I haven’t posted about Costco in a long time, whereas I used to, featuring photographs and everything. Well it’s not like I’ve lost any respect for Costco, but yes I’ve allowed my business membership to expire. These are not mutually exclusionary conditions.
These days it’s Winco, and there’s continuity there, going back to Jupyter Hotel and the special conference for creatives. Our principal organizer with a Winco guy. And yet believe it or not I’d never been to one myself, a well known chain, another check in the “everyone but me” box, right? So it’s cool, right? All those bins of dried goods.
Yes, this is one of those prosaic blog posts where I list some of what I got on my last haul, proceeding directly from Providence, where I’d had an every so often (couple years or so) echo cardiogram. Kudos to the system for populating MyChart with myriad numbers, all back trackable through previous such routine exams. So on to Winco from there.
Dried figs, dried mangos, dates, croutons, trail mix (not the most expensive), wasabi peas (from one of like a hundred dispensers, across several aisles, lots of pasta varieties… and candies…)… this is like a memory test, do we get to once again head around this block… I avoided anymore pasta this time, and left the dried goods section. Winco has more to offer. Like Diet Dr. Pepper.
My total bill was well over a hundred, and some of you, especially knowing the same neighborhood (we’re talking the Winco at 82nd and Powell), are thing why not Trader Joe's? I live half way between two of those, what’s up with picking on Winco and not TJs? I’m I an industry plant?
You know how it is: one gets into loops and routines. In no way have I lost respect for TJ’s, even if my attendance is way down. There’d be a recent spike in the data though, as I went through for old time’s sake. I’m gonna make a joke about “Groceries” now, a Trump obsession, and mention I was shopping for covfefe (that’s gotta be a brand by now, right?). Quoting Google:
Covfefe (/koʊˈfɛfi/ koh-FEF-ee, /kəvˈfeɪfeɪ, koʊˈfɛfeɪ/) is a word, widely presumed to be a typographical error, that Donald Trump used in a viral tweet during his first term as President of the United States. It quickly became an Internet meme. Avatar of Donald J. Trump. Donald J.
This edition of my Safari browser is getting confused by all these fonts from cutting and pasting so I’m gonna save this from my iPad and finish it up in Vivaldi, the browser I’m using on a Mac Pro in the upstairs office. On the way up, I’m gonna check for any dried goods I might’ve missed from my list.
Dried apricots, I coulda sworn I'd remembered those -- good thing I didn't.
