Low Prices? or Abundance?

There is a new grocery store in my area. Well, perhaps not new as it is just a new location for a store that has been in the area for 50 years or so and it has been open now for a few months. But it is still new.

And down the road and around the corner there is a marketplace with the name of America’s largest retailer on it.

If you’re looking to save money it’s best to go to the marketplace around the corner. If you’re not looking for anything special or different, you’re just needing the basics, it will suffice. They usually do have the bare bones minimum, and sometimes some great prices.

The new store usually (but probably not always) has higher prices but they also have a great selection of anything that you might want. This store is shiny and new and it has a wonderful ambience. You walk in and the wonderful aroma of coffee wafts through the air. To the right is the floral section where there is a wide and beautiful selection of fresh cut flowers and plants. To the left is a coffee bar that serves wonderful fancy coffees, teas, gelato and as my daughters have persistently pointed out to me, Ice Cream.

You walk on through and most of the time they have samples of wonderful foods to try. There is a full salad bar, a place where you can sample and bottle local honey’s, a deli with a plethora of different ready made salad’s and foods, and a bakery where they bake unique and distinctive “Artisan breads” every day. There are so many wonderful breads and every day a special bread of the day. If you want a sample they will slice a piece for you then and there. On Friday’s they bake the most delicious Challah bread that makes the most “delish in a dish” French toast that you can imagine. (shhh, don’t tell my Beachbody.com coach!). At the back of the store there is a Chef, who is always cooking something new and wonderful right in front of you and giving out samples.

It’s always a pleasure to shop at that store.

They must train their employees very well because everyone there treats every customer like royalty. And it works very well for them if I do say so myself. One day while perusing the produce section I ended up buying a cantaloupe, some heirloom tomatoes (yum!) and some nectarines that I had no intention of buying just because the produce guy insisted on helping me find some perfect banana’s. I told him that my family loves banana’s and if it is a banana they’ll eat it but he still helped me find a perfect bunch of banana’s and then of course a cantaloupe, some heirloom tomatoes and the nectarines. I swear I only intended to buy banana’s and romaine.

But good service pays off.

Walking into and shopping at this store makes you feel good. Really good. It makes you feel Abundant and Prosperous, like the world is filled with wonderful things and amazing delicacies just waiting for you to partake.

Like you deserve all the Wealth, Prosperity and Abundance that the world has to offer.

And that is why I shop there. I’m sure that is why many people shop there.

It’s the experience.

And when you focus on and appreciate the good things in life you attract more of the good things in life back to you.

And more often than not, especially if you want to create Abundance, that beats the low prices.