Why Martha Saved Five Hundred Paper Receipts From Her Weekly Grocery Trips

other dates,” I said.

“I have to be at the store for my five o’clock shift,” Brenda said, looking at the kitchen clock.

“Come with me,” she added.

The sky was turning a dull slate grey as we pulled into the far corner of the Oak Creek supermarket parking lot, near the corrugated metal recycling bins.

A row of shopping carts sat nested continue reading …