{"id":572,"date":"2010-08-04T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T16:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=572"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","slug":"you-were-my-sunshine-my-only-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/you-were-my-sunshine-my-only-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"You Were My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sunshineI\u2019ve been shopping at Sunshine on east 10th<\/sup> ever since my daughters were young enough to still want a ride on the rocking horse machine inside every store entrance. \u201cDaddy, let\u2019s go to the store with the horsy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in the early 70\u2019s, my cousin, Grouse, wrote a TV \"sunshinecommercial for Sunshine featuring that kiddie ride. It opened with the William Tell overture (The Lone Ranger theme) and me in a booming voice saying, \u201cA fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hi yo Sunshine\u201d all the while showing happy little kids aboard the mighty coin operated Sunshine steed. I don\u2019t recall how successful that advertisement campaign turned out to be but it sure was clever.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lived on the East side of Sioux Falls ever since moving to town in 1969 and suppose the reason I started buying groceries at Sunshine was because of its proximity to my house. But even when other super markets started popping up, my loyalty only wavered occasionally.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hy Vee likes to claim having a \u201chelpful smile in every aisle\u201d but the employees at Sunshine actually know me and the other regulars when we come through the door and seem to generally appreciate our business; no forced smiles. Plus, I know where everything is located in the store. And if there was ever some item I wanted that they didn\u2019t carry, all I had to do was mention it to Brian or any of the managers and it would be on the shelf within a few days. When I asked, this Spring, if Sunshine would help us sell tickets for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert, the answer was \u201cSure, Doug, glad to help out.\u201d No checking for an okay from corporate headquarters in another state..no asking for a cut..just a friendly \u201cyou bet\u201d right on the spot.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to miss all of the people at Sunshine that I\u2019ve gotten to know over the years and hope they\u2019re not left out in the cold by this deal with HyVee which closes my store this month. I don\u2019t like it for a lot of reasons but mostly because food shopping in a city this size shouldn\u2019t be monopolized by just two operations, HyVee and Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n

In fact..it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 There are still a few family owned grocery stores in town that don\u2019t get a lot of publicity but where, like Cheers, everyone knows your name. Andy\u2019s at 18th<\/sup> and Cleveland is a neat little four aisle neighborhood market that obviously doesn\u2019t have room to stock all those specialty items you find in a Sam\u2019s Club but it\u2019s run by nice people and carries most things you need and gets rave reviews for the freshness and quality of it\u2019s meats. Omar\u2019s way up on the North Phillips hill has been around for ages. It, too, stocks most of the basic food items and has a reputation for really good meat and getting robbed a lot.<\/p>\n

\"Franklin-Market-History-10\"Franklin Food Market on third and Cliff is the largest of the independents. It\u2019s been owned and operated by the Haggar family since 1949. You\u2019ve got to be doing something right to stay in business for 61 years and customers say it\u2019s the excellent meat department and old fashioned friendly atmosphere.<\/p>\n

I realize, of course, that when family budgets are tight, it\u2019s hard to resist the deals offered by the super dooper mega plex food stores with their outdoor tents full of bargain soda and plants or carnival rides set up on the parking lot but it\u2019s still going to be a sad day when that Sunshine horsy gallops off into the sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been shopping at Sunshine on east 10th ever since my daughters were young enough to still want a ride on the rocking horse machine inside every store entrance. \u201cDaddy, let\u2019s go to the store with the horsy.\u201d Back in the early 70\u2019s, my cousin, Grouse, wrote a TV commercial for Sunshine featuring that kiddie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}