Is this accurate in your experience?
A wet grey day here. The sort of day to discover something Husband has kept hidden from me for ten years.
And to do some writing. Real writing. Well, I say 'real' but two articles about self-publishing rather than novel-writing. They'll be part of my contribution to the Blog Blitz I mentioned yesterday, or the day before.
Oh, and to make a cake for Zac's tonight. To explain, Bryan likes maps.
That's Gower and places with which he's been associated. At least the ones I know about.
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A very individual cake. I'm sure Bryan will appreciate it.
Recommended reading: Shelf life. The autobiography of Stuart Russell who ran a small UK village shop/grocery store and countryside postoffice for several years.
ISBN 0-9539425-0-6
Thanks, Janice.
And thanks for the recommendation, Stu.
Your cakes are so inventive! I envy the recipients.
That's an interesting infographic, but at least on the St. Louis side of the state of Missouri it's wrong. Here, the grocery shopping landscape is dominated by two local chains with nary a Hy-vee in sight.
Not sure about the grocery store thing. There isn't a chain that I'm aware of that's called Giant, however there is a Giant Eagle. I wouldn't think it's the most popular one though.
What a clever cake for the map fancier!
Having lived in and traveled throughout Kansas for most of the past 65 years (I am 86 years old), I must say that I've never heard of the chain of grocery stores that is supposedly dominant in Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska, so I suspect the methodology and/or basis for that assignment of popularity. In our City of Derby (26,000 people), for instance, we have two Kroger and one Aldi grocery stores plus two Walmart stores that sell groceries. [There was one Safeway and two AG (Associated Grocers) grocery stores back in the 1960s.] Of course, perhaps my mind doesn't find grocery stores exciting enough to remember??
I should have been looking at the map while making the above comment as I see that Missouri and Minnesota are also supposed grocery store strongholds for Hy-Vee. I lived in Missouri most of my first 21 years of life. If Hy-Vee stores are there, they have taken over since I regularly traveled to Missouri (rare visits since 2011).
I do agree with Albertson's for the State of Washington and would have guessed Albertson's or Smith's for California, but have not lived in either of those states since 1990.
Sprouts for Colorado? Possible, but I wouldn't have guessed that.
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