Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Grocery shopping

Can anyone explain to me why we are lacking for a decent (and competitive) health food store in this metropolitan area? Seriously?! It is at least a two hour drive for a good selection of wheat free/gluten free products. I find it hard to believe that our area (Peoria/Bloomington-Normal) cannot support a larger health food store than the one we have. The local store I currently use for wheat free/gluten free products has been out of stock on several items the last few times I've been in the store. So, I've placed specials orders, left deposits for my orders, etc. Which means phone calls to the store to follow up on orders, and extra trips to the store to pick up what I need. By the way, the local store is approximately 20 miles away.

Yes, I could probably order this stuff online, but I haven't found a vendor (yet) who allows orders for anything less than a case quantity. I don't have room to store cases of this stuff in my house. Also, I will not commit to purchasing a case of anything if I'm not sure I'll like it, ya dig?

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