Grocery store aisles can be fun places. There are all of those colors on the packaging. There are those moments when you find a good deal on a favorite food item. And there’s a sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of an aisle knowing there are only a few more to go to get to the finish line.
But grocery store aisles can also be crowded places. Especially this time of year in Southwest Florida when we are bursting with tourists and snowbirds.
In last week’s Grocery Shopping Chronicles, we heard by email from two members of our audience who shared their theory why there’s no elbow room in the cereal aisle or the produce section. They said it’s the spouses (husbands mostly, but also wives) and partners who are there to basically do nothing and get in the way of people who are “working” to get groceries − “hands in their pockets” and “trailing spouses” is what they said…