I still fail to see how me carrying a coffee walking around a store affects your shopping experience.

Anyone here remember "blue light specials" ?

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Originally posted by bendable:
Anyone here remember "blue light specials" ?

There hangs in a 2nd hand store here in northern Kentucky, a original blue light from a K Mart store. What a shame that people dont mingle amongst each other shopping like we used to. I know innernet and all that. Its sad to see the local mall parking lot empty. A huge spance of black top and no cars. The local Costco seems to stay busy.

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Originally posted by oddball:
An era long gone.

That self-service, was that a self-service check out???

I remember the Woolworth's on Powell St and Market had a tiny section near the Powell entrance of magic tricks. I bought a couple of magic tricks from there, one including balls and cups trick and Chinese string and sticks trick. As an adult, I bought a nice wooden version of the Chinese string and sticks trick.

My wife remembers when she was poor and working for Bank of America, she would buy a donut and fried chicken because it was cheap.

Shopping meant walking,

I am old enough to remember pre mall purchasing.

You drove eleven blocks downtown found a parking place,
Fed the parking meter and started walking.
O.M.G. right out in the weather and everything !

Iowa city only had nine city blocks for a Down town back then,
But still that 36
Streets at 300 feet each.

About a quarter of the stores had a second floor,

I am not talking 12 steps up,
Iam talking 24 steps to climb up.

As a pre-teen I used to complain about all the cigarette smoke at the lunch counters.

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Originally posted by cas:
You know, when people could shop without a cup of coffee. Or a bottle of water. Or a dog.

Had to go to Target today and was struck by how odd it's become.

Until Covid happened, my local Fry's Supermarket had free Starbucks coffee and donuts on Senior day. They were just inside the entrance.

Local Kroger’s has a Kro-bar. Now I can put a plastic cup holder on my cart and shop while consuming an IPA. Usually a good selection at a decent price. 1st thing to improve my shopping experience in a long time.

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Originally posted by mindustrial:

Local Kroger’s has a Kro-bar . . .shop while consuming an IPA. Usually a good selection at a decent price.

There's a small chain of meat markets (Petty's) in this area. I haven't been in for several years, but they did offer beer to sip while shopping. The price was decent: free!

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by IrishWind:
Seeing how Targets put a Starbucks at the front of their stores, I think it is Target's plan to get people to drink coffee as they wander the store.

So does Fry's Supermarkets around here.

It is like capitalism works.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I still fail to see how me carrying a coffee walking around a store affects your shopping experience.

Yeah I don't get that at all. The phone has to be the most annoying thing people bring into the store. Constantly staring at a phone like it's about to give them the winning lottery numbers any second while making them oblivious to the traffic around them.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Anyone here remember "blue light specials" ?

“ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS”

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Originally posted by mindustrial:
Local Kroger’s has a Kro-bar. Now I can put a plastic cup holder on my cart and shop while consuming an IPA. Usually a good selection at a decent price. 1st thing to improve my shopping experience in a long time.

Reminds me of the time we went into a Wal-Mart in Munich Germany, instead of samples of water or soda there were several beer vendors handing out samples, which we thought was great!

A couple of weeks ago, my local Publix had a sign saying shoppers must not put their dogs in the shopping carts. It didn't seem to deter anyone.

My wife and I are dog lovers and we've had a least one all the time we've been married.

But I don't want or appreciate having someone's dog, even mine, sitting with their rear end where the next shoppers to use that cart are gonna place their grocery items.

I get some odd looks at the grocery when I pull off a big bunch of the anti-germ wipes and rub the whole cart down.

I don't care.

Bob

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Originally posted by bendable:
I want to start carrying a wiffle bat with me for the shit 4 brains cell phone talkers that plug up the isles

You have that multiple islands where you live, and all are getting plugged up?

^^^^^^^Straitshooter, that is how I feel about the kiddie seat on the cart. I always wipe it down because I can’t shake the thought of someone’s crotch goblin sitting there with their day old dirty ass diaper!

A few were talking about shopping and booze.

It wasn't that long ago that you could get a beer at a gun show here.

For me the most annoying thing about shopping at the supermarket and big box chain stores isn't that there are people in the aisles glued to their cellphones (surprisingly there's usually not all that many persons number-wise in the places we shop), but that those damn cellphones are now made into a mandatory device to have in order to get the best price that the store is offering. Having the store's app, a store online account and the ability to scan the QR code to get the best discount, which a lot of times is a reasonably tidy savings. But what an annoyance to have to go through and do.

Well, when you work at the store, you are left cleaning up everyone else's crap. I do not want customers sitting their cups right next to the $300 products, allowing kids to climb all over stuff, & we did have someone's dog nip a co-worker. Yet the owners do nothing (not even signs stating no food or beverages. Yet if a product gets damaged or they spill their fancy drink on the carpet, we are not allowed to say anything to the customer that caused the damage. Who do you think pays for it in the long run, the customers so they are making the prices go up for everyone. We have to "zero out" customer damaged products all the time & have carpet stains cleaned on a regular basis. If you can't keep your drink in the car long enough to go to a store, then I'd rather you stay out, but that's just my opinion. My Momma raised me to respect other people's property. I take this kind of behavior to be disrespectful.

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Originally posted by straightshooter1:
A couple of weeks ago, my local Publix had a sign saying shoppers must not put their dogs in the shopping carts. It didn't seem to deter anyone.

My wife and I are dog lovers and we've had a least one all the time we've been married.

But I don't want or appreciate having someone's dog, even mine, sitting with their rear end where the next shoppers to use that cart are gonna place their grocery items.

I get some odd looks at the grocery when I pull off a big bunch of the anti-germ wipes and rub the whole cart down.

I don't care.

Bob

Yep do the same, wipe the handle since people sneeze, cough and wipe their noses, pick their asses and push the cart, and wipe the seat area down because rug rats and pets.

So far haven't see anyone bringing a dog into our Publix, yet....

But I'm still wiping that cart...