johnieG
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« on: April 15, 2005, 09:38:40 pm » |
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Hey, Hey, a sure sign of spring.. my favorite local ethnic(independant) grocery stores are getting in cases of the 12oz. glass bottles of Pepsi,Coke,Sprite,Squirt & 7up. all up from Texas (Mexican bottlers) all made with real sugar! I'll be stocking up! anybody else? '>
couldn't post a picture of the bottles in "Announcements" & thought better of it, & I'll post it here...Jim , if you can delete it from the Announcements posting area, that'd be great!
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001... Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan.
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johnieG
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2005, 09:51:10 pm » |
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Quote (dr galaga @ April 15 2005,10:48) | I'm jealous! The only thing that I've picked up at a store recently was a 6-pack of the Coke Women's NCAA finals bottles when I was in Indy for the day yesterday!
You're in central Michigan, right? How far off of US 27 (or is it now US 127) are these stores? I pass up the middle of the state to go north of the Soo almost every year. Maybe I'll have to make a detour on my way back down. |
I'm S.East actually, between Pontiac & Flint, the stores in Saginaw are near I-75 & M-46 I have a local one here in Flint off of I-69 & I-475
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001... Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan.
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Kilroy
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2005, 12:26:47 pm » |
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Dr G, Us 27 takes you through the Michigan farmlands, so ethnic grocry stores should be found on your route. I would suggest the Mt Pleasant area (potato land), Jackson,(farmalnd) or if want a really scenic detour, the Traverse Bay area (nw tip of the Michigan mitten),
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dr galaga
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« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2005, 01:58:43 pm » |
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Quote (Kilroy @ April 16 2005,1:26) | Dr G, Us 27 takes you through the Michigan farmlands, so ethnic grocry stores should be found on your route. I would suggest the Mt Pleasant area (potato land), Jackson,(farmalnd) or if want a really scenic detour, the Traverse Bay area (nw tip of the Michigan mitten), |
Hmmmm, I usually stop in the Mt. Pleasant area for gas since it's about half way from the border. I might have to slow down a little. The area up north is nice, but I go about 2 hours north of US border along Lake Superior - about 20 minutes north of here: http://www.deepnet.com/~rcurrell/NatureNorth5.html (looks a little cloudy today). Since 9/11 I get a lot of '> from customs when I cross by myself. Can't a guy go camping for a week by himself without being a terrorist? '>
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petey64
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2005, 06:56:02 pm » |
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out here on the left coast those bottles of mexican pop are all over the place
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« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2005, 01:41:04 am » |
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Johnie, What's it cost a case up your way? I had a source in SW Detroit who was giving it to me for 15 bucks a case. He cannot get it anymore and everyone else wants 25 a case down here. If its worth it for me, I might make a road trip to stock up for the summer.
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johnieG
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« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2005, 08:52:42 am » |
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$15.00 a case! I wish! the price per case I got from the guy I talked to in the local mexican grocery store was $30.00+deposit, so it works out to $1.25/bottle, which isn't bad , until you start wanting more than two cases...last summer, I could get it for around $24.00/case, the story I got was that Pepsi especially is trying to crack down on the independants & force them to use the local distributors to get soda from, of course they refuse to carry he glass bottles , only in plastic & with corn-syrup. I'm trying to work out a deal like last year to get a mixed pallet of sodas, it worked out to about $23-24/case, but I got stuck with extra cases when some locall guys I know didn't come through with their end of the deal...
I see your Avatar is the old OrangeCrush logo, you'll love to see this, last year ( haven't seen it yet this year) they had OrangeCrush, in retro style bottles...
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Spoon-feeding Newbies since 2001... Yeah..220,221 whatever it takes. Remember, all it needs is a shot of Freon! The Vendo V-83 is the '59 Edsel of the coke machine world. ;p Spray painting does NOT restore a compressor 11 is louder than 10... "Hope" is good, but it's not an action plan.
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petey64
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« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2005, 03:47:58 pm » |
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didn't mean to rub it in there VMC cause sometimes in Los Angeles it really feels like you are in mexico buying the stuff.
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