Posts Tagged ‘grocery store’
This simple bit of grocery store advice will spare you a lifetime of regret. Give you back hours in your week. Bring sanity back to your everyday life.
I met a woman from Denmark last week. She’s been living in the United States for about a year. I asked her what she liked best about our country. Her response (paraphrased as best as I remember) was immediate: You’re not going to believe it, but it’s Stop & Shop. And all the grocery stores…
Read MoreA simple and perfect solution to the “10 items or less” offenders
I picked out a container of pink sprinkles for my daughter’s birthday cupcakes in the confectionary aisle of the supermarket. I took my place in the “10 items or less” line. Standing in front of me was a couple – husband and wife perhaps – with at least 25 items. Not 11. Not 12. More…
Read MoreThis is the real reason you go shopping before a snowstorm
Daniel Engber of Slate offers an explanation as to why people behave like idiots before a snowstorm, rushing off to a grocery store that will undoubtedly be open at some point the next day. The word is hunkering, in the specifically American sense of digging in and taking shelter. It’s the anxious form of self-indulgence,…
Read MoreThe single greatest death bed regret of Generation X (and maybe beyond) will be this:
On their death beds, the people of my generation will lament the time the spent driving – sometimes daily – from grocery store to grocery store, chasing the freshest produce, the finest meats, the best seafood, and the lowest prices, when they could’ve been spending that time reading, watching a film, climbing a mountain, writing…
Read MoreSanta Claus spent the day at an abomination of a grocery store, and he was BRILLIANT.
My wife and kids ran into Santa Claus at Stew Leonard’s last week. Stew Leonard’s, if you’re not familiar, is an abomination of a grocery store built to make the shopping experience as least efficient and least productive as possible. It attempts to capture some of the feel of an open market, filled with small,…
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