[possum220]

What do you find weird, strange or unbelievable?

Today I went to a Safeway Supermarket for groceries. Its only the 29th of December here and they had Hot Cross Buns for sale.

I am still making my way through fruitcake from Christmas.....

[Raindropvampire]

Went into local drugstore and Valentine's day candy and decorations were out. I was like WTFS!!! Seriously if you buy it now you're giving them 2 month old candy by the time the day rolls around. YUCK!!

[possum220]

Now that is sick Raindropvampire............ wonder if it is from this years stock. Check the dates people......lols.

[Maven]

This is the first year I haven't had fruitcake or cherry (or peppermint, for that matter) candy canes! It's a tradition with me, but I haven't found any fruitcake in the stores; I'm not ordering one, costs too much. I just want a small one, like Entenmann's or something. I haven't really looked for the candy canes, but I need to cut out sugar, anyway.

I don't know if this is weird or not, but I have been watching for calendars to go on sale at Barnes & Noble or Books-a-Million (that's not the weird part) for the past six or seven months--and now they're finally 50% off at BAM! so I can get one--and I happened to see on Barnes & Noble's website they have a calendar I want sold by other sellers for $29.00!!! What are they, NUTS? The calendar at full price costs $14.99! I'm getting mine at half off. I'd find another calendar if they tried to charge me $29 for one!

Originally Posted by possum220

What do you find weird, strange or unbelievable?

Today I went to a Safeway Supermarket for groceries. Its only the 29th of December here and they had Hot Cross Buns for sale.

I am still making my way through fruitcake from Christmas.....

I find it unbelievable that there is still a Safeway in existence! My mom used to take us there when we were young, but I haven't seen a Safeway in decades!

[Sabrina]

Our stores sell hot cross buns all year round

Originally Posted by lightbulb7

I find it unbelievable that there is still a Safeway in existence! My mom used to take us there when we were young, but I haven't seen a Safeway in decades!

i hear you on that!

over here in england we had safeways all the time back when i was young- but now we don't... all the stores closed down- and i'm not sure about the others (but the one near me) turned in to a branch of morrisons... which is another supermarket we have over here.

i find it weird that places like mcdonalds, and supermarkets do breakfasts- i mean who at 7 a.m in the morning, would want to sit outside a mcdonalds drive through eating breakfast?

hmm...

[possum220]

Across Australia the two most prominent Supermarkets that basically have a monopoly on grocery stores are Safeway (Woolworths) and Coles. If you buy over $30 worth of food you get 4 cents per litre off petrol. 15 cents if you spend over a certain ammount on liquor. IGA is a smaller food chain and a little more expensive.

So they are basically giants in our country. The stores are huge. ALDI is starting to move in and give them competition.

Maven I bought myself a small fruitcake from a charity.

No-one ever pays full price for a calendar after Christmas. Give it a couple of days and they will have to drop their price just to get rid of their out of date stock. Get what you like cos you will have it for at least 365 days. The company that is charging full price is nuts.

Now that is taking it to the other extreme Sabrina, Hot Cross Buns all year round? Mind you they are nice toasted. Truly the other What The moment is.... who decided to spoil the Hot Cross Buns with chocolate chips? They are just plain awful.

Breakfast at a takeaway at 7am does seem over the top. Isn't it easier and cheaper to have some breakfast at home? I cant even face people that early in the morning, or is that just me?

possom,

we used to have a shop over here called woolworths... it like a store where you could buy cds, clothes, sweets... but you couldn't buy food their (unlike the big super markets)

used to like it because i always got my mom or brother to get me a pick and mix from their.. but the actual shop closed down (bank rupt i believe)

though it's still going online

[possum220]

I doubt very much that Woolies is bankrupt here.

[di meliora]

Only 360 days, fourteen hours, and forty minutes until Christmas.

Originally Posted by di meliora

Only 360 days, fourteen hours, and forty minutes until Christmas.

you're thinking of christmas all ready?

*shudders* you must enjoy it

at possom- does your woolworths sell pick and mix?

if so.. i so have to come over their!

i miss having that store!

[radio_flyer]

On the Valentine candy.. Umm even if you buy it now or by Valentine's Day, the candy will still be 2 months old. I doubt any of the holiday candy is what we all might consider to be "fresh".

I recently learned that the "fresh" orange juice we buy at the grocery store is not really fresh...

That refreshing glass of sunshine made from juice concentrate has more than just its flavor and bright color going for it: it’s potentially a year old, too. Last year, Canadian author Allissa Hamilton revealed one of the lesser known secrets of the orange juice biz when she published Squeezed: What You Don’t Know about Orange Juice.

“In the process of pasteurizing, [orange] juice is heated and stripped of oxygen, a process called deaeration, so it doesn't oxidize,” Hamilton told Boston.com last year. “Then it's put in huge storage tanks where it can be kept for upwards of a year.”

What’s being stored doesn’t really taste like orange juice anymore, Hamilton explained, so when it’s time to drain the tank and package the juice, flavor specialists are hired to reconstruct the flavor using “flavor packs” derived from orange essence and oils.

“Flavor companies break down the essence and oils into individual chemicals and recombine them,” she added. Feeling smug because you never buy your juice in concentrate form? The fluid stuff isn’t much better, as it happens.
http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-r...uying-old-food

[lizardlady]

I was in Wlly World (Wal-Mart) picking up groceries couple of days ago. They have the Valentine stuff next to the discount Christmas stuff. Pretty soon they'll have the St. Patrick's Day and Easter stuff on sale.