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There's one bird in their head that's half alive just bouncing around like the DVD logo.

I worked in grocery stores when I was younger, not going to give away my age, but I will tell you that people wrote a lot more checks then.

The number of times I would get to the end of the transaction and tell somebody the total and they would slowly pull the checkbook out of their purse or pocket, then other questions, do you have a pen?,what's today's date?, Oops I wrote it out to the wrong store, I need to start over.

I was doing my chess puzzles

God forbid you need to check out (only one checkout lane open bc it's so early) right behind one of those old people as they take about 65 centuries to pull exact change out of their asses

I'm one of those old people. We know what's up.

make sure to speak to the manager or other person in charge when you find empty shelves

that will usually get some attention on it, the bread and dairy isles get beat up the most because they are usually only worked once a day unless someone complains (from my experience). The bread isle was my space when I moved on and it was almost impossible to keep filled because a bunch was vendor controlled but I always had store brand or generic stuff to fill the empty spaces before I'd leave for the day

someone was supposed to face it a few times a day but rarely did that happen unless the manager noticed or someone complained

polite customer complaints are powerful motivation in my experience

Could just also have been outright fear. Waaay too many people did this for computers in the 90's and 00's They hit something they don't understand and they just freeze.

I had this nurse out of state. She had worked her entire life on paper. Xeroxed forms, filled them out, filed them. She was only in her 30's. We were a big healthcare company, and she started working for us. We had a strong need to have things digitized. She had just convinced her coworker to key in all her forms after she took care of them, but the situation was untenable. Her boss called me, we need her to have her own computer so she can learn to use it. AOK, I configured and mailed one right away.

Boss calls me back, a week later. so and so can't get on. OH OK!, what's the error? You'll need to talk to her. That's fine can you put her on? Ohh um she just left. K, can you have her call me when she gets back and we'll sort it out right away.

A day goes by, Two, Boss calls me, So and So still can't get on. She never called me, yeah let me put her on the line.

[muffled argument]

[long silence]

soandso: meekest voice hello

me: HI! let's get you on your laptop, this should only take a second.

soandso: mumbles

me: i missed that, what was that?

[long silence]

me: I hear you can't get on your laptop, let's fix that. Did your password just not work? where did you get stuck?

[long silence]

soandso: mumbles

me: I can't hear you, if you speak up a touch, we'll get you going

[long silence]

soandso: almost a whisper I don't know what to do

Me: quiet and reserved, shooting for soothing ok, that's not a problem, we'll go through step by step until it works, do you have the laptop in front of you?

soandso: a whisper yes

Me: is it open?

soandso: a whisper no

Me: ok, lets open it up, do you see a button on the front, you'll need to press that and pull up on the lid

[long silence]

soandso: light sobbing it's still in the box

me: [internally: JESUS] ok, no proble, let's get that box open

90 minutes, in an hour and half, we got the box open, got the laptop out, opened it up, too a 5 minute break to sob and then re-collect herself. found the power button (this took 10 minutes alone) it was on the upper right of the keyboard, she made me walk her up from control, to shift to enter and so on. It came on, it was already setup for their wifi, all she had to do was enter the username and password which i had emailed to her boss and asked her to write it on a sticky.

She finally was on the desktop

soandso: morose now what

me: We're done, you'll need to work with your boss now to find out how to do your actual work on it, but you should be able to get in now.

She lasted another week before they fired her.

She was an RN, she knew medical coding, and she drove, she was just terrified of learning new shit

Gas pumps no, grabbing a bag of chips from the gas station yes.

Sit down restaurants no, fast food restaurant yes*

*unless he only does drive thru

Aldi is by far my favorite. No nonsense, good prices. You're in, you're out. I appreciate they don't play games.

Lots of the time it is a fire hazard, but unless the Fire Marshall knows about it nothing gets done.

Fire code is usually checked when the building is built or if there's a remodel, but otherwise most places can go a long, long time without a fire inspection unless there's a specific complaint.

Reporting suspected safety issues to the Fire Marshall or Building Official is okay. You're not being a Karen. Building and Fire codes are written in response to avoidable tragedies and should be followed.

