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THE BRUSSELS POST, NOVEMBER 23, 1977 -3
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by Karl Schuessler
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By golly, the price is right when it comes to
me of those cooperative food stores. There's
thing fancy about them. No bright colors
d big posters of yummy food and soft music
entice you into buying more. Just plain
ills with even plainer rows of tin containers
at hold all the food stuffs they're selling.
Of course, this, is, a cooperative, and as the
rd says, you do cooperate -- in getting your
erchandise out of the tins and into bags and
t to your car. You have to bring along your
vn sacks and containers. You come armed
'th egg cartons' and empty glass jars and
tiles. And, if you feel kindly toward your
llowman, you'll,leave a few empties on the
elf, just in case some newcomer doesn't
ow the rules.
As you see, packaging is your problem --
t theirs. And so is the bagging and
eighing. Did you ever try to buy a half pound
sesame seeds and find you dished in two
nces too much? So 'back you go from the
eigh scales and try again. Heaven only
sows what two 'less ounces of sesame seeds
ooks like. Oops. You took out too much. It's
ack to the sesame tin once again. And a third
echeck on the. scale.
Now, if I were a great mathematician, I'd
ettle for my first try at the weigh scale. Let it
o at that. '
But that's another thing with those
ooperatives. You have to figure out the price
f your package. If one pound of sesame costs
1,79 a - pound, what does eleven ounces
cost?
For Heaven's sake, don't they know? Math
was my poorest subject?
And I don't have a pencil on me or a piece of
paper to figure all this out. I thought those
and of problems only happened in grade 5
nath work books.
And since I'm frugile enough to go to a
cooperative, I'm sure not going out and buy
myself a pocket calculator.
One of those gadgets would sure come in
handy, though. You not only have to pack,
package and price each item, you have to total
up your own bill.
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They're an honest lot, in these cooperatives.
They're willing to trust my shaky math as well
as my honest face to tell them I've never
shopped in there before. That way I get my
first shopping spree without a service charge.
Ah, there's the rub. A membership fee, and
if you're a serious member you help out with
the housekeeping chores and the monthly
mailings.
All of that? For some bulk food? In my own
personal containers? With my own fractured
math? I sometimes worry with that kind of
math rating, I'd wind up cheating myself.
Forget about the other guy.
So maybe the price isn't right after all. The
truth is I'm spoiled. I'm spoiled by racing into
the store, picking off the goods here arid there
-- all weighed, boxed and priced. And if I'm
lucky, and I'm in the right store, they even tell
me how much each ounce costs per brand and
I'm on my easy way to comparing prices.
I'm spoiled by this prepackaged world. My
wife keeps reminding me we don't have room
enough to store every empty bottle, sack and
basket that comes into the house. I have
trouble remembering to take along • her
grocery list, much less all the containers to put
them in.
I'm spoiled by the machines that do all the
figuring for me. I'm spoiled by the clerks who
cash, sack, and say "thank-you".
I'm spoiled, and yet not all that spoiled. I'm
not that far down the line to think that big is
good and a specilization even better.
I know a good thing in grocery stores when I
see one, And I saw one last week in
Brodhagen. It's not the huge supermarket
type, but it's the liveliest go-gettem ' family
store I've seen in ages. •
Brodhagen was never the same without a
general store. When it closed down, the
village seemed to close down too.
It took Andy Buck and his boys a while to
find the store, but once they bought it, the
village came alive again. Andy might not have
a cracker barrel and wood stove to bring the
people in and start joshing, but he's got
something even better.
Good prices, yes. Prizes and draws, yes.
Radio spot commercials, yes. Ads in the local
newspapers, yes. Truckload sales, yes. Quite
a change from the time when the early owners
like Querengesser and Diegel drove their team
of horses to Dublin to pick up all their grocery
supplies the train dropped off at the C.N.
station.
And if you look hard enough at Buck's
General Store on the north side, you can still
see the faded names of those two men still
painted into the yellow bricks.
I'm all for the new life Andy Buck is
bringing back to Brodhagen. He's carrying on
the village store tradition. And he's adding
the modern touch to keep the family store in
competition.
It's those good independent grocery stores
like Bucks, that keep the local people from
straying into ' the big cities. And if it's
something this countryside needs, it's helping
to keep your home town man in business.
Oethodyhathatio,
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