Green Bay grocery shopping: I remember when…
Whenever I host coupon classes, the topic of how couponing has changed often comes up. So I thought I’d get a little nostalgic and share some of my memories of growing up and shopping in Green Bay.
So let’s join Professor Peabody and his pet boy Sherman for another trip in the Wayback Machine.
For instance, I remember when…
- New Market, the grocery store that was on Oneida Street in Ashwaubenon. Loved that store. Even though they were small, they often had really good deals! Like Pork Tenderloin for $.99 a lb.
- Kohls grocery stores with their unmistakable half-circle arch on their stores. The East side store became a Rogans shoes, the west side was Big Lots until last year. The building was razed a few months ago.
- When Cub Foods came to town, they were a giant store compared to the others, their prices were cheaper and they had these new things that scanned something called UPC codes.
- Remember the giant coupon bins at the front of the store at Cub? I never asked but always assumed they took the leftover Sunday newspaper coupon inserts and cut up the coupons. Every time I looked it was always the same coupons that I didn’t want and none of the ones I was looking for.
- Blazei’s Sausage Shoppe on Velp Avenue and Buddha’s Sausage Shop on Main. Blazei’s lives on through Olsen’s Piggly Wiggly–when the Olsens bought the store, the Blazei’s taught them all their signature recipes.
- We used to drive to Appleton to shop at Woodmans once a month because Green Bay didn’t have a Woodmans until about 1990.
- When Woodmans came to Green Bay, they were the first store to accept internet printables (when printing coupons was still in its infancy). And on their first and second anniversaries, they even had unlimited DOUBLE COUPON events.
- Then Woodmans famously stopped taking internet printables for more than a decade. They started accepting them more than two years ago but many people still believe they don’t!
- I discovered Copps was doing Double Daze about eight years ago. In a way, they helped me become a much better strategic shopper instead of just buying what was on my list.
- Festival Foods became my favorite store when I was ridiculously pregnant and discovered their Pregnant and New Mom parking. But I also discovered that after every snowfall where the parking lot had to be plowed, the sign moved! I’d go down the aisle that the pregnant lady parking had been in during my previous visit, only to discover it was over by the other entrance. Oh, yes, four kids in six years, I used that spot a lot!
- NestEgg.com had printable coupons where the face value was only $.10, but once redeemed, as much as $2.00 was put into an online account that you could cash out later.
- How about the Copps Warehouse on Taylor Street where they had flat carts ala Sam’s Club? Years before warehouse clubs popped up all over the country, too. It was a pilot store that never got off the ground probably because it was at least a decade ahead of it’s time. That store morphed into what is now Taylor Creek home furnishings.
Those are just some of my memories of grocery shopping in Green Bay. What are some of your memories?
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3 Comments on Green Bay grocery shopping: I remember when…
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Terra on
Tue, 24th Apr 2012 11:51 am
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The Bargain Sleuth on
Tue, 24th Apr 2012 2:59 pm
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Jill on
Tue, 24th Apr 2012 4:06 pm
Anyone remember the place on the East side that sold dented canned goods and other imperfections? I remember going there as a child with my mom.
I vaguely remember that–have a phone call in to my mother to see if she remembers the name. I think we only went there once or twice. Because it was waaaay over on the other side of town. 
That place was Segalls. We used to pool our money during high school for our first hour class when we had a food drive, and someone would drive over there and buy food for cheap, so we could win a donut party!
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