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Aug 13, 2007
supermarket sweep On Saturday, I almost won a shopping spree at the local grocery strore. I was very, very close, if my step had only been timed just a little bit better. See, I was walking down the aisle, and all of the sudden, my right foot almost stumbled. It was one of those things where it was just a little off, not even enough where anyone would have noticed that I stumbled. Then, in corner of my left eye, I noticed a chunk of ice sailing across the floor and under the freezer to my left. A few feet away, two store employees were stocking bags of ice. If I actually had fallen, I would have gotten free groceries. Maybe next time. As I was standing in line, I began to think about how crazy people get at grocery stores. We have this tendancy to think that everything we want should be there and that we should get in and out without having to wait for anything. Reading other websites and blogs, I have actually found people who have complained about each method of payment. Some complain about being behind people paying with cash, since it takes so long to actually count it all out. Others complain about check writers, since writing a check takes almost a full minute. Others complain about those using credit cards, since you have to wait for approval and then the signature. And then people complain about how long it takes to enter one's pin number when paying by debit card. We complain about long lines. We complain about the store being out of something. The reality is that a supermarket is an amazingly efficent thing that we totally take for granted. Just the sheer magnitude of varitety that we have in our stores is incredible. In some parts of the world, to get the varitey of things we can get in a trip to the store would take all day, where you would have to go to several specialty shops. In other parts of the world, the varitey of food that we have available simply doesn't exist. You may have one or two choices at most as to what you would eat on a day to day basis. We have all of this available to us, and yet we complain. We go in one day and they ran out of one of the items we want, when in reality we would have two or three options almost identical to it. We complain about our trip taking 20 minutes instead of 15. It seems kind of silly, sometimes. posted
by Unknown @ 1:51:00 PM |
