Beginning Saturday the 11th of April, our Saturday business hours will be extended by one hour. Our new closing time will be 8pm on Saturdays. So, you know, shop more.

Tlaa,
Kyle

Yea, it does! I know, crazy, right? I’ll give you a moment to get over the shock.

OK, so I was reading this article in Green Living Magazine, and I started thinking about ways to cut my personal impact on global deforestation, as well as that of our store as a whole. They had some good points:

Do you, by any chance, receive a number of catalogs in the mail every month, maybe ones you toss a playful glance at and then discard? Well, that’s a lot of resources right there. If you go to catalogchoice.org, you can browse a list of hundreds of companies and opt out of receiving their catalogs any longer. The site is pretty simple, and the service comes at no cost.

Aside from just catalogs, many of us receive copious amounts of junk mail as well. In fact, the average American receives roughly 41 pounds of junk mail each year. Which, incidentally, uses about 28 billion gallons of water in production. There is a website for this too. It is appropriately named 41pounds.org. The only drawback is that these guys charge a fee ($41, go figure) to rid you of all that junk mail. Worth it? You be the judge.

You know what else uses a lot of paper? Phonebooks. With the increasing likelihood that phonebooks will soon go paperless, why not jump on the bandwagon early? You can cancel the delivery of your paper phonebook by going to yellowpagesgogreen.org. There are countless online phonebook services on the web, so you’ll have no problem.

Now, I understand the counterargument of “Hey Kyle, shouldn’t we keep these guys in business in order to stimulate the economy?” Well, perhaps. Or you could just go buy a TV and that would pretty much cover it.

Selamat,
Kyle

Someone approached me the other day and asked my why I was not in the habit of posting Frank’s weekly sample recipe on the Recipes page of the blog. The only answer that I could conjure was that I was clearly an idiot. Thus, my apologies. But, I have gone ahead and begun to rectify that situation. The recipes page has just been updated with Frank’s sample from a couple weeks ago, the Shelburne Super Select Cioppino.

I will add the rest of his recipes once I find them. If you saw my desk, you’d probably understand. It constantly looks like that scene from Twister where the house rolls across the road. Remember that? Maybe not, it wasn’t the greatest film. Point is, I’m messy.

Esghaghlleqamken,
Kyle

Easter is coming up in a few weeks, so don’t forget to pre-order your Easter ham through our Meat Department. We take orders anytime and gladly accept special requests.

Gim de lehna,
Kyle

Here’s some stuff to remember this week. On Thursday, Frank will be running his sample of the week. This week, he will be making Pad Thai. Come try a sample between 3-5pm.

On Saturday, we will be having another in-store wine tasting from 2-6pm. Free booze!

Nomoskaar,
Kyle

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Make sure you come down to the store and pick up some corned beef and cabbage for your celebration. Don’t forget to swing over to our beer area and pick up a 6-pack of Guinness or Smithwicks! Too dark for you? Grab some light beer, but don’t forget the green food coloring!

Slan go foill,
Kyle

Celebrate the first day of Spring by coming to our in-store wine tasting, next Saturday, the 21st of March, from 2-6pm.

Sizobonana,
Kyle

It was made aware to me that the link on our blog to our Deli Hotcase Menu was slightly more hidden than perhaps it should be. Thus, I have rectified the issue. You will now find a large button link to our Deli’s daily menu on our website’s homepage.

This change has decreased the amount of clicks it takes to reach the menu from two to just a single click. Now, maybe you don’t think this is drastic enough to warrant excitement, but let’s examine it a little closer, shall we? With an average mouse click speed of 5 clicks per second, that makes a single click take roughly 0.2 seconds, or two-tenths of a second, or twenty-hundredths of a second, or… well, you get the idea. I’ll show my work:

1/5 = 0.2

Not a lot of time saved, right? But, let us assume that you check this menu daily for an entire year, which when factoring in the occasional leap-year, is about 365.25 days long. How much time did you save over the course of the full year?

0.2 X 365.25 = 73.05 seconds

That’s more than a minute! Now, let’s say you live to the United States’ average life span of 78.06 years, and of course, have been checking this daily menu since birth. So here we go.

73.05 X 78.06 = 5702.283 seconds
5702.283 / 60 = 95.03805 minutes
95.03805 / 60 = 1.5839675 hours

That’s a full hour and a half of your life that I’ve saved you by making this change. You’re welcome! Send thank-you’s to Kyle, c/o Shelburne Supermarket.

Pakul,
Kyle

Get a load of this guy. And he’s single, ladies.

So, there’s a new poll over there on the right column of this page. It’s not grocery related, but it is extremely important!

Ta llueu,
Kyle