I go play pick-up hockey on some Fridays and I park in a Whole Foods that's next to the rink. To get my parking validated, I have to buy something in Whole Foods, which I wouldn't normally do. Typically, I pick up a couple of salads and a quart or two of juice.
Until very recently, the cashiers at Whole Foods had dutifully rung me up and bagged my groceries. But the last couple of time I've been there, the cashier has asked me: "Will you be eating this here today?"
I never quite understand, and I feel like I'm 'The Champ': "So I says 'pardon?'"
And they basically ask me again if I will be eating my purchases in the store. Now I know I'm not a small man, and I know that I can eat an Extra-Large pizza and drink a gallon of juice without getting full, but what are the odds that I'm going to sit down eat all of my groceries in the store? If I had a half of a take-out sandwich, their question might make sense. But I've got groceries.
So what are they doing? Are they trying to reduce the number of bags they give out by one? Because they're losing that war on the thousands of other people they double-bag a box of cookies for. With all of their plastic packaging and massive parking lots, Whole Foods is the last place that's really doing anything good for the environment. Maybe the cashiers (all female) think a guy really is going to eat all of his groceries in one sitting. I don't know. But I really wish they'd just throw my groceries in a bag and shut the hell up like they do with every other customer.
3 comments:
They're asking if you're eating there 'cause you bought something like a pre-made sandwich or salad. If you say you're eating there, they add sales tax, if you aren't it's not taxable.
would that it were so. There was tax on it anyways.
[I tried this at Chipotle. They charge you sales tax either way.]
I thought it was, if you DON'T eat there you get charged tax ... oh I always get charged anyway.
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