Getting Fat Working in the Grocery Store

September 21, 2011

When I started working as a grocery checker, I was 135 pounds. Eleven years later I’m now 192 lbs! I flirt with 200 pounds on a monthly basis and even though I try to restrain myself from eating, it’s just too hard to do so when you’re working in the grocery store. Aisles: Almost every [...]

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Balloon Convenience by Tora the Florist

September 14, 2011

I walked into my department this morning to find an order of 22 balloons that was going to be picked up in a few hours. I put on my safety goggles and filled each latex balloon with Hi-float and started blowing them up. With so many balloons, I usually try to make it easy on [...]

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Introduction – Tora the Florist

September 6, 2011

Grocery stores have become a one stop shop for customers. You can get everything you want in one grocery store, groceries, small electronics, movies and even flowers. You want a nice flower arrangement to surprise your lady at home? Go by the floral department and ask the florist if they can put together something really [...]

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Shoplifters Caught with Meat Down Their Pants

August 30, 2011

Donald Noone of Carlisle, Pennsylvania could meet Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity, after attempting his second supermarket rib heist using the same shoplifting technique that failed him miserably the first time around, but obviously expecting a different result. According to the Cumberland, PA Sentinel, the 65 year-old Noone “was back in police custody Sunday afternoon [...]

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Grocery Cart Asteroids

August 28, 2011

I don’t think too many people in the grocery industry give much credit to the courtesy clerks. They are essential to the daily operations of the grocery store. Courtesy clerks do things that no one else wants to do, like cleaning the bathrooms, bottlerooms, mopping and sweeping the floors. They also do something that even [...]

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Grocery Clerk Dies After Attack in Checkstand

August 23, 2011

An Albertson’s clerk who was stabbed more than 20 times while working at a Santa Monica store has died of her injuries, police said Monday. Witnesses told investigators that a man approached the woman, whose identity has not been released, at the supermarket about 3:30 p.m. Sunday and began conversing with her. “He approached her, [...]

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Incorrect Grocery Store Signs

August 21, 2011

Very rarely do we make mistakes when it comes to making and hanging signs at the grocery store but when we do its BAD… From: Funny or Die.

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Grocery Gossip

August 16, 2011

In the retail grocery world, we’re like a family. Everyone knows each others business. Not a day goes by that there’s some new gossip about someone. The funny thing about gossip is that the original story will constantly change from each person its passed down to and most likely, whoever the story is about, they [...]

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From Grocery Bags to Riches

August 14, 2011

“You will be nothing more but a grocery clerk,” is what I usually get in my email box but what if I want to be grocery clerk? What if I said I enjoy working in the grocery store? What if I told you I have been working for 10+ years and still planning on adding [...]

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Grocery Bag Hate Mail

August 11, 2011

I enjoy comments. That’s one of the main reasons why I started this blog was get feedback and interaction from readers who can relate to retail grocery or have an indifference on how some grocery clerks do things. Whether the comments are positive or negative I approve them all for everyone to see. I usually [...]

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