Some yuletide fun and Weis ways to use reward points for delicious holiday treats and snacks just in time for Santa and the egg nog.
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Nestor Aparicio 00:00
On Thursday with the queen the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gina shock of the Go Goโs is going to come over. tell some stories of her Dundalk checkered past and penguins at the mall. John Allen is going to be joining us thereโs a hammer Jacks documentary thatโs out that Iโve been a part of from my Almost Famous past all was brought to you by our friends at the
shows play your I have these incredible holiday cash drops Iโm going to be given away as well. They also sell these at the wise market right out of the counter. I see it over store 206 And weโre going to be talking about all sorts of wise conversations as well. Big thanks to Goodwill and our friends at window nation. As well for putting on the crab cake tour. Iโve had some wise managers out but this is a special thing because Hannah Gratti and I we get together once a month or there abouts to talk about all sorts of things. But this is my favorite one because this time last year, she embarrassed me because she asked me how many points I had on my app. I didnโt know how to log into my app. So this is the one year anniversary of me actually knowing how many points I have on my app and how many I know now today is December 13. If youโre hearing it a little later, Happy Holidays to you. But I am trying to get the free hand Iโm trying to get the 400 points helped me out Merry Christmas Happy Holidays. Howโs your teaberry doing
Hannah Gratti 01:16
teaberry is good. Um, I mean, right now weโre kind of putting teaberry aside and everythingโs peppermint and like chocolate in my house. Dog. You know what eggnog is not really you know, Iโve never had it and donโt begin
Nestor Aparicio 01:31
the segment talking about about agnostic like that come on.
Hannah Gratti 01:35
I donโt know itโs itโs never appealed to me and Iโm just too afraid to try it. Iโm very like an adventurous Iโm very adventurous when it comes to trying new things but something about eggnog. It just doesnโt like I donโt know itโs just the one thing where Iโm like, I donโt try it because I I donโt know like it. Maybe I mean, I was told a lot of like, you can either buy the car and or I know a bunch of people who make it like themselves, but I was always
Nestor Aparicio 02:04
I want to come and hang with them homemade. Homemade eggnog was a little frothy.
Hannah Gratti 02:12
I was told if you make it correctly, itโs supposed to taste just like melted vanilla ice cream. I donโt know if thatโs correct or not.
Nestor Aparicio 02:19
You know what? Thatโs a great way. Maybe with a little kick maybe because it didnโt nutmeg or the cinnamon on the edge but I do not disagree with that. And okay and anyone in the audience that wants to bring me their eggnog. I actually have a friend of mine whoโs married to a Puerto Rican lady who is a councilman here. Sheโs wonderful at that Ramos and he and John red locks he makes poquito this time of year. So thatโs sort of like this special Puerto Rican eggnog that has this coconut kind of, but itโs itโs very much like eggnog and itโs very creamy and luscious and delicious. And I must say this to you. Last time I had you all and we were talking about eating Imagine that. And I have Christina Pelletier on and sheโs a dietitian. So you guys are like good cop bad cop with me. Are these wise conversations we have because itโs eat but eat wisely but get a ham and then weโre going to talk about desserts and Iโve Iโve always got the scoop or out you know I mean Iโm always ready for a scoop of vanilla bean or scoop of cinnamon this time of year on some apple pie. I I gained a little bit of weight Thanksgiving week and I like I donโt even know how maybe it was the gravy neighbors mashed it has maybe stuffing i But I I got on a scale and I you know Iโm pre fitted with Planet Fitness sponsors me I do a lot of yoga, a lot of hot yoga got a mat three feet away helps my back out and I just cold turkey ice cream for a couple so I have not had a scoop of wise ice cream. This month. I would say I mean, I havenโt reached for a cone since November. And I need you to help me change that. I mean Christina has gotten into me now with a dietitian thing. You know what I mean? And she had charcuterie that was healthy with me two weeks ago. So I want you to tell me everything thatโs going on. Thatโs gonna get me back to an appropriate winter wait.
Hannah Gratti 04:17
Well, youโre already putting me as the bad cop but Iโll gladly but
Nestor Aparicio 04:22
I normally do in my life.
Hannah Gratti 04:26
You need to even out the good with the bad you know, but weโre doing a holiday rewards program. Itโs very similar to our Thanksgiving rewards program that I talked about last month. But wise rewards customers can earn one point for every dollar they spend at their local wise location. And then once they add up all those points they can actually redeem them. Weโre doing a redemption period right now, up until Christmas Eve which is December 24. And customers can redeem points to get discounts or even free items. So 200 points gets you discounts on a whitest quality ham or turkey and then 400 points gets you the free wifeโs quality ham, turkey tofurkey and even a wise, wise quality frozen lasagna.
