New Seasons Market: Why go there? All you people keep bitching about it and probably still go there. Why? Because it's cool or has the freshest, most local, and healthy products. That's why. You live in Portland and shop in places like that because it is so "Portland."
But I'm happy with Freddies. And if it's not Freddies, then Winco fucking rules. Then Safeway. I haven't shopped at Albertsons. Then there's Whole Foods and Zupans and whatever else is out there. But Freddies and Winco is the way for me. Maybe I'm too poor for other places. Maybe I'm just real, but I'm far from normal in my means and thinking. Portland just conforms to places like NSM and think that is the normal way of life. Well the Freddies and Wincos I've been in are where real Portland is doing their grocery shopping. Funny how weird is supposed to be different, but Portland is all the same. Weird is mainstream and there is nothing weird to me about it. Some homeless dude in his truck playing guitar while being amplified under the 205 bridge, and playing to no one. Nah, the buskers on Alberta or Hawthorne is where it's at. I still didn't quite get how that homeless man had a huge speaker working without electricity. And he was playing for zero attention. I also don't get how the same product can be most expensive at Safeway, then cheaper at Freddies, and a bargain at Winco. How the fuck does that work? All you people just want attention. And that is weird.