Anyway, she's an overweight black GSD

I am now imagining this to stand for "Giant Space Dachshund". I'm afraid this will do your dilemma no favours.

HAH.

GSD: German Shepherd Dog, aka an Alsatian. I don't know why the US name includes Dog, but it does.

She is now sleeping calmly in her crate, yay. Fingers crossed for calmness all night and no catastrophes tomorrow!

Good luck, Jetta!!

My sister-in-law's old neighborhood got caught in the Haggen mess, too, except the Haggen had formerly been a Vons. The Haggen was scheduled to close a few months ago, about the time she moved. Even curiouser, from the conversation here about it, is that there's still an Albertson's in that neighborhood, kitty-corner from the Vons/Haggen.

I swear, German Shepard Dogs used to just be German Shepards when I was a kid. Do you have pictures?

In Rochester we have Wegmans and Tops. But of course, Wegmans is the big one. Except they now have only 1 store within the actual city, in the nice part of town. So people on the bus basically shop at Tops, and everyone else is scared of Tops. There is also one Price-Rite, one Shurfine and a couple of Aldi. Food deserts are real, yo!

I have a war on with Vons.

Right! Me too, I still don't forgive them for that lock out a few years ago.

We shop mostly at Aldi & Kroger. There are Albertsons and Tom Thumb closish. Also Target and Walmart superstores. Then further is Whole Food and Market Street (which is upscale something). Then further away TJs and Central Market (which is upscale HEB). There is a Walmart neighborhood market going in right around the corner from my house where I could walk to, but I refuse to shop at Walmarts of any kind unless an emergency.

We drive about 15-20 minutes to shop at a Meijer, because the prices are WAY better than Kroger. And once or twice a month we stock up at TJs.

Our neighborhood is a food desert -- the only grocery store (which was a really crappy Save-A-Lot) closed a couple of years ago. And the shitty thing is that the neighborhoods immediately to the north and to the south are ALSO food deserts. Ridiculous.

But we're really close to having a grocery co-op go in where the Save-A-Lot was. The organizers have worked so hard to get the co-op off the ground. Lots of fundraising -- both to get people to buy in as owners and to get loans for renovating the Save-A-Lot building, etc. I can't wait until it opens. It's a great co-op model economically, too. Our neighborhood really needs this.

A guy from your grocery co-op was at my class on Friday. I mentally waved pom-poms for him (because it would have been unprofessional to physically wave pom-poms.)

A guy from your grocery co-op was at my class on Friday.

It sounds like the Clifton Market is really close to hitting their goal, too. Our neighborhoods really need those grocery stores.