\tDriving home today I realized how much I hate the person I become when I do my shopping at Carrefour. No doubt, the giant grocery chain has the most selection around and probably the best prices. It\u0092s like a giant super Target… you can buy toys, motor oil, luggage, a refrigerator, a television set, and food all in one place. I won\u0092t call it convenient, because that it isn\u0092t. But it\u0092s all under one roof.<\/p>\n
\tPeople at Carrefour go there and become the most self-absorbed humans trodding the planet. They push your cart out of the way. The push the cart into whoever happens to be unfortunate enough to be in it\u0092s path. They push you out of the way. I found myself pushing into people today because there was no other way to get past them. No one apologizes. No one cares. It\u0092s just par for the course. They restock the shelves in the middle of the day which means putting big piles of boxes in the middle of the aisles while the stock person stands in the way of whatever it is you\u0092re trying to get to. I\u0092d think they read my list and move in front of whatever they see written down, except that my lists are all written in English.<\/p>\n
\tI once bought cheddar cheese there. They keep it behind the counter of the cheese section, as if it\u0092s a delicacy. So you have to ask for it. When I did the woman working there had no idea what I wanted because I said \u0093cheddar\u0094 instead of \u0093sheeeeah-daaah\u0094 or however you\u0092d say it with a French accent. It wasn\u0092t even that good; I\u0092ve skipped it ever since. <\/p>\n
\tAlthough I encountered the rudest of all today in the produce section. You have to get your fruits and vegetables weighed there in that department… get to the cashier with an unweighed bag of carrots and you\u0092re in big trouble (you then either have to run the bag of carrots back to the guy at the scales, holding up the inevitably long line behind you, or just ditch the carrots all together). So I was standing at the little weigh station today with several things that needed to sit on the scale and this man hovered his bag of green beans over my scale… so I actually started sliding my next item on as I was removing the weighed item… the way Indiana Jones slid that bag of sand onto the pillar holding the golden statue. There was another scale no one was using; he could have easily gone there. Or he could have asked. But finally he caught me with my back to the weighing process getting the next item out of my cart and he took my food off the scale so he could put his on!<\/p>\n
\tI know I pay more when I go to the stores that are nothing but produce stores or when I go to the butcher for steaks and pork chops. But I don\u0092t care. It\u0092s worth any price to not become one of those people who shops at Carrefour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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