Chase Groceteria

12/07/2023

2023 Chase Country Christmas Parade Day

12/05/2022

Keys found at the Chase Groceteria. Please come claim them if they are yours.

01/20/2022

Hi,

We got some new items in- "Love Good Fats" bars- high in healthy fats, for those fans in particular of the Keto diet (and trying to reduce their sugar intake) 🙂🙂🙂:

01/11/2022

Hello, this backpack was left at our store today.

Please drop by and come pick it up if it is yours.

Thank you.

12/31/2021

Is anyone looking for these items? They were left at the store.

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas all !!!
☃️🎅🎄🌟🔥

We will be open from morning - 9:00~PMish today 🧑‍🎄 🍪

Hope everyone has a great time w/ friends + family 👪 🎶

12/22/2021

NEW(!) Limited Ed. Novelty-Sized (Fun 🥳🎉) Snacks- To share with family 👪 + friends over the holidays! 🎅🎄🎁

(Yes, that is a near 1KG solid brick of Rice Krispies in pic #2!) 🙂

Come check it out- Right next to the front door~

12/14/2021

We need your help! An out-of-town visitor's vehicle got broken into last night, across from the high school. There were TWO SETS OF KEY RINGS that were taken (amongst other items), with about 10 KEYS IN EACH SET. One set has a YELLOW keychain, and the other set has a BLUE keychain. If anyone finds these please leave them in the post office mailbox.
They are desperate to have these keys back and appreciate our community's help. Thank you!

11/23/2021

We’ve got CREAMO half & half cream back in stock!

11/19/2021

MILK is back in stock again!

11/19/2021

We’re out of milk for now, but we will head back to the farm early in the morning to get more! Thank you everyone and take care!

11/18/2021

MILK is back in stock!!!

09/12/2021

😳 New Korean Instant Noodles or ⭐"Ramen"⭐- Limited Supply only.

- 3 New Super S͙p͙i͙c͙y͙ 🔥 Varieties ("supposedly" spicy)
- 1 Mildish But Tasty One ("Samyang" Ramen)
- Black Bean Noodles

Feel free to come try 'em out!

09/11/2021

09/11/2021

Happy Saturday,

We're selling locally grown 🆁🅴🅳 🆁🆄🆂🆂🅸🅰🅽 🅶🅰🆁🅻🅸🅲

2 Bulbs / $3.99 or 1 / $1.99

Please stop by and try out this milder, more exotic garlic (tastes like a cross between onion/garlic)! 😊

08/06/2021

Caught stealing our fullish donation jar today at ~6:05PM. He is seen all around town. Please help ID him (carries a colourful bag). Thank you.

07/30/2021

Anyone recognize this guy? Caught stealing at the Chase Groceteria today (July 29th, 2021).

04/11/2021

Now Selling- Individually Wrapped, Fresh Baked-in-store goods! (next to the front counter)

Offering Cinnamon Rolls, Donuts, and more w/ an introductory price @ $1.99 EA

04/07/2021

Sushi- California Rolls Made in-store Available at Chase Groceteria Now! (April 6th, 2021)

Get yours fresh today @ $5.99

11/19/2020

Hello, we put out some potted plants (including avocado plants) out near the front of our store for them to receive some rain water, earlier today. However somebody took them.

We were not trying to get rid of them so if you took them by accident, we would appreciate if you could please return them. Thank you.

11/14/2020

Hello, does anyone recognize this girl? She stole from the Chase Groceteria at around 9:25PM today (Nov. 13). Had dyed blue hair, looked about 25 - 35, and said she lived in Salmon Arm.

08/01/2020

To kick off the long weekend, we will be open today (Friday) until late (11:00PMish) !

04/10/2020

Back by popular demand- Ready Made-in-Store Popcorn Chicken. Starting today (Friday, April 10th). Thank you : )

03/27/2020

𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬:

Store Hours - 𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎𝐀𝐌 - 𝟔:𝟎𝟎𝐏𝐌 (Monday to Saturday)

𝐁𝐮𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫 or 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 (Message here or call 250-679-3011).

We accept 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 or 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐭/𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭.

Thank you and stay safe everyone.

03/23/2020

Reminder:

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 will be available from 12 - 5 PM today. As well as Pick Up/Drive Thru orders at the door.

Please message us here (Chase Groceteria) or call 250-679-3011 during business hours to place an order. Please leave your:

𝟏) 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞
𝟐) 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝟑) 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫
𝟒) 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞
𝟓) 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫

And cash only please. Thank you.

03/23/2020

𝐐 & 𝐀 (𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤)

Q: Immunity (or lack thereof) is the bit I find confusing. It’s obviously not killing most who contact the disease—so there must be some ability to fight this thing in healthy folks. Is it then a matter of viral load, or less virulent/lethal strain of the thing?

A: Immunity occurs after our bodies have seen a virus before and then 'learns' how to defend against the offending organism. Our white blood cells become sensitized to the virus and can recognize it when it sees it again, and attack it appropriately.

With coronavirus, our bodies are seeing this virus for the first time so we don't have any immunity. In some people, their immune systems totally overreact. It's these overreactions that are suspected of being the cause of the high fatality rate especially in otherwise healthy adults.

