This LI Italian supermarket goes all out for Christmas with golf cart shuttles and festive carolers

Season’s eatings.An Italian supermarket chain on Long Island takes the cake for spreading holiday cheer with in-store carolers, parking lot chauffeurs, and Christmas decorations as far as the eye can see — including garland draped near hanging meats.“There’s no other kind of shopping experience like this on Long Island,” Massapequa mom Geralynn Townsend told The Post of Uncle Giuseppe’s in December.“It probably almost doubles in the amount of people that are in there this time of year.”The local franchise that started in East Meadow in 2001 grandly decks its halls, or, rather, aisles, for a simple reason.“The business plan was, let’s just do something that we think is fun,” said CEO Carl DelPrete.“We don’t want to be just a supermarket, we want to be an experience.” DelPrete spends “in the significant five-figure” range each year on decorations like life-size Santas and wooden soldiers for each of the chain’s 12 locations, which are uniquely decorated from one another.“It’s our Super Bowl,” added the grocery boss.

“And everyone gets excited about it.”Even those far from one of the 12 stores admire the dedication.Uncle Giuseppe’s has amassed an Instagram following of nearly 120,000 and commenters often plead for new locations in their hometowns.The stores’ parking lots get so congested during the holidays that select locations began using six-seat golf carts to provide customers with safe passage from the door to their vehicles this year.“The parking lot can be chaotic.

It can be a little intense, there’s people rushing,” Townsend said.“But once you get in the store, it’s really nice…I absolutely love it.I think it’s adorable.

The other shoppers do too, you can tell even in the crowded aisles that everyone is in a good mood, smiling.”To keep up the festive mood, the grocery store recruited more than a baker’s dozen Sinatra-style singers on weekends to serenade customers as they shop for their seven...