The Taste of Home Cooking School will be back in Clinton on May 6th! Piggly Wiggly is a major sponsor of this event as we furnish the food for the event as well as bags full of groceries and a bunch of free items for attendees. If you like to watch the Food Network, you’ll be right at home here! Come out and join in the fun in this community event. Vendor booths will be open at 4pm and the show will start at 6. You can get your tickets at Piggly Wiggly at Jordan Plaza or Shamrock Plaza. Save a few bucks by getting them in advance. Actually, you probably want to get them in advance to insure you get a ticket! Last year was sold out and with all the positive comments of last years show, I am absolutely sure that this year will sell out as well.

The Sampson Independent ran an article last week that is available on their website by clicking on this link. Taste of Home Cooking Show

Come out for a fun evening and support your local businesses as we show off what we have to offer you, our valued customers.

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Goodness really does grow in NC! We are celabrating NC products on Thursday, April 15, 2010! When we heard that the Goodness Grows people, from the NC Dept of Agriculture, were coming to Clinton, we decided to make a fun day of it! The Giant Shopping Cart will be here along with Mr. Pig and LOTS of NC Vendors giving away merchandise and prizes. Here is a list of what we have so far!

Giveaway Items While Supplies Last

1.  Free hot dogs

2.  Free Sausage dogs

3.  Free mini cupcakes

4.  Free Pepsi

5.  Free NC Red Delicious apples

6.  Free photo taken with Mr. Pig

Register to win the following prizes

1.  Piggly Wiggly Tee Shirt

2.  Piggly Wiggly Gift Cards

3.  AMP Dale Jr. Energy Car Hood

4.  Key chain with clock and money clip

5.  UNC Puzzle

6.  8 x 10 Picture Frame

7.  April Showers Duck Doll

8.  Mr. Pig Doll

9.  Free Photo Developing – 100 4 x 6 prints

10.  Win your choice of 1 box Chews 4 Health or Trim U Lean

11.  Portable Thermos Rolling Cooler

12.  Thermos 2 gallon Water Cooler

13.  Rubbermaid ½ gallon Water Cooler

14.  Folding Camp Chair

We are trying to get some of our Local winners of the Miss North Carolina preliminary pageants here as well! Come out and enjoy a great day with Mr. Pig and and see that Goodness Grows in NC!

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We recently helped to sponsor the 1st Sampson County Super Sprint. I thought everyone would like to see highlights of Mr. Pig at this event. We furnished the food station for the race.  We furnished water, soft drinks, bananas, bagels, and peanut butter for the participants. Special thanks to our friends at Pepsi Bottling Ventures for their generous support of our local community. We also had some Protein Rush and “Bang” workout drinks furnished by our NEW friends at VPX Sports and Europa FDM. Be on the lookout for these new and exciting items in our stores soon! I’ll quit chatting and let you see the video! Hope you enjoy watching as much as we did in participating!

PS make sure you watch till the end! You’ll see what can happen if you eat properly and exercise! Even Mr. Pig slimmed down. (even if his was only temporary)

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The Super Bowl has nearly become a holiday recently. Maybe one of the most watched sporting events in the world, but certainly in the US. At Piggly Wiggly, we understand that you may want to have a Super Party this weekend. Here are some helpful items that we have available to take some stress out of your preparations! Our Deli’s are preparing to fix you all kind of goodies for your parties.

Try our delicious fruit tray with fresh Strawberries, Cantelope, Honey Dew, Seedless red grapes, and Pineapple with a our homemade fruit dip.

Want something a little more substantial? We have all sorts of other trays as well. Our Sandwich tray has petite chicken salad, pimento cheese, ham and cheese croissants, and roast beef croissants.

Our Vegetable tray for your health conscious guests, includes carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, cucumbers, and celery.

It is football, so there will most likely be a lot of guys watching the game. Our Cheese and Meat Tray is ideal! Full of Turkey, Ham, Roast Beef, yellow and swiss cheese. We even through in a few pickles.  Perfect for the guys hearty appetites.

This is just a small sample of the many different party ideas that we have for you at your local Piggly Wiggly! See our Super Bowl ad for a more detailed description of our Deli and Bakery trays available. Even then, if you don’t see exactly what you are looking for, simply speak with one of our Deli / Bakery managers and they’ll be glad to customize your Super Bowl feast!

Sample of some Super Bowl Sweets just for you!

Thanks for visiting our Blog here at gopigglywiggly.com.

