I said for years that every second date should be to a grocery store. The first date can be as fancy and choreographed as the couple wants, but the second date needs to be to the grocery store.

You can learn just about everything you need to learn about a person from watching them at a grocery store. From how they chose a parking spot, to how they talk to employees, to how they budget, to how they prepare a list, to how healthy they eat, to how they check out, to if they return the shopping cart.

Change your mind on a product. Do they put it back where it belongs or throw it on the nearest clearly wrong shelf?

tbf, ime people working grocery stores like lost/cast off items like that (assuming it doesn’t spoil quick). the small game of “oh, where does this go” is much wanted break in the mind numbingly tedium that is working a grocery store

I used to work for a winter sports store. Skis, snowboards, winter clothes, etc.

On slow days during the week, it was often just me running the floor while I had some guys doing service work in the back. So I had a day where I was alone in front of the store, doing price changes on a rack of skis. Behind me, the only customer in the shop went through every clothing rack and meticulously removed every garment from its hanger and laid it over top of the rack. When I finally caught on to what she was doing, she said, “It looked like you needed something to do!” And then she left without buying anything.

It’s been at least 15 years, and I still get livid thinking about that.