"Melba's Jammin'" wrote

> same area. Business is business and if i want good quality it sometimes
> costs more. Sometimes I'm quite willing to pay a higher price,

Yes, same here.

> sometimes I am not. Sometimes I'm willing to go quite a distance for
> it; In this case I bought ~14# of meat and other stuff and used less
> than a gallon of gas in the doing. "The bottom line" isn't always about
> dollars and cents.

Quite true. I regularily go to the local 'asian market' and it's not just
price that drives me there. The quality is high and the seafoods are better
at my local one than at the usual krogers etc for such. (though krogers is
pretty good for salmon, catfish, etc).

Since seafood is pretty close to 50% of our meat potion of the diet, we
insist on quality and reasonable prices. I'll happily pay 3.99lb for whole
uncleaned squid over 1.99lb frozen chopped for example.