On with the relocation...from San Diego back to Tempe...
Last time, I was at Roosevelt and University...lo those 20 years ago...where the stores and restaurants still had class, and did not feel like something cheap and crass...
I'm at Baseline and Hardy this time...and gratified to find Food City because it DOES NOT FEEL like the Bashas/Frys/Albertsons (even tho Bashas owns the store...)
The store is clean...I have yet to see bugs flying around produce...the butcher shop is immaculate...and there are native offerings there. The prices for many things are lower than at the bigger stores. Disparity comes apparently with those items that are not so common in a lower/middle class grocery.
Because of an extremely small refrigerator and a roomie who wants 3 of the 4 shelves along with 1 of the veggie drawers, I am buying preferred produce daily on my way home from work. The folks at Food City are so much more green than the folks at Fresh and Easy...all the packaging and the clean sterile feeling at Fresh and Easy compared to the 'open the box and display the stuff' that Food City has going on...I am more confident with produce I can touch and smell to gauge the freshness/ripeness that I am looking for....