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| - Maybe it's odd to yelp about grocery stores, I don't know. But yesterday I realized that grocery stores all have personalities of their own. Trader Joes, for example, is that annoyingly perfect friend you have from Boulder. She hikes, climbs, is well-traveled, and life is a bit predictable -- she's the person who always has "one glass of red wine," out at dinner and claims that makes her tipsy.
Basha's, on the other hand, is that annoying ex you had in college. He had major flaws and totally used you, but you kept forgetting that at bar time and always ended up with him at least once a week. The next day, you were so pissed off, you vowed to never do it again. But you did.
I always end up going to Basha's because it's really, really close by and convenient. And everytime I get mad at myself. Yesterday I was getting ready to throw a big holiday party and I needed to pick up some random stuff before I started cooking in the morning. Pomegranates? They don't have them. Baguettes? They didn't have them. The friendly guy in the bakery dept. did try his best to find them for me, and he brought me something that sort of looked like a baguette. But it was rock hard. At 9:30 in the morning. Then I looked, in vain, for sweetened condensed milk, for 15 minutes. Finally found someone to ask. They informed me its in the BREAD AISLE.
Oh, of course, why didn't I think to look there?
And their eggplants were $1.50 each! Basha's, why do you keep taking advantage of me?
(To be fair, I'm giving them an extra star because they're the only store where I can find 9X14inch phyllo dough packages).
In the end, I wasted about 40 minutes wandering around, and then I had to go to Safeway, anyway, to get everything I needed. Why do I need to go to all these different stores to buy very basic food items? How annoying!
My grocery bill was wayyyy higher than it needed to be because everything at Basha's seems to be about 70 cents higher than everywhere else. And they don't even have one of those purified water machines outside their store like *every other grocery store has.*
Will I be back? Probably. I can't help it.
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