re: What's your earliest memories of grocery shopping?

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a bad arse prize egg machine with a chicken inside of it that started clucking and flapping its wings when your prize was coming out.

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I remember these. I seem to recall a Flintstones version at our Piggly Wiggly.

A&P Store which is now Goodwood Hardware and their in house baked French bread. Man that was good.

Hitting up the old Canal Villere in the Robert E Lee shopping center in Lakeview.

Earliest grocery store memory--- An african american boy in my kindergarten class, Peter, saw me at Schwegmans and started chasing me because he wanted to pet my hair. I had snow white hair and I guess he was intrigued by it. Our teacher kept him away from me at school. I guess he figured I was fair game at the grocery store.

I ran down the isle and scrambled into my mom's shopping cart and started burying myself in groceries while my mom was yelling at the kid "What are you doing? Get away!" His mother drug him away.

I wonder what Peter is doing today?

My brother telling me that smelling those products in the detergent aisle would kill me and thinking I would die that afternoon.

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Riding in the car with my mom heading home from grocery shopping, hearing President Kennedy had been shot.

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what store and where

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We've officially run out of shite to talk about

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I literally laughed out loud.

Early Saturday morning trips to Delchamps with my dad. Damn what I wouldn’t give to relive one of those mornings.

I was about 5 years old. I took a small roll of “smartie’s” from the candy bin at checkout and put them in my pocket. I pulled them out later and my Dad asked me where i got them from, i told him i took them from the store. 1 arse whooping later, he drove me back up there to apologize to the manager....

I remember riding in the cart at the A&P in Alexandria...I threw up all over the spaghetti aisle....