I've been really disappointed in shopping / buying / consumer experiences lately. in bullet points:
- everything in a gendered clothing section was too early with this cold weather snap. I remeber when stores where able to pick their seasonal inventory and when it can be dropped off. now they rush out seasonal clearance as fast as possible completely ignoring the needs of the community they sell too
- why have they taken out half of their self checkout lines, but shut down most of them and still having 1 human on a register for lines full of people. now I have to wait in line to do the register process myself or wait in line to work with an overtaxed employee
- you can't honestly enjoy anything without hundreds of dollars. small pack of groceries - twice as much, leisure items like books, games, crafts - 3x as much, vacation or solo day opportunities like amusement parks, day fairs, or even simple sight seeing costs nearly 1k! for a single day of activities for a family of 4 or 5 have to assume a single family day outing could run them hundreds and put them in the red for weeks.
- quantity size....WTF. WHERE THE HELL IS MY STUFF. I paid for it, clearly I want it, why are they charging twice as much for half the product???!!!
I wonder what am I supposed to do about this?! How could even it be possible this is happening and people aren't rioting the streets? oh that's right if I take a day off, I could end up destitute. the system of things has got to change.