![]() It was great until it came time to put it back. I recently used one of those smaller carts. ![]() And where, at least for myself, the goal is to get RID of that extra tonnage so that I don't rip holes in my pockets, lose my pants altogether or sink to the bottom of any deep water I might accidentally fall into, I don't want to always have a quarter on my person in case I might want to do some grocery shopping.Īnd seriously, Safeway, if you want us to do this quarter thing, get a system that WORKS! I can't tell you how many times I have shoved a quarter into a cart and it didn't unlock, OR brought my cart back and could not get my quarter OUT of it. (A joint effort on the part of the government and credit card companies to make cash less convenient and bully us into using plastic). And it IS a chore in a country where I think I can accurately say we are burdened down by the jingly ballast of more pocket change than most. Yet at Safeway they inconvenience me, almost DIScourage me from using the cart by adding this extra chore to my shopping day. Why do you think Suprstores, Walmarts and Costcos have aisles like landing strips and those cavernous grocery barges? They're subliminally forcing us helpless consumers to buy more! It will encourage me to buy more if I have a cart in which I am able to wheel more items around the store as I shop. Come on! Really? I have to put a quarter into the cart quarter chain thingy in order to seriously shop at Safeway. I know it'll fade soon and I'll be complaining. But I'm trying the spread out my enjoyment eating the things I craved most a little at a time to extend the appreciation of being home as long as I can. ![]() Now I can eat 'em all! I have to be careful because that is the impulse. You see there are about a bazillion products available here that I have spent late nights craving from the depths of darkest Korea and/or spent 5 to 10 times the amount of money they're worth on them just to have a taste of home now and again. Since coming back to Canada from Korea some of the most pleasurable times I've spent have been whistling my way through the aisles of the local Safeway like a whistling zombie in a brainshop.
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