Pumpkins

Not having learned our lesson from the “let’s buy an entire pallet of strawberries” adventure (I’ll leave it up to someone else to write a post about that), yesterday I had a friendly forklift driver put a 700-pound bin of carving pumpkins in the back of our truck. Only on the way back to Hyde Park did I realize that, not having a loading dock or forklift of our own, we had no way of removing the bin of pumpkins…except, of course, pumpkin-by-pumpkin. We had a miniature parade of employees carrying pumpkins into the store and finding spaces to put them all. We’re selling them for $5 a piece (the whole bin cost us about $115 — about twice as much as the same bin would have cost last year).

Long story short: sometime in the next two weeks, come pick up your Halloween Jack-O-Lantern-to-be at Open Produce.