Subj : Chicken Salad [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Sat Jun 24 2023 15:46:51 Hi Dave, RH> Always a use for it, even rotten celery can be used for compost. DD> But the soup is tastier. I also put leftover/overaged/going rotten veg DD> and fruit on the six-foot plus diameter maple stump in the back corner DD> of my yard for the bird, squirrels, rackety coons, etc. We have several compost bins in the back of the house. When we bought the place, the front yard was more weeds and poor quality dirt than anything else. Steve started composting the next spring; now we've got grass and clover. DD> I don't care for their corporate culture since Sam Walton passed and DD> his heirs turned their largess over to the avaricious bean-counters. DD> So, I vote with my wallet and withhold my custom. RH> Sometimes they're the only place in town for something. DD> In which case I'll do without or order on-line. RH> On line isn't always an option and sometimes it's something needed. DD> In which case I will do without or go to an alternative. It's a matter DD> of principle with me and I'll not broach the principle for DD> convenience. If it's a need, then you've got to get it somewhere--and it usually can be found elsewhere. Sometimes it's a matter of how urgent the need it as to where you go to find what's needed. DD> My Grandfather told me as a young guy to always follow the Shakespeare DD> quote from Ham;et "To thine own self be true" and I'd not go wrong. DD> I've lived by that for the most part. and treat people as I'd like to DD> be treated. Understandable. Since we've been R-Ving, we've found that W-M is usually pretty good about letting us boondock overnight. Found one in Nebraska that had a dedicated truck and RV lot, others have areas well away from the general flow of traffic. No matter where we park, we always stay out of the main traffic areas and always make at least a minimal purchase to "pay our rent". RH> Our store isn't as big as the one in MD nor as small as the one in RH> Newark. Good sized--and busy all the time. DD> Weggies are no dummies. They size their stores according to the area's DD> demographics. I'm in a twn that is (currently) 120K bodies w/metro DD> area more than double that. RH> I'm not sure what the population of WF is but Wegman's draws in RH> customers from a wide area. More are being built in the area but none RH> close enough to draw customers from our store; others are west, south, RH> east of Raleigh. When the Raleigh store opened, they had the largest RH> number of customers to ever go thru a store on opening day. They also RH> had to have Raleigh police at the exits off the Beltline to control the RH> traffic flow. DD> Nice to be popular, innit? Yes, we're about the same size as the Raleigh store but they were the first one in NC. We were about the 3rd, been open for 2 years now. It's open from 6 am to 12 pm, always a good bit of traffic in the parking lot, no matter what time of day/night. It's very convenient to us so we can run over if I've forgotten an ingredient or we can stop on the way home and pick up some ice cream for a bedtime snack (G) after a night trip to Raleigh. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... I'm clinging to sanity by a thread. Hand me those scissors. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .