11: got blown away? The Walgreens on Senna Street on West Roxbury.
Speaker 2: Walgreens on Senate Street in West Roxbury. I know exactly
Speaker 2: where that used to be. That used to be where
Speaker 2: Roach Brothers was.
Speaker 11: Sure the show wasn't. I mean, it's in the heart
Speaker 11: of West Roxbury. There's not another Walgreens for I you know,
Speaker 11: miles miles around you. I'm like sou in the world
Speaker 11: because this close to me is sposed me away. I
Speaker 11: talked to somebody on the other side of the aisle
Speaker 11: and I said, they cause, well, I get my prescription
Speaker 11: from CBS, so I don't care. I said, I hope
Speaker 11: CBS stopped charging you one hundred bucks for your prescription
Speaker 11: because without competition, you're gonna be, you know, wherever you're
Speaker 11: gonna be.
Speaker 2: But you know what's a great thing about Walgreens in
Speaker 2: West Roxbury is you got Blanches right around the corner.
Speaker 11: Oh oh, without yeah, without a doubt, without a doubt.
Speaker 2: I'm just giving you a hard time, that's all. These
Speaker 2: are my stomp These are my stomping grounds, David. I
Speaker 2: know these places. Let me tell you. We could grab
Speaker 2: a beer at the Core pub across the street.
Speaker 11: Oh that's family that that family has done more for
Speaker 11: that than that that counter was with their road racing.
Speaker 11: They they they their institution. God bless them over there.
Speaker 2: Hey, Dave, I really enjoyed this conversation. Thanks so much
Speaker 2: for calling back, and uh, we'll have that beer someday,
Speaker 2: trust me.
Speaker 7: Okay, oh, thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm around by the way. You know when when winters,
Speaker 2: I'm back in Boston and I'm back in that neck
Speaker 2: of the woods. So you're gonna run into me someday,
Speaker 2: come up to me and say hello, will you We
Speaker 2: just lost them. Okay, yeah, that's fine. Okay, Uh, let
Speaker 2: me go next to Ken in Hudson. Ken in Hudson,
Speaker 2: you are next on night side. Thanks thanks Ken, you're
Speaker 2: next one nights.
Speaker 7: I go right ahead, big good evening. I wanted to
Speaker 7: thank the caller that told the story about, uh, the
Speaker 7: lobster shows left around the store. I got a kick
Speaker 7: out of that quite a bit.
Speaker 2: You know, you could you could really trip or fall
Speaker 2: in one of those the way they can get a
Speaker 2: little dangerous.
Speaker 7: Definitely, definitely a unique experience.
Speaker 2: Yes, clean up on Aisle five.
Speaker 7: Maybe you know exactly exactly I live in. I live
Speaker 7: in Hudson, and luckily the stopping shop here is not
Speaker 7: going to be closed and the town has other numerous grocers.
Speaker 7: Those they have a Shaw's and they have a like
Speaker 7: Walmart superstore. And they also like if you go like
Speaker 7: one Town South in Mabroo, they have a Price Chopper
Speaker 7: and a Hana Fruits. So there's no there's no lack
Speaker 7: of of you know, grocery stores to choose from. But
Speaker 7: the thing that kind of irritates me is, you know,
Speaker 7: you know these when when the store is sell out,
Speaker 7: these foreign companies, you know, that money goes I imagine
Speaker 7: the money goes overseas. That's where they get the profits.
Speaker 7: And it's not the local community you know that owns
Speaker 7: the store or regional community that owns these stores, you know,
Speaker 7: and that that that kind of bothers me, and I
Speaker 7: think it kind of weakens our economy a little bit.
Speaker 8: And the.
Speaker 7: You know and and like stop much something me and
Speaker 7: you know they have like I think on one of
Speaker 7: the topics on another another show you had was you
Speaker 7: know they have uh, you know enough person knowing there
Speaker 7: they have like enough people uh when when you check
Speaker 7: out as opposed that you're using the self scan machines,
Speaker 7: which I think is a good thing.
Speaker 11: And the.
Speaker 7: The other thing I just wanted to mention was the
Speaker 7: I said that the Robinson's Hardware. Uh that that I
Speaker 7: guess is closing now in Hudson. You know, they were
Speaker 7: extremely helpful, you know, because if you're looking around, they
Speaker 7: see you're looking around and people you know that someone
Speaker 7: would approach it. It can I help you with what
Speaker 7: you're looking for, and it's great. You know, when you
Speaker 7: want to do get a job done, you just want
Speaker 7: to run in and run out, as opposed to go
Speaker 7: into one of the big stop, big, big big bucks
Speaker 7: stores that I won't mention, you know, but yeah, and
Speaker 7: then they said the stop the stopping shop. I mean
Speaker 7: they have they have like a lot of their own
Speaker 7: uh brand name stuff, which which I enjoy and you
Speaker 7: get it at a discount and it's good quality, you know.
