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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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!
You need a working lunch but want to get a great meal too. What can you do? Now you have an option that does not have to include fast food. We recently installed wireless internet access at all 3 of our Deli/Bakery locations. (Jordan Plaza, Shamrock Plaza and Roseboro)
Now you can sit down to a real meal and have WiFi access. Need a break from the office? Come enjoy a cup of our gourmet coffee and open your laptop! Can’t wait to get to the office to get started? We offer a full breakfast for about what you would expect to pay at many fast food restaurants! Come enjoy a freshly cooked full breakfast and catch up on the prior evenings e-mails or your favorite online news service.
We also have meeting rooms available at our Jordan Plaza location as well. Now, your online presentations are a breeze! Simply open your laptop and connect your projector (we have one available to rent as well).
We are glad to offer our customers this service for no cost.
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Santa Claus is a VERY busy person this time of year, but we at Piggly Wiggly have arranged to get him to visit our stores this week for your convenience. Santa will be in our stores on the dates and times listed below. Make sure you get the children in to make their last minute wishes to Santa!
Monday, December 14th from 4-7 pm at our Shamrock Plaza store
Tuesday, December 15th from 4-7 pm at our Roseboro store
Thursday, December 17th from 4-7 pm at the College Street store
Sunday, December 20th from 2-5 pm at the Jordan Plaza store
Come by and take a photo of your child with Santa and get a print or your Christmas card printed at our online photo lab!
Merry Christmas from your friends at Piggly Wiggly!
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Piggly Wiggly entered our barrel train in the Clinton, NC Christmas parade today! I think Mr. Pig was a big hit as always. The kid’s riding in the barrel train had fun as well! Special thanks goes to the employees of our Shamrock Plaza store for taking the responsibiliy of getting the train in the parade as well as furnishing our riders! (all of them are children, or at least closely related to, our employees). Chuck Crabtree, manager of the store, did a great job coordinating all the preparations for this years parade. Here are a couple of videos I wanted to get online as soon as possible. I’ll try to clean them up a little later, but please enjoy!
Greetings Fellow Photographers!
A few weeks ago, I emailed some tips for taking a great family or group picture to use on your holiday cards
this year. How did they turn out? Hopefully you got at least one great one to use! This time around, I will walk you through the fast, fun, and easy process of creating your holiday cards online. To get started, log in to your account and click the yellow “Cards and Calendars” tab. Choose “Cards,” and click “Start a Card.”
Choose Card Type,
Orientation, and Size
The first step is to select which kind of card you want to create (slimline or folding). I will walk through the process for creating a slimline card since slimline
cards are the most popular type of holiday cards, but the process for folding cards is quite similar. Once you choose your card type, select your orientation: landscape (horizontal) or portrait (vertical). Most people choose landscape, but it is completely up to you. Finally, choose your size. 4×8 is the most common size for
holiday slimline cards. Press “Next Step” to continue.
Choose Theme and Card Template The next step is to select your theme. Choose from Holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Religious, and other holiday-related themes. There is also a “Blank” theme category that gives you a blank card, so you can design your own from scratch. Once you choose a theme, select the template you would like to use. Some templates have more design than others; click on any template to view it. You will have the ability to further customize the card after choosing a template. Once you find a template you like, select it and press “Next Step.”
Add Photo(s) and Text
Here is the fun part! The third and final step is to add your photo(s) and text to your card. Select your album along the bottom of the page, and drag your photo onto the appropriate place on the card template. Many cards have places for multiple photos, but you have the ability to use as many or as few photos as you please on any of the cards. You can add photos from different albums as well. After you add your photo(s), click the “Text” tab to add text to any of the text boxes. You can add or remove both text boxes and photos (see the next paragraph).
Once you have added photos and text, press “Preview” to view your card. If you are happy with it, press “Add To Cart” to place your order! Or, to customize the card further, press “Customize,” which will allow you to add, remove, and edit photos, text, graphics, borders, and backgrounds
(click on any photo or text box to edit it). Press “Add To Cart” when you are ready to order.
For folding cards, follow the same process as above, but be sure to preview and edit the front, back, and inside of the card.
That’s it! Have fun and be creative…the possibilities are endless!
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Indoor displays or pictures of the tree can be tricky. Use a tripod and a slow shutter speed to capture some
