The high-tech grocery store

8 years ago

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A new supermarket opened hear my house. (1) It has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh rain.

When you approach the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and experience the scent of fresh hay [prior to ingestion].

When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle, and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying. [What - no squeal?]

The veggie department features the smell of fresh buttered corn.

I don't buy toilet paper there any more. (2)

o j

1. Not near my house, actually - no stores near me except three indigenous cigarette shops, that sell tax-free tobacco.

2. Or, as my old farmer father, and his pals, would say, "No shil?!" as of the [bull-] variety.

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joyfulguy
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8 years ago

Hi Janie,

Careful with those over-the-head bags - they could suffocate ya!

Oh, right - that cautionary relates to babies/kids, doesn't it?

o j

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morz8 - Washington Coast
8 years ago
Cute, OJ. I haven't been treated to clucks or moos, but a local store has had the thunder and mist in the produce dept for some time now.

Truthfully, some of these stores are beginning to out-tech me. It's not close enough to be convenient to me, but Amazon's Walk Out Technology is one....
eld6161
8 years ago
Sounds like a Stew Leonard's.
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ont_gal
8 years ago
There certainly isnt anything like that up in this country,Ed.....however,this modern tech stuff isn't of any use when there are high wind storms & power failures.

I find the "big box" stores a PITA...waaay too big for someone like myself with arthritic and hip issues to get thru the full store-and we all know,that as a marketing tool,the stuff you need/want is always at the back of the store.

Have fun in this new type of store should you choose to go to one,Ed. :)
PKponder TX Z7B
8 years ago
I actually like the sound effects when I shop. It never fails to make me smile.
eld6161
8 years ago
At least when you hear the clap of thunder you know to jump out of the way and not grab those veggies!

My Stop and Shop is basic. I haven't even seen the vegetable being sprayed. Not sure if they even do it.
Iris S (SC, Zone 7b)
8 years ago
No sound effects for the eggs and milk, but my grocery store does have the thunder and misting for the produce. And the motion activated lights in the freezer isles that turn on when you walk by.
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8 years ago
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They're ALL like that here. I expect the homeless people to start showering when the thunder comes on in the produce section at one store....they live behind it, near the creek. :0)
MrsM
8 years ago
Haven't been to a store like that around here in CT. There is a Stew Leonards though that has cool stuff I guess, but I've never gone. One of the grocery stores does have the lights that automatically go on in the refrigerated and freezer sections..I always feel like I'm being personally greeted (of course I'm not-it's an energy saving feature). Never heard thunder near the produce misters but I have gotten misted good myself on the arm a few times which I hate because it always startles me.
Elmer J Fudd
8 years ago
Ditto to what Nicole said, thunder preceding the water spray for veggies seems like it's been around forever. More than ten years, maybe more than twenty.
blfenton
8 years ago
We have misters on the veggies but no thunder or any other sound effects in the store.

Does anyone remember the Legionnaires outbreak in 1990 that was spread from a mister in the vegetable section of a grocery store.
Janie
8 years ago
There is the mister with the sound effects where I shop in Hannaford in upstate NY and I'm not fond of it - everything is dripping wet. I just now automatically walk around with a plastic bag over my hand to use when choosing my items so I don't get so wet.

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