Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
> God bless Gelson's!!! I was able to fill in *all* the gaps. After my
> post, I fired myself up, jumped in the car and ran down the hill to
> the Gelson's which is <pointing> in the opposite direction from Von's
> and Albertson's. They had the asiago cheese, the Kalamata olives,
> chocolate wafer cookies and the dried cherries <sob!> Dinner Is Saved.
>
> They also had a dozen or more things that just caught my eye...
> $129.75 later :-(
>
> Terry Pulliam Burd...and payday is sooooo far away!
>

I went to Aldi on Saturday to get some powdered sugar, whatever fresh
vegetables looked good, and just a couple of other things. Of course I got
a whole basket full of stuff. As I was checking out, I remembered that
they only take cash... Uh, oh... I left a few $2 items in the cart and
asked the clerk for a subtotal. $58.05. I counted my bills; $57. Pulled
out my change; another $1.30. Twenty-five cents to spare! As I was
bagging the stuff, the lady who checked out behind me asked if I'd seen the
one-pound bags of "baby carrots" for 49¢. I hadn't. I took all the stuff
out to the car, returned my cart and got my quarter back, then went back
inside and bought one bag of carrots with my last remaining 50¢ -- and left
with an empty wallet and just a penny in my pocket.

BTW, one of the interesting items I bought that was not on my list was a
big chunk of Parmesan cheese for $2.49. I can't find a country of origin
on the label, but the label is mostly in Spanish and it was next to some
Mexican cheeses in almost identical wrappers. I may open it tomorrow to
see what I got.

Bob