Posted on 12/16/2021 5:10:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Yep
we have several publix stores here in my town, but they are to high priced as what we could afford.
Zero interest in standing in a line or waiting to pay.
I have a friend who has been a checkout worker at my Publix for over 20 years. She always bought company stock when she could afford it and lived within her means. She's also set to retire a millionaire next year.
Yeah. I was in a Sam’s about 8 months ago but their cashier’s were keeping the lines moving.
Nice story
Agreed. I am a fan of Sam’s Scan-n-Go. It has increased my patronage of the store significantly by reducing a lot of frustration.
I shop at Safeway because my mother did, as did my grandmother before her. How’s that for brand loyalty?
I buy alcohol there because the price is the same with or without their stupid card, which I don’t have.
For everything else, which they mark-up 20% for those without a card, I go other supermarkets (other than Walmart, of course, which is always a dump).
Up here in NH & MA there is a local grocery store chain called Market Basket. It is owned by a local family. IMHO it is by far the best grocery store around. Their pricing is almost always cheaper than the others: Shaws , Hannaford, Star Market, Wegmans, Trader Joes and Whole Paycheck. They are even cheaper than Walmart and comparable to Aldi.
A few years ago the board tried to raid the pension fund of all the long term employees. They all wear name tags that state how long they have been with the company. People over 30 years are common. These employees typically have over a million in their profit sharing pension account.
When this happened the President of the company was against it. He supported the employees. There were picket lines out in front of all their stores. It was the only time I did not shop there. Eventually, the board changed their mind and the employees won out.
I’m glad my town has a Publix
I wish Costco had the app as well. I prefer Costco to Sam's, and the checkout lines at Costco, while long moved very fast. But, since COVID, Costco does not keep as many lines open and they try to funnel everybody into the self-checkout lines. If you are buying wine or beer you have to wait until someone comes over to approve the purchase, which holds up the line for everybody else. I may let my Costco membership lapse and keep Sam's.
I saw a YT the other day on difference between England and USA. One thing the American mentioned was that in England they do not bag the groceries. You have to do that yourself.
Wonder if that will be coming here. Hope not.
I love the USA
Kaslin, you should be very proud of your son.
My son does our grocery shopping for us, at Walmart or Kroger because I have a degenerative Disc decease, and a degenerative hip joint decease which make it very hard for me to walk. He says I don’t want to drag you around. This is getting tiresome
I was going to suggest getting a mobility scooter at the store, but I hardly see any of these at stores. One of the regional grocery stores I shop at did away with hand baskets and the scooters.
We moved to Texas three years ago. HEB instantly became a staple. But when we first got here, most of their stores had no self-checkout. I much prefer it to waiting in a long line for just a handful of items. I was glad to see they added them soon after we got here, but the 10-item limit is sometimes completely ignored. Saw a couple this weekend with three bags of groceries in their cart, and they were still pulling groceries to be scanned.
All the Whataburgers, too. Even an In and Out here and there!
Liked Whataburger when we first got here, but after a while, we noticed their burgers had changed. Drier, less flavorful. Changes were also noted for their shakes/malts. We thought we had imagined it, until a search on the Internet indicated they had sold off a majority of the company to Chicago investment firm in June 2019. It was later in 2019 we noticed the difference in their food. :(
So, In-N-Out and Mighty Fine it is!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/texas-whataburger-chicago.html
Business as usual at my Publix....
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Here in Punxsutawney, PA we have Save-a Lot and we have Wallies. I think Wallies tried to put Save-a-lot out of business but they haven’t been successful yet. All the other grocery stores that were here are gone. Even the store called Yoder’s is now an antique store.
What Kaslin has described is how you get groups within our civilization with their own unique history of the observance of anything (but not Brandon’s group of dishonest and the ungodly) to switch to anything else.
The actual quote from ‘Josey Wales’ was akin to “Senator, just don’t pi$$ on my back and tell me it’s raining.”
VERY appropriate for these days and times.
On the run or I would post a link to the clip.
Uh, they're gunna fix that one too by making gas $10/gallon. ;o)
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