{"id":137485,"date":"2018-12-23T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/on-the-cluttering-of-aisles.html"},"modified":"2018-12-23T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T01:22:57","slug":"on-the-cluttering-of-aisles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/on-the-cluttering-of-aisles.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Cluttering of Aisles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the grocery store with my mom today. It was more busy than usual — folk doing their pre-Christmas food shopping, I figure — but it was also even more of a hassle due to the Big New Trend at our grocery store: personal shopping.<\/p>\n

King Soopers (Kroger), as well as their competitors, have seen the future, and it's people who don't want to go to the grocery store and shop for themselves, but are willing to pay to have the grocery store workers do it for them, and then they either drive to the store for pickup or have it delivered to the home. <\/p>\n

Which is cool and awesome if you can afford the surcharge and don't mind if the personal shopper picks whichever limes come to hand rather than the ones you would have chosen yourself, etc. And, in theory, that should reduce the number of people at the store, right?<\/p>\n

Except that it means the store is always (and I mean, pretty much every time I go there these days) crawling with "personal shoppers" (store staff), loading up oversized carts.<\/p>\n

And the arts are oversized, significantly wider than a normal shopping card (as they contain crates being loaded for the customer). And the personal shoppers are less careful than either normal shoppers or even people restocking the shelves to make sure they aren't blocking the aisle. Like this lady, who had her cart at a rakish angle blocking the (extraordinarily wide) aisle she was in for enough time for me to go around her in another aisle and then snap the photo.<\/p>\n

And, yes, this is all a #firstworldproblem<\/a> , but this isn't the first time I've been tempted to post about it, and at least doing so has been cathartic. Until the next time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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