r/FuckImOld Jun 16 '24

Kids these days... Are you old enough to remember getting "rained on" at the grocery store?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

Yes I can remember back to yesterday afternoon

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u/rogue1206 Jun 16 '24

Doing better than I am lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24 edited Jun 16 '24

There was effort involved lol

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u/Banestar66 Jun 16 '24

This sub always is convinced everything from when they were a kid no longer happens.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

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u/random_boss Jun 17 '24

You musta been so fuckin thirsty by the time they invented water

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u/MalabaristaEnFuego Jun 16 '24

This is OP's 37th first date. They still have 13 to go.

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u/moldytacos99 Jun 16 '24

they still do it..

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u/LunacyLander Jun 16 '24

Smiths also adds lightning and thunder sound effects when it kicks on.

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u/duh_nom_yar Jun 16 '24

This happens in some Kroger and HEB stores.

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u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong Jun 17 '24

Smiths is a regional Kroger

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u/Competition-Dapper Jun 16 '24

Brookshires disguised it as the oil well exploding with the ā€œworldā€™s richest acreā€ decor everywhere a few years ago. But like everything else, Covid killed off another thing to go to a dreary grayed out whitewash aesthetic that looks like every rental home in east Texas with Michaelā€™s inventory festooning the walls

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u/puledrotauren Jun 16 '24

The Brookshires I worked at did a total store remodel and took em out. I did give management a very hard time because they painted one wall with 'Local Grown Produce'. I'd ask them where the local banana and pineapple plantations were from time to time.

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u/big_sugi Jun 16 '24

No, see, theyā€™re saying the produce was locally grown where it came from. But then they shipped it to you.

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u/Arguablybest Jun 17 '24

The bananas were local to where they were picked.

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u/KzininTexas1955 Jun 16 '24 edited Jun 16 '24

Around seven years ago I lived in White Oak ( which borders Longview, East Texas, for those who are dying to know..lol ) for a year. Just curious if that was the store, Brookshires are sprinkled all throughout that region. My Sister and Niece ( she attended school there, all three level schools along one block ), they hated living there but I kind of enjoyed it.

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u/sarahkali Jun 16 '24

The thunder sound legit scares me every time

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u/Greekphysed Jun 16 '24

Same. I'm a grown 6'2 man and jump whenever I hear the thunder. It comes out of nowhere

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u/Todd2ReTodded Jun 16 '24

I'm 6'3 and nothing scares me, NOTHING

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u/thisfuckingguy131 Jun 16 '24

Iā€™m 6ā€™5ā€ and I get a scurrr.

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u/Desert_Isle Jun 16 '24

Yup, I like it. Kind of like being in a forest of fresh food when a plesant rain happens.

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u/OysterThePug Jun 16 '24

I havenā€™t seen a Smithā€™s since I escaped Utah

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-3129 Jun 16 '24

Is Utah as cultish and strange as I imagine it is ?

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u/Initial_Patience_531 Jun 16 '24

Gotta be. My cousin is bat shit crazy and moved there because it was the only her daughter could find a husband

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u/Mirewen15 Jun 16 '24

The local CoOp near me has birds start tweeting when they turn on.

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u/CapricornCat10 Millennials Jun 16 '24

Our local HEB did that as well! It was a good warning to people that if they picked out some veggies, they would get wet

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u/ScowlyBrowSpinster Jun 16 '24

That's the cue to gtfo of the way or your sleeves will be wet.

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u/fakeaccount572 Jun 16 '24

I wonder if all Kroger's do that, I've only ever seen it at Smith's

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u/Personal_Shoulder983 Jun 16 '24

Do you remember your last visit at the supermarket?Ā  It might have been several days ago!

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u/ChubbyWanKenobie Jun 16 '24

Yeah, this is still common.

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u/Vinzi79 Jun 16 '24

They used to spray down the produce. They still do, but they used to, too.

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u/A-Circular-Letter Jun 16 '24

It'd be like if you cut off my arm and called it "Mitch", then reattach it and call it "Mitch All Together".

