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Post by songstarliner on Jun 19, 2019 19:55:52 GMT -5
Tonight the gentleman ahead of me in line bought:
A gallon of white vinegar 4 mouse traps, the glue kind
6 gluten-free frozen pizzas
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Post by LazBro on Jun 20, 2019 8:23:13 GMT -5
Me and the boy go the store almost every morning, because, well, it's something to do, and I don't have a lot going on. At least three times a week, there is an older couple there at the same time who are buying everything off the day-old bread rack. Loaves of bread, croissants, cookies, pies, whatever the store has marked down, they're buying it all. Which kinda sucks, actually, if I'm hoping to get some cheap bread for dinner.
They can't possibly be eating it all, so I wonder if they're donating it somewhere. There are a couple food banks in the area, and one, uh, is "soup kitchen" still the term? A place where the less fortunate can go get a meal.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 20, 2019 10:20:19 GMT -5
I will never forget the time I got to Winco as two very excited young men came out with by my count 30 24-packs of Natty Light.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Jun 20, 2019 10:28:36 GMT -5
I'm always judging the out-of-season vegetables people buy ahead of me in line at the grocery store. Like, "Corn on the cob? In FEBRUARY? That's nice that the home lets the crazy people out like this to try to be independent shopping for themselves, I guess..." So when I bought a Granny Smith apple the other day, I wanted to do so in a full costume, so no one would recognize me. "Why no, of course this mustache is not fake! And neither is the nose! And they're totally not attached to the glasses!" NOTE: I fully put forth that it is I who is the crazy person, that we live in a post-scarcity society, and that it is PERFECTLY NORMAL to eat a full diet of delicious fruits and vegetables year-round. Just for the record. I know that I'm the one who's doing it wrong, and that my judgment is wholly misplaced!  |
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jun 24, 2019 15:02:49 GMT -5
I remember once being in line between a woman who purchased between thirty and forty cups of Activia and nothing else.
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Post by songstarliner on Nov 9, 2019 23:45:46 GMT -5
Tonight I saw a woman buying at least 12 gallons of milk, and one pie. Her entire cart was filled with gallons of milk, filled up and above the rim, and the lone pie was stashed vertically in the extra slot under the handle. I couldn't tell what kind of pie it was.
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Post by Hachiman on Nov 11, 2019 0:39:24 GMT -5
Tonight I saw a woman buying at least 12 gallons of milk, and one pie. Her entire cart was filled with gallons of milk, filled up and above the rim, and the lone pie was stashed vertically in the extra slot under the handle. I couldn't tell what kind of pie it was. Those kinds of purchases seem alright to me though because I have gone shopping for events and clubs, etc where I get told "The kitchen needs a ton of one particular ingredient. And if there's money left over, get a pie or something for everyone." She could have also been running a small cafe or coffee stand, too. Some business owners shop at regular grocery stores. Oh, she also could have been making cheese. Plenty of cheese hobbyists out there. I probably would have asked what kind of cheese they were making, but I am a weirdo like that. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Dec 8, 2019 23:58:40 GMT -5
Today at Winco my attempt to get anchovies off the shelf was briefly delayed by a woman taking six cans of oysters off the shelf, then pausing, thinking, and taking six more. The only other things in her cart were a grapefruit and four packages of chocolate-covered cookies.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Dec 9, 2019 11:22:43 GMT -5
Today at Winco my attempt to get anchovies off the shelf was briefly delayed by a woman taking six cans of oysters off the shelf, then pausing, thinking, and taking six more. The only other things in her cart were a grapefruit and four packages of chocolate-covered cookies. That sounds like a party ready to happen! |
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