Smart & Final

And all the things that I learned there, uh, I wanted to put into a book one day, and the title of the book would be Everything I Knew in Life I Learned Working in a Liquor Store.

And what happened was we had a candy section there, and I would go with my aunt once a week to Smart & Final, which was one of the wholesale candy places.

Uh, most of the candy bars back in that, those days, uh, that...

I'd say it was 1946 plus seven.

Seven, eight for nine, 51, two.

Yeah, 1953.

Uh, Smart & Final would display the bars, the candy bars, 24 in a box.

And if there was no shrink, shrunk, shrink wrap on any of the boxes, if you wanted to taste one of the bars to see if you like it, you would put a nickel right in the box and then take a bar out.

... for a dollar.

My, I, my, I used to take, my daddy used to take me to Smart & Final.

I would buy the box, and I would sell them at school for a dollar.

That was elementary.

He gives like terrible tours.

We see him say, that's an old Smart and Final right there.

I may have talked about this in the pod.

Did you know that Smart and Final is named after Jim Smart and Hildane Final? No.

No.

I was like, we were all thinking, oh, smart and final.

It's discount groceries.

Yeah.

Oh, I've seen it.

It's like a Smart and Final kind of thing.

Yeah, so there's a grocery outlet near me.

And I was like, I saw it going up and I was like, I had heard of it before, but I was like, this is either going to be really sick or it's going to be like the worst thing ever.

It's with my crappy GE appliances that all decided to take a big dump on their pants last week.

Old ladies in line wearing a bikini and a short skirt at Smart and Final.

I've got a beef with Hard Knocks.

Should have gone with Raiders, HBO.

designed in a new way.

So I would then open up the boxes that came in from inventories from Smart & Final and Iris Food Store.

So Smart & Final was the, I think, the wholesale part of Iris Food Store.

And Iris Food Store was where he wholesale purchased his inventory, all his inventory, by the way, for this liquor store.

And that's another business that people should think about going into, wholesaling to retailers in communities.

Oh my God.

First of all, Trader Joe's has them in the little bags, but I used to buy them, I don't even know if Smart and Final still does, but they had like the bigger bag and I thought that was just like value-wise, it was a better deal, but it doesn't matter that much.

Then I would put them in individual bags, but just the Trader Joe's has them, it's easy, it's cheap enough, worth it.

So chopping onions is the worst job, I just want to say.

You save a few bucks.

You don't worry about the bathroom lines, the c- the cost you gotta pay for some nachos that they're trying to sell you on as these premier nachos that are $38, and it's some, some, uh, canned cheese they got from a Smart & Final somewhere.

Enough's enough.

Bang for your buck.

Yo, you really be trying to get on me for being thrifty.

We were talking on the phone yesterday, and I was in Smart & Final.

Yeah.

Yeah.