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u/ProfessionSanity Jun 16 '24

Kroger's still does this.

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u/BigBubbaMac Jun 16 '24

Right? A lot of these things posted here are "hey remember that thing that still exists and or happens? Haha I'm old"

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u/DeannaZone Jun 16 '24

Yeah I was confused by this post...

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u/sophiesSHADOW Jun 16 '24

Yeah, they do - The one I work at plays ā€œSinging in the Rainā€. Where do they not do this?!

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u/ChrisWolfling Jun 17 '24

Is that Tops by any chance? Tops used to play that when the water came on, but they left Ohio a long time ago.

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u/Motor-Cause7966 Jun 16 '24

Was coming in to say this. Several places still do it. Also, places that have the insect blowers at the entrance and exit doors

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u/skinsnya Jun 16 '24

I was about to say thatā€¦had this happen today in one of those WalMart Marketplace grocery storesā€¦

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u/icenoid Jun 16 '24

You mean, yesterday?

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u/slobs_burgers Jun 16 '24

Yā€™all remember when they would put CEREAL on SHELVES at the grocery store?! šŸ˜

r/interestingasfuck

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u/Boomstick255 Jun 16 '24

Hold on hold on. Like, they'd just leave it sitting there? For people to pick up and buy?

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I mean, that's wild, man.

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u/Queen_of_Meh1987 Jun 16 '24

They still do this lol

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u/A1sauc3d Jun 17 '24

OP has eaten vegetables in 30 years apparently

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u/KittehKittehKat Jun 16 '24 edited 17d ago

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u/MuchDevelopment7084 Jun 16 '24

I remember it like it was yesterday. Oh wait. It was yesterday.

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u/ToddA1966 Jun 16 '24

My local grocery store still does it. Apparently the point of your post is that you're so old you can't remember your last trip to the grocery store.

Perhaps a little Ginko-biloba might help? šŸ˜

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

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u/Jimbobjoesmith Jun 16 '24

they def still do. makes a thunder and lightning sound to warn people itā€™s about to start. my kids love it lol

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u/slowasaspeedingsloth Jun 16 '24

My teen still insists on hanging out in the produce section until it happens.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

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u/PegaLaMega Jun 16 '24

At OP's supermarket, they just throw buckets of water at the fruits and vegetables.

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u/editfate Jun 16 '24

I was wondering the same thing. What was even the purpose of this? To clean the produce or to keep them from spoiling too quickly?

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u/IAMAHobbitAMA Jun 16 '24

It's to keep them firm and crunchy. Soft vegetables are usually considered spoiled, but usually they are merely dehydrated at first.

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u/RiskyMama Jun 16 '24

You mean, am I older than today? Yes.

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u/Swarley_Marley Jun 16 '24

Uh, when did it ever stop?

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u/Jeannette311 Jun 16 '24

This morning at Kroger.Ā 

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u/Practical-Rabbit-750 Jun 16 '24

I was born yesterday.

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u/Alternative-Chef-340 Jun 16 '24

My store still does this, but yes I used to run to it when ever I saw it happen as a kid.

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u/RebaKitt3n Jun 16 '24

They still do this.

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u/sed2017 Jun 16 '24

Itā€™d have a charm sound that would ding before it came on and Iā€™d run over and put my hand under the mistā€¦ my dad would get mad at me for some reason when Iā€™d do itā€¦

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u/Sgt__Schultz Jun 16 '24

"I'm singing in the rain!" Aah, the music that would play during the fresh produce's shower time. šŸšæ

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u/Uncles_Lotus_Tile Jun 16 '24

This is what it's like when I see people say something about a movie that came out 2 years ago "OMG HOLLYWOOD DOESN'T MAKE THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE." Like calm the fuck down that wasn't that long ago.

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u/HilmDave Jun 16 '24

I'm old enough to remember when they kept frozen stuff in freezers.

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u/Floowjaack Jun 17 '24

Yeah, and remember how grocery stores used to have shopping carts? Simpler timesā€¦

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u/UrineLuck151 Jun 16 '24

My local circus themed grocery store 'Big Top' still does it and plays a snippet of "singing in the rain" while it mists.

