Saturday, May 24, 2014

A boom box with aisles.

Despite its slogan, shopping at Publix is not a pleasure. For starters they play only one kind of music—
Contemporary Crap—and they play it loud. Worse, they seem to have an affection for songs with a single lyric line repeated more than 50 times. Today I completed all my shopping while some mediocre singer whined "Say what you mean. Mean what you say." over and over and over and over again. Publix apparently thinks that all their customers are between the ages of 12 and 26 and have no musical taste. Music aside, there are other non-pleasurable aspects to Publix. For instance, while they have many pleasant and competent people on staff, others cannot speak nor understand English and those who can have no idea where anything is. I am often sent to three different aisles before finding the item I need. But, alas, it is the nearest grocery store and since I don't drive I will be forced to deal with their failings and listen to their low-brow musical choices.

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