Passed over

(cross-posted from my other blog at the Newburyport Report)

"Where is your Passover section?" I asked one of Market Basket's older clerks today as he stocked the beverage aisle in the Port Plaza chain.

"The what?" he asked me.

"The Passover section," I repeated. "Matzahs and such."

"Aisle 4," he said.

I walked to aisle 4 (or whatever number he said) and laughed to myself. He must have misheard me and thought I asked for the pasta aisle.

It was not much better down the hill at Shaw's, where two boxes of matzah sat on the top of a tiny shelf matrix for Middle Eastern foods.

Where do local Jews buy their Passover foods?