Comments on: Berkeley Bowl West

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:10:48 +0000

Berkeley Bowl West is heaven on earth and you all should shop there.

By: Andi

Andi — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:02:23 +0000

The old Berkeley Bowl was my living hell. My husband and I got fed up we boycotted it, but only managed 3 weeks before we slinked back in, their product offering and pricing was just too hard to resist. But I absolutely 100% hated every second of the experience. Parking was hellacious to say the least as well as all the other issues you mentioned. I drove by the construction on my way home every night for a year and anxiously waited for its birth. I nearly got down on my knees and kissed the sidewalk outside of the doors of Berkeley Bowl West on the first day it opened! I love it, everything is wonderful – I just hope it stays that way!

By: david shimada

david shimada — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:21:13 +0000

the addition of the new berkeley west store has had a huge impact on the original store’s traffic, berkeley west has such better lines, no more waiting half an hour waiting at the register, but it still may be advised to park on the street vs. the lot

By: Denise Lincoln

Denise Lincoln — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:24:12 +0000

Hi Anna — Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I in no way meant to imitate the sentence from the article you list in your comment. Any similarity was inadvertent and I hope you agree that all those other sentences in the piece are completely different in both structure and content. While Ms. Jones focuses on how the new Berkeley Bowl West neighborhood responded to the planning of the new store and details the other grocery stores available in the area, my article instead simply discusses why I personally like the new Berkeley Bowl West so much more than the old store. My inability to go to Berkeley Bowl for the last five years is 99% due to that parking lot and when I wrote my post I was trying to relay that. I didn’t refer to Ms Jones’ article while writing my post, although do read SF Gate often. I can only suspect that I read this article when it came out in May and the image of the Volvos stuck with me. Thanks again for your comment and I hope otherwise enjoy reading BAB.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:14:42 +0000

Buddy! I know that it’s hard to write especially for blogs, but there is absolutely no reason to plagarize. I am not sure if you thought people would notice or not but here is your sentence about the Berkeley Bowl parking lot:

“It’s like demolition derby with aged Volvos trying to out-maneuver newer hybrids to stake their claims on the all too elusive parking spots.”

And here is, honestly a more elegant quote about the BB parking lot written a couple months earlier in the chronicle:

“The parking lot is a gridlocked swamp of road rage, a demolition derby of Priuses and rusty old Volvos vying for parking spots.” By Carolyn Jones.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/27/BUJS17RCCG.DTL

I actually emailed that quote out to my friends because I loved it so much, but I don’t love it enough to claim as my own. Please give credit where credit is due (or delete the quote).

Totally not okay…