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| - This place is wonderful. Savory Spice Shop has a website, but our local store's prices are about 20% lower than the site shows, which is awesome.
Spices in general are surprisingly affordable. I assumed that buying basic spices would be silly expensive and overpriced, but that is not the case-- bottles for things like basil, oregano, garlic, crushed pepper, are cheaper or at most comprable to spices sold at the grocery store. And fresher. Like basil, $2-4 for a jar, when you would spend $5 or $6 for that mccormick's stuff at the grocery store. Even better, buying spices in a baggie without the jar is $1 ish less. That's awesome! I just stopped buying spices at the grocery store because I would eye the prices and think "I can get tastier for less at the spice shop".
Of course, not everything is competitively priced, the spices mixes and the luxury whole spices are definitely more expensive. But that's pretty reasonable, I like that I can come in for the basics and then get tantalized by the spice mixes.
As others have mentioned, buying small amts of spice in baggies is very convenient here, and also buying specialty things like Sichuan peppercorns is also great.
It might be a franchise but it feels like a local's shop. Very nice place.
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