re: #458 Gus 802

I meant that it reminded me of Boulder. I can’t even go into a Whole Foods without getting brain freeze. Very upper middle class and if you’re not wearing new clothing from North Face or REI they treat you like “the help”.

“Do you work here?”

No shit. And it happened up here. The Safeway was the blue collar supermarket up here… a few years ago, they moved to a new store, a store that was designed like a “Whole Foods” store, prices went up and customer count went down. You go in there now, upscale pretty people.

Considering there is not that many upscale pretty people in the Conifer area (after all, it’s the model for South Park), you know what happened. The Kroger store I work for up here is now slammed with customers, all the time. We are more blue collar, prices much better and we have a wider selection of various quality foods, all geared to multiple budget capabilities.

On Christmas eve… 4:00 pm, I left our store, we had 9 registers open plus the 6 self scan robots. I stopped at Safeway to pick something up.

Why? Because I knew I wouldn’t have to wait in line. They had 3 registers open.