80's-90's MEMORIES

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    This might have been a singularly North American thing, or even just a Canadian thing.

    Your groceries being packed at the register by supermarket staff, pushed out in bins on convenyor belts to the outdoors, where another member of staff would carry it all to your waiting car when you pulled up along the conveyor belt.


    • Never saw this.
      Baltimore City.
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    • Oh, wow, really? Guess it was a uniquely Canadian thing.Continuity
    • Looks like a COVID measure.palimpsest
    • Haha you'd think so. But, actually, it was from a time in human history when the words 'customer service' actually meant something.Continuity
    • Did you have to pay an extra feedrgs
    • If I remember well, not at all.Continuity

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