Last night I went shopping at Bloom to get bunny food, since the place I usually get bulk rabbit food pellets, Animal Exchange, was closed and a certain someone in the house was desperate for food. I really like shopping at Bloom, where you can pick up a scanner when you go in and scan-and-bag as you shop and then be pretty much done with everything except running your credit card through the pay thing at the end. I also like their $1-each reusable shopping bags, which I think can even hook onto the bag holder that you can put in your cart as you shop (though I didn't realize that til I was looking at the picture I took last night). Oh, and I like the small carts too -- the ones that are in between regular size and a basket, and even have a little place to hold the scanner.

It seems that someone at Bloom really thought about what customers need to make shopping easier, though they still have a few kinks to work out (my scanner couldn't be read at the first location I tried and I had to go to a second, and when I was using it in the produce section, it thought turnip greens were Eastern cantaloupes). Other than those little glitches, it's a nice place to shop. If they carried some more environmentally friendly products (I couldn't find any paper product with recycled content or any dishwasher soap without phosphates or any cleaner that didn't have a hazardous-to-your-health warning on it), it would be ideal. Floppy says the bunny food is excellent too.