Well I took a trip down the six miles of highway to MCAS Miramar to do some grocery shopping. My credit union has an office on the base and I also stopped to do some banking. It's always odd when I go into the commissary. I try not no go too often... it's usually very crowded and a hassle. The deals never seem to be so good that I should dedicate three hours to being there... yes it is sometimes that long with crowded aisles and long check out lines. But today it was a breeze.
Now like I mentioned, I don't go there that often. A few visits ago (maybe in March?) they moved all the products around like every grocery store does every few years... I guess it's to confuse you a little and have to go down EACH AND EVERY FRICKING AISLE to find what you want and perhaps buy a few more things along the way.
Well I had almost gotten used to that but now they have replaced paper shelf price tags (that are usually black on white) that were very easy to read while walking down the row. They've been replaced by LCD ones... black on dark gray. It combines everything into a perfect storm for "hard-to-read-ness". (look at the picture above to see what I mean).
I am in my fifties and I found it a little hard to read... but the old-timers (the 60+ crowd) were really struggling to see them.
Technology is good but my vote on these electronic price tags is... two thumbs down.
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I haven't seen electronic price tags here yet, but I see why they'd like them. Easier to input into a computer once than to change all those little signs. Maybe they could enlarge them for the Baby Boomers like us.
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