When Ed Davis stopped by the West Roxbury Roche Bros. for some shopping and saw a shoplifter race out the door, he couldn't just stand by. So he joined store security officers (wait? Roche. Bros. has security officers?) and helped grab the guy on nearby Belgrade Avenue, the Globe reports.

Ed. parochial note: As a frequent visitor to that store, the story left me wondering just how far down Belgrade the guy got. Did he get across the parkway, or did they nab him by that little field behind the old gas station?

If it's a party-platter sandwich from Roche Bros. or Sudbury Farms, and you got it between July 31 and Aug. 2, get a bag now and throw it out. The state Department of Public Health reports the sandwiches, typically sold in party platters, could contain an unlisted ingredient: Listeria monocytogenes.

Sample party platter of doom (from DPH):

Listeria does not affect most people, but can cause serious problems in the elderly, newborns and people with compromised immune systems, starting with flu-like symptoms, the state says. It can also cause pregnant women to miscarry.

The FDA says about 285 pounds of potentially infected sandwiches were distributed by World Class Canapes, Inc. of Wilmington.

Larry Davidson compares the fresh soft-shell crabs at Roche Bros. and the Legal Seafood fish market and finds the Roche Bros. versions "tastier, fresher-tasting, and plumper" than the ones at Legal.

He also wonders why the Shaw's and Stop & Shop in Dorchester can't be as well stocked and have as good employees as the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury.

Mats Tolander marvels at the most elaborate potato-chip display he has ever seen, for Cape Cod Potato Chips at a Roche Bros. store.

The Garfields must have hit some interdimensional wormhole on their way to Roche Bros. in West Roxbury tonight. How else to explain this report of a near empty store?

There's like 8,000 free parking spaces in the parking lot! ... There's no shopping-cart road rage happening!

Not in this universe, Steve.

Compare to:
Hell on earth: The Roche Bros. parking lot the day before Thanksgiving.

Andrew Watson explains why he likes Roche Bros. and West on Centre in West Roxbury and Canto 6 Bakery and Cafe in Jamaica Plain.

Boston sets another record: The most number of carved Halloween cantoloupes: Um, OK, one. But still, let's see Keene, NH beat that! At the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury today.

Kosher Blog posts a Roche Bros. sign for our Jewish friends.