Price Chopper Rocked the Holiday Cheer Out!!

Price Chop­per

Oh boy. So much to say. Where do I start? Maybe with …“Price Chop­per, you’ve come a long way baby!”

When I first moved up here, you were not my first choice. That’s right, you weren’t. I loved Grand Union. They were my warm and fuzzy for all my food shop­ping needs. Dev­as­ta­tion set in when they started clos­ing stores. Still to this day they have the best gro­cery store buf­falo wings ever. Sorry, it’s a love that grows stronger for me all the time. It’s all about absence mak­ing the heart grow fonder. Every now and then I’ll make the trip to Corinth to get me some, but I should say your honey wings are my favorites.

Skip­ping on over to a Fri­day, Novem­ber 11th now, let’s talk about my amaz­ing day spent with a group of amaz­ing peo­ple and the ton of amaz­ing food; along with the very evi­dent desire to have mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ships with every guest in the room. Price Chop­per not only wel­comed us with open arms, but rolled out the red car­pet as far as I’m con­cerned. All the guests there I spoke to they felt the same as me. You really did us more than right and your­self more than proud.

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A lit­tle some­thing I’d like to note, I had a flare up of allergy symp­toms and made trips to the ladies room often through­out the day to blow my nose and cough until it felt like my head would explode. One of these trips allowed me to come back to the lobby to find no one. Imag­ine? They left me. LOL …thank good­ness for the recep­tion­ist, I finally found them. @whatchamagifts was kind enough to take my lap­top and purse into the event room.

When I finally walked into the room I was embar­rassed to be late, so I quickly found my group and prac­ti­cally ran to the table and took my seat. If mem­ory serves me cor­rect, up first to speak to us was Jerel (Jerry) Golub and he did a fan­tas­tic job telling us about Price Chop­per and its philoso­phies and mis­sion. They strive to pro­vide us con­sumers qual­ity prod­ucts, choices, and have an open forum where our con­cerns can be heard. A real sense of com­mu­nity was felt right from the start and con­tin­ued through­out the entire #PCHol­i­day­Cheer Showcase.

Say Cheese!

Rus­sell Zwanka, Senior VP of Sales Mer­chan­dis­ing & Market­ing (A.K.A. VP of Everything)

I met some really nice folks and actu­ally every­one was down to earth. The 1st per­son I met was such a nice man and not as one would expect an exec­u­tive to be, you know what I mean …very busi­ness proper. He bal­ances pro­fes­sion­al­ism and per­son­able very well, and it was a plea­sure hav­ing a moment of his time. Rus­sell was very infor­ma­tive and lis­tened to what us blog­gers were telling him. You could tell he really cared about what we had to say.

Jerry Golub, Pres­i­dent & CEO

The next per­son I met really sur­prised me too, in a good way. With such an impor­tant posi­tion in the com­pany and in the Golub fam­ily, I expected at least some touch of arro­gance. But, nope. Not at all. Another sweet­heart of a guy and so will­ing to talk to peo­ple. Very friendly and pleas­ant to speak with and another one who was very open to what blog­gers had to say. I love it when some­one cares how I think and feel about what they do.

Heidi Reale, Direc­tor of Mar­ket­ing & Cus­tomer Insights

The next two ladies I met over the sum­mer and it was a plea­sure see­ing them again.  Heidi Real, Direc­tor of Mar­ket­ing & Con­sumer Insights pic­tured here,

…and I don’t know how Liz Lisuzzo, Con­sumer Insights Spe­cial­ist, man­aged to avoid my cam­era, but she’s a sweet­heart too. By the way, you can chat with her on Twit­ter at @PriceChopperNY. You might even catch Heidi on too. These two ladies are my favorites and I hope to have an oppor­tu­nity to spend some fun time with them at some point. Liz is sweet and Heidi is a hoot!

Lus­cious Desserts

After meet­ing the peo­ple I met, after speak­ing with the peo­ple I spoke with, and after tak­ing in all the infor­ma­tion the speak­ers had to share, I have more con­fi­dence in Price Chop­per. It’s been my favorite place to shop for my gro­ceries for quite a while now, and I know I’ll find what I’m look­ing for and at a rea­son­able price. And, who can beat $0.10 off on gas at Sunoco for every $50.00 you spend? What’s not to love?

Thank you Price Chopper!

Is Price Chop­per your favorite gro­cery store too? Why? What is it you like best?

I’ll be post­ing more on the won­der­ful food Price Chop­per included in this #Hol­i­day­Cheer Show­case over at my food blog, Tech Val­ley Food tomor­row (I’ll direct link to the post too). I hope you’ll take a moment to stop by.