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Originally Posted by shcisamax
I notice the closest market to get really good food is in Orlando ..Whole Foods. There is one in Tampa as well. Trader Joe's will open sometime in Sarasota and Naples in the fall? How is it possible there is nothing here? Not even a selection of good cheese here? Brie in a log? Cheddar in 8 varieties? You can get a very nice selection of wine, and some very very fine ones, but what do you pair it with? potato chips?
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Since moving to TV in April, I do find organic/gourmet food, and other merchandise a bit lacking in selection. I came from a major metro area, Washington, DC, and was used to having a larger selection of items. For example, went to Home Depot on 441 for a workbench and tool chest. What did they have? Just one size and model of tool chest. Could go online and fined more and pay huge shipping fees. Back home there would have been about 5 or 6 to choose from. So had to travel around to Lowes and finally found something suitable at Sam's Club. My point is, it is really time consuming and frustrating driving to serveral places trying to find things for my new house. I do like Fresh Market. However I would like to see a bigger store with more selection. Whole Foods and Wegmans (my fav) are full scale grocery stores with tons of selection plus they have small bistro areas for coffee, sushi, italian meals, food bars, salad bars. They provide a shopping experience. I have yet to find a grocery store in the TV area with a salad bar where you can buy by weight the fixins for a salad for one or two. What's up with Publix, only prepackaged potato salad etc. Please, nice store but I would think for a store of their corporate size they could at least offer a full deli. At least I can buy deli potato salad etc at Sweet Bay or Fresh Foods or Walmart. But there again shop in one place, travel to another to get other stuff. Frustrating! Given what I have said, NO I don't want to move back home and I will adjust. As other posters have said there isn't the population base to support these stores. Yes, TV has alot of folks and is growing but IMHO and experience as some folks age, they become more thrifty for a lot of reasons and spending $20 a lb or more for gourmet anything is not in their nature and/or budget. My new mantra is adjust and enjoy the journey!