Piggly Wiggly

Today at the pig they have a running special of two liters of coke products(68 cents).

So they got this stuff called FRESCA its peach soda>.......ever had it?

 

Fresca never tasted like peaches to me...It's more like some mix of citrus stuff... I drink it sometimes...

 

i thought fresca was grapefruit/citrus stuff. unless they've got fresca peach now. i'm trying to avoid the phenyalanine drinks while pregnant. but i do like fresca.

 

I don't drink pop but yes I have had it.

 

I do not goto piggly wiggly

 

But with no sugar and no caffine its a good bit bettter than water. but water with lemon is good to.

 

Soda is yuck.

 

i'd have a hard time accepting someone saying that soda is better than good cold water...GOD! i love water.

 

To clarify, I drink on average well over a gallon of water at work in a days time, so at times its nice to have somthing diff.

 

lol. well, it's not like i'm going to burn you in effigy for drinking soda. get all "you're no proper human being!! you DARE DRINK SODA!!!"

actually, there are some people here like that. sorry. you're fully justified in clarifying.

 

You must live in SC?

 

SoCal, or South Carolina? i'm a SoCal girl, resettling in the west....

 

Yes-very good with Vodka!

 

mmmm, fresca. haven't had that stuff in ages.

 

For those in need of definition :



Fresca® grapefruit soda

Fresca is a grapefruit flavored soft drink by The Coca-Cola Company, Inc. It contains no calories because it uses aspartame, the equivalent of NutraSweet.









(per 1 oz serving)
Calories (kcal)
Energy (kj)
Fats
Carbohydrates
Protein


12
51
0 g
3.2 g
0 g


Fiber
Sugars
Cholesterol
Sodium
Alcohol


0 g
3.1 g
0 mg
3.4 mg
0 g


Where It Began…</FONT>
Piggly Wiggly®, America's first true self-service grocery store, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1916 by Clarence Saunders. In grocery stores of that time, shoppers presented their orders to clerks who gathered the goods from the store shelves. Saunders, a flamboyant and innovative man, noticed this method resulted in wasted time and man hours, so he came up with an unheard-of solution that would revolutionize the entire grocery industry: he developed a way for shoppers to serve themselves.

Despite predictions that this new kind of store would fail, the first Piggly Wiggly opened September 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis. Operating under the unusual name Piggly Wiggly, it was unlike any other grocery store of that time. Shopping baskets, open shelves, no clerks to shop for the customer -- unheard of!

Piggly Wiggly Corporation, established by Saunders when he opened the first store in Memphis, secured the self-service format and issued franchises to hundreds of grocery retailers for the operation of Piggly Wiggly stores.

The original Piggly Wiggly Corporation became owner of all Piggly Wiggly properties: the name, the patents, etc., and Saunders began issuing stock in the Corporation. This stock was successfully traded on the New York Stock Exchange for some time, but through a series of stock transactions in the early '20s, Saunders lost control of Piggly Wiggly and had no further association with the company.

Piggly Wiggly Corporation continued to prosper as franchiser for the hundreds of independently owned grocery stores franchised to operate under the Piggly Wiggly name and over the next several decades, functioned successfully under various owners.




All in a Name
Saunders' reason for choosing the intriguing name Piggly Wiggly ® remains a mystery; he was curiously reluctant to explain its origin. One story is that he saw from a train window several little pigs struggling to get under a fence, and the rhyming name occurred to him then. Someone once asked him why he had chosen such an unusual name for his organization, and Saunders' reply was, "So people will ask that very question." He wanted and found a name that would be talked about and remembered.



Piggly Wiggly® "Firsts"
Piggly Wiggly's introduction of self-service grocery shopping truly revolutionized the grocery industry. In fact, many of the conveniences and services that American shoppers now enjoy were introduced first by Piggly Wiggly®.

Piggly Wiggly was the FIRST to…
…provide checkout stands.
…price mark every item in the store.
…give shoppers more for their food dollar through high volume/low profit margin retailing.
…feature a full line of nationally advertised brands.
…use refrigerated cases to keep produce fresher longer.
…put employees in uniforms for cleaner, more sanitary food handling.
…design and use patented fixtures and equipment throughout the store.
…franchise independent grocers to operate under the self-service method of food merchandising.


What happened to Saunders?
After Saunders' disassociation with Piggly Wiggly®, he opened a chain of stores which operated under the name "Clarence Saunders, Sole Owner of My Name Stores," and although it was successful, the Depression forced Saunders to close the chain. Then, in l937, Saunders designed and constructed a prototype of an automated store, which he called the "Keedoozle" (for "Key Does All").

Saunders had once again captured the country's attention with his latest venture; however, mechanical failures eventually closed the store.
Until the time of his death in October, l953, Saunders was developing plans for another automatic store system called the "Foodelectric." But the store, which was to be located two blocks from the first Piggly Wiggly store, never opened.

Clarence Saunders never fulfilled his dream of opening a truly automated store. Sadly, his death came just as the full impact of his 'better idea' for grocery merchandising was becoming apparent. Saunders' creative genius was decades ahead of his time.



Piggly Wiggly® Today
Today there are more than 600 Piggly Wiggly stores servicing communities in 16 states. All Piggly Wiggly stores are independently owned and operated, and are located primarily throughout the southeast and as far north as Wisconsin.

Piggly Wiggly Company, the corporate headquarters, is located in Dallas, Texas and issues Piggly Wiggly franchises to qualified independent grocery retailers. The Company also provides the retailers with services such as retail support, marketing programs and a line of promotional items.

Piggly Wiggly Company is an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., ranked as the 8th largest privately held company in the nation. For 85 years, C&S has provided first-class warehousing & distribution services to their customers. From over 36 warehouse facilities throughout the United States, C&S Associates serve some of the largest supermarket chains in the nation. Their corporate offices are located in Keene, New Hampshire.

 

Talk about the piggly bio....cool!

 

You know what's good for a change? I had this at an Aveda spa that my sister-in-law took me to. They had ice cold water with slices of apple in it. It gave the water a subtle apple taste, which was a change from just plain water.

If you want to try it, you might want to take a pitcher of water and put the slices in, let it chill for a few hours. The longer you "steep" the apples, the more apple flavor you'll have.

Just a thought for something new to try.

 

i'm just bummed that none of our stores have cool names like that. ours are all Safeway or King's Sooper.

i like just a tiny bit of lemon in my ice cold water. i know, so boring.

 

California here. We use thinly sliced cucumber.

 

really? i never had cucumbers in my water when i lived there.