Nestor Aparicio 05:11
Alright, so here it is. This is my real app. Iโve spent almost $5,000 Sounds like a lot but I eat a lot. And when we get so much more wise. I mean when you start talking about other things and other aisles beyond just what you eat, we want so I have 286 points, but hereโs what happened. My wife listened to this segment last month because weโre talking about pumpkin pie and like all the things that helped me gain weight last month, and she she she cashed in the points for the turkey. So thatโs why Iโm Iโm struggling right now because I havenโt spent it. So Iโm at 286 So what youโre telling me is if I spend $115 on something in the next week, Iโll have for under one point and then I get the handfree
Hannah Gratti 05:57
Well, weโre also doing an offer. If you want to easily get the 400 points. Weโre doing a Black Hawk gift card event. Itโs going on right now up until December 28 where if you purchase a select $100 gift cards, youโll automatically get four times the wise reward points. Wow see
Nestor Aparicio 06:19
into that anything else that I donโt know about out there that I need to know about here this holiday season? Are you hammered turkey with your family or something? I mean, some folks do prime rib some folks. I mean I got Italian friends that do fishes and like you know everybodyโs doing a little something different and different. religions as well. But I mean, just traditional Christmas, Christmas Eve Christmas day. Iโve always been a ham family because my dad would always say to Turkey four weeks ago, you know, I mean we love turkey. Itโs God. But we do ham on Christmas in my house.
Hannah Gratti 06:48
Yeah, weโre a ham and a shellfish kind of family. So Christmas Eve and Christmas day weโll definitely have the ham and then alongside the ham will have like many crab cakes, and then steamed shrimp. And actually thatโs like one of the things that we eat on Christmas morning my dad will actually steam a bunch of shrimp and weโll have that with like our scrambled eggs or weโll have a little something sweet maybe like cinnamon rolls or pancakes or something on Christmas morning.
Nestor Aparicio 07:15
You know weโre American, right? So like decadence just means we eat. Yeah, that sounds decadent. To me. It sounds like something you do once a year. Itโs kind of cool. Itโs kind of fun. But that Hey Brad is here. Sheโs wise markets. We love having her on the program talking about all sorts of rewards. And the things that we do and holiday. You know what I also love about this time of year not just that my smooth jazz channel starts playing some herb Albert Santa baby and different things like that. But when I go into to shop anywhere. I like the hustle and bustle. I mean maybe itโs just because Iโm not an old Get off my lawn guy or whatever. But I like the music. I like Mariah Carey. I like Bing Crosby. I like eggnog right? Iโve even I havenโt jumped the bridge to fruitcake yet, but I did do something that I need to discuss with you because I have a baker here in town Dan and Ovenbird that makes this fresh pan atony Iโve gotten the Manito Day everyone these seasonal things that you either have a taste for like youโre not with eggnog or you know people have their traditions and Iโll get the sauerkraut in kielbasa before the segments over Donโt let me forget that part. But itโs really important. But I would say for like a Pantone a or some things that just knots roasting on an open buy. People buy things this time of year and you guys dress the stores up and thereโs just thereโs a vibe about this time of year and I donโt mean it like in a song but thereโs food that goes along with it and in your house even shrimp for breakfast.
Hannah Gratti 08:40
Yeah, absolutely. I mean we have everything that you need at your local wise markets whether you need like you know like I said earlier your you know, holiday ham or we have entertaining platters if you feel like you donโt want to cook this year. We also have recipes. And you know, we also have good goodies, you know, like cookies, candy cake. I mean, I feel like Christmas is a lot of sweets. So I mean any kind of sweet treat you can think of that you eat during the holiday season. We have that too. Because I know besides the ham and the shellfish, we eat like I feel like we eat a lot of candy. My momโs a teacher too. So sheโll always come home with just like piles and piles of Christmas candy. And sheโs just like, here you go, and sheโll give it to me and my sister and we just eat just ungodly amounts of Christmas candy.
