Subj : Eggs! To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Nov 07 2019 13:55:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> Nope, never did see see a jar of eggs at Hy-Vee. NB>> Those are a rarity at our store, too.... but did you ever find a bag NB>> of Eggland's Best hard-cooked and peeled eggs....? Bag of six eggs, NB>> and in our store it can be in regular or organic, the latter being NB>> even more pricey.... ;) BM> Remember seeing Eggland's Best (and thinking how expensive they were) BM> but not anything hard-cooked much less peeled. And now with the BM> construction and remodelling they seem to have cut back on some of the BM> deliveries, either that or mass-grab of certain groceries as empty BM> spots on the shelves. The Great Peeled and Ready-To-Eat Egg Hunt may BM> have to continue after the store is done updating - though I am keeping BM> my eye out for them and any other interesting-looking and within the BM> splurge budget items. NB> True, they may well have cut back on some of their NB> choices/inventory to make the moves around the store a little NB> easier... and/or not added choices until the update is NB> completed... :) Right: everything has to go somewhere. Two things can not occupy the same space. And probably gets a lot more complicated with the legal stuff: heard the suppliers buy space on the shelves. Probably not only space but locations. So if they have bought 10' of floor space (rack) can't just give them 8' and the other 2' to someone else. (I'd suppose there are clauses to cover remodels, damage to the racks/shelves, etc. Temporary situations.) BM>>> Still do that 'surprise!' thing with my (individual serving sized) BM>>> yogurts: the labels are facing away from me so I don't know what BM>>> flavour I'm getting. NB>>> You like the randomization, I see... :) BM>> That might be the technical consideration; it was really I didn't want BM>> to know what I was having. OTOH the yogurt containers do get lined up BM>> because they look better, so orderly. Plus take up less room. NB>> Taking up less room can be very important, especially in a full NB>> fridge... ;) BM> Yes, not that the refrigerator is packed and need every spare square BM> inch but when organized don't have to look around - for the item not BM> space to put the item. Naturally if there's an empty space something BM> tends to go there, but to put away a platter or bowl doesn't take too BM> much to create room. NB> There are times I do have to be creative to get everything in... NB> especially when putting away the new groceries.... Here too. "Worst" time seems to be around Thanksgiving and Christmas with the foods. A 20+ pound turkey takes up a lot of freezer then refrigerator space! Moving around, stacking, and sometimes not stocking up of items. You know the routine. :) BM>>> That way makes sense also, just for us easier to have automatic BM>>> refills. Also can poke at the cell phone and see if the refill is BM>>> ready/will be ready. NB>>> I don't have an app for that... I suppose that we might be NB>>> able to set up auto refills, but haven't really explored it... NB>>> generally it's no real problem to just call in the refills... :) BM>> As long as it works out to your comfort! NB>> It can also be to our advantage to be speaking directly to the NB>> pharmacy in case there are any snags that need working out... :) BM> Which reminds me (thanks!): for some reason last week my electronic BM> notification was showing I had a prescription refill in progress but BM> wan't ready to pick up -- which made sense as I had enough pills to BM> last through the end of this week. Just checked and nothing showing. BM> Way too early to call so will later this morning. NB> I trust you were able to get the new refill before you did run NB> out... Yes and no. Yes, they did have the refill approved: I had no refills left, switched medical doctors and the zero refills got overlooked but not in time for when I was at the pharmacy. A day or two later was filled but I had other things going on and so stretched what I had on hand. BM>>> So far have been able to find what I am looking for. What was sort of BM>>> funny is I was chatting with the cashier last week -- the semi- BM>>> automatic "did you find everything you needed?" to which I commented BM>>> back the 'yes' and joked something about the construction not yet BM>>> moving what I shop for. She (the cashier) lamented there were items BM>>> she had shopped for but couldn't find now. NB>>> Meanwhile, our Wegmans store is busy moving everything all around the NB>>> store... not particularly because of any obvious remodeling, just a NB>>> general shakeup... Richard was prepared to answer the "did you find NB>>> everything" question with something like "yes, but no thanks to the NB>>> store", as we had to really search for a few things we needed... BM>> Not as bad as the cashier I had last week chatting she couldn't find BM>> what she was looking for and she works there! NB>> No, but close.... ;) We've spent a couple of trips carefully going NB>> through ALL the aisles of the store, just to see where things we get NB>> have ended up.... The first time we did it, some things were still in NB>> flux, and one of our regular cashiers was finishing her shopping over NB>> near pharmacy and noticed that we seemed to be looking more carefully NB>> than the usual... She asked if we needed help finding anything (we'd NB>> just located something that used to be in a totally different part of NB>> the store!), and then told us that Wegmans has been having her and NB>> some others take an entire shift once a week to just walk around the NB>> store to help customers find the moved items... they had a special NB>> app on their phones to help them find things.... :) And she admitted