Green Valley Moments

The Bashas’ Family of Stores includes four distinct formats: Bashas’, Bashas’ Dine on Indian reservations, AJ’s Fine Foods, and Food City, which caters to the Hispanic market.
A new brand, Ike’s Farmer’s Market, is scheduled to open in July in central Phoenix at 16th Street and Bethany Home Road. It will feature a huge variety of […]

OK, so I haven’t blogged for a couple of days. We all have the same 24 hour day; we just have different priorities, and for me, blogging hasn’t been a high priority this week.
Why don’t you take over this weekend and let us know what’s on your mind. Here’s some starter topics.
High gas prices and […]

As confusing as it may be to select the right plan, seniors need to make a choice now.
Less than three weeks remains for most Medicare beneficiaries to sign up for prescription-drug coverage without penalty, but nearly half the nation’s seniors apparently don’t know it.
Despite a nationwide campaign by government and private organizations, only 55% of […]

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Just copy and paste your document and click “Check Spelling.”
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Today is Earth Day, and yesterday, oil prices topped $75.
Look for increasing gas prices in the very near future.
They’ve got us over a barrel, and we’re paying through the hose!
Maybe if we all decreased our gas comsumption, we could help improve our planet at the same time.
How to increase your car’s effeciency.

Twit Olympics.
Monty Python

Hu is the President of China?
Yes.
Hu is the President?
Exactly.
Exactly is the President of China?
No, Hu is.
That’s what I’m trying to find out!

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In case you missed it, there was a piece on the evening network news which was inspirational and moving, to say the least.
So moving in fact, that CBS ran it two nights in a row.
You can see it here. Reminds me of the movie, Rudy.

Earlier this month I found a good price on a digital camera that I have wanted for a long time. I ordered it from Dell and it was delivered last week.
Today, I found that the best price for a Sandisk CompactFlash card was also from Dell, so I ordered it. The order was confirmed later […]

Interesting article in USA Today about successfully competing with the nations’s largest grocery store chain.
Wal-Mart already has grown to be the nation’s largest food retailer, with about 14% of all grocery sales. But smaller, more agile, risk-taking companies, such as Stew Leonard’s (Connecticut and New York), Whole Foods (32 states), Trader Joe’s (19 states), Lunds […]