• qupada@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    But also at regular checkouts.

    You’ve just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.

    How is it that JUST NOW is the time you’ve decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?

    I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.

    • thallamabond@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I worked in grocery stores when I was younger, not going to give away my age, but I will tell you that people wrote a lot more checks then.

      The number of times I would get to the end of the transaction and tell somebody the total and they would slowly pull the checkbook out of their purse or pocket, then other questions, do you have a pen?,what’s today’s date?, Oops I wrote it out to the wrong store, I need to start over.