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Skriven 2014-05-27 20:45:02 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13653 av Dave Drum (76682.cooking)
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Hi Dave,


 RH> Probably a bigger town than the one I grew up in. Average census was
 RH> (and is still) around 800 people. At one time it supported 3
 grocery RH> stores--2 chain and one private. Now it's down to one chain
 and a RH> conveience store connected to a gas station. The Dollar
 General carries RH> a few more groceries than the average DG, thanks to
 the flooding from RH> Hurricane Irene. The chain store was flooded and
 took about 10 months RH> to reopen so DG added a cooler for milk &
 eggs, also started carrying RH> bread.

 DD> Carlinville is the county seat, has a small (but well regarded)
 DD> college and is still less than 5K population.

Sounds like Delhi, the Delaware county seat. It has a 2 year (ag/tech)
school but no newspaper, surprisingly.


 DD> Dollar General and Family Dollar are making China-Mart squeal in the
 DD> pocketbook. They are in any town over 1500 and a lot of less than that
 DD> size. One can park close to the door of the store, run in, get what is
 DD> needed, check out and be on the way back home in the time it would
 DD> take to trudge to the entrance of Wally World.

I've seen a fair amount of foodstuffs in the local DG, mostly stuff I'd
not normally buy but if I had no other choice or way to get food, I
would. It's good for those that can't get out to regular grocery stores
be it age, lack of transportation, a combination of the 2 or other
factors.

 DD> A quick trip to Saint Google tells me that the name of the only paper
 DD> in Carlinville is the Macoupin County Enquirer-Democrat. It's located

 DD> http://enquirerdemocrat.com/

 RH> How often do you check it out? I sometimes see the local papers when
 RH> we're at my folks but didn't this last time. Didn't really have the
 RH> time to look.

 DD> Not often. Most of the people I knew in Carlinville have moved
 DD> elsewhere or fallen off their twig.

There's still a lot of people that know me in town, not that I know them
(probably did know some of them at one time but I've been gone for
basically 40+ years). A lot of them know me as one of the Weiss kids but
not sure which one.


 DD> I read the occasional local news item on out on-line edition of the
 DD> local bird-cage liner. But, it's painfully hard to get to what one is
 DD> looking for. Much harder than opening a physical paper and flipping
 DD> through the pages, scanning for items of interest. Wednesday and

 RH> It's easier to pick up and put down a paper copy when you're juggling
 RH> loads of laundry between washer and dryer, cooking/clean up from a
 RH> meal, etc. Sometimes if I don't get the morning paper read until
 RH> evening, I tell Steve I want to get it read before it turns into
 RH> yesterday's news.

 DD> The Macoupin County weekly paper has a *much* more attractive web site
 DD> than my metro-area daily the, State Journal-Register.

 RH> I've not checked out the NandO site; I think Steve has. I'd rather read
 RH> the paper than the computer paper.

 DD> I only get to Carlinville on those occasions when I visit the family
 DD> cemetery and my grandparents and parents final resting places.

My folks have a plot in the town cemetary but their parents & siblings
are buried in western NY and NJ. My older brother says he doesn't want
the one extra space but he may get it by default if he has no other
plans in writing.


 DD> I am waiting to see where (Wednesday or Sunday) that the new Hy-Vee
 DD> flyers get published. The one for their We're Open! Ain't We Great?
 DD> was in a Sunday paper. Humphrey's (an important market to me) has a
 DD> weekly quarter-page and Meijer has their flyer insert in the Sunday
 DD> editions. Also China-Mart, K-Mart, Target, etc. County Market/Cub
 DD> Foods, Shop & Save, Schnuk's, ALDI, etc. all put their flyers in the
 DD> Wednesday edition. I wish we had a Kroger again. What we have is Ruler
 DD> Foods (a Kroger brand) that is a poor imitation of Sav-A-Lot and would
 DD> like to be compared to ALDI. As if.   Bv)=

 RH> We get Aldi's, Harris Teeter, Lowe's and Food Lion on Wednesdays, the
 RH> others on Sundays. Aldi's built their store within eye shot of W-M and
 RH> for a while, took a lot of their business. I think that's slacked off
 RH> now since folks can't do the one store for everything at Aldi's.

 DD> That's the new business model for ALDI - apparently their bean
 DD> counters think it's working for them. Me, I'd rather they left the
 DD> stores closer to the centre city. Especially as I don't shop
 DD> China-Mart on principle.

Got to go where they can get the space too.

 RH> We canceled Sirius recently and they've started coming at us to renew.
 RH> I'm going to drop "Cooking Light" when it expires in a few months; I
 RH> know I'll get innindated by offers to renew. It has some interesting
 RH> recipes but a most of them are not low carb. Lower calorie is even
 RH> debatable, low carb is more of a joke.

 DD>  You're not the only one they publish the rag for, though. Both my
 DD> satellite radios are XM (same company). I can't see myself cancelling
 DD> anytime soon. Even though the parent company does raw crap like


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