They must have a deal on cuts of meat too. No shrink wrapped stuff either. Butchers wrap your selection in wax paper and weigh it and price it. The selection of meat is excellent and 1/2 the price. T-bone steaks an inch thick and big enough to make you drool on your footwear.
Not much diesel used used to get the stuff to the markets.
There is a giant produce terminal in downtown L.A. where farmers sell their whole crops. And trucks are needed to move it to the big supermarkets. That means driving up the I-5, the 405, etc. where there is always some kind of accident causing 8-10 lane freeways to slow to 5 mph.
Once a truckfull of live chickens overturned and chickens were running around. So traffic stopped so people could grab them and put them in their trunk. Another time a truckful of frozen pigs overturned on the 14 fwy-S. Every pickup truck had a pig in the back. Same with the beer truck and the Brinks truck full of quarters.
The I-5 sounds like my kind of place to “shop,” LOL!
Best Christmas Ever? Grandpa hit a big, fat pheasant. It went into the trunk. A day later, a Christmas Tree fell off the back of a tree truck, so we had a REAL Christmas Tree that year, and pheasant for Christmas Dinner.
God Bless Us, Every One! :)