― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I forgot about Pike Place Market in Seattle. That's kinda fun as a little shopping adventure, especially if you want to pick up something tasty like crab legs or other seafood.
xpost yeah, kyle, Costco has a memebership fee. I think it's $45/year for the regular membership, and there's some other "Executive" membership nonsense that gives you like 1% cashback on purchases and is only useful if you spend an assload there.
On the other hand, Jen and I spend an assload there, so we probably should have gotten the "Executive" membership.
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
We load up on some stuff now that we have a bigass basement in which to store it.
Oh yeah, the bakery is kickass. Only problem is you gotta buy a fucken pallet of danishes, and there's almost no way to eat them all before some get stale unless you're feeding a small party or unless you want some serious gastrointestinal distress.
My favorite thing about Costco is that cartons of smokes are a lot cheaper there.
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
(x-post)I get all my granola specs-wearing Phish loving hos at Berkeley Bowl!
no I cannot confirm. I haven't shopped there since they relocated.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Not only that, it's pretty much impossible if you eat any vegetables or drink anything like milk. I mean when a food item has a shelf-life of a week or two...
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
tut tut.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I love being able to shop on a daily basis. It's immensely liberating.
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Me either, I'm not good at planning ahead with that sort of thing.
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Gallons of milk are now something like $4 in NYC. Don't know exact figures because I never drink milk.
AND YES I THINK THE REPUBLICANS ARE BEHIND IT!
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Yup. Long Beach precisely
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
You see, we go once ever 7-9 days. It always costs aroubd $160. What are we doing wrong?
nothing! that is cheap.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
you have a car, drive it and keep the economy going! carrying groceries home is about as fun as lugging laundry across town by hand.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Autant que cela m'est permis de l'être.
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
First of all, I can always use the excercise. Second, if winded, I can stop for a pint on the way home. Tertio, if you're only buying some fresh vegetables or whatnot for dinner, it's really not that taxing. Of course I'm talking about walking 5 or six blocks at most.
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
When I lived in Hells Kitchen I had my little cart for groceries and had laundry in the building. When I lived in Carroll Gardens my apartment was over a grocery store, and I had my tiny handtruck to take my hamper to the laundromat across the street.
Ah, so many memories.
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― mouse, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I wish I didn't care so much!
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I like Shop-Rite. C-Town is so nasty.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
-- gygax!
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost: that statement is still true!
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
my favorite thing to do in any new place I visit, or maybe just anywhere I am, is to go to a supermarket and wander the aisles
― barthes simpson, Monday, 8 October 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
ugh, get in, get the stuff on yr list, get out
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 October 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
markets are a different deal tho
and cheese shops and bakeries, etc, you know
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 October 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
I still do the thing my Mum used to do, which is write yr list based on where everything is in the store.
And new grocery stores are my favorite thing.
The only thing I hate is that I have 2 main stores I do most of my groceries at - a Safewy, and a co-op for bulk grains etc...but if I want somethingk like coconut milk then only Savemart on the other side of town has the brand I like! jerks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 October 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
My family used to do the main shopping every other week, and my dad coming home with the groceries was a big event (cookie supply replenished, yeah! sweet cereals, yeah!) I recently remembered that we bought 12 half-gallon cartons of milk on the trips (they came in 6-pack cardboard boxes), and it was the top shelf of the fridge was almost all milk. Mind boggling compared to the amount I buy now (that was 5 kids, though).
I'm a Trader Joe's 2-3 times a week guy now, and there's one on the way home so it's very convenient.
― nickn, Monday, 8 October 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone else get a weird sense of comfort when walking in a grocery store that if some kind of catastrophic/apocalyptic event happens you're in about the best place to be, maybe even better than some bunker underneath the whitehouse?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 8 October 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
I live in a suburb with many middle class and professional residents, so naturally the grocery stores around here have good fresh produce and frequent price-cutting inducements to lure these well-off shoppers in the door. Poor people should be so lucky. Which is kind of crazy, but that is how it works irl.
I do my damnedest to make rational use of these resources, by making a menu once a week that takes note of what is cheap and on sale, by shopping from a list, and by stocking up our pantry when prices are especially good. I have a vehicle, so I can travel a circuit of three different stores in about 5.5 miles, targeting each one for the best deals and best food.
We eat very well for about $500/mo. A lot of fresh organic produce. Whole grains, legumes. Bakery bread. Usually not factory-farmed meat, although we do eat some. Wine, though it is extremely ordinary stuff, most nights. I could bring that bill down much closer to $400/mo, if my wife didn't have some strong food preferences that increase our total costs.
I am kind of proud of my above-average prowess. (preens self)
― Aimless, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
that all sounds preenable. i am very "strong food preferences" about a lot of stuff, but for the most part it's things i feel totally okay about not economising on; like if you buy tea or bread or basically anything that comes in multiple-units, you're spending money on stuff that you're going to appreciate or resent the quality of on like ten or fifty different occasions, so it's worth springin for. a bunch of stuff i eat - beans, say, or grains - is so cheap when you add up how much it costs per serving that it's okay to get the nice option.
― barthes simpson, Monday, 8 October 2012 18:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for real. it's the area with the highest-intensity of small differences.
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
i have the luxury of having no kids to feed and no major monthly expenses (except rent and health insurance; i don't own a house and don't have a car), so i like being a little spendy with grocery shopping. i'm a food person; i believe you can/should eat like a mensch even if you don't have a lot of money.
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
yeah mr veg got into into organic (aside from his weird obsession with canned soup for lunch) ...so now the routine is - farmers market in the morning, then to safeway for basics like kleenex and meat, then to the co-op for bulk grains and hippy shit and other organic whatever.
I'm trying to cut back our grocery bill, and the farmer's market has saved us about 50% compared to what the co-op was charging for most of their produce. no matter how much I would *like* to buy organic meat, meat's expensive enough as it is, so we only do organic for special occasions.
but we're spending $100-$150 a week. we don't eat out at all, we make our own lunches, make our own coffee, the whole nine. So I feel okay spending a little more here and there. I would like to spend less but I'm not stressing about that right now..and I know in the back of my mind that if I had to really slash at the bill, I could. But I still get kind of a buzz from bargains so that's where my Grocery Outlet adventures come in
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite thing to do in any new place I visit, or maybe just anywhere I am, is to go to a supermarket and wander the aislesfor real. it's the area with the highest-intensity of small differences.
my people
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe someone app-economied No Frills
https://brandless.com/
― maura, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
ha! that's ridiculous.
so generic
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
I love grocery shopping, hate pretty much every other type of shoppingi live a block away from a 24hr supermarket and sometimes just go there at odd hours to browse for interesting stuff if I'm bored
― ciderpress, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
i enjoy grocery shopping when it's not too crowdedand when they're not playing bad music
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
I drive from Mississippi to Atlanta for groceries a couple of times a year. Buford Highway Farmers Market and Dekalb Farmers Market always, H-Mart in Duluth and Patel Brothers usually, Trader Joe's, Patak's Meats in Austell and Total Wines in Kennesaw (or Green's on Ponce) occasionally. Next week is my next trip.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 9 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
I love grocery shopping, hate pretty much every other type of shopping
^^this.
i don't understand when people are at grocery store listening to headphones, and not earbuds but huge noise-reduction headphones.
― new noise, Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
mostly because it looks silly.