Saturday, November 08, 2008
The small things in life
Sometimes one can find joy in the simplest things.
Take for example, my recent grocery trip to Loblaws. Last week I was surprised to notice the price of chicken breasts had gone up quite significantly...for the past year or three they've usually been "regular price" between $15-$18/kg. Last week they were $21/kg.
No surprise, when I hit the store today they were once again $21/kg. At first, I noticed a pack that expired in 3 days rather than 6 like the others that had been repriced in $17/kg. Sweet. I picked it up and was going to head off, but decided I should hold off as I'd likely not be USING the chicken until atleast Tuesday (we're doing a catering tasting on Monday!)
So, as I'm going to put it back, I notice some really nice looking chicken at the back that doesn't expire until the 15th / Saturday. Out of curiousity I checked the price.....
$11.00 / kg! Woot! Yup, someone had presumably mispriced the pack...so being me, I bought the 6 packs that had seemingly been mispriced, super thrilled that my expensive chicken woes had been banished by the good fortunes of the chicken gods.
All in I musta saved ~$15 on my chicken find! Ohhhhh yyyeeeeeah. (The sad thing is, the $11/kg isn't even really THAT cheap...it's just a decent price).
Take for example, my recent grocery trip to Loblaws. Last week I was surprised to notice the price of chicken breasts had gone up quite significantly...for the past year or three they've usually been "regular price" between $15-$18/kg. Last week they were $21/kg.
No surprise, when I hit the store today they were once again $21/kg. At first, I noticed a pack that expired in 3 days rather than 6 like the others that had been repriced in $17/kg. Sweet. I picked it up and was going to head off, but decided I should hold off as I'd likely not be USING the chicken until atleast Tuesday (we're doing a catering tasting on Monday!)
So, as I'm going to put it back, I notice some really nice looking chicken at the back that doesn't expire until the 15th / Saturday. Out of curiousity I checked the price.....
$11.00 / kg! Woot! Yup, someone had presumably mispriced the pack...so being me, I bought the 6 packs that had seemingly been mispriced, super thrilled that my expensive chicken woes had been banished by the good fortunes of the chicken gods.
All in I musta saved ~$15 on my chicken find! Ohhhhh yyyeeeeeah. (The sad thing is, the $11/kg isn't even really THAT cheap...it's just a decent price).
# posted by Greg @ 2:40 PM 
