Stopped by the local market today and ended up behind an older man buying potatoes. He leaves, I place my items on the counter, and one cashier turns to the other and says, “I can’t believe he didn’t get any bologna. He always buys bologna. I think he lives on bologna.”
Mine is easy: Diet Coke. I never leave the market without a six pack of Diet Coke in 24 oz bottles. I think they would probably stop me and demand to know who I really was if I tried to leave without Diet Coke.
What about you? What would you shock your local market by not buying? (Assume for the purposes of this thread that you have a local market and that the people in said local market would remember you.)
Hm, Dong supermarket in hartford is a killer oriental market. I always get ryukakusan plum herbal drops, milk pokkys, a box of somen noodles, a bottle of golden mountain cooking sauce, a package of duck hearts, 2 bags of baby bok choy, 5 bunches scallions, a bag of broccoli rabe, a bundle of asparagus beans, a nice sized lotus root, 2 largeish bamboo sprouts, 5 bricks of tofu and 2 fish paste [on the little wooden boards, for in my somen with some scallions, broccoli rabe and lotus root=)] $30 US and we can do 5 decent sized meals for 3 + lunches for mrAru out of it =) We do this the first weekend of the month like clockwork=)
Ice cream. I have a serious addiction to Blue Bell ice cream. I buy it in pints, one at a time, because it sets a limit on how much can be consumed in one sitting.
On the odd occasions when I don’t buy any, they always ask me if I forgot it. (small town)
I don’t go to one of those little grocer’s only a big one, but if they paid attention, they would say:
“Why didn’t she buy any seltzer?”
Ever since they put that delicious stuff in cans, we buy four cases a week (12 cans each).
Note to further fight ignorance: It’s club soda that has salt. Seltzer only has carbonation and natural sweeteners and water. I know. I’ve checked multiple times. Seltzer is just about the healthiest thing you can drink after water.
Pshaw. My wife does the shopping, and it’s mostly Costco about once a month, and she can spend up to $300 when she stocks up on meat. If anyone remembered her from last time, they’d be stunned if she left without a $200 grocery bill.
We shop at a big grocery store, but DeHusband is well known there. He has a serious addiction to olives, specifically the greek or small black olives. At least once a month he’ll ask about his favorite brands, availability, etc. Once we entered the store, got a buggy and started moving slowly through the veggie section when we hear, “Sir. Sir!” and this teenager with a tie comes running toward us. Everyone stops and stares as if we’re concealing carrots for immoral purposes. Turns out they just got a shipment of olives and had special ordered some for him and had them set aside.
Yep. Definate sign that you spend too much time in the supermarket.
I’m too much of a spur of the moment shopper to get into that.
I would say diet pop is my most common purchase, but I don’t always buy the same kind. Since I’ve had kidney problems, I try and stay away from the colas, so now it’s more likely root beer, lemon lime, ginger ale or lemonade.
I guess if Lean Cuisines were on sale and I wasn’t stocking up for my wife, they might bat an eye.
And if I went three times without picking up some kind of snack cake for my stepson.
Actually, if you shop at about the same time every week, your clerk/bagger may well know your habits. I bagged groceries to get through college (it’s a union job in my state and the only way I could get decent health insurance) and I learned quickly not to remind customers they’d forgotten cereal (or whatever). When it was someone I didn’t know they freaked right out. If I knew them or their kids they were ok with it.
No longer applicable, but when still living at home, I’d generally stop at 7-11 on my walk home from school nearly every day, for a bottle of Sierra Mist, and once a week, a pack of gum (Orbit, original flavor).
Additionally, my tae kwon do school was one block from a (different) 7-11. My mother would lend me the car to drive myself to class, on the condition I picked up whatever neccesities she requested. Invariably, I’d stop once a week for orange juice, and get myself a post-workout Slurpee (on mom’s dime, too!). Always grape flavor.
I always get rainbow cookies from the supermarket (those cake-like things that are green, yellow and pink). One time I was looking at all the pastries trying to find them, when the woman behind the counter asked me if I was looking for the rainbow cookies and if I wanted her to package a fresh batch for me. What’s funny is it’s not a corner grocery, but a huge supermarket (King Kullen).
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What’s funny is it’s not a corner grocery, but a huge supermarket (King Kullen).