After the sheer physical, moral and downright psychological breakdowns that were incited by my recent trip to WinCo foods in Moore, an afternoon stop by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s FireLake Discount Foods, 1570 S. Gordon Cooper Dr. in Shawnee, has thoroughly reignited my own personal fire for getting back out there and actually shopping for my edible goods and other sundries, Wal-Mart delivery services be damned.
Well-situated and even better designed, FireLake Discount Foods is all about those wide open spaces (room to make my own mistakes), with plenty of clean floor-space to freely move about and get lost in your own world of consumer validation, nary a rude customer angrily nipping at your heels or hurling epithets because you so blatantly stopped the flow of uneasy traffic to read the calorie count on a box of Tabasco Cheez-Its, you tubby snack cracker lovin’ jerk, you.