The Choices We Make . . .
Can have serious repercussions in the produce aisle, or at least be seriously annoying
When life hands you a lemon, you are supposed to make lemonade—right?
When happens when life hands you a sideways tilting, wobbly shopping cart that pulls left and sounds like a motor bike or something as it’s chopped up wheels thump along on the supermarket floor.
A bad shopping cart can ruin and entire shopping experience.
ASIDE: A shopping experience? Well, yeah, that’s what some stores are going for. Wegman’s comes to mind. They set a high standard; a food emporium of a sort. In the beginning, there was Stew Leonard’s. I haven’t been in the one in Norwalk lately. that was where I got lost in the Ikea-like store maze, in search of a pecan pie. I've heard about HEB in Texas. In the unlikely even I find myself in Texas, I will certainly seek out the HEB experience.
Any time I go food shopping (I’m the main food shopper in Hedgehog House) my first decision is critical; which shopping cart to commandeer.
I favor the smaller, more maneuverable charts—the ones with the cargo space of an overgrown handbasket. But if there is “big stuff” on the list, I’ll opt for a full sized trolly (that’s whet they call them in the U.K. I prefer that word over “shopping cart.”)
A Tip For Happy Shopping
When you go shopping, you need to approach the decision like you’re buying a used cart. You have to kick the tires. Well, kick the casters? No, you don’t actually kick them, but . . . the number one criterion for picking a shopping cart—check out the wheels.
Ignore everything else about the cart—look at the wheels.
If, in comparison to the other vehicles in the parking lot, you see the unit has wheels that look okay, take it for a short test drive. Within ten feet, you’ll know if there are any big problems—shimmying wheels, annoying bump, bump, bump tires. Unacceptable swaying—that sort of things.
Here’s the important thing—do not settle. Reject the bump, bump, bump-ers immediately. If the cart steers severally to the right or the left, let it go.
Remember, too. An old cart can always get new wheels. The old buggy over in the corner may look like it has seen its better days but then, look closely. It might have just had it’s casters replaces and be the best cart in the lot.
Enhance your shopping experience. Be picky when you pick out your trolly (shopping cart for you American readers.)
Anon.
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