are you going to continue having groceries delivered?
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Comments (5)Yeah, once you decide on minis, it's a new world. You can spend $40 on a 2' (3'?) intergeneric or on a 2" treasure. Then you can pay $120 more for 3 minis that still don't take up the room of the intergen. Nice little ones. Whitecat8...See MoreHow often do you grocery shop? How many places do you go?
Comments (29)I shop at multiple stores. Pay day is every other Friday so I that is when I go to Wal-Mart or Smith's (Kroger owned). Every 2 weeks we also get coffee beans at the little mom and pop shop. We go to Sprouts every 2 weeks as their ads overlap on Wednesdays. This is actually getting less frequent as they have not put the bulk things on sale that I want the most as frequently (steel cut oats and short grain brown rice). The bread outlet is a once a month trip. Other stores such as Keller's (for meat), Trader Joe's, the international markets, Vitamin Cottage (for other bulk items), I alternate months. Some things I get through Amazon's subscribe and save and that can vary in frequency. Eggs are mostly from my hens and many of our vegetables come from our garden. Some of the variety in shopping is about the money savings but it is more along the lines of trying to match the quality to a certain price point and meeting my needs of acquiring a diversity of ingredients. Arborio rice at TJ's, quality meat at Keller's, red lentils in bulk at Vitamin Cottage, etc. Part of it is me trying to maintain a well stocked pantry because my moods are fickle and if the pantry has a variety of things, I can cook according to my mood. Pre-planned menus never, ever work for me....See Morewhen you go to the grocery store, put one item back
Comments (31)Attention, shoppers! If you take a half-gallon of fudge ripple ice cream from your supermarket's freezer case and then remember you are on a diet, don't leave it to melt on the rack where the tabloid magazines scream "Tom Cruise Marries Alien!" Likewise, in a department store, if you suddenly realize that a pink poncho will be passe in a month, don't fling it over a display of men's socks and walk away. Nor should a four-pack of 60-watt light bulbs be wedged between the boxes of fettuccine and ziti. For a few minutes, pretend I'm your mom -- your shopping mom: Were you raised in a barn? Will you never learn to pick up after yourselves? Stop rolling your eyes and look at me when I talk to you! Listen up: More and more of you are not putting things back where they belong when you go shopping. It happens at high-end and low-end and everything-in-between stores. It occurs in supermarkets, clothing stores, toy stores, stationers and any place where merchandise isn't too heavy to lift. It even goes on at the Gap, despite clerks -- only those with eyes in the backs of their heads are hired -- who attempt behavior modification in customers by pointedly refolding polo shirts milliseconds after they are mussed. It occurs even in bookstores, where, as in libraries, there are often tables or carts with posted pleas to place unwanted books on them so that people who know exactly where they should be shelved can do so. Still, you'll find a John Grisham tome next to "101 Ways to Cook Cauliflower." Especially during sales, the dressing rooms of department stores look like pigsties -- clothing in dumping grounds on the floor or falling off hangers and hooks -- because customers won't even return them to collection racks at the mouth of the dressing room so employees can restock them. Don't make the excuse that everybody does it. What if everybody jumped off a cliff? Would you? Experts who study what is called "shrink" -- the term for inventory loss due to shoplifting, employee theft or error, and damaged or "distressed" items -- estimate that less than 1 percent of all shrink is caused by shoppers who act as though they are royalty being shadowed by a maid. (A major grocery chain has about $500,000 worth of shrink a year, according to recent studies.) This number would be higher if alert shoppers and employees didn't see wrongs and right them, says Larry Miller, president of Trax Retail Solutions in Scottsdale, Ariz., and national director of the National Supermarket Research Group. Miller estimates that shoppers (acting as mothers the world over do) or store employees rescue about 60 percent of dumped grocery items. "Most people don't look at a pound of ground beef sitting on a grocery store shelf and ignore it. They take it back to the refrigerated meat section," Miller contends. "This has always been a problem, and it occurs at all stores no matter where they are," says Barry F. Scher, vice president of public relations for Royal Ahold NV's Giant Food LLC chain. He notes that the cost for supermarkets is especially high when the item involved requires refrigeration or freezing. Even though employees are instructed by managers at various times during the day to scout for misplaced items, perishables most often have to be thrown out because it is not known how long they've been sitting around. Scher says that Giant stores don't have staffers dedicated to performing the task called "shop backs" but that it takes employees away from other duties. "Stores also lose out because the stock isn't where someone can find it and sell it," says Jon Schreibfeder, president of Effective Inventory Management Inc. of Coppell, Tex. This means that, to be confident that they have enough of any product, managers must overstock items. Schreibfeder, whose company advises retailers on ways to control inventory, says that although the practice isn't nearly as large or troublesome as shoplifting or employee theft, "we talk about the [dumping] problem continually" with clients. Schreibfeder's prescription has been to have his clients schedule regular "stock straightening" for several times a day, especially when the store isn't busy. He also said a retail customer in Bermuda learned that nothing works as well as a departing ship in making people evacuate a store, leaving stick deodorant next to the asparagus. "A cruise ship would come in and the passengers would begin shopping. They'd find they were running out of time and would leave stock scattered everywhere," Schreibfeder recalls. He and his employees helped the store employees realize that they should scurry to round up misplaced products in between dockings. He also advised the owner to mark shelves that were most often victimized by shoppers and to have employees combing those prone areas. Schreibfeder says it's conceivable that, down the line, radio frequency identification (RFID) might be able to beam out an all-points bulletin (APB) to store managers, saying, in effect: "I'm over here -- and I'm defrosting!" to help in the roundup. Both Schreibfeder and