pass us by ? Or does it drag us along ? Does it alienate us ? Or does it coddle us in a bubble and breeze us along with everybody else ? In ‘72 I was 14 and got a job cleaning up a meat dept after school. Back then many things were different. We didn’t even open the meat dept on Sundays. Most people (housewives back then) shopped during the week and on Saturday. We would just cut and wrap a little extra and load up the case. Nowadays Sundays are the biggest days in a lot of stores. Almost everything was way more labor intense. Alaska was one of the first markets to embrace “boxed beef”. At the time we still had about 20% hanging beef though. Checkers had to memorize most prices in the store. We used “Garvey” markers, which was an ink pad with rotating numerals. Back then we were in a huge economic boom with the pipeline being built. Prices seemed to rise every other day. We’d have to take hairspray to remove the price and then restamp with the new price. A lot of them would get smudged.
Today I came across an article that kind of epitomizes the changes with time.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/went-first-amazon-fresh-store-093000151.htmlI'm not sure how I fit with the changing times. I think maybe it’s just dragging me along. I find much of what my friends and family does on a daily basis is foreign to me. Facebook, Uber, Instagram, DoorDash, etc. are just not likely to happen with me. I’m not saying all this is a bad thing. Efficiency and modernization will always win out.
