Jean Jean Jean it’s time for a mansplaining intervention.

I get it, those big box hardware stores, or as I like to think, places where old white guys go to roam free through the aisles while (escaping the folks back home) gazing longingly how things were in some imagined yesteryear well, this is no longer (like everything else today) the same experience.

In short, you have to stop shopping like it’s 1999, or earlier.

Whether Lowe’s, HD, Menard’s (my local fav) or other Costco look-a-like warehouse shop destinations, visualizing those as-seen-on-tv store ads where shopper assistants run around ,thickly, smiling profusely while spotting any customer looking needy of information all dressed up in their colorful logo store clothes well, that is bogus because they are using the same stock footage in those ads from the previous millennium, sorry, they are way too cheap to hire new marketing peeps.

Yeah nowadays even though their websites are notoriously full of false or way out of date information those sites now have to be checked online first possibly saving a trip. Not that you might want to buy board feet online, yeah, that’s a thing, but after divining if the web page info is possibly 60% correct, slightly more accurate shopping decisions can be attempted.

Loved your listicle of what the modern younger gens are subjected to while working a job in these big box nightmares, it almost blasted me off into yet another listicle all by myself. However, I’m imagining what would happen if I were to approach a modern day assistant looking for a nut to go on a screw. I can hear it over the PA now: 🔈“Customer assistance at CS desk 12-1A, Nut assistance!”📢 Seriously, not far off here.

Point is, store reality is not real, as-seen-on-tv, especially during this yet-to-end but probably won’t covid era, but anyway, fun article about the workforce encounters at America’s big box department stores. Easily great material for a modern streaming sitcom.