At the supermarket today...
Aug. 1st, 2013 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milktreeAt the Market Basket in Nashua today I had two funny interactions:
1) I'm wandering around stopping at the head of each isle, studying the "what's in this isle" boards and looking at the stuff on the shelves, trying to figure out (remember) if I needed anything from that one. A guy in a blue uniform of some sort (what do they wear? Aprons? Shirts? How funny is it that I can't remember!) says, "Can I help you find something?" I respond, "Um.. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, I left my list at home." Without skipping a beat he says, "OK! I guess I'll see you tomorrow!"
2) At the checkout when I hand my green Citizens bank reusable shopping bag to the woman filling such things up with groceries I say, "it should all fit in there, I managed to get everything here with it, and I suspect you're better at this than I am."
After I'd paid and everything was packed, I saw that she did, in fact, do a spectacular job filling the bag with ruthless efficiency. "Wow! That's way better than I did!" I told her. "That's what working here for five years does to you." she responded, "I'm also really good at Tetris."
I gotta say, stuff like that makes me like Market Basket.
1) I'm wandering around stopping at the head of each isle, studying the "what's in this isle" boards and looking at the stuff on the shelves, trying to figure out (remember) if I needed anything from that one. A guy in a blue uniform of some sort (what do they wear? Aprons? Shirts? How funny is it that I can't remember!) says, "Can I help you find something?" I respond, "Um.. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, I left my list at home." Without skipping a beat he says, "OK! I guess I'll see you tomorrow!"
2) At the checkout when I hand my green Citizens bank reusable shopping bag to the woman filling such things up with groceries I say, "it should all fit in there, I managed to get everything here with it, and I suspect you're better at this than I am."
After I'd paid and everything was packed, I saw that she did, in fact, do a spectacular job filling the bag with ruthless efficiency. "Wow! That's way better than I did!" I told her. "That's what working here for five years does to you." she responded, "I'm also really good at Tetris."
I gotta say, stuff like that makes me like Market Basket.
