Supermarket Saturday

Yesterday I did something I swore I would never do again....I went to the supermarket at miday on a Saturday. It's only logical that supermarkets, and all other stores for that matter, would get a little busier on the weekend, but I feel like we've got it extra bad down here in the 'Copa. I usually go at like 7am on Sundays and it's a dream. No waiting at the cold cut counter or checkouts, plenty of product on the shelves, people sparsely scattered throughout the store...ahhh heaven! On Saturday a 11am it's pretty much the opposite of that.

During the outing I did discover a HUGE new pet peeve. I really dislike when they put extra product displays in the middle of the aisles. I can understand maybe one or two unobtrusive ones (i.e. like the Oreo's right next to the milk case), but yesterday there were about a hundred and three of them all over the place. Add that to massive amounts of people shopping and the fact that I am maneuvering an oversized shopping cart with a car attached to the front like I'm a drunk driver, and you've pretty much got a recipe for disaster. Needless to say, I was not surprised when I heard, "Wet mop clean up on aisle 12," over the intercom.

I am a person of reason, so I understand the intended purpose of these displays. I can also appreciate the influence of the sagging economy on the need of the grocers to sell more products, however they are forgetting one simple thing. Tripping over a tower of Fritos doesn't make me want to buy them. It makes me want to throw them. And then never eat them again.