I like to be friendly (but not overly chatty) to grocery u-Scan clerks. At the Soo Meijer, I have run into one particular woman a few times and she usually asks me if she can scan one of my items in order to “get her quota”.

I’ve got the routine down now so the last time I shopped and she was there, I asked her if she wanted to scan something and also why she needed to get a “quota”. Her explanation wasn’t unclear but I didn’t totally understand it. After all, I am not a Meijer employee (but just wait🤪). When she said something about “corporate”, I definitely got it. I said, “Oh, somebody somewhere is counting something.” Yep.

Before she left my u-Scan, I tried to scan a bag of coffee beans. No love. I looked at the UPC and it was destroyed. So I asked for help. She couldn’t get it to scan either and she ALSO couldn’t enter the numbers below the UPC. Mainly because they were teensy tinesy and she couldn’t see them well. I decided to try to help her beat the musheen since I see teensy tinesy print very well. So I focused on the numbers and slowly recited them while she entered them. Oops. There was one number that was almost totally obliterated. (The second pic is what we were dealing with.) I squinted at it and totally GUESSED that it was an “8”. DING DING DING! It worked and I won the booby prize. She was so amazed that I got it that she told me on the spot, “YOU’RE HIRED👏

I refrained from telling her that my very first job was cashier in a discount department store. One in which I had to run one of those old fashioned mechanical cash registers with rows and rows of buttons. I refrained from telling her how much I liked that job, which I was very good at. Except for the pay ($1.75/hour). But I was a college student and my parents were paying for the bulk of my lifestyle.

This u-Scan gal is obviously very intelligent and good at her job. All the Meijer folks are wonderful but I feel like this gal is a bit more of a kindred spirit somehow. Grocery jobs may not be brain surgery or rocket science (neither is my job) but they do require a high level of intelligence and creativity. Grocery workers also deal with a lot of crap from rude customers and sometimes incompetent managers and they deserve a LOT more pay. I refrained from telling her that too.

Warm, gentle rain and a light breeze this afternoon and evening. Doors and windows open. Temperatures in the lower peninsula are going to sky-rocket so I will take this. Photo taken from the moomindeck. The GG was in the Lyme Lounge at the time.

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