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OK, I know there's a Super Walmart in Asheville but what else is there? I heard a couple years ago that Costco was looking to build in Arden/Fletcher, did that die with the recession? Any other options other than driving to Charlotte for Costco and BJ's? How is the Target out on Airport Road--do they also have a grocery store or is it just a smaller department store location? I know about Earth Fare, but who can afford to actually shop there on a regular basis?
OK, I know there's a Super Walmart in Asheville but what else is there? I heard a couple years ago that Costco was looking to build in Arden/Fletcher, did that die with the recession? Any other options other than driving to Charlotte for Costco and BJ's? How is the Target out on Airport Road--do they also have a grocery store or is it just a smaller department store location? I know about Earth Fare, but who can afford to actually shop there on a regular basis?
Speaking of Walmart, is the Waynesville store a "Super" version or the smaller one?
OK, I know there's a Super Walmart in Asheville but what else is there? I heard a couple years ago that Costco was looking to build in Arden/Fletcher, did that die with the recession? Any other options other than driving to Charlotte for Costco and BJ's? How is the Target out on Airport Road--do they also have a grocery store or is it just a smaller department store location? I know about Earth Fare, but who can afford to actually shop there on a regular basis?
Greenville is the closest Costco, but I've not been there (driven by it). I'd heard the rumor of one coming to Arden/Fletcher but never heard what happened to the idea. Target on Airport Road is not a grocery store although they do have a few items.
Earth Fare is funny. You probably can't do all your grocery shopping there, even if you can afford it. There are every day things they just don't have. But every now and then you'll find something they carry that is cheaper than elsewhere for whatever reason. I hesitate to post specifics because if they are reading this, I'm sure they will fix that problem.
Since the number of bad experiences we've had with Ingles almost equals our number of visits to Ingles, we wind up at Harris Teeter most of the time. Although the Ingles in Fletcher is fairly new and has not provided the frustration of the one in Arden.
OK, I know there's a Super Walmart in Asheville but what else is there? I heard a couple years ago that Costco was looking to build in Arden/Fletcher, did that die with the recession? Any other options other than driving to Charlotte for Costco and BJ's? How is the Target out on Airport Road--do they also have a grocery store or is it just a smaller department store location? I know about Earth Fare, but who can afford to actually shop there on a regular basis?
Asheville unfortunately has damn near everything as far as box stores, home depot, lowes, best buy, barnes and noble, etc etc. Please try to support the local economy as much as possible. These big corporations own us and we keep supporting them.........As for earth fare I think its all in what you you value. Although I much prefer greenlife as earthfare carries alot of conventional produce. But if organic food that is healthy and god for the planet we all inhabit is improtant you can find a way to afford it. Maybe cut back on your directv bill
Asheville unfortunately has damn near everything as far as box stores, home depot, lowes, best buy, barnes and noble, etc etc. Please try to support the local economy as much as possible. These big corporations own us and we keep supporting them.........As for earth fare I think its all in what you you value. Although I much prefer greenlife as earthfare carries alot of conventional produce. But if organic food that is healthy and god for the planet we all inhabit is improtant you can find a way to afford it. Maybe cut back on your directv bill
We have found Earth Fare to be pretty good for some stuff and way over priced for others, sort of like the Whole Foods chain. On visits to town when we didn't want to go out to eat we just pick up something at their prepared meals counter and eat it back at the hotel. I like Harris Teeter up here so we'll check them out for sure down there, not impressed with Ingles.
We visited the coop downtown once and weren't impressed with their offerings. I suspect that once we get moved in we'll visit the other organic/health food stores too as well as the farmers markets. Next spring we will definitely have to break ground on a garden. Used to have one up here until the deer got so thick it wasn't worth the trouble.
We have found Earth Fare to be pretty good for some stuff and way over priced for others, sort of like the Whole Foods chain. On visits to town when we didn't want to go out to eat we just pick up something at their prepared meals counter and eat it back at the hotel. I like Harris Teeter up here so we'll check them out for sure down there, not impressed with Ingles.
We visited the coop downtown once and weren't impressed with their offerings. I suspect that once we get moved in we'll visit the other organic/health food stores too as well as the farmers markets. Next spring we will definitely have to break ground on a garden. Used to have one up here until the deer got so thick it wasn't worth the trouble.
No Whole Foods here, not sure how far away the closest one is. Harris Teeter, they are a very few scattered around, 1 in south Asheville, 1 in Hendersonville.
Gotta keep in mind the co-op downtown is "locally grown" and it will only contain crops that are coming in at the moment.
Check out the Farmers Market, they have local, when local crops are coming in, and trucked in produce at other times. The first good corn and tomatoes we get come from SC.
I ditto Native on our Farmer's Market, big place with some indoor and some outdoor, fairly easy to get to from almost anywhere in town (near where I40 and I26 intersect), all the fresh produce you could want and mountain crafts there too. I've heard Costco mentioned before, that people who move here wish we had one. But we've got pretty much everything else in duplicate, as previous posters have said. Keep in mind if you move to the south part of town, there's a good bit of traffic on the multi-laned roads, making it a little tiresome to go anywhere.
Not sure of your price range, but don't overlook the Grove Park area just to the north of town, also homes on Beaver Lake further north on Merrimon, which that road goes into Weaverville, I think you mentioned Weaverville in another thread, eat at the Weaverville Milling Company, nice experience. There was also a thread by "the Parkies" and their house-hunting saga, they wound up in a pretty development east of Asheville recommended by another poster, which would put you closer to visiting Black Mountain for their cute downtown and their Tomahawk Lake with a pleasant walking path all the way around it. And for views, I suppose it's worth a look up on Town Mountain if there's a house or two for sale up there.
Those are just a few locales that come to mind to consider in addition to the South Asheville vicinity, I know you can't wait to visit some homes and really get a closer look at all the interesting neighborhoods Asheville and its outskirts have, you will be sure to find a great fit for you and your wife's preferences. And let's hope you get moved in for Christmas as you wanted, maybe we'll get some snow about then, fun to go to Biltmore Village and shop during the holidays because of the lights they put up.
Oh, one more thing, you were talking about paying cash, and while that's exactly what I did, I sort of wish I had gotten an additional short-term loan to cover the rest, so we'd have had more cash in the bank when it was all done. But I have to assume you will have plenty left over, you sound like you've got your ducks in a row. And hope you will do some of your house-hunting in October, the third week is when the show usually takes off big-time, you'll enjoy riding along some of the stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway for the color spectacular, altho there will be lots of other folks up there doing the same thing.
Thanks gigi, we have visited the area several times over the past 5 years and know the area very well by now including the farmers market. We have a large number of friends down there too who have been helpful. Any amount of traffic that Arden/Fletcher has we have in multiples up here so even that would be a significant decrease for us. When we come I'm sure it will be in either late Sept or early Oct since we need to move before Thanksgiving. I know what you mean about the cashflow thing--my pension and payout checks will take 6-8 weeks to start so we'll be living on savings and credit cards from mid-Jan until March so we need to stash as much cash as we can. Don't want to have to raid the 401K too early.
There's a Sam's Club just west of downtown. I believe this is similar to Costco. A new Walmart and Lowe's opened out my way in Weaverville as well.
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