Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint.

[Honeycombe8]

44. I was wondering about that, too. Yes, I have a # of stores nearby...

Walmart Foodstore, Target (has a food section), Alberton's (pricey but has sales), Kroger's, Dollar General. Then I have a couple of hispanic stores aimed at the illegals, I guess, since their ads are in spanish only. I've never gone, since I don't speak spanish, but they do have good prices in those ads. I don't know why I'm scared to go....I could pass as spanish (brown hair & eyes), and have....but I'm scared someone will speak to me, and I won't know what they're saying & be embarrassed. Why that scares me, I don't know. Feeling like I'm somewhere I don't belong, I guess.

But besides teh cost, the fruit and veggies that Sam's carries seems to be of better quality that the grocery stores have. Apples, one of my favorite fruits, will be large and abundant and sweet from Sam's, but the ones in the grocery stores (even Walmart) will be small and hard and not so sweet. Sam's also carries fruit, like apple pears, that I can't get anywhere else. And a big pack of dates...most grocery stores don't carry dates around here at all, and the one that does, you're lucky to find a tiny little pack of 'em.

I also got my new jammies from Sam's. One of those impulse buys I try not to make. But they are so cute and comfy, the price was great, and they're holding up well.

There's not a costco near me. I traveled to one once and checked it out. It seemed more expensive than Sam's, and it didn't carry some of the staples I buy.