Store Calendar

• Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 21st, 22nd & 23rd

  Thanksgiving Flavors

  1:00-3:00 p.m.

  Stop by the holiday table in the produce department and enjoy a taste of Thanksgiving.  We'll treat your taste buds with our Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce.  Be sure to pick up a copy of our Thanksgiving menu and place your holiday order if you haven't already!
  

• Tuesday & Wednesday November 25th & 26th

  Extended Hours for Thanksgiving Shopping

  7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

  There will be no weekly tasting event due to the Thanksgiving.  Join us for our next Wednesday December 3rd for Party Flavors.  Enjoy tastings from our catering menu, featuring our best party items, as well as easy and delicious samples around the store.

• Thursday November 27th

  Open Thanksgiving Day

  9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

• Sunday November 30th

  Ineeka Tea Sampling

  4:00-8:00 p.m. Free

  Enjoy an amazing sample of Ineeka Tea.  Ineeka teas have biodegradable whole leaf infusers and are organically grown on family farms in partner communities.  Learn more about this great company while you enjoy a delicious drink of tea.  Ineeka Teas come in an attractive tin and make a thoughtful hostess or holiday gift.
  

Notices

Recycle Your Old Cell Phones With Secure The Call

Please bring your old cell phones to be recycled and keep them from ending up in a land fill. Secure The Call is an all volunteer, non-profit organization that takes your donated phone and redistributes free used cell phones to the community for the purpose of calling 911 in the case of an emergency. The organization carefully wipes out all of your personal information on your cell phone, then reprograms it so that the phone to call 911-only, and tests them to make sure they work before shipping them out. The phones are distributed to partner organizations such as women's shelters, senior citizen centers, sheriff and police departments and school systems.

Paper, Plastic or Re-usable?

Plastic Bag Consumption

• Year that plastic grocery bags were introduced at supermarkets: 1977
• Estimated number of all types of plastic bags used each year, world-wide: 4,000,000,000,000
• Number of plastic shopping bags used each year, in the US alone: 14,000,000,000
• Percentage of plastic bags returned for recycling: 1%
• Annual cost to US retailers for giving away "free" bags: $4,000,000,000
• Barrels of oil required for US annual plastic bag consumption: 12,000,000
• Number of marine animals killed each year due to plastic bags: 100,000
• Average number of pieces of plastic in each square mile of ocean: 46,000

Paper Bag Consumption

• Number of paper bags consumed each year, in the US alone: 10,000,000,000
• Number of trees cut down for paper bag consumption, in the US: 14,000,000

Plastic Bags vs. Paper Bags

• Plastic bag production creates less waste than paper. However, plastic bags remain with us for a long, long time.
• Percentage energy savings in making plastics bags, rather than paper bags: 40
• Percentage in air pollution reduction from making plastic bags: 50
• Percentage of waste water reduced by making plastic bags: 94
• Number of years for a plastic bag to biodegrade as litter: 20
• Number of months for a paper bag to biodegrade as litter: 1
• Estimated number of years for a plastic bag to biodegrade in a landfill: 1,000
• Number of years for a paper bag to biodegrade in a landfill: centuries

Plastic Bag Tax in Ireland

• Charging for shopping bags dramatically reduces bag consumption.
• Percentage of litter in Ireland due to plastic bags, before bag tax: 5
• Percentage drop in plastic bag consumption in Ireland, after a 15-cent bag tax was introduced: 90
• Annual revenue generated by Irish bag tax: €10,000,000
• Reduce, reuse, rejoice!
• Number of discarded plastic bags prevented by the Irish bag tax, annually: 1,000,000,000