<div id="RTEContent">Saundra,<br> <br> "Nonetheless, with all the talk about how "expensive" Safeway is, I'm<br> wondering if smart shopping is a skill others never learned?"<br> <br> You are right. The reason that so many poor families cannot make it on $200 a month for grocery shopping at Safeway is because they are too stupid to know how to read advertisements or clip coupons. <br> <br> <br> Perhaps you can donate your time and talented bargain shopping skills by teaching them how to make it comfortably on a $800 a month paycheck and $200 in food stamps, especially since rent is now at least $450 a month. <br> <br> Better yet, why don't you show us by making a list of what items a family of four shopping at Safeway can eat on a $200 food budget. And let us not forget, that in a family of four, chances are that at least one will be on either a diabetic, low sodium, or low fat diet. Do not forget that you can only eat potatoes and smack romen for !
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years.<br> <br> If you can do this, I suggest you drop it off at Inclusion North, the Catholic Church, Stepping Stones, the Nazarene Church, and Community Action Center; a lot of people would benefit from it. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> _DJA<br> <br> <br><br><b><i>Saundra Lund <sslund@adelphia.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I have to agree with Julie & Keely in that I'm very pleased with shopping at<br>Safeway, and at Rosauers, too, and I still miss Tidymans <sigh>. While<br>there have been a few occasions at both Safeway & Rosauers when checkout<br>took longer than I'd have liked, it was the exception rather than the rule.<br>Back when I shopped at Wal-Mart, however, checkout always took ***way*** too<br>long.<br><br>With respect to prices, I also have to agree with Keely :-) And, I have to<br>add that my daughter & I managed to survive ba!
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days when I was poor<br>and there was no Wal-Mart.<br><br>But, perhaps that's because the shopping habits I learned growing up and<br>followed as a smart but very poor consumer. I shopped the ads, tried to<br>plan meals around what's on sale, compared prices, and stocked up on staples<br>when prices were good. This works particularly well in Moscow since the<br>stores (with the exception of the Palouse Mall) are relatively close since<br>Moscow is relatively small. Even when I was *really* financially strapped,<br>I was able to eat pretty well, and now that I don't *have* to count every<br>penny (literally), old habits die hard & still work well :-)<br><br>Certainly transportation factors in & I realize I was fortunate that I had<br>good friends I could catch rides with when I had no transportation.<br><br>Nonetheless, with all the talk about how "expensive" Safeway is, I'm<br>wondering if smart shopping is a skill others never learned?<br><br><br>Saundra Lund<b!
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ID<br><br>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<br>nothing.<br>Edmund Burke<br><br>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2005, Saundra Lund.<br>Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum<br>without the express written permission of the author.*****<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<br>On Behalf Of keely emerinemix<br>Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:16 PM<br>To: donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com; thansen@moscow.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart meeting<br><br>I think this is unfair. Safeway's prices are usually pretty good, just as<br>Rosauer's are, and sometimes they're both even better than Winco. Sometimes<br>not. Contrary to what Courtney says, those of us who are opposed to a<br>WalMart Supercenter aren't trying to reduce your shopping choices -- there<br>is a WalMart here al!
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and you can buy your pop and buns wherever you<br>want. The WalMart battle is about something else entirely, and unfairly<br>maligning grocery stores is a poor way to make the pro-WalMart point you<br>want to.<br><br>I live right by Safeway, and so I shop there most often. For all it's<br>worth, I think the service there is great, especially in pharmacy, deli and<br>produce. If you want to shop at WalMart -- the one we have right here -- go<br>ahead. But please don't plan your monthly budget around the beneficient<br>presence in your life that is WalMart, because there's very little evidence<br>that WalMart is interested in yours or anyone else's wellbeing.<br><br>keely<br><br><br><br><br>From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 @yahoo.com=""><br>To: Tom Hansen <thansen @moscow.com="">, vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart meeting<br>Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:20:04 -0800 (PST)<br><br>"And just what is Safeway?"<br><br> Safeway is a giant conve!
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store that poor people cannot afford. <br>Many of their customers only go there to save time from running across<br>town. Compare, Safeway- $4.50 for a lb of meat, and $5.50 for a 12 pack of<br>soda. $2 for a bag of hamburger buns. Compare to Wal-Mart or Win-Co, $5 for<br>a 20 pack of soda, 68 cents for a bag of hamburger buns, and $2.25 for lb a<br>meat. Feeding a family on $200 a month, what would you do? Wal-Mart,<br>Win-Co, and Safeway get almost all of their food goods from US and Canadian<br>farmers. I go to Safeway because it is close to my apartment. There prices<br>are through the roof, and their lines are long and slow. Not to mention I<br>frequently catch them ringing my food up for a higher price then they<br>advertised it to be, I caught them three times in one month overcharging<br>me, then you have to argue with over it, and half the time the price<br>difference is not worth the arguing. I will say though that Eric, the<br>general manager, is ni!
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guy.<br> Wal-Mart coming in on the east side will save me no less than $75 a<br>month, and for a college student, that is a great deal of money.<br><br> -DJA<br><br><br><br>Tom Hansen <thansen @moscow.com=""> wrote: <br>st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Arnold stated:<br><br> “So my guess is that it [addition of a Wal-Mart superstore] would have<br>the same impact as it is having now with one exception;<br><br> The only thing new is a grocery store on the east side of town.”<br><br> And just what is Safeway?<br><br> Tom Hansen<br> Moscow, Idaho<br><br> “I think one of the best ways to support education is to make<br>successful private schools like Logos prosper through tax exemption.”<br><br> - Donovan Arnold (July 11, 2005)<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection
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