re: New Leblanc's (Payless)

Went by at about 5:45 and it was pretty packed. Checkouts were all open and they were doing their best, moved pretty quick.

Didnt get a chance to go through the whole store, but it looked very comparable to the store on 42.

Nice beer section, plenty of bomber selections; have a long way to go if they want to be on the top level, not sure that is in their plans. Hopefully I missed them, but I didn't see any Parish, Tin Roof or Nola stuff on the shelves? WTF?

The cookies I got were top shelf though, great cooking smells throughout the store as well.

Few down things that are not their fault, not much they can do to fix them. Traffic down the side road is horrible and they need to get in the AP higher ups and see if that can improve. Also two people going at it in the parking lot, management tried what they could to remedy it, but I wouldn't have gotten between the two of them.