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by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/07/2017, 10:22am PST |
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The three grocery stores near me have six or seven lanes that could be staffed by a human. They have one person working those lanes. No more than one person at all times, 100% of the time (sometimes, if you go late enough, there are no people running lanes). They have self-service stations, which are terrible because you have to go there with everything, even if you're getting a month's worth of groceries. There isn't enough space on the scale to put all the groceries, so the machine will stop letting you scan items if it detects that the weight goes down. This means that the person overseeing the self-service stations has to come over and flash her badge at the thing.
It probably doesn't take that long to put up with this, but it's hard to not look at the empty lanes and think, "Safeway would rather leave these empty and save minimum wage x 8 hours a day x the 6 empty lanes because the only consequence of doing this is that everyone is in the store for an extra half-hour. What are they going to do, NOT buy groceries at our store? Baaah-hahaha!"
It's been over five years. They aren't going to put more cashiers there. So sometimes I'll get a healthy meal delivered to the house that I can stick in the oven, sure. I'd rather wait 40 minutes for it to cook than go to the grocery store that evening for the same time.
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Someone explain Blue Apron to me by an idiot 12/07/2017, 5:19am PST 
It's for city dwellers by Saltlord 12/07/2017, 7:02am PST
I've lived in no nearby grocery areas before by an idiot 12/08/2017, 6:37am PST
Put your shit in a bindle and hop a train to DC, NYC is a rat's nest by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 7:28am PST
I left after just 10 months! by an idiot 12/08/2017, 8:43am PST
I can't, BUT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/07/2017, 10:22am PST
Whole foods' peak hours system is so satisfying in comparison I go just for that by Saltlord 12/07/2017, 2:43pm PST
GUYS I LIVE WITH BLACK PEOPLE AND AM DOWN WITH THE STRUGGLE OF THE POOR NT by (shops at whole foods unironically) 12/07/2017, 3:45pm PST
My favorite whole foods shoppers are the ones buying groceries with food stamps by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 4:27am PST
I prefer to shop ironically. It's like normal shopping except there's NT by this thing I do with my eyebrows. 12/08/2017, 3:40pm PST
Re: Whole foods' peak hours system is so satisfying in comparison I go just for by Roop 12/08/2017, 6:48am PST
I expect amazon will be adding a delivery business to WholePaycheck. by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 7:29am PST
There's all kinds of radical new experiments from my local supermarkets by Roop 12/08/2017, 8:09am PST
so in the future, milkmen will make a comeback NT by Saltlord 12/08/2017, 1:42pm PST
A friend reviewed it as being a nice couple's activity that helped them learn to NT by cook - Fullofkittens 12/07/2017, 11:29am PST
That was the only use I found for it by budget man 12/08/2017, 1:54am PST
It's the future and now we have Factor by still an idiot 03/03/2025, 11:43pm PST
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