On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 8:59:59 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
> A woman sent an email to the Dataw listserv. Subject: Whole Foods to
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> Open in August! She was all excited.
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> I read the email. She's excited because she won't have to drive to Mt.
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> Pleasant, SC anymore. Mt. Pleasant is at least 100 miles away. Now
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> she'll only have to drive about 50 miles to Savannah, GA!
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> Would you drive that far just to shop at a Whole Foods? Or any specific
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> I would need more than that one reason to make the trip.
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> Jill

I'd never drive that far to a food store, unless they had a BOGO on every item I use, or something impossible like that.

Maybe she loads up on stuff she can't get elsewhere. Who knows? Maybe she visits someone on the way or makes some other stops. I have friends who have a choice of a major supmkt 40 miles one way or 35 the other. Price of rural living.