A few days ago I was out running some errands, and Toney called and asked me to pick up some salad makin’s. So I stopped at a nearby grocery store on my way home, and could barely get into the place because of all the grills and patio furniture out front.
Do people really buy stuff like that at a grocery store? I’m not talking about a Super Wal-Mart, or a Mega Target, or whatever. This is just a regular grocery store, that sells regular grocery store stuff — for the most part.
But right now they have three or four different propane grills to choose from, and several large pieces of furniture, etc. And I just can’t imagine myself ever making the following statement: “Let’s see, I need to pick up a dozen eggs, some milk, …and heck, since I’m here I might as well buy a dining room table and hutch!”
Ya know?
Our baffroom contractor (the newest member of our family) told me he recently bought a GPS unit from Price Cutter, a grocery store in a neighboring town. A GPS unit! He also has an “expensive Garmin,” and guess which one he likes better? That’s right, the no-name (Sany?) model he purchased alongside carrots, and whatnot.
It’s not something I’ve ever done, or probably will ever do. The prices can’t be very good, can they? I mean, seriously.
But what about you? What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever purchased from a regular grocery store? Tell us about it in the comments.
And this one’s incredibly short, for a host of reasons. Including this. But I’ll get back to it tomorrow, full-tilt.
See ya then!
Wow, Could I actually be first? Time to go buy a lottery ticket, it’s my lucky day!
Second. I’m in the home stretch now and feeling good.
Third. I bought a stereo from a kroger’s once, and it lasted longer than any other stereo I’ve ever owned.
Here in Illinois the computerized toll-road sensor (I-Pass) you use to skip toll booths is sold at the grocery, which seems weird to me. However, I think the most inappropriate thing sold in grocery stores is not dining tables or dental repairs but the Deep Woods Off taste-alike called Lowenbrau.
What’s “Kroger”? I’ve heard of “Krogers” but never Kroger.
I am an early poster in the the WVSR comments section today (and, yes, my mother would be mighty proud of me right about now). Unusual purchase at a grocery store: surgical masks for the upcoming pandemic (and some popsicles).
Top 10. Good times 🙂
hmmm….
That further evidence link is a classic!
Nope never bought any major appliance or furniture at grocery store (yet?)
Top Ten, Baby!!!!!!
I purchase nothing but Groceries at the grocery store. I don’t even get toilet paper or paper towels there. They now have a whole section as you walk through the door full of made in china crap like poisionus toothpaste and deodorant that smells like yaks. Even some blankets made outta recycled baby diapers or some shit. They did used to give out little stickers and once you filled up a card you could get a gravy boat, or ladle or some such, The ma almost has a half of a set of this stuff in four different patterns and colors that I look to inherit some day. Along with those Arby’s holiday glasses. Hurry up old woman….
Bought a chiminea at an HEB…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimenea
Good Afternoon Surf Reporters!
Never purchased any major household from the supermarket. Just groceries and other assorted sundries.
Have rented videos, purchased concert tickets and rented a steam cleaner from the local Giant Eagle a.k.a the “Iggle”.
Bought a chimenea at an HEB…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimenea
*major household items
since I’m posting again… one feature a lot of the supermarkets have around here(and elsewhere, maybe, I don’t go elsewhere often) is a coin counter (coinstar). I think it charges 7 cents on the dollar.
That machine came as a Godsend one year when the wife and I were in between paychecks and were wrapping penny poor.
We went through the house, top to bottom, front to back, left and right and gathered every loose coin in the house. At the end, the sack containing the change must have weighed a good 15 pounds. Dumped all into the coinstar and let it do it’s magic.
We cleared just over $100!! To celebrate we got some steaks and feasted. We had to, we weren’t sure when we’d ever eat again.
i bought a bandanna at a grocery in susquehanna, pa a few months ago. i think that would be odd here in the twin cites, but there i didn’t even think about it.
Your Mockable habit is starting to become a problem.
Carla,
I look to inherit a bunch of old cool whip containers and mayo jars.
Top 20, OK, move along nothing happening here…
“degenerates with fishing tackle insinuated into their flesh…” I am reading this in starbucks where a couple of aformentioned just poured me a something grande because they are to stupid to accept large as a word! Don’t knock the ever expanding grocery store options these poor bastards were basically normal people until Wall Mart started selling food! We have a grocery chain in Canada called Loblaws who run their own Bank! instead of interest you get free groceries!! (tyrosene will back me up on this one!)
too stupid! yeah I know!
I’ve purchased furniture from BJ’s, they sale food. Now, I don’t think that Krogers has my level of quality but if the price where right and I was not picky about quality, why not?
kind of along those lines – My optometrist has moved her practice to a space under our local Wal-Mart roof. dammit. I have an appt this evening and that just doesn’t seem right to me. When she broke the news to me 6 months ago and I threw a fit, she said she was just leasing space from them, so I guess it’s ok.
all right ‘den
Loblaws! HA! on a tangent – thinking of the Scott Baio’s character on Arrested Development, Bob Loblaw (must say outloud), attorney. heh
Scott Baio – RIP
I think this is the world record, all time shortest WVSR update. Who’s keeping the stats?
