Spinning the carousel

[Jstpssng]

Me too! I'll always remember one vacation my wife and I took to Danville, Vermont. There was this old three story hardware store, the kind with squeaky wood floors.
It was like going back in time. The owner hands me a paper sack and a pencil, said just write price on outside of bag.
After 3 floors I had filled the bag. He looks down all the numbers and gave price. Since everything ended in 9 ($.49, $5.99) it was fast. Added up rounded, subtracting quantity.
We started talking about horses...so he hands us a key "check out my barn next door", like a museum of wagons, sleighs, etc.
Talk about trusting!

Danville is a nice town, Vermont has a few of them if you get away from the tourist areas. I went on a bike ride years ago and went through Granby, which is the only town I've ever been in which really did have a dirt road main street.
Years ago I spent about 6 weeks in a hotel in Island Pond... it was built over a river in the 1850's and still had that old world feel to it; big old hardwood floors and the bathroom was right down the hall. Every night when I got in I expected to see Matt Dillion walking down the hall to see Miss Kitty, it was that kind of place.
The owner, Bernie, was 78 YO and did all of the cleaning himself; he couldn't find anybody who would do it to his standards. He also had a skidder and somebody running it, but when he got done cleaning the rooms he'd go out and fell trees for the operator. He was trying to sell it at the time and apparently did; when I called about staying there the following year all that I got was a voicemail and it took me a week just to find out that they didn't want me to stay there because of my dog.

That year I stayed in another town, and it turned out to be where the last "Phish" concert was held. I had left for the weekend but when I got back heard all sorts of stories.

 

[k0ua]

Now I'm wondering which TBN member commented on her rant.
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The whole point of my rant, was that I was trying to speed up the process BY removing the bags as rapidly as possible instead of waiting for the carousel to "load up" with bags before I could get to them. I had to vacate the other lane because the other person need to exit and I was in their way by attempting to load the STUPID way she was spinning the carousel. If she had spun the carousel toward me, I could stay in my own lane and load the bags far faster than she could fill them, AND I always have my card out and when they get near the end of the belt, I stick the card in and as soon as she finishes the register the card goes thru almost instantly. I am ready to roll cart wheels while she is tearing the paper receipt off the register.

I understand the concept of efficiency and try to help the cashiers every chance I get.

 

[k0ua]

Wonder what would happen if someone stuck a one way bearing on the carousel shaft. Probably shut the whole works down.

I thought of that. I wonder which way it would turn?

 

[4570Man]

I really couldn’t care less about which way the cashier spins the bag carousel but now the tractor supply cashier wasting half an hour a person trying to sign you up for their stupid neighbors club when there’s already a long line really annoys me.

 

[Jstpssng]

I really couldn’t care less about which way the cashier spins the bag carousel but now the tractor supply cashier wasting half an hour a person trying to sign you up for their stupid neighbors club when there’s already a long line really annoys me.

:thumbsup:

I had one clerk ask "Don't you like saving money?" He didn't like it when I said "Yes, that's why I usually shop elsewhere." I buy dog food there, but when it comes to animal feed they are third in line when it comes to prices; and I can get hardware for less nearly anywhere. Plus they are 20 miles farther than anybody else, unless I happen to be working near a store.

 

[LouNY]

Actually I can see a good reason for it to rotate that way, I don't get into a Walmart very often but when I do I have a couple of habits which I do in most stores.
I stand there and watch the cashier ringing thing up and I watch the price that rings up.
So, she can ring up and bag several bags worth of items and load them on that carosal while I'm monitoring what is getting wrung up,
then I can pay for them and while it is getting processed or change calculated I can start loading the cart back up, or load then pay for what I bought.
So a carasol rotating away from me allows for several bags or items to be sacked up before I have to start reloading my cart in the order I sent it thru or that I wish to load.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

:thumbsup:

I had one clerk ask "Don't you like saving money?" He didn't like it when I said "Yes, that's why I usually shop elsewhere." I buy dog food there, but when it comes to animal feed they are third in line when it comes to prices; and I can get hardware for less nearly anywhere. Plus they are 20 miles farther than anybody else, unless I happen to be working near a store.

Sharn Jean signed us up for the Homeland club, the Ace Hardware club, the Tractor supply club and the CVS club. All it has gotten us so far is a bunch of coupons that expire before you use them, a discount on alcoholic gasoline that we never use, and a 3 foot long cash register tape that would have come in useful during the toilet paper shortage. I think they use the information on you application and connect it to what you buy and use it for their own purposes.

 

[Industrial Toys]

You people should just thank your lucky starts you don't live in CANADA, where a consumers time means absolutely nothing to the corporations.

 

[cqaigy2]

There used to be a hardware store in Ellensburg Wa USA, i think it was called Woods Hardware. It was great, it had things in it you never knew you needed, until you saw them.

 

[Industrial Toys]

We had Aikenheads. Same thing. Then Home Depot bought it, quickly destroyed it, and re-established the status quo, of the same old, same old, nothing unique, BS consumerism standard..