Show FHE- FHE Eye Ants View B By By MAC Some amazing changes are beIng being being be be- ing planned in the s supermarket field according to business pro pro- Everything will be designed to make shopping easier Now this seems to me a little silly How can It be made any easier When It was easiest was when the man walked Into the store h handed the clerk his wife's shopping list 1st and came back In half halt an hour to find It ready to go How much easier can It pet get You will be able to shop by punch cards where electronic machines select and collect your groceries You wont won't have to push that grocery cart cart It it will be motorized You'll step on a moving moving ing lug sidewalk once out of ot your car and be whisked right to the store door Automatic out check-out counters count count- ers will add up your bill pack your groceries and deliver your youri change all change all without human guid guld ance That's what it says here To an old country boy with earning learning for the good old days this his seems to be to be going Inthe Inthe in inthe the wrong direction Trading in u those good i old days was something some some- thing to to look forward to and to remember Saturday afternoon m mea meant e a n t packing all us kids Into the Model T and driving to town to todo todo todo do the trading Apparently that term meant swapping some eggs egal and butter for groceries and charging the th rest reet j I Of course everybody e else came cameo cameto cameto to o town th the same day aad that meant you couldn't get waited on on n but i that was fine because it gave ave the folks tolu time to Io chat and ami gossip When your turn came you ou could see the stuff on the shelves helves and you pointed and the clerk lerk got it down often using a a. a like hand clamp on the end of a along along long ong pole i Stuff you O couldn't see was In In ini 1 the he bins under the counter and andt It t was almost magic to watch the clerk lerk pouring prunes out of a ascoop ascoop scoop coop into the sack on the scales t Favorite clerks added a prune I About once or twice a year I j when the corn was Wal sold or the cattle or hogs hogl were shipped Dad Cad paid the bill What a day Because he always received In exchange for a check for several I hundred dollars dollar a ten-cent ten sack J of candy Not Just a nickel sack mind you you you-a a great big ten-cent ten I sack lack The store was dark and it smelled wonderful and grapes were packed in sawdust and Wedding Breakfast coffee was WIlS 35 cents a pound and cheese was in a big round cake in the back backroom backroom backroom room set into a measuring cutter If you lived in town you could I have stuff sturt delivered How tow much easier can It U get If you lived on a ranch 25 miles from town like Ilka we w. did you had a complete list lilt and It had better be b. complete or you had to wait walt a week or two A package of gum sometimes had to last lut two weeks week which meant a lot of re r. One thing I like about this new deal dl though though though-a a moving sidewalk whisks you from the car to the shelf shelt of ot beans When they put divans on this sidewalk so eo I can lie down on the way in Ill I'll be happy Mac happy Mac |