Speaker 7: And they said there there is a market Basket, but
Speaker 7: that's on the outside of town and that has you know,
Speaker 7: that has I guess, I guess more of a selection
Speaker 7: than any of the stores. And uh, but I mean
Speaker 7: I think it's unfortunately for people that live in certain
Speaker 7: areas that you know, they're they're kind of maybe they
Speaker 7: don't have access to transportation.
Speaker 2: And it's always it's always the poorest communities who are
Speaker 2: hardest hit in that situation, and and people who don't
Speaker 2: have cars or have to rely and then they have
Speaker 2: to carry grocery bags, and oftentimes they're older people. It's
Speaker 2: just it's just not fair. Hey, I got a question
Speaker 2: for you in Hudson. What's the name of the deli.
Speaker 2: There's a big circle in Hudson and there's a really
Speaker 2: there's a really nice deli there, a breakfast place right.
Speaker 7: Oh God, I know exactly what you mean. I can't
Speaker 7: I guess you can't require it because I've been blind
Speaker 7: for most of this year, so I've the names when
Speaker 7: I go by there, but I know what you I
Speaker 7: know which one you're talking about it.
Speaker 2: I know as a matter of fact, you know you
Speaker 2: had Governor Salucci. I don't know how long you've lived
Speaker 2: in hub Hudson, but Paul Salucci, so I'm sure you know,
Speaker 2: former governor of Massachusetts who's no longer with us, was
Speaker 2: the governor of Massachusetts. He became governor in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: seven when Bill Weld resigned in his pursuit of becoming
Speaker 2: the US Ambassador to Mexico. And the morning that Paul
Speaker 2: Sulucci was going to be sworn in as governor, I
Speaker 2: had breakfast with him that morning inside that breakfast spot.
Speaker 2: And it was a great breakfast place.
Speaker 7: So oh no kidding, Wow, yeah, if you go in there.
Speaker 2: How long you lived in Hudson.
Speaker 7: Thirty plus years?
Speaker 2: All right? Sure? And and I had one of my
Speaker 2: best friends played hockey with at Boston State College, Terry Barry,
Speaker 2: was from Hudson. He went on and became a DEA agent.
Speaker 2: So I know Hudson pretty well. It's a great a
Speaker 2: great town.
Speaker 7: Well then they come to they come, they come along
Speaker 7: pretty good, you know, the rev, the REVEMP, downtown and
Speaker 7: all that stuff. But I'm glad you were fortunate to enjoy,
Speaker 7: you know, meal with with the governor because he seemed
Speaker 7: to be a pretty friendly person.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a good guy. Paul si Lucci was
Speaker 2: a good guy. Unfortunately he got sick. Yeah yeah, much
Speaker 2: much much before before his time. Ken, I gotta let
Speaker 2: you run. Okay, we'll talk soon, okay, please.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, Happy Halloween. Bye bye you too.
Speaker 2: Okay, right, yeah, it is Halloween. I remind you please.
Speaker 2: I hope that all the little ghosts and godplins have
Speaker 2: finished their trick or treating and that there have been
Speaker 2: no accidents or injuries tonight. But this is the night
Speaker 2: when if you're driving, you need to be very very careful. Okay,
Speaker 2: I got a couple of open lines. Come on, let's
Speaker 2: go finish strong, folks. Six seven, two, four, ten thirty,
Speaker 2: six one, seven, nine thirty. I'm going to talk to Karen,
Speaker 2: who's calling in from Wisconsin. But I also got room
Speaker 2: for a couple more callers. Love to have you join
Speaker 2: the conversation real quickly here at the end of the night,
Speaker 2: we're talking about in Massachusetts, we're losing stores, brick and
Speaker 2: mortar stores, and that's that's not good for us, it's
Speaker 2: not good for other people. It's not good for our economy.
Speaker 2: And there's a record number of brick and mortar stores,
Speaker 2: big box type stores that have closed around the country.
