October 2025 Buy For $7.00

I went into ShopRite to replenish my Bigelow Green Tea With Mango because this lingering cold seems to be quelled by its antioxidant properties. I have made a lot of tea this week. I could rant about how few tea leaves are found in a tea bag these days (not as much as there used to be), but there is no way a single bag can make two cups of tea.  

Across from tea is the massively expensive cereal section where I notice, but rarely purchase. Yet, a sale tag caught my attention.  "Buy four for $7.00" it said proudly; however, "you must buy 4." 

I walked off thinking about how four, family sized boxes of Rice Chex would not only fill up my pantry, but would also last years past the expiration date.  I did acknowledge that for big families with large pantries, this was a bargain in an era when shopping is scary expensive. 

It was somewhere between the chicken thighs and melons where I had an epiphany and did the 180 turn back to the cereal aisle where I grabbed 12 boxes of sale cereal. I wasn't sure all would scan up at the mega sale price, but they did. I tucked them proudly in my trunk and brought them proudly to the local food bank.  

Perhaps, ShopRite raised all the other prices and is using this one bargain to make people like me feel they are getting a bargain? Perhaps, this is what Shop Rite wants those of us who no longer have a gaggle of hungry kids to feed to do? Perhaps, this is the start of a kinder and gentler era where Shop Rite and others stores are thinking about others?  

PS I went back for more today.  There were no more :(

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