About H and H

Why Heineken and hummus you might ask? Well, as of late my "When I Come Home From Work or Class" snack has been Heineken and Breton veggi crackers dipped in pretty much any Athenos hummus, as long as it is not original or dill weed flavored, ack! Where do I get my stuff? Well, I must start off by saying that I am a grocery manager for HyVee, but alas, I am not by any means biased to the company that pays my wages. I am a firm believer in the Specialty Foods Movement, a concept my company has yet to grasp. I am slowly implimenting it into my store (up on Barry Road in KCMO)... by way of secretly ordering new and setting new items without anyone knowing, hehe. Its not a bad thing when half of the items are requested items by my customers anyway! For my own specialty shopping, I like to go to The Sunfresh in Westport... they realized that they had to keep up with their local competition so they are finishing up a multi-million dollar rennovation of their facility. They expanded quite a bit on their specialty foods areas which are integrated into their normals aisles, not separate like HyVee. My next place I go to is the catalyist of the aformentioned Sunfresh project, the Brookside Market. The Cosentino family of Kansas City (propriators of many Price Choppers) congured this idea based on the market area it is in... Brookside. Young people like me aspire to live in Brookside after we establish a sense of stability in our lives. The Market has been the topic of articals in the food marketing magazines as being the next best thing to come out of food retail. The strange thing is, they have everything my HyVee has, except for chocolate covered bananas. The thing about the Market is that everything I look for is right there in that 25000 square foot building which provides a short, personalized shopping experience. Once in a while I'll go to the Whole Foods or Wild Oats, but they are so out of the way, it usually ends up being a special trip for either one. Meat, meat, meat. Hands down the best butcher in the city is McGonigals on Ward Parkway, just off of State Line. I've only gone there for my meat (boneless/skinless chicken breasts, stuffed salmon) but tomorrow I plan on stopping by when I run some errands down that way. Wow, I really ended up on a tangent there... explaining Heineken and hummus...