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Mr. Pig loves to have fun! Here’s a short video of him at Hubb’s Corn Maze. We all had a great time! Especially Mr. Pig!

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OK, there has been some recent activity on Facebook concerning the OLD Piggly Wiggly Jingle. I have dug through the old files and managed to find a copy of the old Jingle. In fact, we still use it occaisionaly in some of our radio advertising. This is the actual ad version so you will hear some background music that is used for the voice over for the radio announcers to record our actual ad items. Listen and enjoy! Please post comments here!

Play Now:

 Piggly Wiggly Jingle [1:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Wow! It’s hard to believe that another year has past. While this year has brought us a lot of difficulties as a country, we are starting to see some improvements and will continue to do so in the coming year. Our goal at your local Piggly Wiggly is to do as much as possible to help stimulate our local economy while offering our friends and neighbors a full service grocery shopping experience at extremely competitive  prices. We buy locally whenever we can and encourage you to do the same.  It’s New Years Eve however, so I’ll spare you the lesson in Economics!

Take this time to reflect on the past year. Relish your accomplishments and learn from your mistakes. Always look back with a goal of finding areas that we can improve on.  Instead of just setting New Year’s resolutions once a year, get in the habit of setting goals and obtaining them. As your local grocery store, our goal is to give you a great shopping experience. If, on occasion, that doesn’t occur, please let one of our Store Managers know so that we may find our areas of weakness to improve on.

Happy New Year from Piggly Wiggly!

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Merry Christmas from your friends at your local Piggly Wiggly! With all the hustle bustle during the holiday season, it’s sometimes easy to forget. We at Piggly Wiggly want to thank you for your continued business! Without you, our customers, we are nothing.  We want to be your one stop shop for all your grocery needs so if you need something that we don’t carry on a regular basis, please ask one of our Managers and we will do our best to find a source! Please remember the reason we celebrate and cherish the time you are able to spend with your friends and family!

Merry Christmas!

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Are you in need of some last minute gifts and have no ideas left? Give the gift of food this Christmas season. Piggly Wiggly has gift cards available in multiple denominations as well as open ended cards that let you decide just how much you want to give.  During these turbulent economic times, food may be the absolute best gift you could give.

If your organization has a larger number of gifts to give, be sure and check out Piggly Wiggly’s discounted program for our gift cards. We are currently offering a 5% discount on all gift cards if your order is over $1000.

Piggly Wiggly also has numerous other gift ideas for your Holiday shopping. Custom made fruit baskets, a bottle of your favorite wine in a beautiful gift bag, party trays from our Deli’s, the list just goes on and on.

Want a more personalized gift? Let our Picture Perfect photo lab restore an old picture for a family member, or take a snapshot of your family and get it printed on canvas for that extra special touch. (Allow an extra 24 hours for Canvas prints to properly dry!) We even have a large selection of frames for your pictures as well. For that last minute stocking stuffer, come to our photo lab in Jordan Plaza and pick out a few previously viewed DVD’s for only $5.99 each! Enjoy the Christmas season this year. Let Piggly Wiggly help finish up those last minute details.

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Photographing Holiday Lights

Greetings Fellow
Photographers!
Is your neighborhood glowing with holiday
lights? Mine is! I love this time of year…everything is lit up
with holiday cheer, which creates some fantastic photo
opportunities. As many of you have requested, here are some tips for
taking pictures of holiday lights, both outdoors and indoors. Enjoy!

Outdoors
The most important tip for getting a great shot of an outdoor holiday light
display is to shoot at dusk. And by “dusk,” I mean the time just before the sky becomes pitch black, when there is just barely any natural light left, and the sky is a deep dark purple. This allows you to capture the house or building you are shooting, as well as
the lights. Put your camera in manual mode, and lower your ISO to around 200. Use a tripod and a 5 second exposure. Turn off the flash, and turn off autofocus if you can (manually focus if you are able to). Then, take a few shots and see how they are turning out.If they are lighter than you’d like, use a shorter exposure. If they
are dark, try a longer exposure.

As an alternative, you can try to use the night or low light setting on your camera and see if that works well for this shot. I still recommend keeping the camera on a tripod to avoid blur.

Indoors
Indoor displays or pictures of the tree can be tricky. Use a tripod and a slow shutter speed to capture some
ambient glow from the tree or display, and don’t use the flash unless there are people in your shot. Once you get the shot you are after, have fun with angles and close ups of the details of the indoor display or tree. Use the same suggestions and make minor
adjustments if needed. Have fun!

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