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We live in "Tiny Town" and Tiny Town has all of 2 major chain grocery stores,
(super fancypants, and ew there's a worm in my apple) not including places like dollar tree, Kmart, etc, so there really isn't much competition, nor choice of store. Personally, I wouldn't choose either one, but I digress..
So, due to the lack of any options, many residents of Tiny Town split their purchases between local and making the 45 ish minute drive to "Big Town", where the options are considerably larger.
We've shopped at W-mart, where it's slightly cheaper than Super fancypants, but not really cheap enough to buy the majority of our groceries, so we just used it as our fancypants substitute.
Many of our friends kept referring us to WinCo, so after extensive researching (a.k.a asking Facebook and reading yelp reviews) I convinced the man that we should try it at least once.
Before I go into detail about our trip, here is a little foreward regarding my feelings on grocery shopping;
Grocery shopping is usually my least favorite thing to do, for the following reasons;
-Crowds make me anxious and ..."grouchy" so to speak
-bug bug always has to go #1 and #2....at different times.
-it's cold in the store
- I have serious problems with decision making, and will spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what size/type/brand of something to get, so unless I have a specific preference (like Heinz ketchup) it takes a while, and makes the man and bug bug "grouchy".
so accurate
Usually the longer I'm in a store, the worse my anxiety and grouchiness gets until I'm near meltdown, and all I can think about is "dear glob I just want to get what we have and go NOW!", and everyone else is grouchy due to my grouchiness, and a perfectly good evening is ruined by grocery shopping.
WinCo, however, went a bit differently..
We left Tiny Town directly after I got off work, about 6:50 pm, got to the store about 7:30 ish
I had been all over their website earlier, trying to look at prices and whatnot and I found you could select your location and print out a map of the store's layout, so I did.
It was super handy considering we weren't familiar with it and it's a fairly large place, it made for much more efficient shopping.
just to give you an idea
Literally every dry good you can think of was either in a self serve dispenser or bin, and there was a ridiculous amount of common and uncommon candies and treats as well.
There's oatmeal, cereal, granola, flax products, every kitchen dry good you'd need, seasonings, spices, *eeek pumpkin pie spice in bulk!!!!*
dry sauce mixes, sugar, nuts, dog food/treats, pasta, all with a bunch of varieties of each kind as well.
Oh, they also had recipe cards for making things with the goods! So neat!
We got;
-dark chocolate covered coffee beans (me)
-chocolate covered pretzels (bug)
-flavored taffy type candy (the man)
-corn flakes (the man)
-frosted flakes (me)
-coco puffs (bug)
-maple some kind of nut granola (everybody)
-rotini
-bow tie pasta
-fettuccine
-penne
-blueberry muffin mix
I think that's it, we tried not to go overboard given that it was only the 2nd section we'd been to in the store, and most of it wasn't on our list for this trip.
But seriously, it's amazeballs.
Then we hit the coffee self serve section.
not from our location, but you get the idea
Not only did they have your everyday arabica, they have Flavored coffee <3
We decided on:
-cinnamon swirl (me)
-buttery pecan (the man) *side note; the man loves everything butter pecan flavored
Next time we'll get a big bag of whatever brew, but this time we decided to splurge a little.
not an exaggeration
Sooooo.... cut to 10:30 pm, (see? I wasn't exaggerating for once.) we've finally made it through the store,
bug has made bathroom trip #2, we checkout, bag our groceries, buy some ice, and we're ready to go, the groceries are loaded, I've got some BBQ Corn nuts for the trip home, the keys are shut in the trunk, we're ready to go home, unload, and gt some much needed rest so the man can get up at 5am for work.
...what I did there, did you see it?
Poor the man, he did so awesome through the whole store, no one had meltdowns or got crabby, but when helping me unload the fewd, probably the ice chest items, he set his lanyard in the trunk :(
After a lot of praying and trying to get our other keys to somehow trick our car into unlocking, I went to the customer service counter in the store, told them our situation and asked if they had any suggestions.
The conversation was as follows;
me- " Hello, my husband accidentally locked the keys in our trunk, do you have any suggestions?"
guy-" do you have AAA?"
me- "nope."
guy- " is there anyone you can call who has a spare key?"
*inner monologue- I'm pretty sure I would have thought to call them if there were, bub...plus the spare was on the lanyard :( *
me-"nope."
guy-"well, i'm sorry but those are the only suggestions I can think of."
me-" okaaayyy, thanks anyways."
*inner monologue- for nothing!!!*
Then after more praying, a great idea by me, (I'm positive it was divine inspiration, no joke)
and x1 divinely placed utensil, we got in, no broken windows or anything!
so, it's now 11:30 pm, and we're headed home feeling very grateful and blessed.
(no broken window, God is great!!!)
Despite the late return and almost having to bust out and replace a car window, the trip was a total success.
We're still going to get produce at Super fancypants, just because they still have the best quality, and essentials like bread, eggs, milk, and meat we will get at There's a worm in my apple, because they aren't too bad and they're still cheaper there.
Oh, and the store wasn't even that busy! Considering the late hour there weren't many weirdos either!
TLDR: WinCo has amazing bulk dry goods, candy, coffee, and a whole bunch of other awes-sauce stuff, and we locked our keys in the trunk.
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