Getting fed for free

One supermarket near me, Shaw's, on weekends - and Mondays, apparently - often does samples. They're not my favorite supermarket, but they are the closest, which counts for a lot.

Anyway, my son and I stopped in to get a couple of things, and in the process had samples of juice, taquitos, spicy salmon spread on crackers, a really yummy sherbet, and I think a few other things that I can't recall right now.

I know that the mall in Cambridge, MA (where I work), they always have people out in the food court giving out samples for potential customers. You can get teriyaki chicken, cajun sausage, all kinds of stuff. The stuff at Shaw's is probably healthier (taquitos aside) than the chain stuff, but still.

Maybe we'll stop buying food for the weekend and just driving around to the various Shaw's and munch out on free samples. I wonder, though, if the gas would cost more than the food would have.

Hmmm... something to think about. At least if I ever get unemployed and homeless, I know where to go.

unless you want them stolen, and that means looking homeless pretty quickly no matter how many public restrooms you use to get clean in.

They'll throw you out if you look homeless.

Unemployed, however, they can't tell...

Sparkly doesn't eat meat, so we always get two portions of the meat stuff and I eat them both. But there's probably no need for such deception. The (little old) ladies giving out this stuff could care less if we make it a buffet. Just so we go to the back of the line, we can eat all day, for all they care.

If I time it right, I can come in, do the first round. Then everybody switches demo stations, and then I go back a second time if I like something, because the "new" person is serving me. :D

If we ever wondered where he was at the store, just look for the sample ladies. He never went to the back of any line either, lol. He was always charming them out of just one more. He was a pretty quiet guy most of the time, that's what made it so funny. The sample ladies, and auctions, and he turned into a wild man!! :rofl:

When they moved from Vermont to Boulder, that's how they fed themselves.