Good is shopping. I love shopping. Anthropologists’ say that men evolved through the centuries to be hunters, and women evolved to be gatherers. I am a gatherer; I am a shopper!
We moved here to Paradise back in April 2004, and Kohl’s Department Store opened its doors in Gilroy six months later, on October 1st 2004. Yes, I confess, I am a Kohl’s customer; I am a Kohl’s brat!
What I love about Kohl’s besides the occasional 30% discounts on everything I get because I am a charge card customer at Kohl’s, is that what Kohl’s sells reminds me of what was available in Macy’s Department Store, many years ago when Macy’s was the best department store in silicone valley. .
Yes, it is good to have a major department store just 15 miles away down highway 25, past acres of grass filled with herds of feeding cattle, past fields filled with lettuce, strawberries, and broccoli growing on either side of the road.
Gilroy, California, once claimed to be the garlic capitol of the world until China took that title away. China produces approximately 75% of the garlic grown and distributed around the world today. If you didn’t know about China, you would swear that Gilroy was still the garlic growing capitol of the world based on the heavy ‘fragrance’ of garlic in the air at harvest time, in July every year. They don’t call garlic ‘the stinking rose’ for nothing!
Ahh, Paradise extends in peace beyond Hollister into the fields of highway 25. Paradise extends a greeting in the delightful smell of the growing community of Gilroy, California.
Carol Garnier Dutra
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