I’m slightly worried and 100 Things I Love About The Netherlands #15

 

I love our well-stocked supermarkets. Oh I know that there is a lot to be said about supermarkets and how they make life difficult for smaller, specialist shops, and that is true. But there are lots of countries where people can’t go to a supermarket and fill a trolley with all the food they need and don’t need. So, in that sense I do love our well-stocked supermarkets that make life easy for us, consumers.

However, I’ve overheard some conversations between supermarket staff lately that left me slightly worried.

In the supermarket we know as ‘Germany’ (long story, something to do with not having been on holiday for years and the desire to go somewhere ‘exotic’ for once. I have posted about it here), but that is in fact Lidl, two employees are shouting their conversation across three isles and are therefore impossible to ignore:

Employee 1: “You know what they said?”
Employee 2: “No.”
Employee 1: “They want me to do my shopping here too!”
Employee 2: “What?”
Employee 1: “Yeah, that’s what I said. The boss wants me to do my shopping in this supermarket.”
Employee 2: “Oh?”
Employee 1: “Yeah. As if! Do they think I’m crazy? I’m not going to do my shopping here!”
Employee 2: “No, I wouldn’t either!”

In the supermarket we know as ‘France’, but that is in fact Jumbo, a couple of giggling cashiers:

Cashier 1: “Do you know if they caught the mouse yet?”
Cashier 2: “Mouse? What mouse!?!”
Cashier 1: “The one that was running around here.”
Cashier 2: “What? When?”
Cashier 1: “About half an hour ago. And then it ran towards the bread counter.”
Cashier 2: “No! Really?”
Cashier 1: “Oh God yeaheah. There are lots of mice running around here.”

In the supermarket we know as ‘Holland’, but that is in fact Albert Heijn, a couple of guys busy stocking shelves:

Guy 1: “Did you see the mouse?”
Guy 2: “No?”
Guy 1: “There was a mouse running around the cheese counter. The girls were really scared haha.”
Guy 2: “Oh. Did they catch it?”
Guy 1: “Dunno.”