I Do Most Of My Grocery Shopping At Shoprite

I do most all of my grocery shopping at the Shoprite at the Cheltenham Mall. Technically its not in Philadelphia but the Shoprite is located just outside the city limits on the other side of Cheltenham Avenue.

I used to work at that store (its a loonnnnnnnng story!) so I'm still friendly with most of the people that work there. But even though I used to work there the store is still pretty good shopping-wise! Their pastry section is to-die-for and they have a very good seafood department.

The store is also at a very good location because it is right near the bus depot at Cheltenham and Ogontz Avenues.

There's also a sale going on and the store has many sample exhibits where shoppers can sample some of the foods that are on sale.

The "Death" Of A Beloved Radio Station!

Imagine my shock when I turned on to get one of my favorite radio stations - WHAT - only to find out that there was another format playing!

It seems WHAT has been bought! For those of you not familiar with the station it was a local community talk station that discussed important issues in the Philadelphia area. Probably the most famous host there was Mary Mason. She was also a bit of a controversial radio host.

It seems the station had trouble keeping up financially and that was the reason why it was sold. So far I think that the only alternative station is WURD which is 900AM. This is also a talk show radio station about important community issues in the Philadelphia area. I have had a chance to listen to this station and it is pretty good although I know that they need more sponsorship and advertisers so that they won't go the same way that WHAT did. I also believe that you can listen to them online as well (although I not absolutely sure).

We have gone through so many radio station changes! I believe the first one was when WWDB - also a talk station - changed its format. Then another one of my favorite radio stations - WJJZ - changed its format. But now I have come to find out that WJJZ has moved a little "up" the dial so I can still listen to them and their "smooth jazz" format.

It will be interesting to see where Mary Mason turns up and I do miss some of the other hosts like "Mr Midday" - but he does have a myspace site.

So the number of "my favorite" stations are decreasing. I do know that there is an internet radio station called LaMott Radio which is near where I live and there are a number of other Philadelphia-related internet stations online that I have to find out more about.

I'm A Philadelphia Native!

I was born and raised in Philadelphia!

My initial blog started out with me blogging about Philadelphia but then it branched out into free things that I found on the Internet.

So I decided to start another blog about Philly! Since I still live near the area there are still people, places and things that I still enjoy about the Philadelphia area and I feel that having a blog devoted to Philadelphia is worth it!