The horror of grocery shopping

[elSicomoro]

I always enjoy reviving a dead thread when I think of something relevant...

I normally do my shopping at Acme, primarily because it's convenient (just up the street from the apartment). But I've never liked the service there...and it's a rather small store.

This week, I think I finally had enough of it. Two months ago, they installed 4 self checkout lanes...but they rarely open all 4 of them, they don't always work properly and the staff closes them up early (before 9pm in a store that's open 24 hours). And the store seems to be short-staffed lately...maybe they had to cut payroll back...

Fuck that. I drive right by Super Fresh on the way home from the train station at night, their prices for the items I buy have been cheaper than Acme recently and they have self checkout lanes that are almost always open...and no lines.

Tuesday night, Rho wanted me to pick up some chicken. I walked in, grabbed the box of chicken, walked up to the self checkout, scanned, bagged, paid with my debit card and walked out the door...total time was maybe 5 minutes. No muss, no fuss...just let me get what I want, pay and get the fuck out. Nice.

Too bad they're not open 24 hours anymore. That's alright though...I don't shop late at night that often anymore anyway.