It was time to shop somewhere else, the warehouse club (in my home city) after being closed, rebuilt and opened finally demanded that my membership be renewed, all the while it was automatically renewed without cost during the closing, building, and several months into the opening of the new club at the same location. Was it getting boring ? Pretty much the same selection at both club locations, the other one not more than several miles away where I shopped while the one in our home city was being rebuilt.
Advantages: bulk quantities, relatively stable pricing, but the fact that this was not only a food store, also offered several other departments of electronic, clothing, home products etc. , seemed to have the same limited selection, as I mostly shopped probably 90% for basic staple items of food. Getting the latest fad fruit, new exciting ingredient, or your favorite cut of meat (it could probably ordered ahead of time) was dicey, It’s an advantage not to shop through 37 different varieties of potato chip and snack crackers, most of those decisions were made for you and most of the time those choices being jumbo or dual bulk packaging. No problem there.
After leaning back in my chair and sighing viewing the ominous renewal notice, a new frontier was to be explored, this one run by the same company of the club and sometimes ridiculed about the class and attire of the clientele that shops there. THE SUPERSTORE ! (or super center)
The first visit was limited to the food section having it own entrance on one side of the superstore, it just about went front to back of the left side of the store , a definite isle front to back , crossing to the right too far would set you into another zone other than food.
The selection was more diverse than the club, more available produce in the fist few isles, things like ginger root, kale, broccoli rabe ,parsnips and leeks available in good quantities. Some isles in the produce section had numerous bare spots at the time I shopped. Shopping the next few isles up were more of a hunting expedition if you like me mostly avoid prepackaged processed food items. The basics were there it just required a bit of scanning of the multiple sizes and selection of let’s say olive oil and the trade off is that they are in smaller packaged sizes, like cocoa , chocolate bits etc. Although a 25 lb bag of flour is available, cheaper than the Club !
Meat, a much better selection than the club, some ox tail and different cuts of lamb available.
One other advantage of the SUPERSTORE is it working hours, 24 hour coverage so you not limited to early closings and if the mood strikes at an off time shop ! I question though, if the stock and wide selection are maintained during the wee hours of the morning.
A new feature is the ability to scan (photograph) (or enter the transaction number) if your receipt within a certain number of days, It will note if any item can be found at another store at a lower price and credit the amount to a store account , why they don’t have this info available when they shelve the item and price it is beyond me. Maybe a good use of a computer like IBM’s Watson could crunch the numbers and guarantee it’s the lowest price when it passes through the checkout scanner, I fear though, that it could lead to price fixing in a cloud !
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Several recipes and postings are drafted, but being in a lazy blogging slump I’ll get to them ASAP !
That is all.
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Tags: 2014, groceries, prices, shopping, SUPERSTORE, warehouse club
Advantages: bulk quantities, relatively stable pricing, but the fact that this was not only a food store, also offered several other departments of electronic, clothing, home products etc. , seemed to have the same limited selection, as I mostly shopped probably 90% for basic staple items of food. Getting the latest fad fruit, new exciting ingredient, or your favorite cut of meat (it could probably ordered ahead of time) was dicey, It’s an advantage not to shop through 37 different varieties of potato chip and snack crackers, most of those decisions were made for you and most of the time those choices being jumbo or dual bulk packaging. No problem there.
After leaning back in my chair and sighing viewing the ominous renewal notice, a new frontier was to be explored, this one run by the same company of the club and sometimes ridiculed about the class and attire of the clientele that shops there. THE SUPERSTORE ! (or super center)
The first visit was limited to the food section having it own entrance on one side of the superstore, it just about went front to back of the left side of the store , a definite isle front to back , crossing to the right too far would set you into another zone other than food.
The selection was more diverse than the club, more available produce in the fist few isles, things like ginger root, kale, broccoli rabe ,parsnips and leeks available in good quantities. Some isles in the produce section had numerous bare spots at the time I shopped. Shopping the next few isles up were more of a hunting expedition if you like me mostly avoid prepackaged processed food items. The basics were there it just required a bit of scanning of the multiple sizes and selection of let’s say olive oil and the trade off is that they are in smaller packaged sizes, like cocoa , chocolate bits etc. Although a 25 lb bag of flour is available, cheaper than the Club !
Meat, a much better selection than the club, some ox tail and different cuts of lamb available.
One other advantage of the SUPERSTORE is it working hours, 24 hour coverage so you not limited to early closings and if the mood strikes at an off time shop ! I question though, if the stock and wide selection are maintained during the wee hours of the morning.
A new feature is the ability to scan (photograph) (or enter the transaction number) if your receipt within a certain number of days, It will note if any item can be found at another store at a lower price and credit the amount to a store account , why they don’t have this info available when they shelve the item and price it is beyond me. Maybe a good use of a computer like IBM’s Watson could crunch the numbers and guarantee it’s the lowest price when it passes through the checkout scanner, I fear though, that it could lead to price fixing in a cloud !
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Several recipes and postings are drafted, but being in a lazy blogging slump I’ll get to them ASAP !
That is all.
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