I finally got around to cleaning the egg case on Monday. I took all the eggs out of the bottom shelf and then took up the wire racks and the plastic mats. I took the racks and mats over to bakery to wash and then scrubbed out the underneath where the fans are. While doing this George the truck driver came by and I told him what I was doing and why. The why is that there was broken egg all over the bottom of the egg case and I'd gotten in trouble for not cleaning it up.
So when I went into the backroom he and Bonnie were talking and I joined in and he said something or other about me being in trouble already today. Bonnie looked at me quizzically. So I told her and I started blushing cause it's not something I normally do and normally I agree with her that people need to clean up their own messes and right away. She was all, "I can't believe you did that!!!" That I had just left it. I said that I didn't actually care. Not even about getting a figurative slap on the hand for it. I deserved it. My fault. Whatever. This whole thing was a lot funnier on Monday when it happened.
I saw this huuuge woman on an electronic cart, so big her butt drooped over either side of the seat. So naturally she bought about 20 cups of carb master's yogurt. Cause eating three or four of those a day will help you lose weight or something.
Then I had someone point to the kroger greek yogurt and ask if we carried it in the big sizes. I said no and after a moment I offered her the greek gods yogurt since it comes in 24oz sizes (I believe it's a 24oz carton, maybe a 26 or 28 though). She was all, "Oh! This is exactly what I wanted!" um... if you wanted greek gods then ASK for that. Don't ask me for kroger brand. Idiot. Or at least don't point at any particular brand as you ask for large sized greek yogurt.
I was nearly an hour late leaving yesterday.
Oh, and I'll be in big trouble on Monday. First of the month and out of 2% gallons. You see, I hand write my milk orders. Apparently I ordered 100 gallons instead of 400. And at the crazy insane rate people buy milk that means I'll be out of milk by Monday. It really makes me wish people weren't all insane about milk. I understand if you have a large family and won't be back to the store for a few days, or if you live out of town. But there's no reason that 80% of all shoppers need 2-4 gallons. Generally if you live in town you shop, at the very least, once a week. State law says no more than 12 days on milk. Which works out great if you shop once a week. Every time you shop you pick up one gallon. There's no "Huh, guess I didn't need quite that much milk cause our second gallon expires in two days and we still have 1/4 of a gallon left in the first one... well, who wants pudding cause we gotta use this stuff up!" Instead you get a fresh date every time you shop and no one gets in trouble for being out of milk because you're selfish and stupid.
Kinda the same with eggs. I sold a ton of the 5 dozen packs and 2 1/2 packs yesterday. What does anyone do with 5 dozen eggs?? I guess if you use an entire loaf of texas toast to make french toast every morning for a week you might need that many. But guess what: eggs have an expiration date on them. *gasp* Think you can use up 5 dozen eggs in under a month? Maybe if you bake a lot.
I sold out of skim and whole half gallons yesterday. Which is totally and completely crazy because I never sell 27 half gallons in under a day. That's not even counting how many were on the shelf before yesterday's load. It was probably more like 36-48. What's with the mad rush for half gallons?
And another thing. I hate hate hate hate hate hate x infinity when people take yoplait cases. See, yoplait is box-fill, which means I rip off the front and jam the box onto the shelf. So of course idiot customers thing this means they can take a nearly empty box and fill it up with yogurt and buy it that way. Yes, technically the can. However it results in all sorts of negatives:
1. The yoplait section only looks full when I've got boxes in every spot. See, the thing with facing is that you take 2 items and make it look like there's 20. If I have two boxes stacked one on top of the other and I have 6 cups of yogurt I can put three in the front of one box and 3 in the front of the other and that makes it look like I have 18 cups of yogurt on the shelf and Bret is happy cause it's "full". If I only have one box I have to stack three cups on top of each other and it looks like I have 6 cups of yogurt and Bret is mad cause I'm almost out.
2. The checker will be put on the bad list for being a slow checker because they'll have to stop take each and every cup of yogurt out of the box, scan them, and put them back into the box. Instead of simply sliding them across the scanner and down the belt like normal groceries. It will also irritate them.
3. The bagger will incapable of bagging that case with anything else and that entire case of 8-10 yogurts will have to be bagged separately on it's own. Which is a complete and utter waste of a bag seeing as that few yogurts could typically be bagged with about 4-8 other items depending on size and weight.
4. Takes up more room in your car due to #3 and means you have one more needless bag to haul inside and deal with.
5. Takes up more room in your fridge.
6. Takes up more room in your garbage.
So therefore we can conclude that it is in the best interest of everyone for you to leave that case where it's supposed to be: on the shelf.
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