No T.G.I.F. here, buddy! Friday sucked. A disagreement with my Department Manager (you can guess who won) left me very annoyed all afternoon. Then I heard the news: Farmer Jack is going to sell all 66 of its stores in Michigan!
Now, when I first moved here and was only fantasizing about owning this house, I used to tell myself it would be great when I retired. Why? Because I could walk to any where I would need to go. Murray's across Plymouth was an auto parts, hardware and jewelry store, right behind the house was Farmer Jack's and CVS and just down the street was the liquor store.
First, Murray's dropped the jewelry and hardware lines and is just an auto parts store. And, now this?
I am friends with the Farmer Jack crew. They go out of their way to tell me what, and more important, what NOT to buy. I was (and am) TOTALLY BUMMED!!
Stopped at CVS to pick up some prescriptions (I suppose next month they will move and it will turn into a tanning salon).
Dinner was the last of the leftovers. Went to bed at 10:00 PM, but woke up at 12:30 AM and couldn't get back to sleep until after 4:00.
We took Farmer Jack's closing just as hard. The Port Huron store closed as part of a restructuring in 2003. Riese still talks longingly about it (probably because she and I used to do all of the shopping back in those days.)
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