When I did in-home cooking demonstrations, the food cost about $25 dollars. Between those and what we used at 
the office during training, I spent about $150 per week at a local grocery store. I always went to the same store, first, because I knew where everything was, second, because if I went to the same cashier, she knew how much the unmarked produce was, and third, it was a good recruiting opportunity. Go to the same cashier five days in a row with four chicken breasts, a bag of corn, a bag of peas, a pound of carrots, a zucchini, a yellow squash, a bundle of radishes, a pineapple cake mix, a half can of pineapple rings, two russet potatoes and a large Braeburn apple, eventually she’s going to ask what you’re up to. Plus, it gives you one more person who looks forward to seeing you every day.
I also bought maybe 15 extra gallons of gas each week. I bought clothes and shoes and office supplies and a cell phone. I had a banker, a mechanic, even a barber; a printer, a butcher, a candlestick maker. I made up the part about the candlestick maker, but you get my point.
When I left that job, when I stopped spending my $150 at that grocery store, the entire chain went out of business. Coincidence?
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