Speaker 2: And we cannot allow that to happen. Okay, stop buying
Speaker 2: stuff from Amazon, use use your local stores. If you
Speaker 2: don't take advantage of your local stores, whether it's a
Speaker 2: pharmacy or a hardware store or a supermarket, they'll go
Speaker 2: out of business and you'll lose them and you'll never
Speaker 2: get them back. Quick numbers here six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Got a couple of lines there and got
Speaker 2: a couple at six, one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I think it's an important topic we're talking about. Feel
Speaker 2: free to join the conversation. We will get back to
Speaker 2: some politics tomorrow night. We're gonna talk more. We're gonna
Speaker 2: have John Zogby, the National Pollster on uh. He told
Speaker 2: me today he has no idea who's gonna win this
Speaker 2: this presidential race. We'll talk with him, uh. And we
Speaker 2: will also talk tomorrow night with doctor Nazir Gami about psychedelics,
Speaker 2: the potential legalization of psychedelics here in Massachusetts. I believe
Speaker 2: that is question four. He is a noll on question
Speaker 2: four here in Massachusetts. Coming right back on Nightside, Give
Speaker 2: me a couple of more phone calls and we'll finish
Speaker 2: the night strong. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: to night. Thanks to you on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here and get room for
Speaker 2: another call or too. Let me go to Karen and Wisconsin. Hi, Karen,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 10: I'm okay.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna win Wisconsin out there next Tuesday? You're my
Speaker 2: you're my reporter from Wisconsin.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Well, this one's got to figure out how to
Speaker 14: go vote. So I'm so caught up in your h
Speaker 14: your referendums, and I find out I've got like four
Speaker 14: of my own. You know, it's kind of hard.
Speaker 2: You got you gotta full play, Karen, right.
Speaker 14: And I'm Circadian rhythm problems and I'm trying to live
Speaker 14: in two states. Well, you know, it just doesn't work.
Speaker 14: You put out so much tonight, I could, you know,
Speaker 14: I could go on and on, but I decided to
Speaker 14: choose this instead. I'm gonna correct you.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 14: I'm sorry, but it was it was CVS that Roach
Speaker 14: that took over Roach, not Walgreens.
Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you for that question. I misremembered that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Karen. I appreciate that.
Speaker 14: I'm sorry. I don't I don't like to go around
Speaker 14: correcting people.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 2: Anytime you can help me to set the record straight.
Speaker 2: I'm not infallible, Karen. I make mistakes, all right.
Speaker 14: I just had too much to say on everything. They
Speaker 14: want to dump us baby boomers, and I'm with you.
Speaker 14: I wasn't with you that night. We're not going to
Speaker 14: give up. No, we're not going to sit there and
Speaker 14: play those silly games like Shaws and all that stuff.
Speaker 14: We're going to fight back, Okay.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, I'm with you all the way, Karen, Thank
Speaker 2: you so much.
Speaker 14: And I didn't want to fight that night, but now
Speaker 14: we'll have to.
Speaker 2: Because give us the best prices. Don't make us go
Speaker 2: through some stupid app to get fifty cents off some coupon.
Speaker 2: You know, mark Mark, mark what you want to sell
Speaker 2: it for like the old days, and sell us that
Speaker 2: the best prices. And if you can't give us good prices,
Speaker 2: we'll find somewhere else to shop.
Speaker 14: Right, and mentioned Roach Brothers unless they're taken down now
Speaker 14: by the bike lanes, and they aren't existing anymore. Because
Speaker 14: those bike lanes are there. I hope Roach Brothers are
Speaker 14: still going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Roach Brothers are still going. They get great quality.
Speaker 2: They're a little bit more expensive, but they get great quality.
Speaker 2: But those bike lanes are insane. Karen. Wait, you see
Speaker 2: center straight.
Speaker 14: Well, I almost was out it this week and I
Speaker 14: didn't get there, and so I'm out here, you know, being.
Speaker 2: Be careful, Be careful, cross the center, Be careful cross
Speaker 2: the center street, Karen, I got too more. I got
Speaker 2: to go to astro.
Speaker 14: Call call, so I'll let you go back.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Karen, talk to you soon. We're going to go
Speaker 2: next to Bob and Lynn. Bobby gets you in here
Speaker 2: right before the wire got room for you and Louis
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Bob, Hey, Dan, I am totally with you
Speaker 6: about the Shaws app. Down down with the Shaws app.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievably whoever designed it, they decided to drive customers away.
Speaker 6: It's ridiculous, but real quick. On a positive note, market Basket, Yeah,
Speaker 6: what I love about market Basket is Irdt's business model
Speaker 6: of taking great care of his people. His people in
Speaker 6: turn take great care of you, the consumer.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it gets passed on. It starts from the top.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And you know, anytime I walk into a stopping shops,
Speaker 6: it's like nobody to talk to. And if you do
Speaker 6: see somebody, they don't want to work with you, which
Speaker 6: is ridiculous. It's it's a terrible.
Speaker 7: Way of sir.
