Grapes: That is the food that, more than any other, strikes fear into the heart of supermarket managers.
When a grape hits a hard supermarket floor, there is always a risk: squish, slip, splat.
But that is no longer a problem at four D’Agostino supermarkets in New York City. Those stores, like many living rooms and hotel lobbies, are fully carpeted.
The local chain has quietly begun rolling out the gray carpet in its 18 Manhattan and Westchester stores: It is a vinyl-backed commercial nylon broadloom carpet that lends a wall-to-wall plushness to an otherwise ordinary shopping expedition.
“Customers love it. They say it’s different, they haven’t seen anything like this before,” said Archie McCalla, manager of a D’Agostino store, on Lexington Avenue near 76th Street, that was carpeted a year ago.
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