NWI INGO General Thread #27 - Fresh Pink Air On US-30 smells like...

[chef larry]

Looks like the wife has volunteered me to do 30# of pulled pork for the FD in 10 days. All the fireman I've fed have loved it so they thought I'd be a good candidate for cooking for a Project Fire Buddies meeting coming upon the 27th. Guess I'll oblige for the good cause.

Anyone see some good deals on pork shoulders/butts?

Have you tried Hobart Meat Locker on Randolph south of 30. Used them when I was on the fire dept.

 

[chef larry]

Grass seed that I put down is finally starting to sprout. Only in some area's though. Gonna give it a few more days before I go by a different kind of turf patch.

How's the job hunt?

 

[Ballstater98]

Grass seed that I put down is finally starting to sprout. Only in some area's though. Gonna give it a few more days before I go by a different kind of turf patch.

15-15-15 is your fertilizer combo.

 

[sadclownwp]

How's the job hunt?

It is terrible. Information Technology is a slaughterhouse right now.

 

[repeter1977]

Tired of the rain and weather. Heads killing me again

 

[Max Volume]

Mowed 4 times already....well, the wife has

She got a sister?

 

[chef larry]

Wednesday morning and rain on and off today.

 

[cg21]

I think C batteries are the .40 of battery world…….

 

[melensdad]

Pretty sure the mower deck will be operational in about a week when parts arrive.

Ordered new V-belts for the mower deck. Also ordered a spindle and an assembly for an idler pulley. One or the other of those parts is badly worn, probably both of them, causing the pulley to ride low on one side, which seems to be causing the belts to break.

Belts cost more than the parts, and belts are pretty cheap. Hopefully $100 (including a spare belt) will resolve all these issues and the parts and belts will arrive next week.

 

[mmpsteve]

Pretty sure the mower deck will be operational in about a week when parts arrive.

Ordered new V-belts for the mower deck. Also ordered a spindle and an assembly for an idler pulley. One or the other of those parts is badly worn, probably both of them, causing the pulley to ride low on one side, which seems to be causing the belts to break.

Belts cost more than the parts, and belts are pretty cheap. Hopefully $100 (including a spare belt) will resolve all these issues and the parts and belts will arrive next week.

Do you have the leveler rollers on each corner of the deck that ride the ground? I found adjusting those helped for less deck movement and better quality cut when my dad got his first zero-turn.

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[d.kaufman]

Interested to see what becomes of this. Better product? Lower or higher costs?

Northwest Indiana grocery chain Strack & Van Til getting acquired

HIGHLAND, Ind. — Longtime Northwest Indiana grocery store chain Strack & Van Til is being acquired. Iowa-based chain Hy-Vee is buying out the chain and the acquisition is expected to finalize i…

wgntv.com

 

[Ballstater98]

Interested to see what becomes of this. Better product? Lower or higher costs?

Northwest Indiana grocery chain Strack & Van Til getting acquired

HIGHLAND, Ind. — Longtime Northwest Indiana grocery store chain Strack & Van Til is being acquired. Iowa-based chain Hy-Vee is buying out the chain and the acquisition is expected to finalize i…

wgntv.com

My Iowa relatives love Hy-vee. They rave about the quality.

 

[Snapdragon]

Interested to see what becomes of this. Better product? Lower or higher costs?

Northwest Indiana grocery chain Strack & Van Til getting acquired

HIGHLAND, Ind. — Longtime Northwest Indiana grocery store chain Strack & Van Til is being acquired. Iowa-based chain Hy-Vee is buying out the chain and the acquisition is expected to finalize i…

wgntv.com

I thought it was acquired a few years ago and kept the name.

 

[d.kaufman]

I thought it was acquired a few years ago and kept the name.

Stracks bought out Wiseway several years ago. Possibly this is what you're thinking of?

 

[darkkevin]

I thought it was acquired a few years ago and kept the name.

Jewel planned to buy stracks a few years back, employees rallied against it and the sale was cancelled.

 

[melensdad]

Do you have the leveler rollers on each corner of the deck that ride the ground? I found adjusting those helped for less deck movement and better quality cut when my dad got his first zero-turn.

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It has a 5’ rear roller and 2 front wheels

 

[Snapdragon]

Stracks bought out Wiseway several years ago. Possibly this is what you're thinking of?

No, it was what DK mentioned. Albertson's was going to purchase them, and I thought they had.

 

[marvin02]

I thought it was acquired a few years ago and kept the name.

I think this is what you are referring to:

Strack, Van Til families buy back Strack & Van Til in auction

The Region's largest and best known independent supermarket chain will remain under local control after the original families that owned it banded together and placed a successful bid in a

www.nwitimes.com

And there was some combination with Wiseway at that time also. Some stores got rebranded as Stracks that were Wiseway. Last Wiseway was sold in 2022?

WiseWay grocery chain served Region for more than 80 years before pivoting to real estate development, liquor stores

Generations of Region residents shopped at WiseWay grocery stores for 82 years. The longstanding grocery chain will soon sell its last store in Winfield to Strack & Van Til.

www.nwitimes.com

Hy-Vee speeds up eastern expansion, acquiring Indiana grocery chain Strack & Van Til

Already planning on an Indiana expansion, Hy-Vee is getting an early start by acquiring a 22-store supermarket chain there.

www.desmoinesregister.com

 

[KLB]

Interested to see what becomes of this. Better product? Lower or higher costs?

Northwest Indiana grocery chain Strack & Van Til getting acquired

HIGHLAND, Ind. — Longtime Northwest Indiana grocery store chain Strack & Van Til is being acquired. Iowa-based chain Hy-Vee is buying out the chain and the acquisition is expected to finalize i…

wgntv.com

They have been sliding down. We used to shop there exclusively, but that has been changing the last year or so.

 

[Max Volume]

I thought it was acquired a few years ago and kept the name.

Central grocers (Centrella products) bought into it years ago. It had something to do with the Van Tils and
that is how they ended up being open on Sundays.
Central grocers went kaput and some of the main people of Stracks along with a head honcho by the name
of Dave Wilkinson started Indiana grocers and bought them out but closed some stores like the Ultra segment,
and the Stracks on Taft in M-ville.
I have had the inside scoop from a very close relative that was high on the food chain there.