What are these “salt” and “pepper” that ** Chas E.**keeps talking about? Are they, like, fruits or something?
I am puzzled…how could someone get to be college-age without having any idea of how to shop for groceries? Who bought the groceries they ate for the first 18 years of their lives? The servants? Anyway, buying groceries isn’t really rocket science…if you’re smart enough to go to college, you ought to be able to figure it out in about ten seconds. And it doesn’t need to be done by committee, either.
Chas.E can correct me if I’m wrong, but I doubt the students he mentioned were arguing over Tellicherry vs. Malabar pepper…they were probably just wasting space & oxygen debating the merits of one brand of preground sawdusty stuff over another. But if they weren’t smart enough to determine that the cheapest & most convenient thing to do is swipe them from the dining hall, they probably weren’t smart enough to be able to decide among the dizzying array of zesty options…
Spouse and I have found the perfect solution. We order our groceries online from Albertsons.com. (We preferred Albertsons even when Webvan was an option.)
No lines, no hassles, no lugging heavy bags or cartons on the bus – they bring it to our kitchen for us. Some claim not being able to see or handle the produce and meat is a drawback, but we’ve never been unhappy with what we’ve gotten. The quality has always been top of the line, the prices are comparable to the store prices, and if you order $60 or more, they don’t charge for shipping.
I urge those of you who live in areas with on-line grocery ordering to try it out. It’s great!!
There are supermarkets that do that; they have little arrows on the floor indicating the direction you should be traveling. Sadly, none of the suburban cattle seem to be able to figure that out.
Robin
All you fellow old farts should be proud of me today.
It happens that it was the first day of school, so the copy shops were plug full to the brim of teeny boppers.
It also happens that I had to have about $100.00 worth of photocopying done this afternoon. One. Slow. Page. At. A. Time.
Just after the clerk began my job, three young things wanted to have a photo of some cute guy copied for them. Another clerk told them that the first clerk was just finishing my job, and would do their photo for them.
So there I was, sitting on the horns of a dilemma. Do I do the honest thing by correcting the second clerk and explaining that it would be a very long time before my job would be done? Do I do the decent thing by asking the first clerk to slip in their job in front of mine?
Nah. I thought of you guys in this thread, and just whiled away the time with a nice, dull book (Henry Sumner Maine’s 1861 “Ancient Law, Its Connection With the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas”, in case you were wondering.)
Wait, I thought you returned your shopping cart. But now you seem to be saying that you drive one on the street.
[snicker]
[d&r]
(carless New Yorker here)