Posted by sam at February 24th, 2006

When I first moved to Springville, I would drive past the local grocery store, Allens, on my way to Walmart.  One day it occurred to me that I should support local business and all that, so I decided to start shopping at Allens.

Most times I have gone in there it has been impossible to find what I need.  Simple things like soap.  I will find the isle with the shampoo, toothpaste, etc. and look around for the soap?  What’s next to the shampoo? Yarn.  What’s next to the toothpaste? beer.  Where is th soap?  Who the hell knows - I spanned the store 3 times looking for it - I don’t think they carry it.  Perhaps people who shop at Allens don’t use soap?

So I gave up on Allens for a while.  Tonight I went to Walmart.  Yea, it’s big and you have to walk all over the place, but at leats you only have to walk all over the place once instead of traversing the entire store to pick up to similar items.

The only thing about Walmart is that the don’t have baskets.  I don’t want a cart full of stuff, I don’t want a handful of stuff, I want a basket full of stuff.  They do, however, sell baskets - and I don’t see why you can’t go get one to hold your items and then simply not buy it at the end.  And that’s what I do.