When the immune system overreacts, there is something called a 'cytokine storm' that happens. It's like the immune system goes to nuclear, and unleashes all of the white blood cells at once to go to war and they bomb everything they have, at everything in sight - in essence, attacking the virus but also the body and different organ systems at once. (It's similar in concept to when people die of allergic reactions).

This may also be why children are less affected since their immune systems are not as mature.

Meanwhile, elderly people or those with underlying disease are at higher risk of severe disease and death bc their bodies are also not as able to defend themselves in the first place, and they can't fight off the virus.

As to why some people are affected seriously and others are not - we still don't totally understand, which is why preventing/slowing spread is the best strategy that we have. -MP

more info on immunity: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/20/819038431/do-you-get-immunity-after-recovering-from-a-case-of-coronavirus

more info on on immune system overreactions to coronavirus: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biography-new-coronavirus/608338/

The hope is that a person who has recovered from COVID-19 would have some protection against reinfection in the future. Here's what researchers do — and don't — know.

03/23/2020

03/23/2020

A PRIMER ON COVID-19 - Pt. 6 (last one)

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐁𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘?

We need to 'flatten the curve' to preserve health systems capacity.

Health systems capacity sounds like a vague term but what it means in concrete terms is: we want to make sure we have enough hospital beds and equipment (primarily ventilators, but also things like dialysis units and ECMO machines) so we can treat the patients that have a severe case of COVID-19 that need them in order to stay alive and recover. Capacity also includes everyone who works in healthcare. Again, we want to prevent the spread of infection to protect our front-line healthcare workers as much as possible, so they can stay healthy and do the vital work of keeping our loves ones alive.

Remember - our hospitals are already treating patients that need a high level of care (our ventilators aren't just sitting there waiting to be used - we're already using most of them!). 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐱 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲. We also only have so many ventilators, hospital beds, and doctors and nurses.

For the sake of example, let's say that 20% of people in Chase are infected at one time. That is roughly 500 people. Let's assume that 10% of them will require hospitalization (50 people), and of those, 10% will need mechanical ventilation support (5 people). Assume that everyone needing ventilation needs to stay in hospital for at least 10 days.

For hospitals in the Chase area, we're talking about Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops and Shuswap Lake General Hospital in Salmon Arm.

To continue with this example: from Chase, 50 patients come in to Royal Inland needing to be hospitalized, and of those, 5 need ventilation. This is already almost one-quarter of the hospital's total ~225 beds.

The same thing is happening in Kamloops and the surrounding communities that the hospital serves. Ventilators and hospital beds are pushed to full capacity. Meanwhile, hospitals in the lower mainland are filling up with patients from Vancouver so any new incoming patients can't be sent there. With each passing day, more people get infected and need to be hospitalized... leading to the impossibly tragic situation where our health system does not have the capacity to treat the influx of COVID-19 patients. We will be overrun, and as a result, people will die.

Hope this paints the picture of what could happen.

The thing is, it does NOT have to happen this way. Let's say we properly distance and isolate and are successful in slowing down the spread of COVID-19. Then, we wouldn't have an influx of cases coming to the hospital all at once and creating a bottleneck.

We can slow & prevent the spread of infection if we distance properly, and take all the necessary precautions that we can. This is why it is important for ALL of us to stay home, and distance as much as possible. Each individual action is going to add up and make the difference for everyone.

More on flattening the curve: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/science/coronavirus-curve-mitigation-infection.html

One chart explains why slowing the spread of the infection is nearly as important as stopping it.

03/23/2020

A PRIMER ON COVID-19 - Pt. 5 (of many)

𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐑 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒, 𝐖𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐖𝐄 𝐁𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄?

I wish that were the case, but it's not. We already have widespread transmission all over Canada and also in Interior BC. There are documented cases very close to and around Chase, from weeks ago. I do not know why the government is not releasing the location information of cases at this time.

We also have what is called 'community transmission' in BC, meaning that there are people who have COVID with no documented travel history and didn't get it from elsewhere. This means they got it from someone else in the community, and that there are infected people that we don't know about - that have probably already infected others, and so on. All of this means that there is already enough of the virus circulating in the population for us to be concerned.

Right now, as a society, we are trying to 'socially distance' as much as possible so we can slow down and prevent the spread of infections ('flatten the curve'). This allows us to preserve our health systems' capacity for as long as possible (more on that in the next post).

We also know that elderly people and those with existing health conditions are at higher risk of having a severe case of disease. And this fits the demographic description of Chase and similar communities.

03/23/2020

A PRIMER ON COVID-19 - Pt. 4 (of many)

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐎 𝐈 𝐃𝐎 𝐈𝐅 𝐈 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐏 𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐒?

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 (for the vast majority of cases). And do what you would you do if you had a regular cold or flu.

Here is a great thread: https://twitter.com/Savagekizz/status/1240987594080559105?s=20

If possible, take tylenol instead of advil or aspirin.

𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝, unless you're already part of the groups that need testing (healthcare workers, or already part of an outbreak cluster). Tests are in limited supply for now, but also 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 (meaning: they're full of sick people that you probably want to avoid).

If you start to have more serious symptoms, 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

Remember, the vast majority of cases (80 - 90%) will result in mild or moderate symptoms that don't require medical attention. If you are symptomatic, you 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 (including me!) who take care of our loves ones with illness and who work to keep our healthcare system up and running, at a time that we need it the most.

More info: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid19-coronavirus-what-to-do-1.5498986