Getting towards the front end, we find a bunch of Pokemon promos and a cart full of corn, both of which are a bit unusual! (Safeway likes to sell corn in shrinkwrapped trays like that these days, which is annoying -- so much plastic waste, plus you don't get to pick which ones you actually want, and you're forced to buy multiples of 4! I'm not a fan of the trend towards selling pre-packaged produce items.) The lighting up here is pretty weird too, probably due to the cheap lighting updates of the late 2010s.
I've seen the wrapped corn on a cart around here at Randall's as well. That is not the only way Randall's sells corn though. Usually around the summer holidays, like July 4th, Randall's will put loose corn cobs on the husk for sale at fire sale type prices and there is usually a large number of customers who take advantage of the sales. Since people don't want to buy the husks, people will take them off before buying them which means Randall's has to keep a big trash can in the produce department near the corn.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they figure the wrapped corn is easier for them to sell most of the year than to have to keep big trash cans out on the salesfloor! Kroger has the same issue when they sell loose corn, though perhaps surprisingly, they usually don't advertise it for as low as Randall's does.
The lighting is pretty strange here! It is somewhat unsettling, but I guess the people working there get used to it.
On the topic of butter in the previous post, I didn't realize butter boxes were a different shape up in your part of the world! The rectangular cube boxes started becoming much more popular than the flat square boxes quite some years ago here. I'm not sure why there are regional differences with that as I just assumed that was normal everywhere in the US!
Safeway used to always sell corn loose, but I don't remember ever seeing trash cans for the husks like that! Corn isn't as big of a deal around here as it is in a lot of the country, and you definitely don't see a lot of farms growing it locally.
DeleteApparently it's an east coast/west coast issue. I guess since you're in the middle of the country, it used to be variable there! I'm so used to just eyeballing everything when I cook that having different sticks of butter was confusing!