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Originally Posted by juliusb reply: Lets great real, the wife and I shop out of county every month, not just for ourselves, but for our daughter that has her home in PG county. Our savings just in the grocery bill for the month ranges from $150.00 up. Compare that to your .50 savings on a box of cereal. I just made an out of county appliance purchase and saved $300.00. The wife and I have been doing this since 2002. How do we know where to shop and save this kind of money. We keep my eyes and ears open and use our Common Sense. The same common sense we apply to everything in our lives. |
There's no difference between strip malls of any era. You're confusing shopping centers, which are anchored by one or more major retailers, with strip malls that aren't. In either case, neither of these will have the draw of a WalMart Supercenter. I live near four shopping centers that are anchored by one or more grocery stores (one is anchored by a grocery store and a Target store) and none of them have the traffic flow of the Supercenter.
As for your out-of-county shopping expertise, I thank you for making my original point. Granted it may not be as convenient for you to go out-of-county to save some money, but the fact that you are doing it shows that CC residents do have the ability to save money. I'm assuming you wouldn't be going to the effort to go to these places if you weren't. So the commissioners indeed made the right choice. You, and the other residents of CC do have discount vendors available to you (granted on an out-of-county basis) so there wasn't a very pressing need for another vendor inside the county... at least not a need that would outweigh all the added congestion problems that would have ensued.