Posted on 03/10/2018 6:06:36 AM PST by Rebelbase
When Bob Schneider goes out on a Friday night, he no longer heads to the local singles bar. Instead, he goes to the grocery store.
“I once dated a woman from the potato section at Mariano’s,” says Mr. Schneider, a 67-year-old semiretired, twice-divorced lobbyist in Oak Brook, Ill. “The next thing you know we’re at the wine bar and then we’re dating.”
Supermarkets—those havens of the not-so-scintillating chore of scouring numbered aisles, pushing carts and perusing produce—are finding a new identity as a social hub in communities. Parents now bring their children here to play, retirees gather for Bingo, and singles find romance.
Grocery stores are fulfilling the new role as traditional gathering spots, from shopping malls to social clubs like Lions Clubs and Rotary International, continue to shrink from decades-earlier peaks. Malls, in particular, are in danger of extinction. Credit Suisse has projected that up to 25% of malls will close over the next five years, as the internet continues to reshape the way Americans shop.
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You got it!
Rubber chicken
Fonzie knew this before anyone. When Richie was in a slump with girls, Fonzi took him to the supermarket.
Wegman’s is great.
They have a wonderful selection of groceries, and the meat and fish departments are quite good. Also, the.alcohol prices are quite competitive, and the housewares section is interesting.
They also have a great prepared food section, and in my town, a decent sit down restaurant. It’s on the wrong side of town for me, but I understand the restaurant is quite popular in the evening.
I understand this was popular in Germany a few years ago. The supermarkets were actually promoting it.
Hello, Beautiful ... what’s your sign ? .... can I buy you a cantaloupe ?
At one time, the best pick-up location in the Atlanta area, was the Publix in Vinings. MILFs, Cougars or the fresh college graduate. You either got them on the way home from work, in their heels and business clothes or yoga pants/gym clothes. Either way, the scenery was very nice.
A female reporting in.
Women - it’s not only produce. March on over to the baking isles. Several times in years passed while shopping in this particular isle, men have come forward asking what type of flour does my woman need?
MEN: for those who might be sent on an errand without adequate information, there are several types of flour, so you’d best ask your woman (wife) WHICH TYPE before you travel to the super market. All Purpose, Bread, Self Rising, Cake flour. Flour has as many varieties as the flowers in a garden. If there were no women in that isle to ask, what do you do and whom do you ask? When asking anyone, at least KNOW the what is being made which requires this ingredient.
LOL! That was my first thought when I read the headline. And I figured it was only a matter of time before someone posted an IMG from Animal House!
I was going to give the exact same advice. I get approached in the baking aisle all the time, 3 to 4 on a Saturday afternoon also seems to be prime time.
Also, some of the local grocery stores have places where you can eat purchased wine and food. One supposedly has the best happy hour crowd in its neighborhood. I see a group of young men with a six pack of beer, a couple bags of chips and dip sitting at centrally located tables at the store by me all the time. It’s definitely cheaper, great people watching and they can have a conversation without shouting.
Fonzie also liked “Shopping”.
Ready these posts on this piece brightened up my day some of these one liners are hilarious.
There’s a small Shop Rite near were I live in Wall Twp., NJ. At the risk of sounding sexist the place is milf central. Never saw so many gorgeous 40 year old women in my life!
Sounds like a place I should avoid.My ticker just isn't strong enough to be exposed to gorgeous 40 year old women!
‘Driving Miss Daisy to the sto’.’
LOL! Yeah but it’d be a heck of a way to go!
"Honey, the ladies are eyeing me like I am fresh meat in the meat section."
“The Social Safeway,” NYT 1981:
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/08/garden/power-in-the-aisles-of-a-capital-market.html
Interesting. I’d think laws vary from
state to state on consumption, etc.
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