Like do our grocery essentials really differ enough to justify that everyone take their own car to a grocery store? Like I thought during the pandemic there should be centralized food deliveries, but in retrospect there should just be centralized food deliveries.
I go to the grocery store as rarely and quickly as possible. I’m usually in there for only fifteen minutes, twenty at most. I’ve timed myself. Yet going there leaves me feeling drained for the rest of the day. I started working on an essay about why I hate grocery stores and it’s 21 pages / ~6000 words long and not finished. There could be another five or ten pages in there too. Grocery stores are an abomination. How many people would be alive right now and not dead from covid because of grocery stores. All of our food could be delivered. It would save so much time and energy. We could eat at worker canteens when the pandemic ends. But as another poster has said, capitalism can’t work without middlemen.
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Yea I need a designated driver to shop
I'm almost glad I got fired. Working grocery for 10 years was such a demeaning soul crushing experience.
Do you mind if I ask you some questions? I can credit you in my essay if you want.
How often do customers insult workers there? What’s the ratio of nice / indifferent / hostile customers like?
Did you basically spend every moment there pleading with the clock to hurry up?
What’s the covid situation like?
Was there any class consciousness among the workers? How many are libs or chuds?
Any interesting stories? What are some things no one knows about working at a grocery store?
And actually, if you felt like just churning out an essay of your own about this, I would read it.
At least a couple times a day, as for the ratio probably pretty even but I couldn't say for sure since you always remember the extremes more. I'd say most are indifferent, the number of hostile went way up during the mask restrictions of course.
Really depends on the day, if it's busy time goes by real fast.
The store handled it better than most places. A lot of the clientele however absolutely lost it, I never new how bad the new age lib to qanon pipeline was until the mask rules went into effect.
Most of my coworkers were pretty based actually. The owners of course were chuds, but we were real close to pushing for a union vote when I got canned and 8 other people ended up quitting either in protest or just because the owners made it clear that nothing was ever getting better there.
Oh I have lots of interesting stories, especially from working at a convenience store before then. As for something nobody knows (or at least most people don't think about): All grocery stores get the majority of their stuff from the same vendors, and it almost all gets delivered using the same distribution company, and that distribution company is also owned by Amazon. It's like the amazon web services but behind all retail and grocery trucking.
Some anti-vaxx neighbors just moved away (without selling their house), and I believe they're going to live in some kind of anti-vaxx colony somewhere. I overheard one of them talking about it in the post office right before they left. They aren't chuds as far as I know but it's just so strange to me I guess. They were anti-vaxxers before the pandemic and had already pulled their kids out of school because my state requires that kids get their shots in order to attend. Inoculation is basically Global South / African / Ottoman / Chinese medical technology, which is part of the reason I think a lot of white folks are so freaked out about it, even if not all anti-vaxxers are white, and even if they themselves may be unaware of the history of inoculation.
Thanks for these interesting details.
that sounds like a dope ass essay and a really cool idea! are you planning to publish it anywhere?
I’m almost certainly going to have to publish it to one of my blogs because getting an essay published anywhere else is next to impossible. I’ll post it to hexbear when I finish it...probably after the next grocery store trip...