Weblog: an Archive of our Newsletters and Sales

Whoa Free Rangers, Exhaustion has taken hold. We here at Free Range are plowing through holiday season, heads down, nose to the grindstone (whatever the hell that means), deep in the weeds, and moving mass units (by our standards- a blip on the radar of a big box...

Some days are diamonds Free Rangers, Some days are rocks. This last Saturday broke a record for feet through the door per purchase made. So many indoor window shoppers and irl scollers. A 30-40 minute drone ensued in which we were consistently packed, and the register...

Jellō Free Rangers, The energy out there at street level these days is as focused and even handed as a Michael Bay joint, if not so inherently incendiary as a coupla weeks back. A far more accomplished writer (and better adjusted human person) than this one recently...

Hey Free Rangers, First, on Turkey Day eve we received a 2-star (no review) Google rating. I wrote a public response which was posted the following evening en route to my folks’ place for wine, turkey, and merriment, and the original rating was deleted apparently...

Que Pasa Free Rangers, First, yes, the bottom most link on this page contains the 6-pack sale which led me to recommend to several of you not to buy some of these items today (as said sale page was actively coming together). No harm, no foul if you want to scroll...

Howdy Free Rangers, And welcome to a very special episode. This is space currently occupied by a void left in the wake of the recently redacted paragraph that once was, but poof, like Keyser Soze, it's gone. Perhaps a little too raw for moment. Exhaustion will exert...

So That Happened, Free Rangers, Good luck to us all. Anyway. So in our last note, autocorrect un-spelled Neil deGrasse Tyson to Neil Degrassi (Junior High) Tyson. Having deep respect and love for the former, and having never watched the latter (though I know it was a...

Fever Pitch Free Rangers, People are freaking the Eph out. Things at street level in our little corner of the world are heated, simmering, volatile, like a lead vat of cesium exposed to air. The chaos seems to come in waves, which are breaking with increasing...

Gotta Be Honest Free Rangers, I have no idea where I’m going with this, or really where we are right now. It is certain however that the collective trauma of the first three waves of the pandemic have congealed to the bottom of modern existence, likely never to fully...

Le Sigh Free Rangers, Wine education is a constant battle against the forces of misinformation wielded by hapless health influencers and soulless booze marketeers. 1) sulfites and sulfates are not the same. It’s a chemistry thing. And you do not have an allergy to...