This paper demonstrates how a diagram of a Safeway supermarket can be the vehicle for a language lesson based on Lawrence's cognitive categories (classification, definition, spatial order, chronological order, generalizations and specifics, and cause and effect). A wide variety of decision-making activities based on this diagram are described. Some examples of these exercises are: (1) the students must divide the store into sections and give a name to each one; (2) the students must describe the route the customer (Sally) would take to pick up the items on her shopping list; (3) given a list of Sally's weekly grocery items, the students must make inferences as to what kind of cook she is, what kind of meals she prepares, etc.; and (4) in the Safeway Shopping Spree Contest, the students must decide what they would do if they had five minutes to fill up their shopping carts with anything they wished--what items would they select, why, and what route would they take to pick them up. (CFM)