[–] 6 points 18 hours ago

The supermarket is a 5 minute walk from my apartment, and for the past few years didn't have big lines. I don't know if they changed staffing, or it got more popular, or what.

There are some smaller grocers that don't typically have long lines nearby, but I don't think they have the big tubs of peanut butter I lust after, or a few other things I sometimes get. I should probably check out the smaller grocers anyway

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  • [–] 82 points 19 hours ago (30 children)

    I really dislike that most groceries don't have one big line that feeds into registers. It's just stupid to allow me to get stuck behind someone who's arguing about a coupon for 5 minutes while people who came after me flow through the other registers.

    The grocery by me also never seems to have enough checkout staff to keep the lines short. There's a lot of people with full carts, and no express line. I end up waiting for 10 minutes to buy some bread and bananas .

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    I'm a simple man. I do a lot of rice and beans with random spices for dinner, and oatmeal with peanut butter and sometimes fruit for lunch.

    Sometimes I get fake-burgers, which are tasty and super easy in the air fryer, but aren't nearly as cheap.

    There's lots of other stuff out there. What do you like that's the best intersection of fast, easy, cheap?

     

    As the title says, how often do you admit you're wrong? Is it different when it's a factual dispute versus something more subjective?

    I make an effort to concede early if I'm in error. I think because my mother almost never admits fault. She'll fall back to "that's not what I meant" or similar deflections first, and that's really annoying.

    The last big factual error I made was about the distance of walking, and that's where I learned about Taxicab Geometry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry ).

    I think some people believe admitting fault is a sign of weakness, but I find it's more of a power move. It takes strength to do it, and people can tell when you're sweating and desperate. Usually it leads to resolving the conflict faster and cheaper, too.

    (I expect some people will feel the urge to reply they're never wrong. I'll file that under never admits fault.)

     

    This is the bad place.

    It's fucking toilet paper. I don't need a summary.

    Not only are they wasting time, energy, and screen space with this slop, it seems to have come with a bug preventing me from adding anything to my cart. I just get 403s when trying.

    I can only assume management demanded engineering maximize their AI usage at the expense of boring things like testing and stability.

    I hate this.

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