TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Maybe you're thinking of Black Friday bargains on Thanksgiving Thursday, but a lot of people set out shopping Thursday with even higher stakes:
Go get the whipped cream or Thanksgiving dinner is ruined!
Let's face it, Thanksgiving dinner's usually a big complex meal and somebody's going to forget something.
A lot of grocery stores stayed open on special holiday hours for that mad dash to get this or that item that makes mom's traditional recipe so special. We talked to shoppers at the Safeway at Tanque Verde and Sabino Canyon.
Alexandra Arboleda told us, “We needed to find chicken broth. My mother is at home cooking the turkey and everything for fifteen people and she sent us on a mission to get chicken broth.”
When grandma's recipe hangs in the balance, you do not want to be the guy who brought back the wrong stuff.
Alex Votral says, “I'm just moving the cart around.”
KGUN9 reporter Craig Smith asked: “Is that a relief to have that job?”
Alex Votral: “Yes. Yes. I don't have to do the shopping."
His dad, Ron Votral says: "It's very difficult--to find things that most folks can't find on their own. You have to ask at the service desk, 'Where is this?' But in this case we're getting messages over the cell phone.”
Craig Smith asked: “So you're on cell phone consultation over what to get?
Ron Votral: “Cell phone consultation, yes, and we're finding the things eventually."
There are the standard items: stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce---and don't start with that jelly versus whole berry debate.
We did not see a lot of traffic in the frozen turkey section. By the time you thaw one of those babies, it'll be a couple of days past Thanksgiving. Just out of the freezer about all you can do is drive nails with them."
That's why the last minute shopping is for the small stuff that makes the food special, or adding on to make sure everyone can until they're ready to bust.
So after drifting the aisles, grabbing what had better be the right stuff, you're ready to head to the check out, knowing it's mission accomplished and you're the hero who saved Thanksgiving dinner.
