I feel a little bad about how people are ridiculing Tucker for not having seen coin-operated shopping carts or cart elevators, when I’m a middle aged adult who has also never seen either of those things.
I have seen bread before, though, so I got that going for me.
When you make a TV show praising Russia for having them, we’ll make fun of you, too.
“Look at this- 10 beets for a ruble. What a country!”
Maybe eggs or milk or chicken.
For real?! Hold on, I got some calls to make!
I’m not sure I’ve seen one in real life. But I at least knew about them, and I think have seen them in a YouTube video or movie or something, since I have a visual in my mind of what they look like.
I never had until I went to an Aldi for the first time ever last year. I was mostly annoyed by it and haven’t been back.
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Tucker works in Manhattan, where the new Wegmans supermarket has cart escalators. Ever local media outlet has covered it. Want bread? The New York Times mentioned that Wegmans specializes in bread. Don’t tell me Tucker doesn’t the read Times. Everybody in Connecticut, where he lives, reads it. If he can’t stand the shame of touching the Times, the Post also covered the story in gigantic length.
Who is he trying to kid? Most of his viewers have giant supermarkets in their own areas. If they can’t afford those, they have discount chains like Aldi’s. Every country in the world has giant supermarkets, barring a few tiny island nations. He found the single item more common than a McDonalds. It’s like he was parodying himself before the mockers could jump in. Mystifying.
Hell, my local liquor store has a cart escalator. They are on the second floor and know carrying lots of liquid is heavy. So…cart and human escalator is available. Been there a long time too…it’s not new or worth remarking on. (this is one Binny’s store in Chicago)
What I find more remarkable is how this gets through the editing process? I can believe that Tucker is clueless and never goes to such stores but has people do it for him. But, one would think, his camera person and writers and editors have been to such places and would tell him that everything he just highlighted is not new or remotely unique.
Yes. And like, the big elephant in the room, is lots of those people are buying groceries online and having them delivered to their house/car. If Russia was the first to do that, I could understand the praise. But to focus on some decades old coin operated technology is so funny - it’s already come and gone in most places.
Tell me about Russia’s cutting edge cassette tape gizmo that keeps the tape from tangling up, Tucker.
Isn’t he just a dude posting shit on Youtube? Maybe he doesn’t have a staff since Fox fired him.
“If you want to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh or they’ll kill you”~~Shaw
Maybe he thinks that when his cook goes shopping they have to visit a bakery, butcher shop, greengrocer, confectionery and a dairy. Life is hard (and expensive!) in the U.S. where you can’t get it all in one place.
Or they are like-minded and know what he is really trying to do.
This was my thought: encountering coin operated shopping carts strikes me as indicative of kind of a sketchy place. Nicer locations wouldn’t be so petty.
I love how he swooned over the smell of bread that was wrapped in plastic, a sure sign of freshness.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that Tucker’s high school alma mater - La Jolla Country Day - was my high school’s quiz bowl rival.
From the interactions I had with their students in my teenage years, I’d be surprised if any of the one-percenter nepo babies that make up that place’s student body have ever had to set foot in a grocery store and probably believe that food just appears in their pantry after the Help are done cleaning up after them.
We have them at Aldi and have had them a long time. Michigan, here.
I rode the cart escalator in China 20 years ago. It’s very common.
This thread is the first time I’ve ever even heard of coin-operated carts. Is it because I’ve lived on the West Coast all my life?
I liked the Daily Show commentator who was supposedly reporting from North Korea, singing its praises. “Look at this technology!” He says excitedly, working a gumball machine. “You put in a quarter, and a gumball comes out!” Then he takes a good long sniff of the gumball, just as Carlson did with the bread. Some good snarky satire, there.
I did see a shopping cart system in Germany a few years ago that you would stick a card in to release the cart and it would let go of your card when returned. Any kind of card worked though (credit, ATM, transit pass, library), as long as it was the right shape.