Comments on: Sunday’s column: Supermarket shopping games

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:24:25 +0000

in order for the places of long ago to survive financially….we’d have to voluntarily pay much higher prices for their wares, and have fewer selections to boot. Ergo, those stores of yesteryear would not survive. so, is there a point, or are we just skipping along memory lane?

By: Dave Hicks

Dave Hicks — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:03:41 +0000

Comment by Kristen — November 4, 2012 @ 7:57 pm

and

Comment by John Wilburn — November 5, 2012 @ 8:49 am

Even if the handwriting was on the wall (in all polls) and faux broadcast it, that would require a mind to avoid total denial.

By: JackJM

JackJM — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:30:39 +0000

“World record for Dan’s blog. So far not one right winger has posted a comment condemning Dan for his anti corporate, anti big business attitude and asking what he has against wal mart. They must all be asleep or hung over this morning.”

Dave, I guess my wing leans more right than left, so if I may comment.

To me, this column did not so much reflect an anti-corporate, anti-Walmart view inasmuch as it reflected on another time and place when we liked each other and tolerated each other more. I grew up in a small city in New York’s Hudson River Valley. We had our share of small and large retailers. We patronized them all.

However, our ever-so-much-smarter-than-anyone-else-that-has-been-born generation saw fit to forget the niceities that came with mom and pop shopping in favor of I’ve got to have it now and have it cheap. I find that as our spoiled cohort ages, we start to remember that there was beauty and grace in living simpler and workign with our neighbors.

It is my hope that some of that nostalgia permeates the current culture and takes the edges off.

That’s abotu as political as I can get with Dan’s story. Here, he and I agree.

Of course, my friend, you are totally wrong about the Presidential election, but you are forgiven .

By: John Wilburn

John Wilburn — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:49:54 +0000

Kristen:

18.”“Zimbabwe” is code for “my candidate isn’t going to win so I’m going to ground”.”

I think that’s more like it. How long do you think it’ll take her to mourn, regroup, and come back her making excuses?

Kristen, please come out to the next blogger get together. You were missed.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:48:39 +0000

Great column Dan! You have so many good memories and I always enjoy when you share.

I agree that bigger is not better and neither is cheaper always better IMO. I hate a large superstore. As someone who cannot walk much distance, I literally cannot get through them. I shop at the Food Lion in Vinton specifically because I can make it through the store, regardless of the prices.

BTW, you wife is truly a lovely woman! Glad she came with you.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:57:04 +0000

“Zimbabwe” is code for “my candidate isn’t going to win so I’m going to ground”.

By: Dave Hicks

Dave Hicks — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:46:24 +0000

Re: Comment by John Wilburn — November 4, 2012 @ 12:37 pm

Are you sure “Zimbabwe” isn’t code for incarcerated?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:12:27 +0000

Debbie, you’re exactly right, especially when things are on sale. When the smaller size is on sale and a larger size isn’t, you frequently do better buying 2 smaller items.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:03:15 +0000

Threaten to go to Walmart? They play switcharoo more than anybody I know. At least in Fairlawn they do.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:36:20 +0000

In my childhood we depended on three “corner” groceries, all much smaller than Mick or Mack… Winski’s, Abdulla’s, and Jay’s. all gone by the 1990′s.

In order to grocercy shop today, one simply needs to think, and follow the budget. It is certainly a different experience from the old days, but it’s not something to write home about, ya know?

Are ya happy now, davey?