When we moved here 5 years ago, my big complaint was that to get all I needed I had to shop at about 3 different grocery stores. No one store had all I needed for the week -- what a time waster! When we were in Indiana I shopped each week at the new Kroger and I knew the aisles so well that I could put my shopping list IN ORDER of the grocery aisles (way too organized back then -- I know. It was before kids and when we were on a grad school one income, so I knew exactly what we needed -- nothing more, and nothing less.) But here, I don't even know where many items are in stores I have shopped in for over 5 years because my shopping is so sporadic.
After 5 years of shopping around everywhere, I think I have found a little slice of heaven in the grocery shopping world. The Safeway in our downtown recently built a new larger concept store that is in the base of a multi-use facility (with apartments overhead), and this Safeway rocks! It has everything I need all in one trip. But here's the best part: I got in on a grand opening promotion and I get 10% off my entire grocery bill for 60 days. That's like a coupon good for over $80 for a 2 month period, people (as I figure I spend well over $400 a month on food these days...)!
For example, I bought some fillet mignon from their clearance beef area (a great bargain area -- just freeze if you can't use it in a day) and for 2 steaks I paid $6.54. Then I got a 10% discount on top of that. How cool is that?!!! And ohhhhhh was that fillet so super succulent tonight for dinner. Yummy!!
But the thing I love most about this new store, besides the selection and the discount, is that I can park in covered garage parking and get kiddo all "saddled up" to get to the store so I don't have to get wet during the rainy season, which starts in Oct and goes through, well, another 9 or 10 months, so it seems! This is HUGE for me, and I am so thrilled that we can avoid getting wet to go food shopping!
Since grocery shopping is an inevitable weekly outing for me, it's nice to have an upgraded slice of heaven compliments of Safeway!
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