Re: Loyalty cards again

rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <47cbac64$0$15191$607ed4bc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Evelyn C. Leeper <eleeper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>> Because what's cheaper at store X than at store Y this week won't
>>>> be next week; and because if you prowl around from store to store
>>>> finding the best prices on everything you'll expend all the money
>>>> you saved thereby (and more) on gas, just getting there.
>>> Not if the two stores are across the street from each other,...
>> Well, yes.  I can't think of anywhere where that is the case, but
>> it sounds as if you can.  "Across town from each other" is more
>> like it.
> 
> In my case the two closest stores are 6 miles and 7 miles from my
> house, respectively, and 3.5 miles from each other. The next nearest is
> 4 miles further.

The two closest supermarkets are between two and three miles away and 
across the street from each other.  The nearest grocery store (not as 
large, but better for Hispanic stuff) is about two miles away.  The next 
nearest supermarket is about four miles away.

There are also other supermarkets we pass on the way to our 
godchildren's house, or on the way to Costco, or on the way to the 
dentist.  (That is the furthest, and I always stop in Whole Foods on the 
way back, because that is the only time I am anywhere near it, and it's 
the only store that carries fresh habaneros.)

I would certainly not make a special trip to a store unless the savings 
more than covered the travel expenses.

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper
Heretic: someone who disagrees with you about
something neither of you knows anything about.