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Courtesy Clerks.. That is what this underpaid employee is called (I will agree with that tho I get min wage and tips... Not the best) for future reference.
Tho I hope if you shop here you wont get annoyed I do try my best.
Ok, I'll try to remember this doublespeak. :lol:
(I promise not to instinctively punch you, if you try to touch my caffeine dose or the latest "Strategie & Technik" issue, but it will be hard)
I personally am within 5 miles of a number of grocery chains. Yet many customers that come into my store tell me (Hopefully not annoyed ) That they have come from Texas to do the shopping because the insane grocery prices in their small town. The situation just snowballs with high gas prices.
Reminds me of the famous TV "documentary" of a German family trying to shop cheap in Poland, burning literally gallons of fuel for this, and eventually buying a pretty over-prized toaster at home because the cheaper Polish ones had been too expensive for them.
If the gas prices would rise, they would be more forced to take the gas costs into the equation when they go shopping. After all, if you pay $40 for gasoline for doing a $150 weekend shopping for a larger family, you might really prefer going shorter distances to something that maybe costs $20 more, but is then only $20 in gasoline away.
(Just as own example: I travel 20 km to a butcher further away, compared to the closest one that is just 8 km away or a supermarket that is only 2 km away, because the prices and quality are both much better there, means about 5€ more on the bill because of the fuel costs, but the same meat then costs already $20 less while being of better quality)
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