It seems that every day there's a new something invented, engineered or designed with the sole purpose of making life more CONVENIENT. I mean sheesh, there are even (wait for it) CONVENIENCE STORES! Entire stores dedicated to making it easy to buy snacks, drinks, cigarettes, ahem personal items- pretty much whenever you want. These stores are placed CONVENIENTLY in spots that see high traffic and they even have hot food and COFFEE at some of the nicer ones. Some of them never close. CONVENIENT, right?
There are larger stores, some that are open until midnight or later, that sell household supplies, clothes, shoes, groceries, beer, wine, TVs, computers, cell phones...all in one store. There are tech items that you can connect to your house the will control all sorts of things for you. Turn lights on and off, control the temp in your house, turn on the television...all by just saying a few voice commands. CONVENIENT, right?
The other day I was at the grocery store (Do you say grocery store or supermarket? Hmm, that's a post for another day.) but yeah I was in the store and saw their ad for personal shopper services. It's not really a new service but basically for a fee, they will have a personal shopper (aka cashier) do your shopping for you. Oh come on, you guys know that shopping for groceries is not fun. And here's this store offering to do it for you for the same price as a frozen pizza? You send them your list, they do the shopping, bag it all up and it's ready for you to pick up say, after work. Add to that, you don't even have to get out of your car! They will bring them out to you, take your payment and they load them into your car. CONVENIENT! Not gonna lie, I was intrigued, excited at the thought of not having to do it myself! No more staring at the aisles and aisles of items...no more standing in lines...no more hours spent (alright maybe not HOURS but a while) picking out fresh produce. No more...wait a minute. A personal shopper (cashier)/personal shopper is going to choose my fresh fruits and veggies? Yeah see I already told you guys I'm picky about fruits - no bruises, not too ripe, not mushy, ripe enough - see this is where I get stuck with this idea. I'm fine with the shopper picking up boxed or canned goods but produce? Aww heck naw! What if they are in such a rush they just grab and toss the apples and bananas into the shopping cart? (Do you say shopping cart or basket? Hmm, something else for that post for another day.) I may have said no thanks to the shopping service but believe me there were several people who said yes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against things being CONVENIENT or things that make life a bit easier (MICROWAVES, REMOTE CONTROLS) all I'm saying is that we have really made some shifts towards making things CONVENIENT. Not necessarily a bad thing to have someone shop for you or be able to turn on your lights from outside your house...this is simply an observational post. But to the person who decided to pre-boil eggs, peel them and package them by the dozens, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN MAMA ALICE PUT ME ON EGG DUTY FOR POTATO SALAD! And don't even get me started on deviled eggs...sheesh!
There are larger stores, some that are open until midnight or later, that sell household supplies, clothes, shoes, groceries, beer, wine, TVs, computers, cell phones...all in one store. There are tech items that you can connect to your house the will control all sorts of things for you. Turn lights on and off, control the temp in your house, turn on the television...all by just saying a few voice commands. CONVENIENT, right?
The other day I was at the grocery store (Do you say grocery store or supermarket? Hmm, that's a post for another day.) but yeah I was in the store and saw their ad for personal shopper services. It's not really a new service but basically for a fee, they will have a personal shopper (aka cashier) do your shopping for you. Oh come on, you guys know that shopping for groceries is not fun. And here's this store offering to do it for you for the same price as a frozen pizza? You send them your list, they do the shopping, bag it all up and it's ready for you to pick up say, after work. Add to that, you don't even have to get out of your car! They will bring them out to you, take your payment and they load them into your car. CONVENIENT! Not gonna lie, I was intrigued, excited at the thought of not having to do it myself! No more staring at the aisles and aisles of items...no more standing in lines...no more hours spent (alright maybe not HOURS but a while) picking out fresh produce. No more...wait a minute. A personal shopper (cashier)/personal shopper is going to choose my fresh fruits and veggies? Yeah see I already told you guys I'm picky about fruits - no bruises, not too ripe, not mushy, ripe enough - see this is where I get stuck with this idea. I'm fine with the shopper picking up boxed or canned goods but produce? Aww heck naw! What if they are in such a rush they just grab and toss the apples and bananas into the shopping cart? (Do you say shopping cart or basket? Hmm, something else for that post for another day.) I may have said no thanks to the shopping service but believe me there were several people who said yes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against things being CONVENIENT or things that make life a bit easier (MICROWAVES, REMOTE CONTROLS) all I'm saying is that we have really made some shifts towards making things CONVENIENT. Not necessarily a bad thing to have someone shop for you or be able to turn on your lights from outside your house...this is simply an observational post. But to the person who decided to pre-boil eggs, peel them and package them by the dozens, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN MAMA ALICE PUT ME ON EGG DUTY FOR POTATO SALAD! And don't even get me started on deviled eggs...sheesh!
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