Speaker 2: It's funny. I was in a stopping shop yesterday and
Speaker 2: just like at the deli counter, they're not particularly friendly.
Speaker 2: I guess the circumstances are such that they don't smile.
Speaker 2: It looks to me like and there was four or
Speaker 2: five of them behind the deli counter and I'm looking
Speaker 2: at them and you know, I just ordered a quarter
Speaker 2: of a pound of this and a little bit of that.
Speaker 2: I don't like to have two pounds of something in
Speaker 2: the refrigerator that goes bad. I'd rather go back every
Speaker 2: other day and get fresh food. And they almost and
Speaker 2: if you ask them, can you slice it thinly? And
Speaker 2: they kind of roll their eyes like, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: come on, don't.
Speaker 6: And the people at market Basket, I find are totally
Speaker 6: the opposite of what you just described.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, at market Basket, they'll they'll say hello to you,
Speaker 2: and oftentimes they'll recognize you and they'll be saying, hey,
Speaker 2: that's Dan Ray or whatever. And you know, I'm a
Speaker 2: regular customer, so they recognize me more as a regular
Speaker 2: customer than it's Dan Ray, the guy that was on TV.
Speaker 2: But then nice, they get nice people and even the
Speaker 2: people who and there's a lot of people in market
Speaker 2: Basket don't speak English. If they don't speak English and
Speaker 2: you're asking a question, will they will motion you and
Speaker 2: they will bring you to someone who does speak English.
Speaker 6: And not only that, they take ownership of your request.
Speaker 6: So yes, what I mean by that is excuse me,
Speaker 6: can you tell me where I can find the X
Speaker 6: Y Z and they'll say walk this way.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, they will lead you to it. They won't
Speaker 2: say it's over at Aisle fifteen on the left, somewhere
Speaker 2: down in the corner. No, I gotta get one more
Speaker 2: in here, Bob. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, Dan, have a great time a friend.
Speaker 2: All right, good night. Give me my time, Dan, how
Speaker 2: much you got a minute? Minute? Half minute? Just a minute? Okay,
Speaker 2: here we go. Let's give Louis then, Louis, you're the
Speaker 2: last of the night. We're going to give you about
Speaker 2: forty five seconds. Go ahead, Louis.
Speaker 15: You were never going to be a sportscaster. We sent
Speaker 15: you Barb lo Bell. But listen, the greatest guess you
Speaker 15: could have Wednesday is if she would, you know, come
Speaker 15: on as thet of current vocation. The lady there that
Speaker 15: used to do the news for Jack Williams.
Speaker 2: What was her name, Liz Walker. Liz Walker is living,
Speaker 2: I believe now in Florida. She's an one day to minister.
Speaker 15: That's who you need Monday night.
Speaker 2: We need prayers, no, no, no, you need.
Speaker 15: To have Liz Walker. A woman that was always able
Speaker 15: to balance the scales of justice, that was always able
Speaker 15: to see through everything. That's the lady that you need
Speaker 15: Monday night. That would be the greatest guest. If you
Speaker 15: still have a rapport with her, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: It's tough to reach because I haven't worked with her
Speaker 2: in a while, and I believe that she's now in Florida.
Speaker 2: But we'll give it a shot. Okay, thank you, Louis.
Speaker 2: I know Lobell's a great guy too, a great guy,
Speaker 2: absolutely great.
Speaker 15: You were now going to becaster with Bobby.
Speaker 8: You what.
Speaker 15: You were never gonna get by Jimmy Myers and Bob Lobell.
Speaker 15: I mean it was a conversation was too tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have been a pretty good sportscaster, trust
Speaker 2: me on that, my friend.
Speaker 7: Okay, it would low bell.
Speaker 2: Bak to you, lady, have a great one, have another beer,
Speaker 2: talk to you later. Bye bye. All right, we're done
Speaker 2: for the night, Dan, nice job here. I have no
Speaker 2: idea where my man Louis was taking me, but that's okay.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the fact that lou called in, that Bob called,
Speaker 2: and the Karen called. We had done for the night.
Speaker 2: I'll be on Facebook Night's Eye with Dan Ray in
Speaker 2: about three or four minutes. Will do a post game
Speaker 2: on the show if you want to say hello, love
Speaker 2: to have you do that. All dogs, all cats, all
Speaker 2: pets go to heaven. That's what my pell, Charlie Ray is,
Speaker 2: who passed fourteen years ago in February. That's where all
Speaker 2: your pets are who were passed. They loved you and
Speaker 2: you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
Speaker 2: Hope to see again on nights side. We'll be back
Speaker 2: tomorrow night and have a great Friday. Everyone, TGIF in
Speaker 2: about two minutes.