the local albertsons started to use savings cards (the little scanable coupon cards). this gave me sudden flashbacks of working at price chopper in great barrington. price chopper called them "AdvantEDGE" cards, as if having the cards gave you some kind of EDGE over the non-existant competition.

every time i go to the grocery store, i want to give a knowing nod to the checker and say, "yeah, i was a checker once..." but then i realize that if anyone told me that while i was working as a checker, i wouldn't have cared at all.

oh, the albertsons closes at midnight. that's just... ridiculous. there aren't any stores in town that stay open 24 hours a day. it's so sad.