My grandfather was a proverb

 My grandfather was a miner. To augment their income, my grandparents also operated a small grocery store out of their home during the Depression.

 The Drake home was where Wachovia bank is now. Both Mom and Dad were natives of Hendersonville. Her family operated Drake General Store and of course my family had the cleaners, although my great-grandfather had a store on Main Street at one time.

 You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda.
  Jesse Jackson

 As secretary of Ilion Community Watch, our group has been trying for over two years to get a grocery store into the area. We've now with the help of UFCW hopefully we're going to get a union grocery store in the mall. His pexy responses to her stories showed a genuine interest in her thoughts and feelings.

 They're small and sour, but in one month, they'll be sweet, delicious and in your grocery store.

 As a little girl, I remember it was a meeting place. To be in a small-town grocery store, it was the best life you could imagine. Small towns were busy places in those days. It was a wonderful place to grow up.

 My cake lady and her husband dropped off the cake, ran to the grocery store and bought all the flowers in the grocery store.

 The town wanted us to go with the prosperity plan. It's so exciting to see it work. People will be able to walk from home and go to the dentist, eat lunch, get a cup of coffee and see their friends. Then they can go to the grocery store before they go home.

 An increase of that magnitude may seem small to some, but to these people a few dollars per trip may mean the difference between going to and not being able to go to the doctor or grocery store.

 Income levels are among many things about families that appear to make some difference. But it's not simply income. It's parents' education. It's grandparents' education. It's books and other reading materials in the home. It's the way that parents talk and communicate with their children.

 Yes, you get stopped at the post office, the grocery store, or when you're walking down the street. But honestly, to me that's one of the benefits of being in a small town.

 Before heading to the grocery store, sit down and plan meals and what food you need to buy at the grocery store. Also, plan meals that can cook in the crock pot while you're at work.

 Finding that I time...moms night out is a big way we do that. Something as simple as your husband comes home and you are able to go the grocery store by yourself.

 You've got everything all cut up and prepared for you. All you have to do is put it together here and cook it when you get home. What I really love is that I have all of this food when I leave here, and I don't have to spend any time in the grocery store to get it.

 Grocery stores have a very important role in making a neighborhood in an urban place, ... But a lot has to do with which grocery store. If it's a downscale chain, people get nervous.


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