I knew that we buy massive amounts of food each week. I knew that the majority of that food was consumed each week. I knew I buy in quantity.
I didn't know we had a reputation at Grocery Outlet....
Last night we were in town for our weekly haul, and as usual, we started at Grocery Outlet to scope out the deals. Anything I need that isn't on sale elsewhere, I look for first there. Usually each week, we get half our produce, most of our bread/buns/tortillas, margarine, yogurt, some cheese, a few canned things, and any markdown meat.
The markdown meat section is where we apparently have a reputation....
Last night they had close-dated ground beef marked down $5....this made the cost less than $2/lb....so we grabbed all six, 5lb chubs....a few minutes later an employee noticed we had it in our cart and exclaimed,
"I knew it must be you when I was told someone was checking out my markdown meat!"
She went on and on about how she'd marked it down some last night, more this morning, and further just before we came in, trying to sell out. Then at the register, the cashier and bagger both commented on how they couldn't believe we took it all. And the lady in line behind us wanted some--sorry we got it all! :)
It's like we always buy massive quantities of markdown meat or something....oh, wait, we do!
Last week we bought 54 packages of hot dogs for 75 cents each....a few weeks before that, we bought about 40 pounds of bacon (maybe more?!) for 99 cents/lb.
Hey, it's how we keep the freezers full of meat without completely breaking the bank! It just seems like an odd thing for people to know you for!
You are my hero!
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