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‘Chaos’ in sleepy Hamptons hamlet as trendy grocery store mobbed by One Percenters
NY Post ^ | 7/07/25 | Oli Coleman

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: boohoo; grocery; hamptons; karens; mobbed; store
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To: mabarker1
Nightly-nite.
I just woke up.

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!

21 posted on 07/08/2025 5:23:36 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Liz

Trump supporters.


22 posted on 07/08/2025 5:30:15 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Libloather

I guess they’ve never been to a Cracker Barrel......................


23 posted on 07/08/2025 5:54:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Libloather

$20 a pound for penny candy and $15 breakfast burrito? No thanks, I’ll pass.


24 posted on 07/08/2025 5:56:40 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: dljordan

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!”


25 posted on 07/08/2025 5:57:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

And I thought the $8 burritos at Buc-ee’es was expensive.


26 posted on 07/08/2025 5:58:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

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


27 posted on 07/08/2025 5:59:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Liz

: )

Amen

28 posted on 07/08/2025 6:10:18 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: DeplorableTrumpSupporter

The “selling” season is about 8 weeks. Smells like a money loser.


29 posted on 07/08/2025 6:24:00 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: dfwgator

I can hear that music.


30 posted on 07/08/2025 6:49:41 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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Four outer six thumbs.........
Equals two thurds


31 posted on 07/08/2025 8:27:53 AM PDT by deport
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To: Liz

BET THE COUNTY LOVES THE INCREASE IN SALES TAXES......


32 posted on 07/08/2025 8:50:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: House Atreides
Don’t like the store? Don’t go to the store.

If people are parking on your lawn to go there, that's slightly more of an issue than "I don't like their prices".

33 posted on 07/08/2025 8:55:36 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Libloather
“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.

Not at those prices - more like stepping into the future after Bidenflation for a few decades.

34 posted on 07/08/2025 8:56:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dfwgator

Haven’t been to Buc-ee yet. Going to Buc-ee when I go to Daytona for the NASCAR race in September.


35 posted on 07/08/2025 9:50:37 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: mewzilla

Mo money, mo problems.


36 posted on 07/08/2025 3:35:35 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

I thought the article was referring to outlaw motorcycle gangs.


37 posted on 07/09/2025 5:49:42 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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