Sunday, November 13, 2011

Return trip

Everything needs a second chance, including places of business, hmm?
Thursday we had gone to an open house at the grand re-opening of our local Winn-Dixie.
It was a madhouse there; you might recall me mentioning it, which is what anyone in the promotion game would be happy to have.
And so in that respect I am more than sure that they were thrilled!
But for me traveling on a mobility scooter and being crowd shy even when I had not been it was an awkward and uncomfortable situation.
Today was their second chance and our late morning to try it out.
First of all our ability to locate a handicap parking space was incredibly easy, we got one right up front across from the front doors!
Then, the crowds had diminished considerably, of course since now it was not a freebie give-a-way evening event but a serious business providing what any business of its type would, groceries at a competitive price.
We went there with a grocery list, which we found easier to stick to what we needed and not to deviate from costing more money than what we intended to do.
We found that the specials were a dollar off here and there if you were a Winn-Dixie card holder, which we were and had been for years.
And so, when all was said and done we saved about thirteen or fourteen dollars off of our bill; not bad.
We also came away with a newer card for a discount on gas, but only good at a Shell station with 35 cents off per gallon.
Unfortunately, here, anyway, Shell is the more expensive brand, but perhaps with the discounted amount it will be a contender.
Gasbuddy.com will help in that comparison.
Have you ever used it?
It is really great.
Makes it so you don’t have to drive around looking for the best price, just put your zip code in and it lists the current prices in your area.

To be honest the whole experience was much nicer today at the new improved Winn-Dixie.
The store is spacious and truly attractive in the concept of making shopping an enjoyable experience and has many interesting aspects to it, like carry-out foods sold by the pound or items for that quickie lunch or dinner, many in the gourmet realm, as well a wine area that is a contender to many stand alone shops of similarity.
Hard liquor too is sold somewhere in the confines of the space, but we did not happen upon it.
The one bar-like area for serving yourself near the exotic cheese area had an olive-antipasto- gourmet blends of olives et al bar and they were sold by the pound.
The scale for the consumer was on the top shelf of the display and Hubby was busy at the bakery getting our five grain bread sliced that was nearly a dollar less than where we usually buy it… Any-who, a young woman with a nametag that stated that she was a store employee, helped me, and she weighed my deli cup that I filled with an olive assortment of my choice... I happened to mention that the scale was not ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1992, brainchild of Bush the first, oddly enough) accessible and perhaps they should put one down on a lower shelf for people like me in chairs or scooters. She agreed and said that she would look into and recommend it. See, she could have said ok and nothing more, but she really made me feel as if she meant what she said, boy she was good!
I truly hope that she was sincere, sure she was.

On that small glimpse/picture of our shopping experience, which I know you were all waiting and wondering about if or if when we would actually return to that grocery store…NOT really, for you have much more exciting fun things to do and think about… but I can dream, can’t I?
Of course, I am kidding! Maybe, not…WHO KNOWS, why I should, shouldn’t I…hmm…

Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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