Scher are inclined to be soft on consumers who dump products thither and yon. "People these days think they are too busy. Everybody's in a rush," Scher says. But Dorothea Johnson is unforgiving. Johnson, founder of the Protocol School of Washington and an etiquette teacher for 40 years, says we all must put things back because it is right and proper and is a tiny thing we can do to keep the world from chaos. She can think of no excuse for not returning merchandise to its shelf. Practicing this daily has the side effect of increasing self-esteem, she says. "Oh, you see, not putting things back is not being mindful of the next person who comes along. Although salespeople are trained to watch out for such things, I always put things back. I can then tell myself I did the right thing," says Johnson from her home near Portland, Maine. Even parents who spend the livelong day harping on children and spouses about tidying up can slip up now and then and ignore their inner Miss Manners. The other day, in a fit of fitness, someone left a pound of bacon next to a mound of tilapia packages after glancing about the store furtively to see if anyone was looking. But do as I say, not as I do. And don't run with a stick in your hand. You'll poke your eye out....See MoreWondering what things you did in the past year that you are continuing
Comments (36)I'll definitely keep up the curbside grocery pickups. It's been so nice to be able to avoid fluorescent lights, for one thing. However, I can see myself picking out my own produce, especially when farm markets open up. I got a Walmart Capital One credit card last year to earn 5% back on any purchases made through through Walmart.com, and that includes picked up groceries. I've also been ordering cat food and certain other items to be delivered to my house, and I'll continue doing that. I learned to Zoom during the pandemic, and it would be fun to keep that up as a way of connecting occasionally with friends and family. Plus my long-time Russian pen pals want to Skype with me, so I'll be trying that next. I'll continue to learn watercolor painting online. I completed one Domestika course and am about to start on another--this one entirely different from the first. Looking forward to it....See More
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Jasdip
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI did it just a few times, perhaps 3, last year. The one box I bought twice, were mainly fruits, which was actually a good thing, it forced me to eat more fruit. Everything was definitely fresh, but for $50 I felt I could do better. Having said that, I haven't bought any fruit since, per se. But 5lb bag of potatoes, 3 lb bag carrots, bag of apples, bag of oranges, grapes, etc.
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sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
2 years agoYes, will continue. But we were ordering certain things pre-covid. 2018 and previous, we used to stopped at three local farms for meat and eggs, quarterly-ish. A summer farm stand. Mainly for fresh corn picked every morning.
5 groceries in rotation that includes Costco every 3-4 months. One grocery weekly for necessaries and wants.
With such a heavy work load I stopped enjoying in person shopping unless for a dinner party or bbq or holiday. When big list and planning was fun. In person is such a time hog. Hitting 3 groceries on a Saturday morning that can take 3-4 hours....ugh. I'd rather be in the garden or doing so many there things....
I'm on vacation this week. I had three deliveries last Thursday. I spent time in the kitchen prepping two-3 full days of meals for Mom and Pop. We have everything we need...just a quick stop at a famous seafood market in my hometown...rented a beach house near them.
I have been ordering all bulk spices, green coffee beans, grains and beans, local grass fed farm share that has Atlantic fish and shrimp and farm eggs...alaskan salmon...
Add to that Misfits, we have meals and choices better than ever.
Misfits has changed their system. It is weekly now. But if you do not hit the 30$ minimum, your order does not process or send. That includes all produce or marketplace add-ons. My total was close to 60 but I ordered 8 avocados, chocolates, dates, crackers, almond butter, pasta, olive oil, watermelon, sugar snaps, cherry tomatoes, lots of greens, golden beets, purple radish, corn, Persian cucumbers ,...etc.
I've been making 4-5 brunch salads every day for the four of us with lots of cary-overs for snacking/grazing later. 80% is Misfits.
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2 years agoYes and maybe. We gave Misfits a trial run back in the Fall of 2019. I sat on the fence about it for a few months,...then the lock-down happened and it was so welcomed by all receiving. Not one mention in the few Facebook groups with thousands of members think this solves any food supply issues or think they are doing a service for the farmers. Sure it does support organic farmers that are often not the best at the business side of survival, and it does give them another sales venue.
Nothing is packaged....(I'm sure the Brussels were in a bag but that is it). The thin green biodegradable ones. The produce goes directly to a distribution warehouse, not yet another processing plant to be bagged, then another distribution plant to yet again be shipped to stores, then another handling by a grocery staff to stock the shelves.
I have more problems with our grocery store excess methods than a box shipped directly to me. Less shipping and handling. Minimal plastics.
Palouse grains and beans. I ordered 8 five pound bags a few weeks ago...(three for my parents). Not shipped to a processing plant and tin can manufacturer, then boxed and shipped agin to a grocery distribution center, yada yada...off to the groceries in yet another truck to be shelved...cans full of water. Beans soak up 2-3 times their size in water. A truck shipping canned beans is shipping mostly water weight.
40 pounds of beans/grains is close to 200 cans. I have water. I can soak my own beans without much effort. The bags have the field where they were grown and the name of the person who packed them. Very fresh and seasonal. They had a great 2020 year so they are giving back. Often buy 2 get one bag free and free shipping.
sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
2 years agoOh, Bragu/ipink, or anyone, here is the Misfits code for first time order. No commitment so it is worth a trial. It isn't for everyone unless you like to try new things and get meal creative. I cannot share the code without getting a discount myself but I will honorably donate a box if it is used by anyone.
You can suspend or end at any time without question. Even after the first box.
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