I recently moved to a "poor" neighborhood. Greeted by a security guard every time I go in doesn't bother me. The fact that there are 4 express lanes and 1 non-express (not always open) certainly lets me know that they are expecting a lottery ticket and beer crowd, sure. When I do my grocery shopping and (as directed) stand in one of the express lines with my 50 items, I (understandably) get a lot of hateful glances and comments from the people behind me who are following me. My guilt usually causes me to let up to four people go ahead of me. Then I complain, and the checker invariably tells me, "oh, we don't mind." Good for them. The last straw is that if I go to get a deli item, they tell me I have to pay for it there, even if I've got a huge cart of groceries.in all my life I've never had to do this at a Safeway. Usually, I tell them I don't want to use my card twice, and to keep their 79c burrito. I'm sure they've had issues with abandoned deli wrappers (like all safeways) turning up in an aisle later, but this sort of solution amounts to subtle discrimination, in my mind. I am sick of this poor example of a grocery store, and will drive the extra five miles in the future to avoid being treated like a criminal when I want some hot food.
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