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Sobeys 100th Birthday Party

  • May 24, 2007
  • Rated 4 of 5 by grannola from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Sobeys 100th Birthday Party

Ok, Ok, it's not a kids birthday party, but it sure was a great birthday party for kids, so I figure it counts for this journal.

Sobeys grocery store is celebrating their 100th birthday, and so they threw a party with lots of free stuff to do and eat!

The Sobeys closest to us started with a pancake breakfast from 8-11am (pancakes, juice, and coffee). It was in the Heritage Room, which I had never seen before, and I shop at that store at least once or twice a week. It's well hidden behind the juice fridge.

From 3-7pm, there was a pile of stuff going on: free hot dogs and pop, sno-cones, and of course, birthday cake. They had a large decorated slab cake, but they hadn't cut it yet when we were there. They had non-decorated chocolate slab cake with white frosting for the early birds.

This was all outside, where they also had a mustang show, and a bouncy house for the kids.

In the store, along with the standard free samples, there was a bunch more stuff. In the community room—twice in the same day—they had face painting, someone making balloon animals, and cookie-decorating for the kids. The line for the face painting was long, as usual, so we skipped that; none of my kids were particularly interested anyway, so that was fine. The balloon animals were cute though and the two big kids each got one of those.

All of my kids did the cookie thing too. The frosting had a lot of food coloring in it, so we didn't let the baby have any because we were afraid he'd be covered in it. He had a chocolate chip cookie though, so he was happy. The big kids both had frosting and sprinkles on their cookies.

There was supposedly a coloring contest, but we never did find out anything about that.

In the main part of the store, they had a domino display. They blocked off an area with cases of bottled water and the local domino man had a large display set up. He finished setting up around 5pm, but wasn't scheduled to knock them down until 6pm, so we didn't get to stay for that either.

There was also supposed to be a magic show, but we had no idea where or when, so I'm figuring we missed it altogether.

They were having draws for door prizes based on the number of your shopping cart. We heard that announced a couple of times, but it was hard to hear.

One of the cool things Sobeys has going on is the products that are helping celebrate 100 years. Maxwell House Coffee, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, and Coca Cola, have all issued special anniversary packaging.

Every time you buy something at Sobeys for the next while you get a ballot and collect-to-win stickers to win cool stuff. There is also a classic truck that will be doing the rounds this summer, with free samples. Cool!

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