A Southern Season Gourmet Food Shopping…15-75% Inventory Clearance

Here in the Triangle we do have gourmet shops. My favorites are located in Chapel Hill. And one that stands out is A Southern Season. It’s a large grocery store that has the neatest stuff. Right now they have a big inventory clearance sale where everything is 15-75% off. That includes coffees, teas, seasonings, pastas, sauces, mixes and anything else you see. They have a lot of gift, entertaining, and housewares stuff also. And pre-made gift baskets. I like pushing around their little grocery carts. Those are the ones you usually see in a city since the aisles and stores are smaller.

The sweets section is my fav’rite! That shouldn’t come as a shock…

Pre-made Baskets Sale

They’ve got a few shelves of every kinds of Moravian cookie you can imagine. Moravian cookies are those delicate thin cookies, really popular here in Raleigh.

A Southern Season's Moravian Cookie Selection

And they have a whole section on just gummy candies. Any and everything you can think of. These Haribo gummies remind me of visiting Germany as a kid. They’re the original ones (there were some fake imitations that were out for awhile at the stores).

And back in the 80s throughout Europe they had these candies called Smarties. They were pretty much a colorful version of M&Ms that came in this colorful cardboard tube. But back to gummies…gosh, my mind gets so lost in la-la land when I think of sweets! …they’ve got this new kind of gummy candy called gummy pasta. Get it?…it took me a second. You can’t run gummy candies past me without my noticing…remember that saying…can’t pull the wool over my eyes? Well, I don’t usually miss when there’s a new flavor in town! Remember the old gummy sharks and frogs? Those are more for the kids. Me, I like the gummy cherries the best. Great sweet value as you get two cherries each instead of just one!

Gummy Candies

I also love those rolled up red licorice candies. When I was younger they reminded me of records. Funny, the things you remember!

They also have a big jelly belly section. I’m not a nut over those but I do like the popcorn jelly bean. It’s different. Kinda tastes like a sweet caramel and hint of salt flavor.

But once you make it out of the candy and sweets aisles, which can take awhile for me…you’re at the back of the store. That’s where the wines are stored. Their wines are broken out by country or region. I like that. It makes it much easier to find a special wine.

I was kinda disappointed that on my trip there were no tastings anywhere. They definitely had what seemed to be enough employees walking around that could’ve manned something like that.

Category: Unique Raleigh Retailers