Goodbye Vitamin Cottage - never again will you fill up two baskets with my groceries, then say to my two children and me, "Thanks and have a nice day!" leaving me to wonder how to navigate two grocery carts and two children to the car.
Yo Vitamin Cottage! Never again will I return home and realize that I'm missing my sausage, my keifer and my eggs, only to call and have the clerk argue that she did in fact place the eggs in my bag, but then call back and have the manager who bagged my groceries say, "Sorry that happened. If you bring your receipt in, we will give you the items you forgot to put in your cart."
Adios Vitamin Cottage - never again will I return home and wonder what the "CC Colored Glass" for $11.99 cents is on my receipt because you charged me for that instead of a sandwich. And that was just my trip this week.
I'm sure you won't miss my family and I eating our way through your store (we pay for everything, of course.) It was just easier to give in and let the girls go ahead and eat those raspberries or that Luna bar before we hit the checkout. I'm sure you won't miss us spilling yogurt by the dairy case or chocolate milk at the checkout either. And I'm sure you won't miss Francesca dumping the ground coffee from the grinder's spill tray either. I'm not under the illusion that you will even notice our absence.
But just for the record, I was a one of your few customers that bought ALL my groceries at your store. I believe that I was one of the few, because I was always the only customer with my cart stocked to overflowing at the checkout. Most other customers have some olive oil, some water, diapers, maybe something for lunch, just a few items. So maybe you'll miss the $350 I spent every week. I doubt it, but maybe.
Beginning today, I am able to bring my shopping list, in all of its organic, all natural, no food coloring, no artificial ingredients, no hydrogenated oils, Maverick Ranch chicken, Recharge, Popsicles, organic fair coffee, medicinal teas, all natural evaporated milk, glory to Kelly at Family Food Town. He said he'd get whatever I wanted, that he has lots of special orders and that whatever I wanted was probably stuff that he should be carrying anyway (how awesome!) He even said he could probably get me a better price, which I don't doubt for a second. So from now on, instead of getting ripped off by a corporation (Whole Foods) or a family owned corporation (Vitamin Cottage) I can get everything from my locally owned and operated, Family Food Town grocery store. Yippee!
The only downfall is that I now will become even more reclusive . . . staying in Palisade all the time. Everyone! Come visit!
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