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Let me ask a more practical question, and I really do mean this without snide insinuation, or desire to score rhetorical points: for those who for whatever reason of personal persuasion, feel discomfited by shopping in places like Whole Foods, where would they find items such as French wines, German sausages, or Russian caviar?
HEB in Texas (regional supermarket) has 163 varieties of French wine from France.
And if you need something special, like that Russian caviar, then of course you are going to go somewhere that sells it.
I am a moderate Democrat and yes, on the whole Liberals are much ruder and less happy than Conservatives. I love Trader Joe's but the customers there (mostly Liberals) are by far the rudest people I ever deal with in my area. They bump into you and don't even say excuse me and they cut in line at any chance. When I go to a store where most customers are Republican like Bass Pro Shops the other shoppers are usually super polite.
I can't tell if this is satire or not.
Assuming it isn't, when someone is rude to you, do you immediately ask their political affiliation? And if not, how do you know? The same is true of your encounters in Bass Pro Shops. Do you ask the typical polite shopper who they voted for in the last election? Or do you follow them out to their car to read their bumper stickers?
The key to Wegmans is to not buy anything behind the counters. The prices are outrageous, but their other stuff is fairly priced. Whole Foods? No thanks. Got tired of the attitudes, tats, dreadlocks and prices.
Sprouts is great because you don't get (usually) the bolded. Prices are better than Whole Foods but they tend to be more expensive than a traditional grocery store.
Let me ask a more practical question, and I really do mean this without snide insinuation, or desire to score rhetorical points: for those who for whatever reason of personal persuasion, feel discomfited by shopping in places like Whole Foods, where would they find items such as French wines, German sausages, or Russian caviar?
Assuming it isn't, when someone is rude to you, do you immediately ask their political affiliation? And if not, how do you know? The same is true of your encounters in Bass Pro Shops. Do you ask the typical polite shopper who they voted for in the last election? Or do you follow them out to their car to read their bumper stickers?
This is all very puzzling.
I was wondering the same thing.
We probably need a list of stores that each political party shops in so that we can avoid confrontations. I think people assume that if you shop at a particular store, you must be a member of a certain particular party rather than going because it is convenient or you like their products or prices.
Is Trader Joe's Liberal or Conservative? Lol. Food Lion, Kroeger's, ShopRite, PriceChopper, Fry's, Sprouts, etc.? Lol.
Better yet, why not have Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Green, Non-Affiliated & Other Lanes in the Grocery Stores so that we only mingle w/ the same Political folks like ourselves? And, no talking unless you're talking to someone in your own lane. You'd risk an ugly food fight.
Maybe they should re-name this, as the Storytellers' Forum? No one in their right mind would wear a MAGA hat at any place other than a Trump rally.
Haven't visited Kentucky lately, I take it.
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Originally Posted by Ms. Tarabotti
Someone help me understand this situation.
I occasionally shop at Whole Foods (not for 'specialty potato chip' but sometimes their sales are good and they sometimes have samples for you to try (people, remember to use the toothpicks provided so that you won't reach into the bowl of cherries with your bare unwashed hands!)).
There is no single checkout line. The lines are arranged by color (yellow, blue, green, etc,) and there is a screen in front with corresponding colors. The number of a open cashier pops up on the screen and you can go to the open cashier that corresponds to the color of the line that you are standing on. I don't see how this could happen if you were standing on different lines, you would have gotten different cashiers. Was she standing directly behind you and you were trying to tell her to go ahead of you? Most people who shop at Whole Foods (whether they are left, right or somewhere in the middle) know how the checkout lines go, so maybe the OP can explain how 'the Obama sticker wearing woman' and he ended up checking out at the same time and how his feelings came to be hurt.
Must be a local thing. I've never seen that in Louisville or Lexington.
Sprouts is great because you don't get (usually) the bolded. Prices are better than Whole Foods but they tend to be more expensive than a traditional grocery store.
Thanks for the heads up. I don't know if we have Sprouts around here, but I'll check.
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