#retail

[unpeeled-human]

[barbaricjester]

Shout out to the little girl at my store today who had a shirt that said "skeleton mouse" and she was carrying around a plushie of a rat, had hair clips in her hair that had rats on them, and a necklace with a rodent skull on it.

As I was checking her mother out at the register she pulled out a handful of rubber rats from her pocket and put them on my counter, to which her mother sighed and said "no sweetie, he doesn't need rats" to which I just looked at her like this

[foldingfittedsheets]

It is So Boring in the mattress store for kids. It’s basically hell for children because there’s fuckall to do for them.

A couple I was helping earlier had two little ones, three and six, who were behaving in a rather saintly fashion for the average bored kid I see. I tried to engage them with remotes and things while their parents talked.

Eventually they were restless enough that I pulled out notepads and asked if they wanted to draw. The three year old quickly lost interest and I went over to ask her favorite animal. She told me “elephant” so to delight and amaze her I started drawing an elephant. Usually kids are into it.

When I was done she pronounced, “It looks like a giraffe.”

I staggered back melodramatically but actually laughing hysterically and said, “There goes my art degree!”

The parents laughed and said kids were harsh critics. When they checked out they saw my elephant doodle on the desk and both did a double take like, “Woah, that’s a really good elephant!”

“Yeah, I actually did go to art school, but it’s okay. My niece wasn’t very impressed with my drawings at that age either.”

[lordgroose]

my favorite work memory from this store will always be “hey remember when the subway inside the store closed down and they let me take a bunch of their shit for free and now it lives inside my house?”

my life is a joke

[cyndavilachase]

real interaction i had at work

[nematodeneedles]

longing

[evan-collins90]

Grocery store selections from the book, Market, Supermarket, and Hypermarket Design / 2 (1992) by Martin Pegler

Randall's - Houston, TX - designed by Heights Venture Architects and Brown, Bunyan, Moon & More

2. Simple Simon - Hawthorne, NY - designed by Architectonics

3. King Kullen - N. Babylon, NY - designed by Programmed Products Corp.

4. Giant - Colonnade at Union Mill - Centreville, VA - designed by the Giant in-store design team

5. Randall's (same location)

6. Genuardi Super Market - Towamencin Shop Village - Lansdale, PA - designed by Programmed Products Corp., in-house staff, John MacPhee/Jett Schrun

7. Reay's Foothill Market - Phoenix, AZ - designed by Nancy Wade of King Design Inc.

8. Foodtown Market - Clarkston, MI - designed by Design Fabrication Inc.

9. Safeway - Woodinville, WA - designed by Dykeman Architects

10. Quick Stop - Maywood, NJ - designed by Architectonics

11. Fiesta Mart - Houston, TX - designed by Hermes Reed Hindman

12. King Kullen - Bellmore, NY - designed by Arnold Ward Studios, Ltd.

13. Blalock Fiesta Market - Houston, TX - designed by Marc Boucher of Hermes Reed Hindman, Arch., Ken English, Interior Decor Graphics

14. Alfalfa's Market - Cherry Creek, CO - designed by Communication Arts, Inc.

15. Andronico's - Berkeley, CA - designed by Sutti Associates