Do you think the online shopping companies are looking more and more inviting? Maybe?
I don’t care if I’m shopping for groceries, shoes, birthday gifts, clothes, cars, or through the entire mall full of variety...I just cannot seem to find the love for shopping. A bookstore is different so no comparisons. I don’t “shop” for books, I touch them, smell them, read some blurbs, and douse myself into the world of books...unlike shopping.
I was quite fascinated one day...not while at work though😜...when Abbi ordered her groceries at Wal-Mart through an app. She just pulled up to the Neighborhood at Stone’s Corner and parked and they brought her bags of groceries to her...WOW! I also had my interests peaked when Jodi bought some clothes through Stitch Fix...SIGN ME UP!!! I was also in wonder when I first saw the Wayfair commercial...I do need a new couch I said to myself as the commercial finished playing in its entirety...I’m still searching for the perfect couch for my front living room that nobody hangs out in...but hey, I painted the room and redecorated so I feel obligated to purchase a new couch! Amazon is just simply amazing and has almost everything anyone could ever ask for...except for the Lisa Frank Reeboks I thought I wanted because of Nellie having a Lisa Frank sweatshirt...and I do have Prime making it a total “shopping” experience. But then this happened...
SELF CHECKOUTS!!!! I’m almost sorry to admit that I did feel a hint of a thrill...almost pure ‘ecstaticness’ (is ecstaticness even a word) when Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Dillons (in Pittsburg) installed the “self-checkout” stations! I was so pumped to march in and use those self-checkout stations because I used to work at a grocery store and a convenience store during my college days and I absolutely LOVED checking out people! Beep, beep, beep...the lovely sound of the scanner...I was THE Master in the checkout stand!! If there was an "Employee of the Week", month or year back then...this girl would have gotten that plaque! I was the fastest and friendliest and could even beat the bag boy sacking up all the groceries! I couldn’t wait to reminisce down memory lane during each trip to one of these three stores...I was going to “GET” to check my own self out!
Hold up...wait just one minute...I was going to “GET” to check my own SELF out...hmmmmm, let us think on that statement for just a moment…
1. Last I checked, I work for the school system. I am paid by Webb City R-7 Schools.
2. I do not receive a paycheck or any kind of compensation from Wal-Mart or Dillons or Home Depot. Checking out my own groceries AND sacking them up are jobs their employees get paid to do. Why would I work for free?!
3. By these stores installing “self-checkout” stations, they have gotten rid of approximately 20 check-out aisles and probably the people that used to be operating the cash registers in those 20 check-out aisles because they are no longer needed. Positions are being “phased out” and they are replacing the former employees with people who work for free...you and I!!
4. “But I only have two or three items”...they say...that’s the “hook” or the gimmick...people are so impatient these days they will work for free.
NO THANK YOU! I will stand in line instead. There are enough jobless and homeless people in our world and I refuse to contribute to the cause.
Standing down now.
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