Help With Shopping
I’m not really a fan of shopping. I do it because I like to eat, and I don’t grow my own food.
Yesterday I was at one of the big stores…the one where the employees wear blue vests, not the one with a bullseye logo–I have a bone to pick with them, but that’s for another time.
I had “unsalted peanuts” on my shopping list, but when I got to the shelf, there were none to be had…an all-too-familiar story post-COVID, with formerly full shelves sitting empty on items that used to always be in stock.
I turned the cart around to go down another aisle when a store associate, who had been restocking miscellaneous items from a full shopping cart, asked if I needed help with anything. I told her what I wanted, but that they appeared to be out so I’d get some next week. She offered to get a ladder to check the top shelf where they store goods, but it was clear there were none to be found, so I thanked her and went on to find the next item on the list.
A few minutes and a few aisles later, here she came…holding one jar of unsalted peanuts. She said she found just that one in that big cart of items to be restocked and wondered if I wanted it.
Keep in mind, the item cost a whopping $1.99, so it was not going to make or break the company. But what a kind gesture, especially since it would have been far easier to just put it on the shelf for someone else.
I’m no more a fan of shopping than I was before…but thanks to Gina at my local Walmart, yesterday’s trip wasn’t so bad…until I saw how much more it all cost now than a couple of years ago, but again…that’s for another time.
