That’s Hyde Park Produce.
With six months of unemployment and semi-exhausted financial resources I have to be a tad creative with critical necessities.
Read: Food
With the Co-op closing and Peapod becoming un-affordable, I turned to the semi-new kid on the block, HPP.
HPP just moved to a new space in Kimbark Plaza on 53rd Street. I had gone in previously with friends and was duly impressed.
But be being impressed doesn’t keep money in the bank account.
So when I rolled up to them on Monday, I made sure I brought along my Peapod list and kept the receipt for a fair price comparison.
Behold the tale of the tape:
Peapod
8 oz. Package of Mushrooms $1.99
5 oz. Organic Salad Greens $3.49
5 oz. Organic Spinach $3.99*
1 Green Pepper $ .99
1 Yellow Pepper $2.49
1 Red Pepper $1.99
1 Bunch of Broccoli $1.99
4 Bananas $1.16
1 Bunch of Cauliflower $2.49
20 Head of Garlic $8.00
16 oz. Package of Strawberries $4.99
HPP
8 oz. Package of Mushrooms $1.49
5 oz. Organic Salad Greens $2.99
5 oz. Organic Spinach $2.99
1 Green Pepper $ .33
1 Yellow Pepper $ .69
1 Red Pepper $1.25
1 Bunch of Broccoli $1.10
4 Bananas $ .69
1 Bunch of Cauliflower $1.78
20 Head of Garlic $3.29
16 oz. Package of Strawberries $2.99
Totals Peapod: $33.57
HPP: $19.59
Difference: $13.98
Note: The price for the Peapod spinach is for a 6 oz package and the HPP package was 5 oz. But what’s an ounce between friends?
Obviously this is the subtotal without the ridiculous Cook County Sales tax. Naturally it won’t seem ridiculous if Mr. Stroger has his way and we’re due for another hefty tax hike---again.
Oh I’m sorry, was that out loud?
And yes, I like garlic. It keeps a sister healthy.
Savings and affordable fresh produce? Sign me up for the Christian jubilee.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Oasis
I’ve hipped you to the deal about the food desert.
I was devastated when Cub Foods closed.
Frankly if it weren’t for Peapod, I would have starved to death by now.
It would appear that my fellow south siders in zip code 60615, 60616, 60637, 60643 & 60653 are in on the secret too.
In an article published in the April 1st Chicago Tribune, Peapod deliveries to those zip codes have dramatically increased since 2002.
I was a huge fan of Peapod when I lived on the north side but when I moved south of Madison Street I became persona non-grata.
That’s when I discovered Cub foods and made the trek to purchase my groceries. I mean if the same person with an established account can’t get the love, I interpret that as my money’s no good.
So I boycotted them for a few years.
Now I’m not sure when Peapod changed their tune but we went back on speaking terms about a year and a half ago.
These days if you don’t place an early order for your grocery delivery, you’re screwed.
As I read the article several things stood out. I liked the fact that the following trend was identified:
“More than half a million Chicagoans live in a food desert, according to a study conducted last year, but a new analysis by the study's author, done at the request of the Tribune, underscores what Peapod users already know: Not everyone in a food desert is poor.”
“Of the 203,369 households in the desert, clustered on the South and West Sides, 31 percent have an annual income of $50,000 or more, study author Mari Gallagher found.”
Well duh.
I'm not rolling in the big dough but I have a few pennies to rub together (sometimes).
Shopping in the 'hood is not only frustrating but in a way highly entertaining.
I'm used to people looking at me like I’m some kind of freak when I ask for the refrigerated pesto?
Morningstarm Farms veggie burgers? Fugetaboutit!
Can a sister get some brie up in this bitch?
Probably not.
You'd think all south siders (read: black people) consume is Yoo-Hoo & Pork Rinds.
I was devastated when Cub Foods closed.
Frankly if it weren’t for Peapod, I would have starved to death by now.
It would appear that my fellow south siders in zip code 60615, 60616, 60637, 60643 & 60653 are in on the secret too.
In an article published in the April 1st Chicago Tribune, Peapod deliveries to those zip codes have dramatically increased since 2002.
I was a huge fan of Peapod when I lived on the north side but when I moved south of Madison Street I became persona non-grata.
That’s when I discovered Cub foods and made the trek to purchase my groceries. I mean if the same person with an established account can’t get the love, I interpret that as my money’s no good.
So I boycotted them for a few years.
Now I’m not sure when Peapod changed their tune but we went back on speaking terms about a year and a half ago.
These days if you don’t place an early order for your grocery delivery, you’re screwed.
As I read the article several things stood out. I liked the fact that the following trend was identified:
“More than half a million Chicagoans live in a food desert, according to a study conducted last year, but a new analysis by the study's author, done at the request of the Tribune, underscores what Peapod users already know: Not everyone in a food desert is poor.”
“Of the 203,369 households in the desert, clustered on the South and West Sides, 31 percent have an annual income of $50,000 or more, study author Mari Gallagher found.”
