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The Hottest Social Scene in Town Isn’t the Singles’ Bar. It’s the Supermarket
Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/10/18 | Anne Marie Chaker

Posted on 03/10/2018 6:06:36 AM PST by Rebelbase

When Bob Schneider goes out on a Friday night, he no longer heads to the local singles bar. Instead, he goes to the grocery store.

“I once dated a woman from the potato section at Mariano’s,” says Mr. Schneider, a 67-year-old semiretired, twice-divorced lobbyist in Oak Brook, Ill. “The next thing you know we’re at the wine bar and then we’re dating.”

Supermarkets—those havens of the not-so-scintillating chore of scouring numbered aisles, pushing carts and perusing produce—are finding a new identity as a social hub in communities. Parents now bring their children here to play, retirees gather for Bingo, and singles find romance.

Grocery stores are fulfilling the new role as traditional gathering spots, from shopping malls to social clubs like Lions Clubs and Rotary International, continue to shrink from decades-earlier peaks. Malls, in particular, are in danger of extinction. Credit Suisse has projected that up to 25% of malls will close over the next five years, as the internet continues to reshape the way Americans shop.

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To: a fool in paradise

You got it!


21 posted on 03/10/2018 6:39:57 AM PST by jetson
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To: crusty old prospector

Rubber chicken


22 posted on 03/10/2018 6:40:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Rebelbase

Fonzie knew this before anyone. When Richie was in a slump with girls, Fonzi took him to the supermarket.


23 posted on 03/10/2018 6:42:00 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Wegman’s is great.

They have a wonderful selection of groceries, and the meat and fish departments are quite good. Also, the.alcohol prices are quite competitive, and the housewares section is interesting.

They also have a great prepared food section, and in my town, a decent sit down restaurant. It’s on the wrong side of town for me, but I understand the restaurant is quite popular in the evening.


24 posted on 03/10/2018 6:45:04 AM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: Rebelbase

I understand this was popular in Germany a few years ago. The supermarkets were actually promoting it.


25 posted on 03/10/2018 6:46:09 AM PST by Bitman
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To: Rebelbase

Hello, Beautiful ... what’s your sign ? .... can I buy you a cantaloupe ?


26 posted on 03/10/2018 6:49:19 AM PST by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Rebelbase

At one time, the best pick-up location in the Atlanta area, was the Publix in Vinings. MILFs, Cougars or the fresh college graduate. You either got them on the way home from work, in their heels and business clothes or yoga pants/gym clothes. Either way, the scenery was very nice.


27 posted on 03/10/2018 6:55:18 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Rebelbase

A female reporting in.

Women - it’s not only produce. March on over to the baking isles. Several times in years passed while shopping in this particular isle, men have come forward asking what type of flour does my woman need?

MEN: for those who might be sent on an errand without adequate information, there are several types of flour, so you’d best ask your woman (wife) WHICH TYPE before you travel to the super market. All Purpose, Bread, Self Rising, Cake flour. Flour has as many varieties as the flowers in a garden. If there were no women in that isle to ask, what do you do and whom do you ask? When asking anyone, at least KNOW the what is being made which requires this ingredient.


28 posted on 03/10/2018 6:57:55 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: GotMojo; Yo-Yo

LOL! That was my first thought when I read the headline. And I figured it was only a matter of time before someone posted an IMG from Animal House!


29 posted on 03/10/2018 7:05:47 AM PST by mellow velo
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To: V K Lee

I was going to give the exact same advice. I get approached in the baking aisle all the time, 3 to 4 on a Saturday afternoon also seems to be prime time.

Also, some of the local grocery stores have places where you can eat purchased wine and food. One supposedly has the best happy hour crowd in its neighborhood. I see a group of young men with a six pack of beer, a couple bags of chips and dip sitting at centrally located tables at the store by me all the time. It’s definitely cheaper, great people watching and they can have a conversation without shouting.


30 posted on 03/10/2018 7:09:16 AM PST by PrincessB
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To: GotMojo

Fonzie also liked “Shopping”.


31 posted on 03/10/2018 7:12:26 AM PST by MGG
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To: Rebelbase

Ready these posts on this piece brightened up my day some of these one liners are hilarious.


32 posted on 03/10/2018 7:19:29 AM PST by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Rebelbase

There’s a small Shop Rite near were I live in Wall Twp., NJ. At the risk of sounding sexist the place is milf central. Never saw so many gorgeous 40 year old women in my life!


33 posted on 03/10/2018 7:21:21 AM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa
Never saw so many gorgeous 40 year old women in my life!

Sounds like a place I should avoid.My ticker just isn't strong enough to be exposed to gorgeous 40 year old women!

34 posted on 03/10/2018 7:24:56 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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To: Rebelbase

‘Driving Miss Daisy to the sto’.’


35 posted on 03/10/2018 7:26:01 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Gay State Conservative

LOL! Yeah but it’d be a heck of a way to go!


36 posted on 03/10/2018 7:29:23 AM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Rebelbase
Hmmm... I wonder if I can use this as an excuse to ask my wife to do the grocery shopping.

"Honey, the ladies are eyeing me like I am fresh meat in the meat section."

37 posted on 03/10/2018 7:40:51 AM PST by Moorings
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To: jmacusa
I think it was WC Fields who once said “I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42”.
38 posted on 03/10/2018 7:41:39 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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To: Rebelbase

“The Social Safeway,” NYT 1981:
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/08/garden/power-in-the-aisles-of-a-capital-market.html


39 posted on 03/10/2018 7:42:55 AM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: PrincessB

Interesting. I’d think laws vary from
state to state on consumption, etc.


40 posted on 03/10/2018 7:51:39 AM PST by deport
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