Dear Customers,             This week marks the end of the first month of winter.  That only leaves two more until spring!  When I was younger and spent the winters skiing (both downhill and cross country), I loved winter and truly, enjoyed every snowfall.  Now, it doesn’t fill me with the same enthusiasm.            One obvious…

Dear Customers,            January is a cold, gray month.  So are the next two!  But we have to survive January, February and March before we get into spring weather, the sound of lawn mowers and the hopeful sight of crocuses poking out of the still moist but gradually warming earth.           Back in December, from…

Dear Customers, By now, the glitz and glamour of the past holiday season has faded into a monotonous reality. Two weeks into the New Year and most of our resolutions have gone the way of resolutions from years past! For every good intention there’s an equal and opposite loss of enthe determined is just how…

Dear Customers,            My older brother, Sam, used to get extremely upset if he had to wait in line.  He also got just as mad if he stopped into the supermarket and witnessed our customers waiting in line.  So much so that he often insisted that we schedule more help than was needed – just…