Other kids sneak candy into the grocery cart, my son proudly put in Nature's Promise Organic Olive Oil cooking spray. He did this when his dad took him grocery shopping, I wish we had a picture!
The kids love to go grocery shopping, especially Alex. He is extremely helpful and usually insists on scanning all the groceries by himself at the self checkout. He also helps to bag and push the cart. His little sister is also quite good at scanning but can only do "the light things". The truth is, the kids can operate the self checkout better than I can - which is a good thing because the store has gone to all but 2 aisles being self checkout.
Nature's Promise is the Stop & Shop 'healthy' store brand. Over the past year or so, the Stop & Shop here has expanded and moved rapidly into carrying a lot more healthy choices and allergy friendly foods. I used to have to truck it to Whole Foods, Wegmans and the Local Health Food Store at least 1 or 2 times a month, but now I can get pretty much everything I need at Stop & Shop. That's the good news.
The Bad News is that the store recently went through and is currently in the process of moving everything and reorganizing. They even changed their logo, which kind of pissed the kids off even further. The old logo was a stoplight and the new one is a fruit basket or flower sort of deal. They didn't get bigger but the store looks much bigger - I guess they have new higher shelfing or something. The problem is - nothing is where it belongs and it is very disorienting. The first time my son went in after the renovation he cried and yelled and told me to PUT IT BACK! Really, I think he expressed (without filter) what 99% of the shoppers pushing carts madly and grumbling to themselves were thinking. In time, I imagine we'll get used to it. But, I feel like I can't even enjoy the expanded gluten free section in the midst of all the chaos!
Oh. Stop & Shop.. giving me a few more grey hairs these days.
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