The Fresh Market

How many times a week do you encounter workers at a store or an office who are just horribly rude? They make you so mad and all I ever think is “Get a NEW job that you are not dealing with the public!!!” You get so upset and sometimes even cry (okay, maybe that is just pregnant me...)

But then there are those few people who you may come across that go above and beyond… and sometimes the tiniest gesture just makes you feel so great.

Well, I’ll start with that I have become obsessed with the Fresh Market in Willow Grove/Horsham. It is my new favorite store and I get so excited when I have a doctor’s appointments (which are every 2 weeks now and soon to be every week) because their office is right up the street from the Fresh Market, so Brody and I venture to that shopping center after EVERY appointment. I just love the set up, the fruit is so fresh, there is classical music playing, samples by the dessert case… it really doesn’t get much better then the Fresh Market. (I wish we had one in Newtown, I would be there every day)!

Yesterday they even exceeded my already high expectations… I also bring Brody in his stroller (b/c it is usually around his nap time and I am already pushing him to the limit, so I figure I should at least let him be comfortable.)
I stuff the bottom of the stroller with all the fruits, veggies, & dinner for that night, and every single time I am trying to maneuver my way up to pay with at least five items falling out of my hands (one of those items always is a little baggy of Sunkist Fruit Gems… which can I tell you~ you can pick the flavors you want!!!! This is just my all time favorite part of our shopping trip, as I gather an entire little bag of red ones! ;)

Well, the woman, actually girl at the register jumped to help me with my items… checked me out… and even said she would help me to the car! (I’m sorry, but this NEVER happens! Maybe at Maccaffery’s sometimes they ask if I need help to the car, but this girl wouldn’t even let me say no, I’m ok, she already had ALL of my bags!) Such a simple little thing but seriously it meant so much to me being pregnant and struggling with all of the bags of groceries! She fully carried them all to my car, (which was parked not so close too… more in front of Babies R Us) she was so nice to Brody and I, and asked about him as she unloaded all the groceries in my car! I think I was so in shock because I am actually used to people being surprisingly rude (especially when you have an “energetic” 21 month old, and some people even seem to be annoyed with pregnant people too….
I just wish there were more nice people like this girl….
I also feel so bad because when I got home and was telling my husband about her, he asked if I tipped her and I didn’t even think of it! Luckily I will be back there next week (after my doctor’s app) so I hope to see her again and definitely give her a tip this time.

www.thefreshmarket.com