Fucking Weggels... [what we call it at work] Those stores are laid out like some kid did a drawing and used AI to make a store out of it.

I need some gluten free crackers for my sister in law for Christmas, are they in the cracker isle, the gluten free isle, the cheese section? Two stores near me don't even place them in the same location.

Ohh glass bottles of water! Let's recycle! They're in bulk this week, next week they're in the water isle, next week the fancy drink isle.

You really should look into it more (it's not a secret if you look for it) because OP is right. Yes, they're selling thousands of things BUT they're also designing that space to make you take as long as possible to get through it. The answer for why that is, is simple. People buy more. You don't have to have an "issue" navigating with it, because you just don't notice if you spend 5 minutes more walking through the place. If it was so egregious to be noticed easily by people, they would stop coming and the benefit evaporates. So it's a balance.

It's not even that, grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up and makes them more willing to spend, play specific music that calms and soothes you so you'll walk slower. When you walk into a grocery store, you are walking through a highly specialized environment to maximize profits.

The most annoying thing about the self checkout is the need for you to put the entirety of your shopping on the time you weighing plate to make sure that I'm not buying my weekly shop but then sneaking a bottle of water past the system.

At least the IKEA self checkouts don't do that. They let me buy my Pœlēøïng in peace

This must be a regulation in Canada or something because $/100g is always on the bottom for the tag in small print.

Apparently it's a conspiracy that they play pop music and offer fresh bread on premises.

These people are fucking idiots.

The people stocking the shelves aren't the ones designing the store layout, dummy.

it's the who does the telling who creates the hostile design. the other things you're describing, the dehumanization of the employees, are part of that design

The stores are told on a corporate level that items need to be stocked on certain shelves and all essential items (milk, eggs, whatever) need to be buried in the back behind anything that's on sale so customers have to look at everything before getting the basics.

Workers are people who follow orders and have to live with the chaos and help customers actually find the item they're looking for even though the company as a whole is the problem

We shouldn't jump straight into violence, so how about after 5 minutes we're allowed to beat them with anything from their cart, our cart, or the complementary whiffle ball bat?

how fucked up is our world that the pandemic was actually better?

pretty sure the average iq is always 100...

Maybe they just have less lead in the water and better education.

I live in the US. I go to the grocery store a few times a week, I'm a small trips kinda guy, and it's close to my home. Nine out of ten trips are fantastic, but every so often you just come across a person who parks their cart sideways in an aisle, or parks next to one of the stupid fucking displays they put in the already-too-thin aisles. This is excluding, of course, folks who take stuff out of their cart and leave it anywhere, because either they don't realize (or are to embarrassed, for some reason) that you can just leave it with a person up at the register. And at the self-checkouts I do, from time to time, see someone with clearly more than 20 items, though the store folks are good about not letting that happen.

I never go to Walmart, so I'm going to assume things are much worse there.

Yeah, I can remember one or two specific instances of people choosing the worst place to stop and have a conversation, but the reason I remember them is because they happen so infrequently. I might need to say "excuse me" every so often, or squeeze by someone who didn't leave a lot of space, but it's never inconvenient enough to warrant remembering.

Go to costco.

Extra cluster fuck challenge: go when they have samples.

$10?

Sadly, we still do. But it's really more a matter of vendor preference these days, since some places (usually small/personal operations) don't do digital payments. That and nobody carries large amounts of cash around, so checks are the only alternative.

That said, anyone that hasn't moved on to prefer a bank card or credit-card is behind the times, or doesn't have a bank account. Still, it's rare to see these days, especially at the grocery store.

You not having seen one doesn't mean they don't exist in Europe.

When you leave a room, are you aware that that room continues to exist?

Rather sit at the gate for an hour than wait and stand in line for an hour to get through security

For me, I just hate standing in a queue for long periods of time. Also, in my town, queues can get up to ober an hour in security, propmpting peeple to potentially miss their flight or planes being delayed.

Then I wouldn't need as much buffer time in the first place. The sitting and waiting is because I didn't know how long the delays would be.

Agreed. Fuck cars and accept that other people aren't going to be perfect and that that's okay for them to be.

society is full of people who aren't getting things 100% correct

It's fine, they will go to the usual stores.

