Dear Customers, INFLATION!  Not the kind you employ when your basketball doesn’t bounce high enough, and not the kind that clowns use creating balloon animals.  I’m talking about the kind that affects each and every one of us.  While we would like to lay the blame at Vladimir Putin’s door for invading the Ukraine, the…

Dear Customers, By the time we’ve made it through Easter, the worst of the weather is behind us.  I look forward to sunshine, the aroma of charbroiled meats, freshly mown grass and that unique earthy smell as the ground offers up its hidden assortment of long dormant bulbs. April is full of promise – the…

Dear Customers, Between the ages of say 3 and 18, I probably would have picked Christmas as my favorite holiday of the year, had anyone asked me.  No mystery there.  People buy you things and for a kid that’s where it begins and ends.  As I got older and began raising my own family, the…

Dear Customers, As far as the grocery industry goes, April is a busy month.  We will have Easter flowers available closer to the middle of the month.  There’s just something about those beautiful, colorful blooms and blossoms that seems to help lift the funk of Winter, at least in our minds! But, as has been…