[Undertoad]

I was at the supermarket yesterday (Giant) getting salad at a salad bar, and this guy in front of me -- not a salad bar customer but headed down the aisle -- brazenly reached over and grabbed a bunch of ham chunks, and continued to walk along, casually eating them.

With the tongs, thankfully. He didn't reach his bare paw into the ham bin. But he used the tongs to put the ham into his other, bare paw, and proceeded down the aisle, munching on them as he pushed his cart along.

Before he did it, he made a little glance around, looking for anyone who'd object. I think he did not see me 10 feet behind him, or figured it was a quick enough move that I wouldn't notice.

As I was trying to put together a salad at that point, it was pretty foul. I mean, I continued to get my salad and then eat it...

At the peak of my loser white-guy-ism I would never stoop so low. But I think I see what goes on. This particular Giant is falling in quality. You can tell by how the meat section is handled, by expired dairy items on the shelf. By the low light levels at the salad bar!

I've been in the supermarket industry, I've seen systems working and what happens when people can't get it done. Now the feeling transfers, from the store managers to the store workers to the customers. The customers say to themselves, if you don't give a shit, I'm not going to give a shit.

It's a failure of low expectations.

It's a little further out of my way, but I'm going to the Wegman's permanently from now on. That's how it works, Giant. This wasn't a failure of your customer. He's a foul example of a human being, but he wouldn't pull that at Wegman's. It's super well-lit and everyone gives a shit.