The Grocery Shopping Experience

The grocery “landscape”, as we youngsters say, has changed dramatically in recent years.  (Actually, just using the term youngsters dates me considerably, but I digress.)  For those of us that still remember A & P (that was a national grocery chain – I mention that so millennials don’t have to Google it), we’re overwhelmed by the possibilities of shopping for regular supplies of food.  You can now buy fifty rolls of toilet paper at your local jumbo supplier, coffee creamer and car tires at a major discount store (and they’re surprisingly not far from each other), or hamburger buns along with a new sweater and boots at another popular shopping outlet.  You can place an order on line and have it ready for pick up at the grocery store, or have home delivery if you want to blow through your lottery winnings in short order.  You can even have all manner of meats shipped to you directly from Omaha, Nebraska, which gives whole new meaning to the phrase, “farm to table”. Continue reading “The Grocery Shopping Experience”