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TheBuzz Erika Engle |
Foodland to Go
is going to be gone,
and Meisenzahl
is moving onCustomers of Hawaii's first online grocery shopping service got the form e-mail yesterday.
"I am sorry to inform you that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our online shopping service, Foodland To Go," wrote Jenai Wall, chairwoman and chief executive officer of Foodland Super Market Ltd.
The 3-year-old service had "satisfied and loyal customers" but did not maintain a "sufficient volume of business to justify the resources devoted to the service," Wall's statement continued.
One thousand customers picked up grocery orders placed online at the Beretania and Ewa Beach stores, according to spokeswoman Sheryl Toda.
The final day of service will be tomorrow.
Priorities versus passion
KITV news reporter and anchor Dan Meisenzahl will start the new year with a new career on the opposite side of the wall separating church and state. He's leaving the news business for advertising sales."I thought PR was the dark side," he said in response to TheBuzz's query.
The opportunity to join the KGMB-TV ad sales team came up during a zoo outing with friends.
Sales manager Cindy Hewitt is a good friend and one of the top sales people in the state, he said.
"It seemed like a good opportunity to switch over to the dark side. It worked for Darth Vader for at least four or five movies," he laughed.
"I'm very well compensated at KITV, but I have two young children and I want to give them all the best and still have a little bit left for my wife and I," he said. Wife Su Shin, a former reporter, is a PR executive at Joan Bennet and Associates Inc.
"It was a choice between my priorities and my passion. That's a practice line, I've been using it on everybody," he said.
Meisenzahl's past includes broadcast news and sports work.
After Dec. 23, his future holds inevitable sports analogies during equally inevitable sales meetings with General Manager and former athlete Rick Blangiardi.
"I know all the sports lingo," Meisenzahl said. "I'll understand what he's talking about."
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Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin. Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210, Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached at: eengle@starbulletin.com