[DesertRhino]

German store. Not impressed when I went there once by circumstance. As I recall they didn’t even have bags. Weird place.

[steve86]

Walmart in my state doesn’t have bags. I hate it and won’t pay for one of their advertising logo cloth bags. I did buy a carton of disposable plastic bags from Amazon.

[Albion Wilde]

German store. Not impressed when I went there once by circumstance. As I recall they didn’t even have bags. Weird place.

They have bags. They are in a shelf under the checkout belt. If you want to bag your groceries, you buy the bags along with the groceries for 10 or 12 cents. You can also take corrugated boxes in which their dry goods were shipped, free, from a large wire crate and use them to take your groceries home, and then set them out to hold your recycling for pick up so you don't have to set out a plastic recycling bin and go take it back again. Win-win.

Once you get used to the ways Aldi cuts prices by being “semi-warehouse,” it's a great store with prices 1/3 to 1/2 less than comparables at larger chains. It can even beat the Sam's or Costco prices on many items if you don't mind comparing. I keep a running list of my regular items in my phone at which store so I can check which is the better deal.

Not all their store brands are as good as name brands, but some are just as good and many are better, and at lower prices. They also have great specials. I got a tree lopper for $9 at Aldi that sells for $20 at Home Depot. Same with many other useful items.

The German thing—still reliving WW2? Germany and Japan have been U.S. allies for some time now.

[SaveFerris]

Aldi has bags - at least the one near me - you have to buy them, of course - (seems like a good thread for me to post these pictures again)

Amazon One - Palm-print scanner - It is not the Mark of the Beast - just a precursor; a warm-up; a dress rehearsal

Pay with your hand - Forerunner to the coming Mark of the Beast (Revelation 13)

Using one's hands to pay for food. A boxed "convenience store" (Hudson Nonstop, LAX airport, Dallas Love Field airport), to Arbor Trails Whole Foods (Austin, Texas), to paying for food at Panera Bread, to other Whole Foods stores (owned by Amazon).

Yes, I use Amazon for shopping from time-to-time but this "scan-your-hand-to-pay" is already alive and in operation - no doubt it will continue to expand / grow in acceptance. The conditioning (intentional or unintentional, it will make no difference) has started.

I'm sure the people in the pics think they're showing the latest "cool thing" - possibly mocking and laughing at any reference to the "Mark of the Beast" - this is just a sampling of the pictures I found.

By the time the actual Mark of the Beast, these kinds of payment systems will be fully-embedded in society I think.

Amazon One

The world is not there - YET. But the conditioning, intentional or unintentional - it will make no difference. Fast, easy, secure, convenient. IMHO, cash will be outlawed. Digital Currency 100% will be the future. /Captain Obvious