NB>> that without that app, she'd not be able to find everything either... NB>> She's usually pretty knowledgeable about the store, too... ;) BM> Reminds me of last week: Hy-Vee has a on-line shopping app and one or BM> more will shop with a hand scanner which both scans the item as found BM> and its location. One was commenting during our chit-chat the BM> computer hadn't updated yet as to where some of the items were though BM> she knew where they were moved to a few days ago. NB> I think this might have been a special app that was being updated NB> as things moved, just so that their customer service wouldn't NB> suffer.... I suspect the regular online app might not have been NB> totally up-to-date, though.... ;) She (the lady I was talking to with the hand scanner picking the on-line shopper's groceries) indicated it was a location app for employee use only. The customer app doesn't have the locations. Could be all kinds of guesses as to why their location app wasn't current. BM> As for re-rememorizing the store, I'll probably do something like BM> that, though sort of update my mental map constantly and maybe more BM> generically than what you did. Last week I was looking for a small BM> can of evaporated milk; know it's going to be in with baking stuff so BM> either looked for that overhead sign or remembered where it was one my BM> initial wanderings. NB> Some things are still in the same category as they've been, just NB> moved to a totally different place.... others, though, have been NB> moved into a new category.... the thing we'd found near pharmacy NB> used to be with the Nature's Marketplace (natural foods) and/or NB> with the Breakfast Bars near the cereals.... it had been moved NB> near the pharmacy to create a new section of meal supplements NB> (sports, snacks, Boost/Ensure-type drinks, etc).... Nature's NB> Marketplace they abolished, and mainstreamed those goods, except NB> for a gluten-free section... They moved the entire beer section NB> to where there used to be sodas, moved the sodas down the aisle NB> to where the waters used to be... and moved the waters to where NB> the beer had been, next to produce.... I'll get used to that, NB> eventually... :) Just don't go picking up Root Beer thinking it was regular beer! Yes, I suspect some items I will be searching for. I think where Hy-Vee currently has their health/energy sections will become a Starbucks, which is sort of interesting as their in-store restarant and deli shops is the opposite side (west side of the store vs. east). Stay tuned! No idea where the health shops will go. Those aisles widths do need to be expanded. ...Thinking all sorts of possibilities which are too complicated to try to explain in text. BM>> Yes, eventually. Also found out last week the store will be enlarging BM>> by 3,000+ square feet. Apparently the liquor store portion will be BM>> moving over but don't know what will go where the liquor was -- stay BM>> tuned! NB>> You'll find out as it gets reset... ;) BM> Yes. :) ...Maybe I'll start a rumour the whole section of what was BM> their liquor store will become a walk-in cooler. No refrigerated BM> cases: the whole room will be a giant refrigerator! Yogurt, cottage BM> cheese, cheese will be on tables, ice cream and frozen pizza on shelves BM> (the walls contain the refrigerant lines.) ...I've got a roll of graph BM> paper downstairs: could draw up a "blueprint".... Do I have to wait BM> until April Fools?! NB> It probably would be a better thing.... otherwise you might be NB> believed... ;) Plus it gives me more time to come up with a good one!! BM>> So avoid cheap brands, though that doesn't guarantee anything either. NB>> One can hope that those that make the decisions have some idea what is NB>> what... but it's not always the case... I did see some of those LED NB>> lights on the edges of the doors in the frozen department at a Publix NB>> in the Raleigh NC area earlier this year... reminded me of Christmas NB>> lights... ;) BM> "What idiot ordered the multi-coloured lights?! And stop that BM> twinkling!!" As far as looking like Christmas lights - yes, the BM> small bulbs. NB> These were all white, of course... but that's one of the NB> Christmas options.... :) And some whites are a cream-white, or a gray-white, a blue-white, or than annoying blinding-white. BM> ..The parody song about the 12 Days of Christmas is playing in my BM> head, the part about when one bulb burns out they all go out. NB> That's a different parody of that song than the ones I've NB> heard... ;) I'm quite sure there are a variety of parody lyrics. BM>>> Or the LED bulbs in the traffic lights. The BM>>> heat from the incandescent bulbs melted the snow accumulating on the BM>>> traffic light and so kept it clear. Hardly any heat from the LED BM>>> replacement, so the snow accumulates and blocks -- oops! NB>>> Yup.... That did end up being a rather inconvenient development... :) BM>> Just a minor oversight! NB>> Probably just not realizing the benefits of the old tech... ;) BM> There are some advantages! Bet everyone was focused on the power BM> savings (less cost) they overlooked that little detail. I remember BM> there were a couple of mentions in various articles on how the traffic BM> lights could working during a power failure because there would be a BM> UPS inside the traffic control box. I think they forgot the relays and BM> computer would have to be powered also. NB> Minor details, of course.... ;) And most around here are interconnected to keep the traffic flowing smoothly, so now need to include the equipment in the network. ...It started off some simple! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Geriatric Tunes: Leo Sayer - "You Make Me Feel Like Napping" --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .