Whenever I’m out of town visiting family or friends, I brag about the great grocery store in Eugene. It’s called Market of Choice, and it’s an Oregon-based chain, with about 4 locations in town, one is about 2 miles from us. I love it because they have bulk foods and great produce, but they also sell generic-brand basics for things where it’s OK to get the El Cheapo. They also have a great butcher counter, a sizeable deli and full bakery.<\/p>\n
Last year, we started hearing about how they were going to tear down the cavernous old Rite-Aid, and re-build that section of the shopping center, with a new building for Rite-Aid and a huge new state-of-the-art Market of Choice. While that was in progress, they permanently messed up the parking lot, sadly. I know people that stopped going to MOC because the parking is so bad – the spaces and aisles are too tight for sure.<\/p>\n
But, they had the grand opening of the store right before Christmas, and it was beyond our wildest dreams. It is truly like a palace. (I suspect they were going for an award in interior architecture? Did you know that a grocery store could have<\/strong> decor?) The butcher counter doubled, no tripled, in length. The deli is now a food court\/coffee shop, and there’s the bakery, the wine cellar, and the cheese shop all nestled in amongst them. The bulk foods selection grew, too. It was a little overwhelming at first, and I am still working on re-learning where all my staples are located.<\/p>\n Who knew that grocery shopping could be such a high-class experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever I’m out of town visiting family or friends, I brag about the great grocery store in Eugene. It’s called …<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}