We live in a world of adult two year olds. People have just socially regressed. Not sure I completely understand it, but the loss of self-control is increasing rapidly.
Frank Costanza thought there must be a better way and then he invented Festivus.
we shop Sam’s club. I’m afflicted with “shoppers aggravation syndrome” when shopping around idiots. wifey termed it “a Sam’s attack”. shopping around dummies doesn’t always bother me but when they are out in force, like the holidays...wifey sees that look in my eyes and quickly ushers me out before anything bad happens. “only doctors have patience” applies.
The idiot woman made a clog and wouldn’t get out of the way. The whole aisle was bottled up.
One thing I would like to mention is the store shoppers at Krogers or WalMart doing shopping for people who are too lazy to do their own shopping. These carts are about three times the size of an ordinary cart. The employees just stop in the middle of an aisle and block it. And since they are employees, they don’t care about the customers.
Time your shopping so you don’t have to deal with it. This county only has 17k people living in it so shopping is easy. I wondered why people from WV came here to shop until I went to the Kroger in Princeton. Now I know why. It was just like the article.
I love the people who block aisles in the parking lot waiting for someone to pull out of a close-in space. But I haven’t rammed one….yet.
At the grocery store yesterday for a few things - very crowded but we were all behaving - it was cramped in a few places I’ll admit - but just remain calm and look for sale prices
A black lady moved out of my way then I truly accidentally bumped into her - oops - I apologized immediately
we both just laughed
The carts are pretty high anyway, and I am short, so sometimes hard to see around and over. Had a bunch of bulky stuff in the cart. Store was crowded.
I was nearing the end of the aisle, and there was a food sample table set up on my left side. I was going to the right. Big crowd around the table, carts in the way, but not to the right.
So I turn my cart to the right, and bash into a stroller that I could not see because---everything was crowded. Mom had left her toddler there unattended while she went for samples.
She came running up to me, yelling at me "HEY! LOOK OUT! YOU ALMOST HURT MY KID!"
I apologized, saying I hadn't seen him, parked right around the corner when I turned.
She put her hand up dismissively and yelled "NO! DON'T APOLOGIZE!" (she was asian, so it was really "APOROGIZE").
I was annoyed anyway--at myself for stupidly going during peak hours on a weekend, at the stupid people blocking the aisles--her yelling at me and then dismissing my apology set me off.
I yelled back at her, "NEXT TIME, DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE AND LEAVE YOUR KID ALONE IN A STOLLER WHERE PEOPLE PUSHING CARTS CAN'T SEE HIM!"
Area around me went silent, she looked a little shocked, and I stalked off. :)
Everytime I go back into that Costco and down the same aisle, I laugh.
This is more Walmart behavior.
Staring down the logjam, the man, who had a small dog with him, talked about people needing to get out before he went cart-to-cart with the woman, according to the video.
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“Ugh, I hate when people bring animals inside grocery stores,” one seethed.
Look at the bright side... he couldn't stop Christmas from coming.
♫ ♪ Welcome Christmas, while we stand, cart-to-cart, and hand-in-hand:
“standing in the frozen section for a long time.”
Holly cow batman, I’ve been guilty of that. If the stores would organize the product so you can find the buffalo chicken wing, not the teriyaki wings, not the bone out wings, but the frigging old style buffalo chicken wings, then I would not be standing there like a blind person looking at nothing!!
I finally left in frustration as they had none. Or at least none that I could find.
My Costco is full of folks from India, and trying to maneuver around it must be like trying to drive in New Delhi.
I was recently in Spain, and shopping at a Carrefour store there.
They have these wonderful carts that can easily go sideways, without having to turn, or lift them. Wish they had those here.
I live in a town with one and only one grocery store. I love shopping there. If two people like that started acting like that they both might get arrested by the local sheriff.
I get it. Some idiots block the lane with conversation, that trips my trigger.
I hate Costco. The pittance you save isn’t worth all the bullshit.
If I’m ever in the mood to see some ghettopottamus chaos, there’s a Walmart not too far from me where the chances are high of seeing a fight of some kind.
Can’t wait to hear of the Horror stories from Black Friday, could not pay me to go out to that stuff. It really all got out of hand several years ago.
People who block isles with their carts require incoming mortar rounds.
These same people drive their cars the exact same way, rude, like they’re the only car on the road.