{"id":167,"date":"2007-03-02T16:29:50","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/grocery-musings\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:37:42","slug":"grocery-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/grocery-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I&#8217;ve noticed about grocery stores, groceries, and grocery shopping:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the day on a weekday, the grocery store is filled with women with babies and old people.  Even in this factory town where a large number of people are shiftworkers there are few men, fewer men with children, and very very few families.  Not the most statistical of surveys but it&#8217;s been my observation.  This is partly why I like to do my errands during the day when possible &#8212; the lines are short, the store mostly empty (compared to evenings and weekends), and people are mostly in a casual mood.  Yes I&#8217;m lucky I can still negotiate my schedule this way.<\/li>\n<li>The plastic shopping bags they&#8217;re giving out at Zehrs these days have (what I&#8217;m certain is) a strategic hole in the bottom.  It&#8217;s in the same place in every bag and (conspiracy theory) they&#8217;re intentionally making these bags defective so that people have to purchase bags for their garbage cans and cat litter.  Mostly I use reusable bags and bins but I do need a handful of disposables each week for my son who cleans the cat litter.  It&#8217;s taking twice as many bags now to do the work of one, just so we don&#8217;t stream litter across the house.<\/li>\n<li>The stores cannot decide where to stock the organic produce and other products.  Some stores have a separate section so you can skip the huge store and just go for the gold.  Other stores have the organics spread throughout so that you have to hunt each shelf &#8212; and so you can&#8217;t skip anything.  I prefer keeping it all central because it speeds things up for me.<\/li>\n<li>Vegetable does not necessarily mean vegetarian.  I&#8217;m always surprised at the fish sauce, anchovy extract, etc in vegetable meals.  <em>sigh<\/em> I&#8217;m so tired of reading labels.<\/li>\n<li>It was only last year that the local Zehrs got self-serve checkouts.  I first used these in 1993 in Nova Scotia in a grocery store.  Go figure it took until 2006 to get them to Ontario.  <\/li>\n<li>The grocery bins that the store sells as an alternative to bagging your groceries do not fit on the self serve checkout stands.<\/li>\n<li>The Zehrs in South Windsor does not offer paper bags, claiming that Zehrs did a study and found that the paper bags break down at the same rate as plastic.  Seems awfully strange then that the stores on Dougall, in Lasalle and in St. Clair Beach all still offer paper bags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Got any more observations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I&#8217;ve noticed about grocery stores, groceries, and grocery shopping: During the day on a weekday, the grocery store is filled with women with babies and old people. Even in this factory town where a large number of people are shiftworkers there are few men, fewer men with children, and very very few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,17,24,23,4,44,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}