Everything was so fucking expensive. They also put in those refrigerators where it has the ads and they're just as fucking awful and weird as the pictures would have you believe. Also, the big cctv showing you as you go down the aisle and check out are fucked. At self check out you can no longer mute it so it has to talk to you. Finally, they hired security to stand at the entrance of the store which is gross. edit: Some stuff was also locked in a cabinet
The devil is in that store. I'm so fucking pissed.
There was a security guard at this more fancy grocery store I went to (useless waste of money, the camera spamming does the intimidation trick), and they had enough cameras to catch you from every possible angle like they needed to do Ted Lasso closeups for the folks at home.
"Smart fridges" are the most brutal wing of fascism, heaping piles of garbage where 90% of the energy goes to playing ads for frivolous consumer slop and the other 10% goes to manufacturing ice "cubes" in absurdly impractical shapes just so that one day it can be a "conversation starter," so all the while you have to suffer biting into the jagged edge of a Minions Funko Pop eldritch ice monster so your lukewarm lead poisoned tap water doesn't get too boring. I don't want my refrigerator to be a TV, I don't want my refrigerator to be a tablet, I don't want my refrigerator to be a "smart home" control panel, I don't want my refrigerator to be a video game console, I want it to keep food cold. If a sci-fi film maker came up with the idea of refrigerators that talk to you and function as a TV remote (because that's so much more convenient!), even in some dystopian hellscape, they would be laughed out of a job and ground up into soylent green for some middle class cat to chew on. Death to "smart appliances."
There are a few gas stations where there are LCD screens baked into the pumps that play weird ass advertisements while you pump gas. There adverts are for things like, "Go on a Cruise to Hawaii!" or "Buy a New Car" instead of something that makes sense like "Go the fuck inside the store and buy some junk food".