By Sally Hollandsworth
I’ll miss Minyard’s. A lot. It will be weird for it not to be sitting over there. Like anything else, the store had both its good and bad points. Its proximity has enslaved me for more than 15 years and I’ve basically taken the location for granted. I could send a kid over to pick up the one recipe item I forgot for supper, or a bag of filler-filled potato chips for school lunches, or nutritionally useless cans of soda pop. On the bright side, the prices seemed cheaper than other stores in the area, and you didn’t have to subtract or add rewards prices. The price marked was what you paid. Yet on the downside, its produce was sometimes unidentifiable. How old was some of that stuff? Why anyone in management never noticed that crime is mystifying, to be sure.
While in some ways it will be neat-o to have a brand spanking new mega-market in the Minyard’s spot – and yes, totally organic food is definitely cutting edge – sometimes I just need normal, mystery-ingredient, recognizable brand name "stuff-called-for" in everyday recipes. And while I do shop at Whole Foods on occasion, it doesn’t carry regular food items I also buy. And I loathe having to go to two stores – even though I would have to if I wanted produce…. Albertson’s and Kroger have big selections, but compared to Minyards, they might as well be in Denton, geographically speaking, of course. They’re awfully far to go for the one item I forgot. But that’s just me. If I lived a few streets to the north, I might feel differently. But I don’t. So, yes, I’ll miss Minyard’s. A lot.
