Emotion Collision: Notes from the Grocery Store

Notes from the Grocery Store

I finally broke down and dumped the big bag of change into a Coinstar machine. This bag had been building up for the past few years, but I didn't expect to get $124.59 out of it. After getting that glorious cash back, I almost felt like rubbing it on my face like Malcolm (Can you tell I've been watching the first season on DVD? =). Sweet glorious coins into bills....*hargle*

On a slight downer note, the Dierbergs location I go to seems to have stopped stocking whole chicken. That makes getting a whole chicken to debone so I have enough bones to make stock that *little* bit harder. Although I can understand that food in general is going more towards convenience, I expected that there'd be at least a few whole ones for the cheap and/or the culinarily ambitious individuals that shop there. I'm probably going to switch back to Schnucks for normal grocery shopping if they still stock them. Either that or start doing regular runs to a butcher shop.

Your Insatiable One ~ 2003.09.28 15:06 PM

On September 29, 2003 11:48 AM, haglund said

How did the coinstar work out? I've been meaning to trade in my change. The only time I was adventurous enough to bring in the mass of change, I wasn't sure of how to do it. Sure, the enter change portion was obvious, but since there were no instructions and it was obvious that the machine did not dispense money, I did not proceed.

On September 29, 2003 12:15 PM, Your Insatiable One said

Once you tell it to start counting, just start dumping coins in the slot to the right. The slot is rather narrow so you need to be careful you don't clog it up too quickly. Occasionally, the screen will say that it's catching up. You probably want to stop feeding coins until it says it's ready; otherwise, it might reject valid coins (which you can feed again). Once you've fed it all your coins and tell it you're done, it'll print out a voucher that you can exchange for cash at the store that has the machine. Since this was a grocery store, I just needed to go to a cashier to get my money.

On September 30, 2003 10:15 AM, haglund said

Ok, just didn't know if it was an in store credit only, or if I could just go to the cashier, give them the voucher and get the cash out of it.