If you read my sister's blog, you will learn she is slightly obsessed with local grocery stores and would someday like to open her own grocery/specialty food shop. Maybe it is in the genes because there is no doubt that I spent far too much money and time at Calmart while living in San Francisco. It was my go-to for most everything except fish, which I got at Bryan's up the street. I was friendly with the butchers and even had my favorite check-out girl, Mel, for whom I would sit in the longest line. In addition there was a little bakery Sweet Things that had a section of the store by the front door (smart) and I was a sucker for their selection of great cocktail napkins and greeting cards.
Here are some Cal-Mart shots found using google images:
Every Saturday at 4pm Cal-Mart would mark down flowers 50%. They carried great cut flowers like rununculus, peonies, tulips and more. The flowers were always fresh and relatively well-priced to start out with (compared to a Whole Foods, for example) - so this was a great deal in my mind. I started to notice that some of the more savvy ladies of Presidio heights would have the best flowers in their carts well before the announcement came over the loud speaker. Their tactic was simple, grab your coffee and stroll down to Cal-Mart at around 3:15, fill the cart with the most perfect of all cut flowers and *then* shop for groceries. By the time 4 o'clock came around these cougars were in line to pay while all of the other suckers looking for flowers for their dinner party were fighting over the dahlias at the ends of the checkout counters. It didn't take long for me to become one of the flower hoarders, too.
This is what I am talking about when I say fresh flowers....
Here are some of the arrangements I made out of these discounted flowers ala Cal-Mart:
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Glorious, GLORIOUS arrangements!
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