REVIEW: 60347 Grocery Store

[Pchan1983]

Here is my review on 60347 Grocery Store:

THE GOOD:

• Great exterior designs on the store front.
• Some nice details in the interior tool.
• Good side builds.
• Interesting build technique on the loading bay.
• A good selection of new parts.
• Love the new minifigures with the prosthetic leg.

THE NOT SO GOOD:

• May be the road plate is not necessarily to make the set a bit cheaper? 

I really like this set and I truely think it's a good LEGO City set.  The exterior design is really good, the use of parts to the carrot sign.  Interior has some cool little details and the loading bay is one of the highlights.  The side builds, EV & the lifter are also great little builds.  There are good selection of new parts and definitely need to mention the new minifigures.  One of my main reason I bought this set is because the figure with prosthetic leg.  It's a really cool minifigure.  Unfortunately, at the moment it can only be a left leg.  I look forward to LEGO producing a right leg version in the future or even both!   The price of this set is a bit high, I got it with 20% off so not feeling the full force of the RRP but I do wonder if excluding the road plates may have get this set to a cheaper price point or instead of road plates, I much prefer a roof.  Anyway this is just my personal preference as I don't really appreciate the new road plate system.  Anyway, this is a set that I would definitely recommend to everyone!

[Maple]

3 hours ago, Pchan1983 said:

 

THE NOT SO GOOD:

• May be the road plate is not necessarily to make the set a bit cheaper? 

 

The set is 50 Euros which is $53USD. That includes a 20% VAT tax. So really the set is 40 Euro without taxes.
The roadplate cost $2.50USD on Bricks and Pieces. You can 4.5 of them for $20USD, meaning they are $4USD.
The set is $70USD and doesn't include tax.

The roadplate has very little to o with the price of the set. LEGO is price gauging the set because they know people want a grocery store. It's that simple and we need to stop making excuses for it.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

This set has some interesting and innovative ideas
The presence of the new modular roads does not excite me
If I were to buy this set I would put it on a classic baseplate and build the roof for sure

[Pchan1983]

On 11/12/2022 at 7:32 PM, LEGO Train 12 Volts said:

If I were to buy this set I would put it on a classic baseplate and build the roof for sure

I think if you have 2 of these you can build one very nice super market on a base plate.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

You're right ...I hand't even thought about 

[Maple]

On 6/5/2022 at 5:35 AM, Pchan1983 said:

 

• May be the road plate is not necessarily to make the set a bit cheaper? 

 

For the millionth time, the baseplate has NOTHING to do with the cost of this set. In Europe it's 50 Euros with a 20% VAT tax, that means the set is really only 40 Euros / dollars. That's the price it should be. While in the USA it's a ridiculous $70. The price is set by LEGO and not by it having a baseplate. There are 4-5 baseplates in the $20 roadplate set, on Pick a Brick the roadplates sell for like $2.50. 

LEGO price gouging is the reason the set is $20-$30 too much, not one $2.50 road plate.

 

[Clone OPatra]

2 minutes ago, Maple said:

For the millionth time, the baseplate has NOTHING to do with the cost of this set. In Europe it's 50 Euros with a 20% VAT tax, that means the set is really only 40 Euros / dollars. That's the price it should be. While in the USA it's a ridiculous $70. The price is set by LEGO and not by it having a baseplate. There are 4-5 baseplates in the $20 roadplate set, on Pick a Brick the roadplates sell for like $2.50. 

LEGO price gouging is the reason the set is $20-$30 too much, not one $2.50 road plate.

 

Why did you comment the same thing twice in this very topic? It's not like any more was said on that subject for you to reiterate it...

Personally I don't find the set $20-$30 too expensive at all after thoroughly looking at it. $10-15 too much in the US at most. For kids it's actually a fantastic playset, whereas for us adults possibly looking at "just" the parts, then it feels expensive for the price.

[Maple]

26 minutes ago, Clone OPatra said:

Why did you comment the same thing twice in this very topic? It's not like any more was said on that subject for you to reiterate it...

Personally I don't find the set $20-$30 too expensive at all after thoroughly looking at it. $10-15 too much in the US at most. For kids it's actually a fantastic playset, whereas for us adults possibly looking at "just" the parts, then it feels expensive for the price.

I'm just losing my mind. Nothing to see here. 

[Killian]

In the UK the ASDA chain of supermarkets are getting a version of this set with different stickers to make this set an ASDA brand store. ASDA is owned by Wal-Mart, so I wonder if the US will get a Wal-Mart version?