Nestor Aparicio 09:34
Iโm wearing my buddy Linda raskins blue shirt on here to kinda reminds me the Cookie Monster a little bit right because I got the right color and you know, I am I love cookies. I love pie but pie to me feels like last month and no wonder it gained weight and I went on a crusade all week long about telling every guest I had that look itโs not Thanksgiving it if itโs not alamode right. I mean, if youโre not pulling a scoop of ice cream, and I had a real legitimate complaint last month, I think I told Christina about this because we were talking I had her on right after Thanksgiving. I didnโt tell you so you need to lodge this with everyone because youโre in the mothership up there. So we have a complaint for the dairy department that same people I toured with and hereโs what it is. A couple days for Thanksgiving. My wife went out and added some points. Okay, so she spent some money she came home when she texts me. Iโm close to home come out and help me the car. I know she bought a lot of stuff, right? So, so I did this and then she forgot a few things. Right? So itโs like, um, we were dismissing like, some sort of spice we were missing. She wanted to brine the turkey and we couldnโt find Turkey brine type stuff. So she was trying to get some salty stuff to do all that rosemary, thyme, all that kind of stuff. So she went back out to the store. And you know, I guess through all of this, she decided that we needed not wise premium quality cinnamon ice cream but maybe the speaks to your eggnog and the folks and Pennsylvania farming friends. She was going to make fresh whipped cream so she loves I mean she uses the confection sugar, she gets the beat around she does this a lot like so she keeps whipping cream, itโs not half and a half to whipping cream in little containers. She keeps it around the lots of times it gets spoiled. And when we do throw steak on the grill, weโll make mashed potatoes and we will whip in some whipping cream and it really like good right? She decides she wants I bought a pumpkin pie and wise how about that? When I go when we come on with pie when she goes we donโt get good things like that. So I have to go and represent myself like when I was a kid. If I want what I want I gotta go with her. Right. So she goes into one was our primary Towson, no whipping cream. Now sheโs in there. Like it was either. Monday, Tuesday went but it wasnโt a week before but it wasnโt 11 oโclock and like before Thanksgiving either. And she went to one store. And then she went to the other store over Bella and then she went to the store we go to after yoga on Harford road, and she got to like the third one. And there was a woman in the aisle next to her who said you know, probably Baltimore accent. Then you gotta hear here to try to know where Iโve been six doors and I canโt find it. And every one of the stores had a little sign that said, weโre out. And Iโm thinking, oh, we need to make sure next holiday season that we donโt have and it wasnโt just your market. Apparently, this is a global issue around the belt. Because people use this product that maybe they only use once a year, or they only pick it up once in a while. And theyโre so we had no whipped cream here. I said to my wife, Iโm like youโre gonna get like the ready whip or just bring something on sheโs like No, I just kept going to other stores and I kept trying and but she held that a holiday bliss. Iโm not gonna let that happen again. And but our mashed potatoes were fine. And you know, it just forced me to get the cinnamon ice cream that I already had I showed you last month. I just use that instead and I was fine. But I was just Iโm just I donโt know, I just start talking about the holidays and frustrations of the holidays. But more than that, that there are items like sauerkraut and kielbasa that I hope my wife has stocked up on because my wifeโs already rated it wants to take it all up to New Hampshire for her family. So you donโt do sauerkraut kielbasa. Right, thatโs, thatโs not your thing.
Hannah Gratti 13:31
Thatโs a New Yearโs Day thing. Thatโs like the first like thatโs the first meal that we have on New Yearโs Day because thereโs like symbolic representation to it because I know like the green and the cabbage is supposed to represent good wealth in the new year and thereโs something about port I canโt remember right off the top of my head pork represents something about like, moving forward into the new year like it doesnโt go bad. Like, like, you know, hogs donโt
Nestor Aparicio 13:58
it represents deliciousness to me, you know, Yeah. Bacon myself, but you know,
Hannah Gratti 14:05
or hot dogs if you donโt prefer pork, you know, I
Nestor Aparicio 14:09
turned down a hot dog the other day, first hot dog Iโve been offered and while I was in Pittsburgh in the press box, they had halftime hotdogs and I looked and Iโm like, Iโm just gonna go with nachos this time. You know, Iโm gonna go along with the cookies. I was bad there. Peanut butter. Mr. Rooney makes delicious cookies. Or you have some Steelers fans in your life, right? Yes. Yep. Sorry. But I was in Pittsburgh, and Mr. Rooney makes delicious peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal raisin cookies. And I made this admission. Look it I went to the game together. We covered the game. We did press afterwards, we get in the car. I did a call at Heinz Field, the more but itโs four hours. We got to drive back through Breezewood you know, down 7076 and 70. And I got down towards Somerset. And I turned to Luke and Iโm like, I didnโt take any cookies with me. Iโm gonna wake up tomorrow, because every year I put him you know I put three or four in the bag and then the next day I make a little coffee in the morning and I have Mr. Cookies and they always taste better when the Ravens beat the Steelers. Well, I hope you have a beautiful holiday and I am appreciative that you gave me a little backdoor to getting the 400 points because I am 114 points short on my wise rewards about the wise rewards program and how easy it is to sign up because itโs so easy. You sign me up once.
Hannah Gratti 15:29
Yeah, absolutely. So if you want to become a wise rewards club card member, you can just go to your local wise markets go up to the service desk and say hey, I want to you know, you know, be a part of the rewards program. You fill out a little bit of paperwork, and they give you the card right there. And then if you also want to if youโre more technologically savvy and you want to kind of view how you can you know, how do you want to see how your points work, and how many points youโve accumulated. You can either go on Weis markets.com, or our mobile app for Apple and Android devices. Youโre right there and all you have to do is just put in your wise reward card number which is normally on the back of the card. Just put that in and then youโre already set up with your account.
