200407 not just a covid 19 blog!
200407 not just a covid 19 blog!
...but life right now includes a lot about it...
i went out for my mother-in-law’supplies - ordered items ahead and went and picked them up. it was a nearby medical supply store and they had installed glass surround at the cashier’s and they had my parcel ready. then i stopped at the local independent dollar store, where i am a frequent customer and he had sanitizer and gloves and masks at somewhat inflated prices, which, however, i was glad to pay. the big stores are out of these items!
there is a small green grocer in the same plaza which has a huge customer base because they are so good and inexpensive. they closed 10 days ago, and re-opened today as an order-window take-away store! they offer family baskets of fruit and veg preboxed, or you can custom order. they have big tv screens with all produce listed!
we have also been frequenting (not so frequently) our corner store, literally around the corner! and they have been super, stocking extra milk and bread and rows of baby sanitizer bottles: NOT for sanitizing babies! it’s another family business like the produce and dollar stores. it is one of a few cigarette stores in the neighborhood and sold mostly cigarettes, snacks and lottery tickets in the old days. so their usual customers are shopping now for the usual stuff and taking advantage of the fresh or much-needed items.
we are big fans of doing business locally and many of these shopkeepers know our faces from many years of custom. to see these neighborhood businesses thriving with inventive new customer services makes me proud of them and happy for us.
i’m not sure that we have always appreciated what community means until now. but i am very glad to see around me and hear in the news that people are helping and sharing and thanking others who are helping and sharing.
...but life right now includes a lot about it...
i went out for my mother-in-law’supplies - ordered items ahead and went and picked them up. it was a nearby medical supply store and they had installed glass surround at the cashier’s and they had my parcel ready. then i stopped at the local independent dollar store, where i am a frequent customer and he had sanitizer and gloves and masks at somewhat inflated prices, which, however, i was glad to pay. the big stores are out of these items!
there is a small green grocer in the same plaza which has a huge customer base because they are so good and inexpensive. they closed 10 days ago, and re-opened today as an order-window take-away store! they offer family baskets of fruit and veg preboxed, or you can custom order. they have big tv screens with all produce listed!
we have also been frequenting (not so frequently) our corner store, literally around the corner! and they have been super, stocking extra milk and bread and rows of baby sanitizer bottles: NOT for sanitizing babies! it’s another family business like the produce and dollar stores. it is one of a few cigarette stores in the neighborhood and sold mostly cigarettes, snacks and lottery tickets in the old days. so their usual customers are shopping now for the usual stuff and taking advantage of the fresh or much-needed items.
we are big fans of doing business locally and many of these shopkeepers know our faces from many years of custom. to see these neighborhood businesses thriving with inventive new customer services makes me proud of them and happy for us.
i’m not sure that we have always appreciated what community means until now. but i am very glad to see around me and hear in the news that people are helping and sharing and thanking others who are helping and sharing.
I enjoy reading about the community: what it feels like to have that, support that and grow that.
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