Sometimes when I go grocery shopping with Dad, he — on his iPhone — Face Times my stepmother to show something if that’s what something on the list looks like. The plugger in the panel must not know how to operate an iPhone.
Cell phones have changed grocery shopping in more ways than just for this, a lot of special prices are tied in to phone apps now and some of the millennials shop like it’s some kind of game to be won
I run the dairy department for a grocery store, and half the people shopping are on their phones for one reason or another (and generally clueless to the world going on around them)
Plugger has a flip phone so he can’t even take a picture to send to her to be sure it is what she wants. Of course that also stops her from emailing him the list so he can still do the shopping.
You can’t do this any more – they seem to change the packaging all the time just to confuse me. (except for Oreos …but then there are so many varieties of Oreos these days I can’t choose one)
My Pop was sent by Mom to buy napkins. My immigrant Dad bought ‘sanitary napkins’, oh, and a can of figs. Never ever saw canned figs before or since. God bless him!
Templo S.U.D. about 5 years ago
Sometimes when I go grocery shopping with Dad, he — on his iPhone — Face Times my stepmother to show something if that’s what something on the list looks like. The plugger in the panel must not know how to operate an iPhone.
Watcher about 5 years ago
After all these years of being married, aren’t you supposed to know what she wants and needs?
nosirrom about 5 years ago
It’s better than getting home only to have to go out again.
Ontman about 5 years ago
It’s not only Pluggers. I’ve seen many ‘Pluggers to be’ in stores getting orders from their wives.
jmworacle about 5 years ago
Just think how this was accomplished before cell phones.
Breadboard about 5 years ago
Longest memory is a short pencil and a small notepad :-)
Doctor Toon about 5 years ago
Cell phones have changed grocery shopping in more ways than just for this, a lot of special prices are tied in to phone apps now and some of the millennials shop like it’s some kind of game to be won
I run the dairy department for a grocery store, and half the people shopping are on their phones for one reason or another (and generally clueless to the world going on around them)
david_42 about 5 years ago
I do 90% of the shopping and if my wife wants something, she has to put on the list.
Phrosty 12Oaks about 5 years ago
Plugger has a flip phone so he can’t even take a picture to send to her to be sure it is what she wants. Of course that also stops her from emailing him the list so he can still do the shopping.
Teto85 Premium Member about 5 years ago
We compose our list, I put it on my phone and I go from there. No need to bother her when I am at the store.
KEA about 5 years ago
You can’t do this any more – they seem to change the packaging all the time just to confuse me. (except for Oreos …but then there are so many varieties of Oreos these days I can’t choose one)
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe about 5 years ago
my KeyRing app lets to put pictures on my shopping list
Zykoic about 5 years ago
My Pop was sent by Mom to buy napkins. My immigrant Dad bought ‘sanitary napkins’, oh, and a can of figs. Never ever saw canned figs before or since. God bless him!