By Alicia Brown MS, RD
One integral part of health and wellness is expanding your mind and learning new things. In previous months, we’ve shared articles on blood pressure, grilled fruits, potatoes, nutrition bars and so much more (view past articles). This month, we want to pull back the curtain and share with you a few secrets of why we think our stores are so great.
Our pharmacies help lower health care costs by providing more than 5,000 free antibiotic prescription to our guests per week! |
The Living Well area is stocked with the many of the same items that you find in health food stores. Our top selling items in Living Well are Ear Candles! |
There are more than 5,000 items with Nutritional Tags in our stores. |
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We ripen and ship more than 192,000 lbs of bananas a week. We offer more than 25 different types of tomatoes. We are currently receiving more than 75 loads of produce a week. We ship out a truck load of potatoes 365 days a year. |
We will sell more than ½ million rotisserie chickens this year. We will sell more than 800,000 lbs of fresh ingredients from our salad bars this year. We will sell more than 1 million lbs of potato salad a year. |
We have two different colored shelves on our aisles. The regular shelves carry our traditional food items while the copper, or dark colored shelves carry our specialty and gourmet items. It’s a system we call “integrated segregation.” |
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An average 150-lb. person can burn 156 cal/hour grocery shopping in our stores. |
We carry more than 300 varieties of cheeses from more than 18 countries. We have cheeses made from cow, goat, sheep and buffalo milk. |
We have used almost 11,000 signs, posters and photos for campaigns over the years. We print more than 40.5 million sales ads per year for our store guests. |
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