The following is yet another sign that Western New Yorkers are gradually taking over Massachusetts. This also could be a sign that Massachusetts kids spend their formative college years in Western or Central New York. Maybe it’s a happy mix of both.
While reading the Boston.com home page this afternoon, I glanced over at the “Most Popular” widget on their right sidebar. During this visit, the widget was showing their most emailed stories.
What is Boston.com’s most emailed story?
“Wegmans to open Burlington store.”
Don’t believe me? Here’s a screen capture, with my mouse hovering over the link for full effect:
Yes, more people have emailed a news story about Wegmans tearing down an office park in the most quintessentially suburban of all Massachusetts suburbs to build its first store within a half hour drive of Boston proper than anything about the giant Texas wildfires, secrets to anti-aging, and exercise recommendations.
(And I promise I wasn’t logged into any Facebook or other social applications to skew those results any.)
Soon enough, all Massachusetts residents will be able to know the wonder that is Wegmans. What can us Rochesterians, Buffalonians and Syracusans influence next? The second coming of Tim Hortons coffee in New England? The availability of real Buffalo wings in Boston? The garbage plate? Tully’s?
The possibilities are endless.