Still gotta go higher . . . .
When you live in Ames there is literally no where else to shop for kids' clothes and even women's clothes/shoes. And for some reason milk is almost a dollar cheaper there than at Fareway.
I probably do 75% of my shopping at Fareway, Kohl's, our local hardware store, and Amazon Prime
Our "we have a monopoly" Hy-Vee charges $3.39 for their cheapest gallon of milk, Hy-Vee brand.
Nearest Fareway charges $2.49 for a gallon of AE. At 36 mpg, and the amount of milk we drink, I save money on the 20 mile trip in milk alone. Our Dollar General was undercutting Hy-Vee on milk for a while, and the Hy-Vee manager got all pissy with them.
I have to go to Des Moines or Ames for a Target, so I usually just go there when going shopping for more stuff, going to see kid or a game in Ames, etc. I am always in one on tax free weekend and I wish I could wear armor.
I am a big fan of the local hardware store. I had traded cars with the kids one day and I was driving a Focus and decided to buy a stack of those hard plastic Adirondack chairs at $18 each. Told the guy to hold them for me until I got my car back, and he said he had to deliver a lawn mower repair in our end of town and he would just bring them with in his truck. When I got home, they were on the front porch, with a large potted mum he must have just decided to throw in for free that had a smiley sticker on it.
