a journal entry….not at all thought out. but so i don't lose it.
that 3~30 post….that brought Erica Heilman's podcast RumbleStrip VT.com What Class Are You? which has been ongoing in my mind since. and deciding to WAIT for more episodes before putting any words here
but yesterday. On the way home from the Epic Laundry Day…stopping at the "dollar store" over in Alyssia's part of town which is on a main street of the cross streets of the hub of Oroville's center because they just recently added an aisle of
fresh vegetables
!
i'd gone once before, i guess 2 weeks ago because she told me about it. Told me that there were TOMATOES…"vine ripe". She can't eat tomatoes…nightshade…but knows how much i love tomatoes on sandwiches, knows that i don't buy them off season, try to grow them and limit myself to that as much as i can but sometimes want them anyway and she hears me grumble at how un tomatoey they are at the grocery in winter or really any other time of year, how i get them from the roadside stand on the way into town, the Farmer's Market * and Grow Them.
The first time i looked only for tomatoes and they DID have them and they WERE really….great. Same quality as those sold at the Upscale grocery store in town* as far as freshness, quality….how things revolved around them for some days. So i went again yesterday to get more of those tomatoes but i slowed down and looked at all they offered. Carrots, bell pepper, avacado, bags of green leafys, of broccoli, stir fry combinations. the bags of potatoes 5lbs, onions 3lbs, heads of lettuce and cabbage. I just kinda hung out a little, watching who put things in their cart. This dollar store gets a lot of Foot Traffic as well as cars. The shoppers are "dollar store people" . I don't think i need to explain what i mean by that. and i thought about how
I
am a dollar store person. I regularly go to the one close to here, on Olive Highway into town. Toilet paper, paper towel, dish and laundry soap, bandaids, shampoo, slider zip locks, the bags of tortilla chips for Goats, they even have a California brand cheap Cabernet Sauvignon that i like better than the fancy stuff my son will bring when he comes. i get yogurt for Emrie and Reese's miniatures. pistachio nuts, Sea Salt and Vinegar. barettes when i lose one. scrubbing brushes. I am a dollar store person. "my" dollar store doesn't have Fresh vegetables. probably won't. we are more Rural. ….. ? which brings me to thinking about the *. on foot. shopping on foot. Food. What Food can you find. How just so Great is this….fresh vegetables ? that you can get within a budget right in town. I want to know the story of this…how it came to be….how "Family Dollar" company made that decision to create a whole aisle and make it NICE, refrigerated as well as it needs to be, stocked reliably, "reasonably" priced? How did that happen?????????? And how great that it did
Food.
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