What is it like being in a large super market?

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the grocery store will be glorious. glorious hell.

yes and their fashion sense is so awesome. check out the people of walmart website. its hilariously entertaining and hilariously sad.people of walmart

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yes the capitalistic materialistic society today tells us to consume now, and assume later. Meaning consumption of the most destructive unhealthy unnecessary s**t of the world is the right thing to do and to just assume later that all of these material things,etc are going to be there for you and that you really need it in your life. because if we dont consume, the economy will collapse!

I am fine....if they AREN'T crowded. I had to go shopping the day before X-mas, for our fruit and veg. I wanted to die. I was feeling claustrophobic and this is a big store, but it was just to many people. I needed to get out, I couldn't breath. I kept muttering to myself, and finding myself in people's way. Talking people, beeping registers. I had to go my happy place and try to make it all white noise in my head before I like freaked out.

I don't like it and sometimes I have to leave in a hurry, but usually I can handle it for long enough to get what I need. I usually try to go late at night early in the week when it's nearly empty.

Its overwhelming, especially if there is a lot of people. Worse if I am alone, a bit easier if I am with someone, but still overwhelming.

Alone in a crowded supermarket. *shudders at thought*

Me too, that's why I never go at busy hours, and very rarely go alone, however I had to buy Christmas gifts at the last minute last year ... worse time to go, it was a nightmare.

For a second I thought "Oh, I've done alone in a crowded supermarket." And then I realized how many times I've gone into stores alone and just walked back out because I couldn't cope with it.

I have scheduled almost everything to a "T" when it comes to that stuff. I know the busy hours and the none busy hours and go during the less busy hours, etc.

Far too bright, and it's always that nasty sharp fluorescent lighting which digs into your eyes.

A horrible fetid wall of noisy, confusing sounds & conversations. It's like listening to a radio up too loud with someone changing the station every 1/2 second.
The place is always heaving with people and every one of them seems determined to get in my way, crowd me in, or jostle me.

Hate the automatic checkouts because they are always going wrong - and then a light flashes to draw attention to the problem (and me ) until someone comes over to sort it out. So, I don't use them at all.
I generally go for one of the checkout operators who would recognize me and know not to bother asking if I have a loyalty card, or if I need help packing, or if I need another bag, or if I need any cash-back, or if I need help carrying stuff out, or if, or if...
I just want to get the hell out as soon as possible.

Sometimes I've gone in and frozen because it's just too bright or too noisy, so I struggle to turn around and go back out until I've calmed down.
But when I'm in there I must be one of their most efficient shoppers because I make a bee-line for the things I know I like and scoop them up. No dithering, no wandering around aimlessly looking at stuff. I've even studied the most efficient route through which covers only the areas I need to be at.
That works out Ok until things get moved around (why do they do that?!) and then I have to do an aisle-by-aisle scan to locate everything again, which really winds me up.

Hunter S Thompson, in his guise as "Raul Duke", sojourned into the heart of the American Dream, Vegas, an affluent city of WOWWIE. (yes for those who don't have Autism). He was intoxicated on very powerful drugs from Ether to the petuitary glands of a murder victim. Naturally the weekend was a complete Gong Show, which was chronicleized as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", writen in the 70s a time which could be characterized as the CRASH of drug enduced eupornia (what with the Son of Sam, Elvis, and other serial killers running amuck, the Fall of Saigon, and the beginnings of the age of Terrorism, and the more angry drugs such as Cocaine, Crack, Crank, and child abductions.

Thompson described a very particular evening, while exploring a "Circus-Circus" like Casio (a Casion designed like a circus), where he was high on inhallents, he said that "This is what America would have become had the Nazi's won the war" (insanity and a gong show).

And this is how I describe big crowds in CANADA, a sparce country of only 33 Million, 1 Million in Calgary alone. (There is more people in a SMALL Chinese city of Cangzhou (7 million people), than all of Alberta. If I had problems THERE in Canada, or working the olympic village of only 30,000 people in Vancouver, (where I chewed my fingernails, and kept on feeling other peole's "Chi-Electricity static). Guess how crazy and zonking it is in CHINA. especially here in Shanghai's super markets and malls. AHHHHHHHHH. Especially when they start arguing, or talking in their normal voice. (outdoor FOOTBALL stadium, Vuvuzela like sound). Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I'm usually slumped over the shopping cart, wishing I taking a nice relaxing shower, as I'm fatigued, my nerves are non functional and I'm running on auto pilot life support, my shoulder joints feel cold and sticky-rusty, and my eyelids ache, and feel sticky.

To make matters worse in China, you really can't have a meltdown. or you're in DEEP poop, You have to bottle in your anger your fustrations, or the cops will have words with you(they're friendly but extremely ignorant, and mideval)China only begun addressing Autism in THIS current 5 year plan. (socio-economic planning). I honestly feel the pain of parents who sometimes push carts with their handicapped son inside (grown adult). While stupid old hen like ladies who are stuck in the 50s, like Miss Daisy from driving Miss Daisy. etc.

I hate you Mao Tse Dong. I hate you.

>>> I love how my step mom, is such an angry beligerent screcher with a husky voice, and all of Shanghai or China (due to her Christmas meltdown). I like to apologize on behalf of idiots like her. Heckling for an already heckled price, then freaking out like a Mama Gorillia, for ever little thing. It's ridiculous the drama these NT's have. It's like the insist on behaving on some very bad soap opera. Where there is nothing to argue about they create something. All this gifts of having a brain that's not fragile to noises, that can think clearly, and that could mechanically function with precision, and these morons squander it on pitance and insignificant drama. Humans suck. I'm so glad I'm an Orc well next year when the convergence happens.

I don't have a huge issue with it if I'm familiar with the place. I have it mentally mapped out, so I just grab what I need, go to the self-check, and get out. I'm so grateful to whoever invented self-checkout machines; not having to trade pleasantries with a cashier is a relief. I'm always a little paranoid that somebody will take offense that I'm wearing earphones though.

I must be weird. I love going to Super Walmart. I buy most of my groceries there.

Personally, whenever I'v been in the marketplace I try to be as business-like as possible.In that I try to get everything that is on my list without having to go all over the store but, such never does work therefore I find myself having to navigate through the jungle of people.
This tends to be a mess for me at times..