Continuing along with our theme of domesticity this week, we’ll now begin our discussion of grocery stores.
There’s a grocery store here that makes me wanna cry every time I go. Its like Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve – and no, I’m NOT kidding or exaggerating at all. 21 checkout lines, ALWAYS backed up with at least 6 FULLTOTHETOP buggies.
If I survive an aisle but forget something on the aisle, I WILL NOT turn around and go get it. I only have ONE shot to find it. ONE SHOT. There’s no turning back, or else I might become a pillar of salt or something. It is impossible to navigate through the aisles. Knocking over end caps. Running over old ladies. It’s awful. AWFUL.
I’d rather spend $20 extra dollars a trip, and go to the quieter store, than frequent that madhouse.
Can I just say that I LOATHE that grocery store?
A few months ago, a friend of mine told me about the same store in a different nearby town. I’ll drive the extra 3.5 minutes to this one, because it’s just as cheap, and much more… subdued.
Praise Jesus for friends.
And empty grocery stores.
Which reminds me:
tomatoes
rice
lettuce
chicken
cereal
milk
eggs
corn
asparagus
bell peppers
make sure you chew the corn sufficiently… otherwise it’ll come out lookin’ just like it went in.
I have absolutely nothing to say on the subject of grocery stores. ;P
My wife just shared with me that she thinks I’m sexy when I grocery shop and/or do dishes.
I’m just saying.
I HATE THAT STORE TOO!! I would rather spend and have to go to three different stores than go there. Mandy, seriously, the grocery store situation in the North Shore is one thing that made me soooooooo excited to get back to the Motherland. It is so pleasant here!! And even when it’s “busy” there is still plenty of room and plenty of product and plenty of staff THAT CARE. Ugh. I just got an ulcer thinking about shopping in Salem/Beverly. theresnoplacelikehome….
Carrie! I’m so sorry!!!
Russ: I think any woman would agree with you.
Megan… Did you know about the new one I mentioned. It stopped all grays from growing on my head!
Oh Girl!!! Since I come home around 6, the grocery aisles are packed with yuppies with their ingredients for their new quiches!! What I hate is when you need one thing out of the dairy cooler and this lady or man is just standing there gazing at all the milk. I ask could I? (glare) I’ll say it in my spanish (permisso?) stomping my food. Move NOW!!! (muerte ahorita).. This dance lasts for 2 precious minutes until I have my 2 gallons of 2%!! geesh
Oh my. Before I was pregnant, it was nothing to go to Walmart. I kind of liked it. During grocery rush hour or middle of the night – it didn’t matter. Now, though? I HATE going to Super Walmart! While I was pregnant, it just got to be Too Hard. The store was Too Big, there were Too Many People, and finding everything was just Too Hard. So I refused to go.
Now I can’t really escape it – and unless I want to brave the Saturday rush (which I do not), I end up going by myself with Photobaby. She’s usually super good, but it’s still a tad bit stressful.
However, I will say that I’m still so thankful for Super Walmart and their everyday low prices – because shopping at the other grocery stores, while more convenient, is much more expensive.
Also, we have a super cheap grocery store like you describe here. And every month, I tell myself I should be a better steward of our money and shop there. But the thought of braving the crowds snaking through the aisles (you’re right! you canNOT turn around!) and piling up at the register, where I have to BAG MY OWN GROCERIES…well, Super Walmart doesn’t seem so bad.
I went to the grocery store the other day. The lady who walked in right behind me says, “Is it gonna SNOW??!?” I looked at her quite puzzled and she continued, “It’s like the whole town is here!” I follow her gaze and realize she’s responding to the lack of shopping carts and the large numbers of people milling around the store. I had an inside chuckle and thought, “Lady…you have no idea…”
Omg… I hate going to Wally world. I will pay the extra to go to publix any day of the week!
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Holly! I’m TOTALLY laughing at you there… WOW
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Mandy- thanks for linking me… I am not sure why my link did not come up…?
BTW….Love your pics! You look hot!
Market Basket – I never did find out if you were able to locate the new one?
