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| - I'm more of a shop-wherever-it's-convenient-at-the-moment food shopper than organic oriented, but am aiming to aim a little higher and healthier in my grocery shopping, so after passing this store just off 51st Ave at Peoria so many times, I finally made it in this Saturday morning. The store, located in a past-its-prime shopping plaza on the NW corner of 51st & Peoria is sandwiched between a Dollar General, a barber, and a lot of empty smaller storefronts. I think less than a dozen other businesses, including a nice, newer looking automotive repair garage, a title loan company, and a massage business occupy the rest of the plaza.
A landscape and maintenance company is touching up the parking lot this morning. The lot is clean; Parking is plentiful. Inside, at 7:30 AM on a Saturday morning, a handful of customers are scattered about the store and staff is still busy prepping for the day ahead, working behind the deli counter, putting fresh produce on the shelves, advising a customer in the vitamins and supplements area, etc. Fresh muffins catch my eye as I enter, and a blueberry one leaps into my hand basket and wryly asks where we are going.
Fresh, bright-colored vegetables abound in picture-perfect (not done justice by the washed-out look of my interior photos) displays. Ahead I see the sign at the deli counter advertising the $2.99 sandwich. I'm hungry and it's looking good but there's Yelping to do and I'm unsuccessfully trying to unobtrusively take photos in the big, quiet, open store. The manager finally comes over and with some caution asks why I'm taking pictures. He points out a "No Photography" sign at the door which I hadn't seen, but after an explanation of Yelp and demonstration of the mobile app that included display of the positive reviews (and photos already taken within his store), we had a great conversation and he says as long as it's not for commercial purposes, to feel free, and so I did, right down to the men's room, which was decently or better clean, included a baby-changing station, and was stocked with the usual amenities of TP, paper towels and hand soap.
Hunger and that $2.99 deli sandwich eventually called to me and the young woman behind the counter assured me that 7:30 AM was not too early. Being easily suggestible I went with the special of the day, turkey, on my choice of bread, with my choice of cheese and condiment, lettuce, tomato, and sprouts (if they weren't out - see photos!). It was a big, delicious, and truly "hearty" sandwich, and $2.99. A great pick-up for a work-day lunch, but on this day: Turkey. It's what was for breakfast. And it was delicious.
Beautiful produce, organic meats, a variety of cheeses, ground coffee, teas, dairy and non-dairy beverages, green cleaning supplies, bulk grains, nuts, trail mix, breads, snacks, pet foods, vitamins & supplements, and more. Friendly manager, courteous staff, and a great sandwich! Had there been smell of fresh baked bread, or muffins (or something), and coffee on entry, would have been a heavenly addition.
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