This receipt makes it look like I got a whopping $402.93 discount on a pack of Perdue chicken drumsticks at the Key Food a few weeks ago.
$402.93 discount on Perduce Chicken Drumsticks
I wonder if mistakes like this throw the grocery store’s accounting into disarray.
I just posted 128 new receipts to My Receipts, bringing the total number of scans to 9921. In the past I never scanned the back side of the receipts but I started doing it here or there after somebody, sincerely or not, commented that they wanted to see the back side of the receipts. I did not start scanning both sides as a way of padding the quantity of scans so that I get to 10,000 more quickly. As an exact number of receipts that number will not even matter — hah, like it ever possibly would. But the dubious milestone of 10,000 items posted to My Receipts inches closer to its sodden inevitability.
I saw a customer at this Key Food do something I intend to emulate. He asked the cashier “How is your day going?” She seemed pleased but not necessarily surprised that he asked. She might get such questions more often than I assume, but it seemed somewhat out of the ordinary to see such an open and friendly initiation of communication between customer and cashier. And this cashier in particular is one of the surlier ones at this store, or at least she seems that way to me. So it was nice to see her lighten up and smile. I think she said that her day was just getting started, and that she had children to take care of after her shift ended. She was not complaining, though.
The Key Food used to be Food World. Before that the space was occupied by an Irish pub. McGrath’s, maybe? Some of the bartenders from that pub quit (on good terms) and opened another bar down the street: Veronica’s. That is a colorful place which a friend and I visited last week. I have no memory of McGrath’s (if that was actually its name) but I did happen to get this image in 2000 which records a portion of its exterior:
31st Street in Astoria, 2000
