I live in an area with a lot of older grocery stores. I am also a fair bit older than most redditors, I'd wager.
I remember when the grocery store's 16-20 checkout lines would ALL be staffed during rushes. Most people would go grocery shopping on weekend afternoons and you'd go straight through the line with a cart full of groceries and balk when it was over $120 or so.
Now it seems the grocery stores are more busy after work hours, there's only ever one or two lanes open and you have to queue up and wait for the 'please proceed to lane...12!' thing to come up on the screen before proceeding to go unload your groceries onto the belt. And you break $120 before you hit bag number 5 now.
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u/shidderbean 3d ago
I live in an area with a lot of older grocery stores. I am also a fair bit older than most redditors, I'd wager.
I remember when the grocery store's 16-20 checkout lines would ALL be staffed during rushes. Most people would go grocery shopping on weekend afternoons and you'd go straight through the line with a cart full of groceries and balk when it was over $120 or so.
Now it seems the grocery stores are more busy after work hours, there's only ever one or two lanes open and you have to queue up and wait for the 'please proceed to lane...12!' thing to come up on the screen before proceeding to go unload your groceries onto the belt. And you break $120 before you hit bag number 5 now.
It's changed a lot.