Supermarket Sweep #MusicMonday

Hola kitties! Anyone remember the old tv game show Supermarket Sweep? TW says it was on a hunnert years ago when she was a kid. Gramma watched it every afternoon. Anyhoo, TW just found out her favorite local supermarket is closing at the beginning of October. One of the reasons is prolly cos another big supermarket with the initials WF just moved into town but is nowhere near our area. She's bummed for a couple of reasons. I'm bummed for other reasons entirely.

Let's get the reasons TW is bummed out of the way first. This supermarket is steps closer to the condo which is important when you don't drive. It's still a good mile or so each way so she gets her exercise especially dragging a full cart home. Half the walk is uphill. There's also the fact it's in a mini-mall with a Dunkin' and a Subway but she prefers the small pizza parlor on the way up for a slice and some gossip with the owners.

She's also bummed since they're the only store in da hood with sweet Jersey-fresh peaches and tomatoes when they're in season cos we don't have any farmer's markets. They have great sales including special prices based on what you buy so she can get her carrot juice at a good discount. They also have the cereal she buys and milk on sale a lot more often than the other local supermarket. It seems like the other supermarket discontinues stocking anything she buys. They don't stock her favorite tomato gravy and she likes many of their store-brand products which are a lot cheaper than other stores sell their brand products for.

More importantly I'm bummed cos they have more different brands of cat food like Rachel Ray stinky goodness. The other supermarket never had FF chicken hearts and livers which turned out to be one of my faves. Sometimes when TW goes there she doesn't feel like cooking when she comes home so she'll buy one of their homemade hero sammiches which runs circles around Subway cos it's packed full of turkey breast and I get some handouts. Our other supermarket chain only has half sammiches with nothing in them and they're more expensive.

TW is hoping another supermarket moves into the space rather than a Target or a high-rise apartment building. I'm hoping for a PetSmart or any kind of pet store since our Petland closed a few months ago—not that TW ever shopped there.

Since this is Music Monday, it's a freebie week AND today is Vinyl Record Day, DJ CK aka myself has put together a list of songs about supermarkets from YouTube taken from our record collection and transferred into our iTunes. Actually, they have supermarket in the title but I have a feeling that some of them are using metaphors, whatever they are.

The Clash—"Lost in the Supermarket"
Iggy Pop—"Supermarket"
Bruce Springsteen—"Queen of the Supermarket"
The Raincoats—"Fairytale in the Supermarket"
Mick Farren—"Let's Loot the Supermarket Again" I'm so down with that! It'll serve them right for closing our store.
Tonio K—"Life in the Foodchain" I added this one cos we haven't heard it in years. It's my playlist and I'll cheat if I want to. Tonio K kinda flew under the radar.

Hope y'all enjoyed this edition of The Stunning Keisha Show starring DJ CK. I'm participating in the #4M Music Moves Me blog hop co-hosted by Curious as a Cathy and a chorus of others.