Shopping in Bethel

We left Goodnews for Bethel on Friday afternoon to attend a new teacher in-service on Saturday. Friday night after eating dinner at the district office, we headed to Swanson’s and as promised I took some pictures for the blog!

The stores here are all really great about storing food and purchases for you until you are ready to leave town.  So, after we finished shopping we boxed up all of our purchases, wrote our names and Mr. Boring’s name on them. The boxes are also marked as dry, chill or freeze and then held in the appropriate area until you pick them up. Mr. Boring from the DO arranged for all of the new teachers to write their name on their boxes so that he could pick them up while we were in meetings.

The front entrance to Swansons

Entrance to the movie theater, prepared foods section and check out lanes.

Now, some pictures of foods and their prices. Some prices provide more sticker shock than others! Remember, we don't purchase everything from this store, mostly just things that we can't get on Amazon or didn't ship ourselves. So some dairy products and other 'specialty' foods.

Notice the regular price of $13.49-- that is cheaper than Goodnews by more than a dollar. 

We were shopping with our co-worker Ben; here are some pictures of the items that we purchased. We checked everything out together so we could box it together.

The total of all of these items was $140.00! I'm not as surprised by totals anymore, but Simon is continually shocked by the request for that amount of money. On the plus side, Sawnsons is really great about marking things down, so if you can get there at the right time you'll get some great deals. For example, those little yogurts were marked down to 59 cents! Their regular price is somewhere around $1.50ish.