Food Pyramid

It is truly refreshing to leave grocery shopping with a smile on my face. The young man sacking our groceries was so friendly and took pride in his job!

Just had the weirdest experience shopping at Food Pyramid, which is now the only non-​Walmart option in town, since Consumers closed down. Went in the Sunday before spring semester started to find a completely barren produce section. Displays were entirely empty — it looked like Consumers did RIGHT BEFORE IT CLOSED FOREVER. I seriously wondered if FP was shutting down too, but the rest of the store seemed fairly well stocked. *Except* for the organic milk, which was entirely gone too. ?! So two of the key things that I went there to get — produce and milk — were fully out of stock.
I’ve made a concerted effort never to shop at Walmart, but this was a major fail and poses the question: what is the point of going to Food Pyramid in the first place if I have to go to Walmart anyway to get the stuff FP doesn’t have? Asked a few people at check-​out what was going on, and no one seemed to have any answers. Consumers was not slick and had extremely limited stock, but at least I had the sense that it was being well managed. Am not sure what’s going on at FP.

Food Pyramid is wonderful! To understand why, you need to know my background:
A few years ago, I won the Stillwater Lottery, and my life immediately changed; people I hadn’t spoken to in years were coming out of the woodwork, asking for money. I had no friends anymore, just sycophants looking for a handout. I finally understood what the philosopher Baruch Spinoza meant went he famously said, «Mo’ money, mo’ problems.»
After a while, it was clear what I needed to do. I needed to get rid of my winnings. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite know how to do this; I didn’t want to simply give away my fortune, since such an action would earn me many enemies (for example, the charities I gave less to would spite me for not giving more).
I was starting to think about simply withdrawing my money in large bills and burning them in a trash can when, by a miracle of fate, I stumbled upon Food Pyramid.
Here was the answer to my problems! I cried with joy as I walked through its barely navigable aisles: Small containers of Sabra hummus for $ 5! Bags of corn chips for $ 8! 4-​packs of sodas for $ 9! It was incredible.
Needless to say, after a couple of trips to Food Pyramid, I had gone through all of my fortune (and then some). Granted, some people will complain about a few of the downsides to Food Pyramid, like the fact that they only have four self-​checkout lanes, two of which are permanently closed, and the ones that are open never work correctly, but I will always remember Food Pyramid as the single fastest way for me to rid myself of any money I had. Thank you, Food Pyramid!

Visited on: multiple dates from 2012 to present
To my knowledge, this and Consumers are the only conventional dedicated grocery stores in Stillwater, and Food Pyramid is probably the most well-​rounded grocery store, with the best selection of items and the most pleasant shopping environment. They tend to have better quality items (a good example is in ice cream) and the freshest produce. Their main downfall is their somewhat higher prices in comparison to Consumers and Walmart.