Nestor Aparicio 16:16
See, youโre younger than me. So do you use a little blip when you go up to get your points? Or do you put your phone number in?
Hannah Gratti 16:23
Um, I put my phone number
Nestor Aparicio 16:27
my wife uses a little blip blip you know and I donโt and I didnโt even know where it was. But then I hit it. And it came up it says View club card and I got my little booklet. Okay, so I had never really done it until before the segment I was practicing because I didnโt want to embarrass myself again this year, and I havenโt right so Iโm always logged in now and I know my password which is obviously pretty key. But do you have improved? Iโm unlocked Iโm gold status. Does that mean anything?
Hannah Gratti 16:58
Yeah means good. All right.
Nestor Aparicio 17:01
Can I get to platinum or gold is good as I Iโm an achiever, you know? I mean, itโs just the highest level I get to.
Hannah Gratti 17:07
Um, I canโt remember I canโt really remember off the top of my head.
Nestor Aparicio 17:12
I used to remember used to be gold, silver and bronze, right like the Olympics. Now thereโs platinum and super platinum and double platinum. Itโs like a kiss album. Sheโs here sheโs from wise markets. She puts up with me once a month and then pulling me off to Christina so I can lose weight after the holidays and eat right for my New Yearโs resolutions. But in the meantime, and Iโm not going to say this again. All right, because it served me right that my wife couldnโt find whipping cream. And I had a lot of ice cream in the house because I did at the time and it was perfect for all the pie we had here. But I did say for a solid week I told every single guest that the three most important words for during Thanksgiving were ah la mode. So and I held my scooper up so I did have a lot of ice cream at that period of time but I do not have any eggnog ice cream in the house right now. Or peppermint if I did I would hold it up. I still have some remnants of my cinnamon but I told you I havenโt eaten enough ice cream this month. And this segment has reminded me that thatโs about to change.
Hannah Gratti 18:10
Well, good luck, you know, you know with the eggnog and all the chocolate and hopefully you donโt go into a second food coma because this is like Christmas is well the holiday season and personally for me I celebrate Christmas. You know this this time of the year is where itโs like food coma round to Thanksgiving is kind of like the pregame and then Christmas is like the main thing because itโs just we eat a lot of finger foods and finger foods are very dangerous because once you itโs like potato chips you canโt just have one itโs kind of like the same with the cookies and the snacks and the sides and everything so
Nestor Aparicio 18:45
I have never ever had one potato chip. I you know Iโm a little bit skinny, but Iโm not that guy at all. And I was gonna share this with you as well because of sauerkraut and kielbasa and wise itโs a big part of what Iโve always done, and all of our wise locations on the northeast side of town have the kielbasa Iโve been eating my whole life from Ostrovsky is a Bank Street and I grew up on Bank Street Dundalk. So itโs important but Iโll say this, you know, my wife had her life saved in the bone marrow registry on 14 and 15 by a man in Germany, and he was 21 at the time, heโs now 30. We know and weโve, itโs part of our heartwarming story out on social media, and like all of that, but heโs coming to America with his wife for the first time. Heโs been to America, but his wifeโs never been, and theyโre spending the holidays with my wife in New Hampshire in Boston. Theyโre going to New York, theyโre going to teach theyโre doing the great American tour and wearing masks doing it and doing all that. But we are actually having Christmas dinner at my home in Baltimore with this German couple whoโve never like been away from home for Christmas. Never been here. So like, Iโm gonna be Iโm in charge of the meal. Right? Because because theyโre in New Hampshire until Christmas, so Iโm alone until Christmas. So like, I have to get the ham. I have to get the green bean casserole. I mean, Iโm in charge of the eggnog right all of this right important things. So Iโm gonna be on front of this. Iโm gonna get to 400 points. Iโm gonna get a ham. Iโm going to put pictures up and weโre gonna have a an amazing, miraculous, trans continental European, American German thing was sauerkraut and kielbasa proper so there you have it. Well, thatโs awesome. Happy holidays to you. I hope you have a great holiday. I hope you eat too many shrimp. I hope you all emote and take all of my advice from from Thanksgiving and I hope you and your family have a great great
Hannah Gratti 20:36
time. Thanks Nestor. Same to you, Hannah Gratti Sheโs
Nestor Aparicio 20:39 from wise market. She keeps me straight making sure that Iโm doing the right thing with my rewards points to get myself a ham. Happy holidays to everybody out there. Get out your wise market sport them. They support us with wise conversations around here I am Nestor we are wn sta and 5070 Get ready for real estate ravens games this weekend. Santa Claus New Yearโs resolutions and a lot of really cool stuff coming up in the holidays around here around my 31st anniversary and some conversations Iโve never shared wise conversations we had back in the day. Youโll be checking them out at Baltimore positive.com.