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1800Flowers

February 9th, 2011

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and I know that everyone is trying to figure out what to get there loved ones, if they did not forget about the Hallmark holiday. If you want to avoid the crowds picking up a bouquet at Wal-Mart and Brookshire’s grocery stores than you should just order flowers online. 1800flowers is one of the most well-known flower companies across the country. The rose and lily bouquets will surely make your loved one feel so special and loved. The variety of beautiful flowers you are sure to find your Valentine’s favorite flower and their favorite color. They have flowers for every occasion. You can get flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, get-wells, graduations, holidays, and just to say I am thinking of you.

1800flowers has been making people’s day since Jim McCann opened his first flower shop in 1976. Now 1800flowers delivers all across the country to make people smile. The company delivers freshly cut flowers from the best gardens around. All of the bouquets are designed by a team of professional florist artists. Although they are a country wide company, it is important for them to keep customer service personal. The goal of the business is make people’s day by a simple delivery to their door. This is a great company to find the perfect gift to say “I love you”, especially during this romantic time of the year.

Kilgore’s Oil Museum

October 22nd, 2010
Kilgore Oil Museum

Kilgore Oil Museum

The Oil Museum in Kilgore Texas is a reminder of how East Texas became known and how the people of East Texas were able to endure The Great Depression by the discovery of “black gold”. The museum recreates the way people lived during the discovery of the largest discovery of oil in the United States. The museum is located on the campus of Kilgore College.

As you walk into the museum you are lead into the first doom shaped room that portrays some history of the oil fields. The Oil Museum brings you back in time by showing you some treasures from the 1930’s. The museum has a display of old furniture, 1930 cars, antique jewelry, and old radios. As you walk into the final room you are sent back into time as you walk through an old town. Walk through old restaurants, grocery stores, jails, and post offices. They display how the roads were affected by the oil boom, with cars, people, and animals sinking in the black mud. Not very much has changed through all the years that I have visited the museum. They have a small theater that shows the same short movie that was played when I was young. The movie shows the life styles of the people and the changes that happened after the founding of the oil in Kilgore and even has some real footage. Your little children will love the fun “elevator” ride. Take a trip under ground through the different levels of earth and rock. Fun puppets will put on a show to educate children of the different levels of rocks, and how people get oil out of the ground. As you are leaving you can visit the gift shop to get a shirt, candy, or a small gift to remember the fun time you had at the museum.

People travel to visit the Oil Museum. It is a fun place to bring your family and learn an important history of Kilgore, Texas. Although the museum has not changed very much, it does not really need to change. It is a great place to bring an elementary class. The Oil Museum is very fun and educational.

Fresh

October 16th, 2010

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Brookshires Fresh

Brookshires Fresh

Coming soon Brookshire’s Grocery Company is introducing their newest store Fresh. Fresh will be like no other store that east Texas has seen. The grocery store will have the freshest products and will have a great selection of healthy foods and supplements. The prices of Fresh will be higher than other grocery stores in Tyler, but the quality of food will be some of the best around. Fresh will some what resemble the popular Central Market in Austin, Texas.

Brookshires Fresh

Fresh Grocery Store

The construction of Fresh has started and hopefully will be opened next year (2011). The store will still have the friendly customer service that you can find at other Brookshire’s Grocery Stores. This development is a great new establishment for East Texas.

I am really looking forward to this store and I am glad that the store has started going up. At one point I heard that the organic grocery store was going to open this month but by driving by the location I can not see how that is going to happen. Brookshire’s company is bringing Fresh to Tyler to give a whole new experience of grocery shopping. Fresh will bring a new way of healthy eating, shopping, and living to East Texas.

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Hairy New Rules

October 12th, 2010
Beards in Brookshires

Beards in Brookshires

While shopping at Brookshire’s Grocery Stores you may have noticed something different about the workers there? They are all hairy! New rules have been put in place at all the Brookshire’s and Super 1 Foods stores. All staff is allowed to have facial hair. There are still some pretty strict rules on how their employees groom themselves. Their rules include not allowing their employees to grow a full beard.

I really do not know how to feel about these new rules. Personally I do not really care if my cashier has a go-tee, or if the kid carrying my bags to my car has a peach fuzz mustache. The only thing that some what bothers me is the people that are handling my food. I do not want to open up my perfectly wrapped sandwich meat and find little hairs from some random guy’s chin. I, personally, think that if you are handling food that there should be stricter rules about facial hair.

These new rules are very interesting and I know that many of the employees are very excited about the freedom of their own grooming, but there is something unappealing about someone with ill groomed facial hair handling my food.

Tyler Supermercados Monterrey

January 17th, 2010

Tyler Supermercados Monterrey is a grocery store that specializes in Mexican products with all their labels written in Spanish. They are located right off Rt 31 and Loop 323 by Taco Bell, Blockbuster, Rainbow and other stores surrounding it. Even though I am not Spanish speaking I like going there because sometimes the prices are lower than other grocery stores. Their selection of meat and seafood is better and less expensive than what I have seen in some of the other grocery store. Because it is a Hispanic grocery store all things are written in Spanish…so you might have to be able to get along in there when you go in…or find someone who speaks English that can translate. My favorite thing to buy is their Mexican breads that are sweet. They have all kinds of selections and usually you can get three for a dollar. If you don’t mind the extra calories, than I would say go try a few.

Inside the grocery store they have a little restaurant, where they make all kinds of tacos. Whenever we go there, for less than $20 you can buy a little something for about three people, if you don’t splurge and get just one taco per person. They also have the best juices there. All kinds of good flavors, my favorite one is pineapple juice.

There is a place inside the store that you can purchase cell phones and phone accessories.

I particularly enjoy shopping when there are lots of stores in a location. I hope I have convinced you to try shopping at Supermercado Monterrey. You can save a lot on your grocery bill and enjoy the experience at the same time.