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Grocery Day
Jan. 8th, 2016 06:01 pmGrocery day! Which means another botched day. It's after six in the evening, and I still haven't finished reading today's Times. Pop and I went back to the old routine. I am not sure if I have wrote about the new routine yet. For the past month we reduced our shopping to H.E.B., getting everything there and forgetting about the commissary. It was a lot more convenient, not having to go through two rounds of shopping and two check-outs. However, I do not regret the move back to the old way. I am even relieved. I was going to suggest it myself.
We had gotten excited about H.E.B. because of the apparent variety. It is a bigger store with more stuff, and it is the private sector, which is generally better than government services, right? Nevertheless, Pop came back to the conclusion that the commissary is more affordable, and I did not want to fight him, because the commissary actually has a number of items that I like and cannot get at H.E.B..
I had noticed back in the 90s that H.E.B. seemed to be pursuing an interesting economic strategy. Instead of merely being a retailer and using its grocery shelves to hold the food and goods of the big wholesalers, they moved into producing their own line of goods. They often seemed able to even put up a somewhat superior product and at cheaper prices. All these years later, it kind of looks like they have almost replaced all the wholesalers. However, the products are not always better. Tyson, for instance, I feel, puts out some better chicken products, which also happen to be a major component of my all-too-limited diet. H.E.B. also doesn't provide the frozen rolls I want, and decent frozen bread is not easy to come by. Only the commissary also sells the tea bags that I have come to favor - Lipton's "Cold Brew" tea, no boiling needed. Oddly, H.E.B. does sell a decaffeinated version but not the full tea that I want. I don't know what that is about, and now that we are using the commissary again, it no longer matters.
We had gotten excited about H.E.B. because of the apparent variety. It is a bigger store with more stuff, and it is the private sector, which is generally better than government services, right? Nevertheless, Pop came back to the conclusion that the commissary is more affordable, and I did not want to fight him, because the commissary actually has a number of items that I like and cannot get at H.E.B..
I had noticed back in the 90s that H.E.B. seemed to be pursuing an interesting economic strategy. Instead of merely being a retailer and using its grocery shelves to hold the food and goods of the big wholesalers, they moved into producing their own line of goods. They often seemed able to even put up a somewhat superior product and at cheaper prices. All these years later, it kind of looks like they have almost replaced all the wholesalers. However, the products are not always better. Tyson, for instance, I feel, puts out some better chicken products, which also happen to be a major component of my all-too-limited diet. H.E.B. also doesn't provide the frozen rolls I want, and decent frozen bread is not easy to come by. Only the commissary also sells the tea bags that I have come to favor - Lipton's "Cold Brew" tea, no boiling needed. Oddly, H.E.B. does sell a decaffeinated version but not the full tea that I want. I don't know what that is about, and now that we are using the commissary again, it no longer matters.
