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By Bump Diamond
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Heads Up On Aisle 1
December 9, 2005
During the lull of the longish shoulder season, it was kinda hard to predict how the new Vons setup was going to work when people showed up.
Now, with people starting to come back to town because of the holidays and just enough snow on the ski hill, I would like to offer this as a heads-up:
Aisle 1 can be a dicey proposition, traffic-wise.
Aisle 1 is the bread/sushi/deli/bakery aisle, with the orange juice, cottage cheese and yogurt back in the corner. It's one of those aisles that just gets pounded—like the beer aisle after a ski day—but even more.
Anyway, I got stuck in that aisle over by the 9-grain, with one of those grim, new oversized carts in front of me and one in back of me, and this was when the store wasn't even very busy.
Boy it's a lucky thing that I'm a label-reader, because that's what I did to pass the time while waiting for the traffic jam, such as it was, to ease.
Oh, and I also had a thought-groove going about how the Ski Museum is a cool place because of Finn MacDonald, who announced he and his wife were going to leave town, like, next week, on account of a cool new opportunity in Maine, thrown in with the really high cost of living in The Mam.
Maine?!?!?
Well, there you go. It gets dark at, like, 3:30 in the winter, and in the summer it stays light until almost 10 o'clock, the better for the mosquitoes to get to you. And don't even start about the accent. Worst sounding racket this side of Brazilian Portuguese, if you ask me, and I know you didn't so I'm signing off.
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Comments
Bump, I hear you on the bread aisle traffic. If they would just keep those samples flowing it wouldn't be such a pain....
Posted by: monica | at 5:41 PM on December 9, 2005
...And don't even TRY to buy the Safeway Select (that would be Von's), cheaper brand of non-fat organic milk. The giant slide-in milk carrier cart (I hate those new fangled things) is always jammed up against the metal post, inside the door, making it impossible to take out the milk. And of course you can no longer rummage in the back and get the latest expiration date. Bummer.
Posted by: julie | at 6:10 PM on December 12, 2005