Oh, I remember trying to shop in MA… Todd and I discovered going on Friday nights…we were so lame! But we never had to wait long so it was worth it to us! haha ha ha…
When I am in the middle of a health episode, Craig won’t let me shop alone. The last one lasted so long that it is now just a set appointment for us. He is awesome when he grocery shops. He not only knows bargains and bags the groceries but he also catches me when I get really dizzy before I hit the floor. I gotta love him.
Sarah: YES ma’am! That’s the pinnacle of the story!
Jordan: Oh I remember y’all’s Friday night grocery dates.
T: Hold on to him!
Seems to me that conditions like that would drive anyone up the wall
I email a list on Wed. to my friend’s mom and she brings me the groceries on Friday.
Mmm-hmm… homebound rocks.
im hungry.
you need to add oreos to that list.
Ok. Only if you fly in… Deal?
sorry for what?? That you hate the grocery store and I work in one? Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret. I hate it a little (lot) bit too.
And I hate when teenage girls come in the 10 degree weather in short shorts and snow boots to do their “shopping”.
Hungry now…thanks:)
“I’ll drive the extra 3.5 minutes to this one”. That statement shows how fast paced our world has become. Imagine all the important things you won’t get done because of losing thoese 3.5 minutes.
Not to be a sexist but there should be a “shopping cart aisle driving school” for all the women, and alright the occasional old timer, who pays no attention to where they are going. I have learned to look both ways, three times, before moving into a new aisle.
It also seems to me that most delays at check-out are from women looking through their pocket books for change or their checkbook. Why do they have to wait until the cashier is finished before they start looking for their checkbook? Why can’t they fill out everything but the amount beforehand?
Not to rub it in, but to rub it in
being retired means I can spend all day having a pleasant chat with the person behind me while waiting at the check-out, even when it’s more than 3.5 minutes. 
edfromct: that is exactly what is holding up the line. And coupon hunters, price checkers, people who forgot their money in the car and people who waste time cussing me out because they don’t have proper I.D. for buying tobacco.
deal!!!
can i make the dumplins?
i quit wal-mart because after working there for 3 years I developed an anxiety disorder and quit the day I had dreadful reoccuring panick attacks. Let me tell you, THAT was embarrassing let alone frightening too for the customer I imagine, considering it’s usually the customer who is having the panick attacks (thinking of watching them, as a Cashier, try and put their change away quickly or covering up there pin when using debit.). I’m glad, so glad I don’t have to practically “live” with the act of Customer-Service right now.
you’re welcome. what i have, i give.
and i think your description was much more tame than mine: http://rachelpage.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/they-really-should-do-something-about-those-carts/
seriously, the devil manages that place.
I get all my groceries for 2 wks every other Saturday, drive about 15 min away to the no-frills/no bags store that saves me at least 1/2 what I would pay at any of the other stores! Get there early and never deal with anyone!!
Hate to bust your bubble, but that ain’t nothing until you do it with 3-4 kids in tow…just saying
I’m late….again….but better late than never. This post and the laundry post cracked me up! (i’m laughing at your humor…not AT you!).
this is what i’ve noticed about grocery stores….other shoppers are so RUDE! i simply do not understand. do they think the cart is a car and that they can cut me off and i’m not going to think anything of it? I’M STANDING RIGHT THERE! i’m floored every time i go grocery shopping. rude people…..bleh!
We only have this problem when the tourists pour into town at Easter and Christmas holidays. Then we shop at 7am to avoid the rush.
I miss London where I just ordered everything online and it pitched up at my door the next day – or whenever I wanted it delivered. Those were the days.
@ tam – you really need to progress from Oreos to HobNobs
I too, hate grocery shopping. Especially Mon. morning since all the groceries have been closed since 4pm on Saturday.
So I always go at the lunch hour. Because they, the Swiss, are all at home/in restaurant eating lunch. Swiss kids go home from school to eat lunch and it’s expected the moms are home to cook it. It is an exception if a school has an on site lunch program available.
Thank you God for providing Int’l school.