I bought a Weber grill from a local grocery store at the end of last summer. All grills were 75% off. You’d have to have been nucking futs not to have bought one. It’s still sitting in the garage in its box (it is a spare).
The Further Evidence link is classic.
“I’ve got odors in special places…**sniff**….my butt”
I’m a snob and don’t shop in big grocery stores anymore. Only the little Mom & Pop here on Haight street with the occasional run to Costco for vast amounts of asswipe.
Happy Tuesday, Surfers!
I just stick to the usual stuff when shopping at the grocery store.
I think the oddest thing I’ve bought was an iron-on denim patch to fix my jeans so I wouldn’t be showing everyone what color undies I was wearing.
I think someone’s having a special on panchos:
http://netwrok.us/random-cool-stuff/best-poncho-advertisement-ever/
The Kroger(s) here in Morgantown had giant recliners for sale last winter. I use to see people sitting on them like they were at home. They should have put some televisions for sale next to the recliners.
I bought 2 shitty charcoal grills from Shnucks, or Shop and Save in St. Louis once. They were worth the 10 bucks a piece or so and I only used them once.
As a side note, don’t put metal grill on top of a glass table.
Never purchased anything but grocerys from the grocer. A sister grocery store of Loblaws sells snow blowers along with the patio furniture.
I do buy furniture at Sam’s but that doesn’t count. Our groceries stores only have groceries, How boring. But at least here in the great state of IL they have a full booze section. Gotta love my priorities!
Not a grocery store per say, but I have purchased shotgun shells from a Schucks (Checker/Kragen) auto parts store before. They actually had an excellent price. I’m pretty sure they also got in trouble for selling ammo pretty quickly, and I never saw shotgun shells there again.
Our Kroger sells the patio furniture too, and it looks like really nice stuff. And RIGHT NOW, IT’S 33% OFF!! Weird stuff: I’ve gotten my flu shot and pneumonia shot at Kroger for years. Once, I missed the Kroger shot day, and got it at Walmart, right in the big, wide isle in front of all the registers, with everybody walking by and watching. Hey, a shot’s a shot.
I got a sex change operation at a Costco in Thailand once. Maybe I dreamed that.
Sorry, Jason, it actually is Kroger. I too, thought it was Kroger’s for years, but I looked at my receipt today, and there’s no apostrophe “s” at the end of the word. It’s the Kroger Store. But you know what? I’ll call it whatever I want, and dammit, it’s Kroger’s.
Speaking of Kroger….Jeff, when you lived in Atlanta did you live by the disco Kroger? I think it was on Ponce, but it’s been 11 yrs since I lived there, it’s all a little fuzzy.
Greg,
Kroger’s and Wal-Mart’s, just like God intended.
When my son was learning to talk, he called it “the Krogrum.” I still call it that.
this is about my son he got a Toshiba Laptop at Pathmark for under $300. It was amazing.
I’ve seen a couple of grocery stores here that sell TVs, DVD players and various other electronics. I also experience a full body shudder when someone refers to “going down to the Jewels” or the “Dominicks” when neither of them have an ‘S’ at the end.
“The newest member of our family” is friggin’ funny!
The market up here has a ‘ranch’ section in it off to the side. Weed wackers, log splitters and tillers and chainsaws. (rent or buy). Water troughs, ammo, tackle, plumbing, camo gear, lineman suits, garden stuff…all sorts of stuff. Yeah…there you go…ammo chainsaws and liquor…all under one roof. I like it here.
No major item purchase I can recall at a grocery over the years.
Most unusual thing purchased at a grocery store? Beer in a plain white wrapper.
Wow, all these store names I never heard of – Schmuck’s, Flavin’s, Booger’s and so forth; it’s a veritable education in Americana. The Wegman’s here sells patio furniture, china, and, in the sometimes-chilly half of the year, about 50 styles of fake xmas trees. I think I might have bought a couple of tiki torches there, but that’s as far as it went.
Regarding the ‘s at the end of store names, it was and is attached if it wasn’t already there: Agway’s, A+P’s, Bohack’s, Zayre’s… Ames was kind of a special case, because it already had the S but not the apostrophe. Doesn’t affect the pronunciation, so it doesn’t much matter.
@knucklehead, Costco absolutely rules (for some things) – but what’ch gonna do in It’ly? Your nearest store will be in the UK, which may not be cost-effective for TP-fetching.
Good Evening Surf Reporters…
I have a nice little beer buzz rolling…
… just sayin’
@ JCIII – I got a nice little scotch buzz going…
…just sayin’
@ JCIII – I got a nice little scotch buzz going…
…just sayin’
Jeff – scratch that other one. OK! Thanks man.