ivinsfan
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Today is a Wednesday in the middle of the month. We drove into the nearest town (20k) to catch up on some errands this morning.
Here's what we found. WalMart ( I had to pickup an RX and do an online return) Packed at 1030 in the morning.. ONE real live checkout open.. Lines and more lines at the self check...people were entering the line at two different points which caused some conflict.
I had only non perishable items and after standing in line for ages ( the second entry point people invented was flatout line cutting) and watching people squabbling over line placement. I just left my cart and the store. I did see at least 4 people picking online orders, they outnumber the checkout and service desk employees.
Need lunch and we find traffic heavy, go to MacDs drive through in a line of probably 15 cars. We would have gone inside but realize drive thru gets priority. Go to Aldi's and traffic just gets heavier and heavier. Aldi's backed up and low on stock.
Think about stopping at Target but the lot is virtually full decide to drive home.
Today was akin to Black Friday or high noon on a busy Saturday.
What's going on, doesn't anyone have to work anymore, the economy is doing poorly but you couldn't tell by the full parking lots at every sit down eatery. WTH, it's noon on Wednesday of a non holiday week I don't get it..
Maybe this is just a get off my lawn rant! I was blown away that everything was so busy.
Here's what we found. WalMart ( I had to pickup an RX and do an online return) Packed at 1030 in the morning.. ONE real live checkout open.. Lines and more lines at the self check...people were entering the line at two different points which caused some conflict.
I had only non perishable items and after standing in line for ages ( the second entry point people invented was flatout line cutting) and watching people squabbling over line placement. I just left my cart and the store. I did see at least 4 people picking online orders, they outnumber the checkout and service desk employees.
Need lunch and we find traffic heavy, go to MacDs drive through in a line of probably 15 cars. We would have gone inside but realize drive thru gets priority. Go to Aldi's and traffic just gets heavier and heavier. Aldi's backed up and low on stock.
Think about stopping at Target but the lot is virtually full decide to drive home.
Today was akin to Black Friday or high noon on a busy Saturday.
What's going on, doesn't anyone have to work anymore, the economy is doing poorly but you couldn't tell by the full parking lots at every sit down eatery. WTH, it's noon on Wednesday of a non holiday week I don't get it..
Maybe this is just a get off my lawn rant! I was blown away that everything was so busy.