Posted on 07/08/2025 2:30:56 AM PDT by Libloather
More like Sagaponack General Chaos!
Page Six hears that huffy Hamptonites are accusing the billionaire owners of a trendy mom and pop shop of grocery misconduct after the spot became such a hit that it’s creating pandemonium in the hamlet. But the owners tell Page Six they’re “actively working with the village” to smooth things out.
The Sagaponack General Store, located in the second-wealthiest ZIP code in the country, was founded in 1878 but shut down during COVID. New owners snapped it up, gave it a multi-million dollar makeover and have been doing a roaring trade selling pastries, fresh-cut flowers, local produce whimsically displayed in a rusic barrow, $15 breakfast burritos, “penny candy” for $20-a-pound, and the like.
But the more popular it gets, we hear, the less popular it gets, as insiders snipe that customers and their cars are jamming up the residential street on which it sits all weekend long.
“They’re making so many enemies,” said a retail tattletale, “The police have sent a crossing guard! People are parking all over people’s lawns. It’s a nightmare.”
Adding to the ire, they say, the store is “a billionaire’s wife’s pet project.”
Mindy Gray, wife of Blackstone’s multi-billionaire president and COO Jon Gray, bought the store for a reported $3.8million during the peak of the pandemic in 2020, and reopened in April of this year.
According to Air Mail, the store — with its reclaimed-wood shelves and windows offering pictureseque views of the surrounding farmland — was designed by archtiect Frank Greenwald, “a favorite of Ina Garten’s.” Greenwald also renovated its front porch.
“The whole idea always was to walk into the space and feel like you’re stepping back in time and really feeling the echoes of this rich history here,” Mindy told Airmail.
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Thank you for your post.
It has given me some great ideas for breakfast.
Some ‘food for thought’, and surely something ‘to chew on’.
Ahhh - Good Morning!
Trump supporters.
I guess they’ve never been to a Cracker Barrel......................
$20 a pound for penny candy and $15 breakfast burrito? No thanks, I’ll pass.
These people try really hard to be authentic, kind of like the New York City people who move to Nashville, buy cowboy boots and start saying ‘ya’ll’.
“Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside!”
And I thought the $8 burritos at Buc-ee’es was expensive.
Maureen Callahan has a new YouTube channel called The Nerve.
She did a recent vid on the dark side of the Hamptons. About 16 minutes, worth the watch...
https://youtu.be/Fg-btURGuos?feature=shared
Amen
The “selling” season is about 8 weeks. Smells like a money loser.
I can hear that music.
Four outer six thumbs.........
Equals two thurds
BET THE COUNTY LOVES THE INCREASE IN SALES TAXES......
If people are parking on your lawn to go there, that's slightly more of an issue than "I don't like their prices".
Not at those prices - more like stepping into the future after Bidenflation for a few decades.
Haven’t been to Buc-ee yet. Going to Buc-ee when I go to Daytona for the NASCAR race in September.
Mo money, mo problems.
I thought the article was referring to outlaw motorcycle gangs.
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