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Aquapocalypse claims another victim
By Lanny Budd on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 7:34pm
I went down to the Tedeschi's on the corner of Truman Parkway and Fairmount Avenue to get the Sunday paper and coffee. They have been kind enough for the last several years to ask the Globe driver for a paper with a South Section insert and set it aside for me so I can get the Milton news. This morning there was a whole crew of new faces who looked blankly at me when I asked for my paper, so I asked where Tariq (the manager) was. The new people said that he was no longer there and that the store was now owned and operated by the corporation. I asked if this was due to the recent WHDH hatchet job. They refused to answer.
This is after Tariq took a grimy hole of a convenience store and turned it into a nice deli with outstanding coffee. Good job, Tedeschi's.
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So someone's cozy,
So someone's cozy, idiosyncratic ritual is screwed up by something that may or may not be true, but that he decided to go ahead and rant about anyway. Can't wait for blogs to replace journalism.
Exactly
Yes, that's the ticket. You have smoked it. A hard-working employee with a family loses his job over a media hatchet job, but it's all about me not having to drive the same distance in the opposite direction every Sunday morning.
Keep the faith, anonymous defender of the main stream media.
I'm Confused
What did WHDH do to Tariq? How is WHDH connect to Tedeschi and what did the water do? This doesn't make any sense.
I too am confused by this. I
I too am confused by this. I read the article, and it seemed to paint Tariq in a fairly decent light.
From the WHDH site: "Another
From the WHDH site:
"Another phone call came from Mayor Menino's driver, who was charged $16.00 for a pack of water that contained 32 individual bottles at a Tedeschi's in Hyde Park. The mayor's office says a case like that should only cost $9.99."
Menino's driver complained about the price of a case of water. In the original broadcast, they spent 95% of the air time making it appear that the Hyde Park Tedeschi's was jacking up the price of water. The explanation - that employees had (at customer request) put a bunch of loose bottled water together, discounted them 50%, and sold them as "cases". So they were selling at a discount and get accused in the media of price gouging.
And now it appears that Tedeschi's has removed Tariq, who had been running the place for years. I don't think their action was coincidental.
Mumbles rings in your order
And another thing: "The mayor's office says a case like that should only cost $9.99."
According to whom? The corner store is not Costco. The regular price of a bottle of water at Tedeschi's anywhere anytime is a buck. They were selling them for 50 cents.
And what is the price of a bottle of water at Fenway Park? Why do they get a pass?
Coakley School of Grandstanding and Scapegoating
Notice they go after a small time manager instead of one of their super special sponsors?
Yeah, and how much is a bottle of water at Fenway? Right.
WHDH = hatchet?
WHDH presented the manager's side of the story about not usually selling cases and selling it as 1/2 off the individual bottle price * # of bottles in the case.
I don't see how WHDH went wrong here.
Really?
"WHDH presented the manager's side of the story about not usually selling cases and selling it as 1/2 off the individual bottle price * # of bottles in the case.
I don't see how WHDH went wrong here."
So if a Channel 7 news crew comes to your house and does a remote where the first five minutes are spent asking the question "Is Mr. Kaz a pedophile terrorist?" then you'd be okay with it if they gave you fifteen seconds to rebut the allegation when they were done?
Five minutes?
I think your egg timer is as cracked as you are.
The comments from the woman in her car about Tedeschi's as well as the info given to WHDH from the Mayor's driver take 20 seconds (1:05-1:25 in the video clip). The response (and apology) from the manager along with the math as to how it arrived at $16 for 32 bottles took 10 seconds (1:25-1:35). 20s vs 10s...Whoa, break out the pitchforks...
Not at first
The original story as broadcast did not have any on air rebuttal at all. It was 95% allegation with a quick explanation at the end that made the whole thing a nonstory. It was Tedeschi's who broke out their pitchforks and skewered the manager.
Tariq has been a great asset
Tariq has been a great asset to the community in Hyde Park.
He has donated to local charities, he has gone above and beyond in
getting what the customer's want. Isn't there some way to get a
petition going to bring him back to Hyde Park?