You're completely missing the point. The idea can be fine on it's face, but it will very quickly be used to otherize the undesirables.

Not what I'm fucking saying, but good try. Something being used to justify racism isn't saying "this is on its face racism" its saying "racists will use the stringent, strict rules of this place to deny people of color access to this space". All of these complaints are things that everyone does to some extent, you just get frustrated by them when you're probably already frustrated.

People of color take up more space in white people's heads, so they get more policing of their behavior even if it isn't justified. A group of white boys being loud in a grocery store get head shakes and "boys will be boys" comments. A group of black boys being loud in a grocery store get followed around by security and white women clutching their purses.

Also fun how you sidestepped the ableism I brought up in that same sentence. Cause you know there's no fucking argument there, huh?

Can you read? He's talking about enforcing a separate system, not simply "wanting people to be courteous"

People walking towards each other on the sidewalk usually subconsciously move out of each other's ways. But there's a hierarchy to these interactions that you're probably only aware of if you're at the bottom of it. White people tend to resist deferring to people of color. White women will rarely defer to anyone, expecting everyone to get it of their way. People of color will defer to white people, etc, etc.

If you break this subconscious hierarchy, people notice and assume you're being rude or weird. Like if you move enough out of a white women's way so that she, too, can move a little out of your way so that you both avoid each other (like equals would do), she might just walk into you. Or cuss you out for being rude. Or when I, a white man, defer to a person of color, it trips them up for a second.

Since this hypothetical grocery store is nothing but "don't break unspoken rules about rudeness or you get kicked out" it means that a black person would need to act meek and submissive in order to avoid scrutiny and thus be able to stay. Meaning the rules would be more stringent against people of color, thus less people of color would be accepted, thus justifying their usual exclusion.

Ableism is super easy. Since this hypothetical prioritizes convenience over people, if you're slow at something or need more accommodation, you'd get kicked out.

Because the person in question might be an immigrant from a country where our supermarkets aren't normal, or have a neurological disease you can't see.

Oh my god I'm still stewing over that exact same post. It's been like a week.

Probably because Idiocracy unintentionally supported eugenics which is a really bad message.

Bruh, I got autism. This person decided to create a hypothetical grocery store instead of just saying "what's the deal with people in grocery stores? Why are they always in my way?"

You make a hypothetical system as a funny observation, I'm going to shit on the hypothetical before anyone thinks its an actually good idea. Cause people do that shit. Like a whole lot. Check the person who's trying to defend it as a good idea for an example

Demi Adejuyigbe made a parody of racism in his stand-up special "Demi Adejuyigbe is going to do one (1) back-flip" where he said all Latina women were 6'2" and people started parroting that shit back to him with no introspection on what the fuck they were saying.

Lol, you think Karens would be kept out of Karen heaven. Lmao, even.

"the bloody elgs can't be trusted"

I mean roadway markings. Put turn signals on the carts. It'll just highlight the inept.

Rural areas. That comes with other issues though, like MAGA people.

It's less random people and more likely people who live in the same building or whose kids are on the same team/at the same school etc. I don't want to be expected to converse, and I don't like when others do it. A friendly smile and hello and keep walking is my go-to, as if I'm in a tearing hurry.

"Physicial agression", what the fuck have you been smoking? They said they pushed the cart away with their carts. Nothing agressive about that, wtf.

I guess we found the grocery maniac.

If they were tired and unable to communicate (happens to us all mate) they would have been okay with their cart being moved. Getting angry at the cart being moved, after saying it was okay to go, is the tell that this person was not capable of polite reason.

It was intentionaly malicious advice.

I feel if they did that, they would feel like shit, and not ask for seggregation.

Oh I wish those were still around here. As a kid, we had an actual mom and pop owned cornershop. I went there as a kid one time to buy my dad cigarettes, and back then people knew each other and they'd call my home line asking if I was allowed.

Shop closed because the gas station opened their own competing store, and a big brand supermarket moved in. These days I'd kill to be able to walk into a small store nearby and be able to grab locally grown produce and walk out of there.

I don't think that. I think that a good society comes from interacting with people and helping them develop. There is no need for separate spaces if people teach each other how to use credit cards or how to pack bags efficiently.