Well duh.
I'm not rolling in the big dough but I have a few pennies to rub together (sometimes).
Shopping in the 'hood is not only frustrating but in a way highly entertaining.
I'm used to people looking at me like I’m some kind of freak when I ask for the refrigerated pesto?
Morningstarm Farms veggie burgers? Fugetaboutit!
Can a sister get some brie up in this bitch?
Probably not.
You'd think all south siders (read: black people) consume is Yoo-Hoo & Pork Rinds.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Railing Against The Man
An Open Letter To The Pinheads at Cerberus Capital Management:
You suck.
Now I know that there are levels of business that are way above my fuzzy little head but the eventual gutting and closing of Cub Foods on 87th Street cannot be one of your company’s finest moments.
In fact, rumor has it that all of the Cub Foods in the Chicagoland area will be closed within a year. Would that have anything to do with Cerberus’ involvement in a group to purchase the Jewel supermarket chain? Or has that already happened?
Now forgive me if my conspiracy theory addled brain is working overtime but south siders have very few shopping options.
South siders without cars have even fewer.
Taking away a high quality affordable option for groceries while owning the high cost alternative is like putting the rat in charge of the cheese don’t you think?
Because I’m sure it never entered your mind that when taking away Cub Foods would drive most of your consumers south of Madison Street to Jewel.
It’s not like the prices at Jewel weren’t ridiculous to begin with. I’m sure this significant reduction in competition will lead to those going down---right?
If you jokers think that my brie eating, chardonnay swilling ass is going to knuckle under to this under performing store bullshit you’ve got another thing coming.
I pissed and moaned about going miles away from home to get decent food at a decent price and I put the jinx on all of us.
Jewel may be a place where I can get chittlins AND veggie burgers at the same store but you cats ain’t the only game down here.
While Save-A-Lot and Food 4 Less may not have the selection, they definitely have the deals. I also hear that Ultra Foods is the bomb diggity.
I’m going to go to Cubs for as long as I can or until their stock runs out but don’t think I won’t be shopping at these other places for the best deals until I find my new grocery shopping home.
Don’t also think that I won’t be activating that dormant account at Peapod. They come down to the ‘hood as well.
The most egregious part of this whole thing is that a quality shopping center which are few and far between on the south side is losing an anchor store with nothing slated to fill it’s spot in the near future.
Like we need another unlit boarded up place with an unpatrolled parking lot for the Jenkins Boys to hang.
Bravo, Cerberus---the neighborhood, the whole of the south side and a soon to be former customer thank you for attempting to take the area back economically twenty-five years.
I’ll soon be hitching rides to Trader Joes to buy my Brie and chardonnay there.
So nuts to you.
Warmest Regards,
The Woodlawn Wonder
You suck.
Now I know that there are levels of business that are way above my fuzzy little head but the eventual gutting and closing of Cub Foods on 87th Street cannot be one of your company’s finest moments.
In fact, rumor has it that all of the Cub Foods in the Chicagoland area will be closed within a year. Would that have anything to do with Cerberus’ involvement in a group to purchase the Jewel supermarket chain? Or has that already happened?
Now forgive me if my conspiracy theory addled brain is working overtime but south siders have very few shopping options.
South siders without cars have even fewer.
Taking away a high quality affordable option for groceries while owning the high cost alternative is like putting the rat in charge of the cheese don’t you think?
Because I’m sure it never entered your mind that when taking away Cub Foods would drive most of your consumers south of Madison Street to Jewel.
It’s not like the prices at Jewel weren’t ridiculous to begin with. I’m sure this significant reduction in competition will lead to those going down---right?
If you jokers think that my brie eating, chardonnay swilling ass is going to knuckle under to this under performing store bullshit you’ve got another thing coming.
I pissed and moaned about going miles away from home to get decent food at a decent price and I put the jinx on all of us.
Jewel may be a place where I can get chittlins AND veggie burgers at the same store but you cats ain’t the only game down here.
While Save-A-Lot and Food 4 Less may not have the selection, they definitely have the deals. I also hear that Ultra Foods is the bomb diggity.
I’m going to go to Cubs for as long as I can or until their stock runs out but don’t think I won’t be shopping at these other places for the best deals until I find my new grocery shopping home.
Don’t also think that I won’t be activating that dormant account at Peapod. They come down to the ‘hood as well.
The most egregious part of this whole thing is that a quality shopping center which are few and far between on the south side is losing an anchor store with nothing slated to fill it’s spot in the near future.
Like we need another unlit boarded up place with an unpatrolled parking lot for the Jenkins Boys to hang.
Bravo, Cerberus---the neighborhood, the whole of the south side and a soon to be former customer thank you for attempting to take the area back economically twenty-five years.
I’ll soon be hitching rides to Trader Joes to buy my Brie and chardonnay there.
So nuts to you.
Warmest Regards,
The Woodlawn Wonder
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