Puttin' on the Ritz!

I don't consider myself a snob. but there are things I will pay a little bit more to have. One of them is Ritz Crackers for my soup. I like Soup. I probably have a bowl of Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup at least three or four times a week for a meal.

Yesterday after I worked out at my gym, (Only Snobs would say that, right?) I stopped at Redners (Where the little people shop) to pick up a few things I did not find in the grocery section at Walmart in Trexlertown. (The official store of Rednecks, Side note: Wouldn't it make more sense if Rednecks shopped at Redner's? Several of the Cashier's have matching Kate Gosselin scare hairdo's, so I was wondering.)

Anyway at Redner's I had a choice between a one dollar box of regular saltines, or paying $3.29 for the standard eight pack box of prepackaged Ritz. I put half a package worth in my can of soup, so that is 16 servings at 20.5 cents a serving. The saltines would have lasted almost twice as long at around 4 cents a serving.

I chose the Ritz. I always do. Funny thing was I hadn't been in the grocery section of Walmart in over a year, but I had a ten dollar gift card from my Christmas stocking and decided to use it.

One thing I had reinforced is that while Walmart may have the best prices, their selection sucks. I like Bear Naked natural cereal to put in my vanilla yogurt. Walmart only had one flavor, CRANBERRY. YUCK. but their price for a 12.5 ounce bag? $3.00

Redners, on the other hand, had the flavor I like, banana nut with walnut and oak clusters. Their price? $3.79. I would rather get the product I want and pay a few more cents for it, than buy the bargain and hate it. If that makes me a snob, I don't care. I'm going to have my yogurt now, with my bear naked cereal. Maybe for lunch I will make a pork roll sandwich and put some grey poupon mustard on it. Now that's snobby, right?