The Locals HINTS AND HAULS THREAD

I've had some pretty good white peaches this year, although we don't get ours from Georgia, they're from California. Actually, Cooper Farms (the peaches I was mentioning) did have white peaches this year that we got, they were excellent. I work in produce so I have to eat a lot of fruit haha.

 

Believe it or not, NJ is a pretty quality producer of peaches also.

 

I think we're just going to have to have a PIF now.

 

Figure out a way to ship, keep in touch til they are in season again. Each person ships out to the other 2 so you try every peach.

 

What do you do in Produce? I am a Sales Manager for a stretch wrap and stretch wrap equipment manufacturer maybe my people should talk to your people over beers if necessary

 

So um, PA has some really good peaches too! ...from NJ... but no way I'm missing out on this. We could also make PIF "Produce it Forward" instead of just "Peach it Forward" ... we really need to figure out a way to ship fruit!

 

So let's see, I should be down to two people with my hints. I think I'll do some content hints and have the final person hint on Friday.

So far, I'm up to 356 ounces, with one unknown bottle left to go.

Hint #1: Lover's Cove

 

I'm Asst Manager/Operations Manager for a Kroger down here in georgia, we get these totes with insulated liners and 48 hour ice packs. They send our front end candy in them, granted we have a better shipping time in which the 48 hour ice pack has not yet melted all the way, and candy is still cold and fresh. Could try something like that with some sort of moisture absorber in it. Might have to ship it overnight or 2 day express though.

 

That explains the way the LICC me you sent me was wrapped lol. I figured you just knew something I didn't, so went out and bought some to wrap your return growler in. (it was dropped off this morning, btw)

 

Oh awesome. I'm a lead (sort of assistant manager) in the produce department at the Central Market in Houston. I stock a bunch of fruit and vegetables and do most of the ordering for the department. HEB is a Texas only (plus five Mexico stores) company. HEB is the main brand, but it also has a few sub brands including Central Market, Joe V's, Mi Tienda, etc. Central Market is just the high end chain that caters to foodies and the rich people here in the River Oaks district. We also get all of the good beer releases, so that helps a lot haha.

 

Oh, it is pretty damn exclusive as space is extremely limited. But the cost of admission is showing up

I actually started doing this Saturday Night Flights series with some buddies once a month where I open a 3 or 4 year vertical of something and they supply other things to try for the remainder of the night. If we don't get to what they brought, I send them home with it and tell them to save it for next time.

 

We are one of the few Kroger's in georgia that have a 75+ bottle pick 6 of domestic, craft, and international. Plus 50-60 bombers in stock, and we get semi-limited georgia releases like Sweetwater's dank tank series. Its nice, I picked this store for that very reason. Then figured out later there is one an hour away that actually has a full walk in cooler full of craft, 200-250+ different 6 packs, 4 packs, bombers etc. Plus a 10 tap growler setup, called Krowlers.

Also, I remember shopping at HEB, I will give it to texas. Even though where I lived in the suburbs of houston there was not much nature to see. We had some damn good shopping, and restaurants.

 

Since I have pretty good access to stretch wrap I use it in all my boxes . It secures the bubble wrap and creates a seal around the bottles/growlers in the event of leakage.

 

Yea we work with the HEB DC's so I am certainly familiar with them. Cool!

 

So just wrapped up a few trade loose ends, and now I can focus a little more here. Just caught up on a few days of posts and only have my senders down to 17. If my sender (or anyone else for that matter) has brewery stickers, send them my way. I'll even send you a SASE.

Looks like GABF was a success for TX breweries, and I think I'm going to try to put as many of this years medal winners in my box as I can because (Hint) my target does not have many TX beers on his wants. Looks like my target's football teams had a rough weekend too.

 

Hint #1: Shipping to a state that is smaller than mine in both land mass and population
Hint #2: The last three straight BIF boxes that I have shipped out have all gone to the same state. This BIF will break that streak.
Hint #3: My target state is one timezone away from me.
Hint #4: My target state begins with a consonant.
Hint #5: My target state has at least 1 NFL team.

I'm hoping to have my package(s) in the mail on or before the 15th.

To my Sender: I will be away from home the 16th thru the 20th so it would be great if you could arrange for the delivery to be before or after that. I know this is short notice so I fully understand if this cannot be arranged.

 

hmmm...Bearcats took a beating Saturday which I was lucky enough to watch from the stadium as I am a season ticket holder....Bengals took a beating last night however I am a Pats fan first so that did not upset me. I do follow the Bengals having lived in Cincinnati since '99 though. Maybe I will update some Texas wants just in case....

Suppose this could be a Detroit/ U of Mich fan too though...

 

Well, you're now officially out, I've probably 'wanted' more than "not many" of JK's lineup alone...

 

Hint #5: Since using the hint from @I_BYE_MI_BEER wouldn't knock out anybody from my target's, I'll say that my target has been on BA less than half the time that I have, which should knock out at least one person.

Also, shipping warning: I may actually ship after the deadline. I wouldn't do it, but there's a beer being released near me on 10/31 that hasn't been released before, I think sounds interesting, I think my target will as well, and it probably won't be around again for a while. If I can secure getting some in the next couple days, I'll probably delay until the beer is released in order to include it.

 

Hint #5 Target please don't try to sell 1 blue duckling in your state as it is illegal.