I love beach grocery stores. Mainland grocery stores are okay but they don’t have that aura about them that beach grocery stores have. When you go to the grocery store at the beach, you’re there for beer, picnic food, sunscreen, flip flops, floating noodles, goofy koozies and more beer.
Come to think of it, it’s kind of like the fridge v. the gridge. The beach grocery store is the gridge of grocery stores! It may be the same thing but it’s more fun.
Plus, everyone at a beach grocery store is wearing their beach attire—even the cashiers. Sometimes people are even shirtless and barefoot. It’s like a Kenny Chesney song!
At beach grocery stores, the sun is always shining and you can actually see it because all the doors and windows are open. At mainland grocery stores there’s no natural light and you have no idea what time it is. It’s like a Vegas casino.
The food from the beach grocery store even tastes better. It must be the salt air.
We’re going visit my relatives in North Carolina at the beach this weekend. We need to stop at the grocery store to pick up things for Leo. My Aunt suggested that, as we drive in from the airport, we go to the grocery store on the mainland. “It’s Memorial Day weekend and it will be crazy at any grocery store close to the beach,” she told me. But that’s what I LOVE about beach grocery stores—the craziness!
I had to get my feelings on beach grocery stores in writing because get this: I’ve been sharing my thoughts on the topic for years and then one day, Frank suddenly blurted out in a conversation with other people, “I just love beach grocery stores. There’s something so cool about going to the grocery store at the beach.” The people he was talking to nodded in agreement.
“WHAT?” I interrupted. “THAT’S MY THING! LOVING BEACH GROCERY STORES IS SOMETHING I MADE UP! YOU STOLE IT!”
They all looked at me like I was wack-o and Frank said, “I’m sure more than one person likes beach grocery stores” as everyone nodded and tried to discreetly make the universal sign for “crazy.”
I still maintain that Frank stole my spiel. I’m going to get him back. Not only am I going to dominate every conversation with MY adoration for beach grocery stores, but I’m going to make him go to that dark, dreary mainland grocery store this weekend. And when he’s not looking, I’m going to sneak off to a beach grocery store. Oh, it’s on!
5 comments:
Have fun at the beach this weekend, in and out of the grocery store.
Love the Food Lion on the island. I have the ugliest flip flops I bought there a couple of years back!
But who cares, you are at the beach.
I agree you feel like you can just stock up on junk food, and the calories won't count.
1. cause you are on vacation
2. working off all that food in the waves
Have a great time! Bring on the chips, dip and pimento cheese!
It's too bad the ultimate "beach grocery store" is no longer in operation. I remember a lot of shirtless customers sitting around its counter while the owner plied them with high calorie food. R.I.P.
I live in Florida, and I am gonna have to say I have NEVER been to a "beach" grocery store. The place I live in doesnt have them.. but because of your description, I am looking one up! :)
I live in Canada and the first time I went to one in California, I thought it was so cool....so ..ummm...beachy. I love that vibe you get when your near the beach
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