I hope you saw the Grocery Outlet Bargain Store’s sale on 6-packs of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice for 99 cents (plus CRV).
Ron Davis Jr. showed me the three pallets of the stuff but said it wouldn’t last probably longer than a couple of days. He’s delighted with sales at GO and said last week saw record-high sales. Nice to hang out with a winner, isn’t it? (Remember to mention you read about GO on A News Cafe so they know the source of these new customers.)
Kelly and I are having a blast selecting GO picks each week. Funny, we keep waiting for a customer to ask why we’re photographing groceries. So far, nobody’s said a peep. (I have noticed that after I photograph something, customers slide behind me to reach for the featured item.)
OK, but just in case the cranberry juice is wiped out, I made some other back-up GO picks. All are items that have a pretty good shelf life (less so for the first item, butter – but keep it in the fridge and it’ll be fine for a couple of months). Shoot. I spoiled your GO surprise.
Butter up!
Cabot AA-Grade Butter. One pound. GO pick is 1.99 – elsewhere it sells for $3.99.
Next up, Cucina Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Italy. Initially I was attracted to the bottle with one of those cute flip-up attached stoppers (future limoncello container) but I fell in love with the price at the GO: $7.99 for 1 liter – elsewhere $15.99. (Cucina – pronounced coo-cheena – means kitchen in Italian. No, don’t thank me.) I bought a bottle and promptly stuck it in the dark, which is the way we should store olive oil, especially when it’s stored in clear bottles. In a perfect world, the olive oil is stored in ceramic containers, in a cool, dark place. Light and heat are oilve oil’s enemy.
Finally, I couldn’t help myself. I saw the vanilla creme liqueur that fellow foodie Loves to Eat mentioned (alas, Loves to Eat remains one of the few readers who still doesn’t reveal a real name … sigh). Anyway, the bottle is metal, and pretty cool looking. But check out its price. No wonder LTE went back for more.
OMG! Elsewhere it sells for $19.99 (let’s just call it what it is; $20) but GO sells it for $5.99 (equal opportunity honesty – $6). It tried it over ice with a little Kahlua and some half-and-half. The result was a drink similar to what Kelly and I created when we bartended resently for at Maritime Seafood & Grill: Deep Throat.
Shhhh. It’s our secret.