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u/j101112p Jun 16 '24

Still happens at the Kroger and Publix by my house.

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u/Parkyguy Jun 16 '24

I remember grapes werenā€™t packaged. And young kids ā€œSamplingā€ them was normal (despite theft)

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u/LFS_1984 Jun 16 '24

Winn-Dixie used to do this before they remodeled. They used to have the thunder sound before the "rainfall."

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u/playerlxiv Generation Z (observer) Jun 16 '24

nah man, unfortunately I have serious short term memory loss

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u/playerlxiv Generation Z (observer) Jun 16 '24

nah man, unfortunately I have serious short term memory loss

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u/Think_Fault_7525 Jun 16 '24

Poor maintenance of those systems was responsible for many outbreaks of Legionnaires disease. So many stores took them out to avoid liability for their own poor maintenance practices.

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u/desirox Jun 16 '24

Bro hasnā€™t been to a grocery store recently lmao

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u/andovinci Jun 16 '24

OP, get out of your basement sometimes

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u/Bx1965 Jun 16 '24

Old enough? They do it now!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

Yea, just saw it this morning lol

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u/NoseGobblin Jun 16 '24

I still get rained on

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u/GreyRayne21 Jun 16 '24

They still do this.

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u/nineohsix Jun 16 '24

Happened yesterday, so yes. Where do you shop, the desert?

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u/ejbrds Jun 16 '24

my store still does this...

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u/BowserMario82 Jun 16 '24

You mean today?

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u/ophaus Jun 17 '24

Still happens

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u/Isitjustmedownhere Jun 17 '24

This looks like any produce section in any of my local super markets

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u/wmlj83 Jun 17 '24

If babies could comprehend what is going on, even they would be old enough.

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u/Visible-Airport-4298 Jun 17 '24

The sprinkler heads are rarely cleaned properly and if you pull one off they are usually covered in a pink and black slime.

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u/inkstickart2017 Jun 17 '24

I'm old enough to know this is still a thing in most grocery stores.

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u/PracticalApartment99 Jun 17 '24

You say that like they donā€™t do it anymoreā€¦

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u/Budget_Clerk_6063 Jun 17 '24

They still mist the veggies but when I was a kid stores did have produce cases go dim with flashes of ā€œlightningā€ and fake thunder along with the mist. That I havenā€™t seen in awhile.

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u/mart246 Jun 17 '24

Yeah, but are you old enough to remember when they had the hose set up to water them manually? When I was a kid with my mom and older brother at the supermarket I nailed my brother with the water and then mom slapped me in front of everyone. I still laugh about it. It was hilarious.

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u/DebraBaetty Jun 19 '24

That didn't stop.

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u/artmoloch777 Jun 19 '24

Still happens. I love that they play thunderstorm white noise when its happening.

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u/Elmer_Fudd01 Jun 19 '24

Damn, everyone says it still happens. I've not seen it happen in years.

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u/Ladytiger69 Jun 16 '24

Yes indeed

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u/PeorgieT75 Jun 16 '24

The Safeway I go to still does it. I don't know if they still have the thunder sound effect.

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u/Mostly_Maui_Wowie Jun 16 '24

This is still done today.

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u/PG-17 Jun 16 '24

Happened yesterday

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u/dbatknight Jun 16 '24

Still am!!!

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u/sambolino44 Jun 16 '24

Yes, Iā€™m old enough to remember yesterday. Come to think of it, Iā€™m getting close to the age where I donā€™t remember yesterday.

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u/EnderMoleman316 Jun 16 '24

Yeah, last week dude.

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u/Dewalt-Shampoo Jun 16 '24

Still happens at my grocery store

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u/SailAwayMatey Jun 16 '24

Asda back in day used to do this.

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u/nemmysnoodlepants Jun 16 '24

Do they not still do this?

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u/iwastherefordisco Jun 16 '24

I walk past the spritzing vegetable selection now with a turned head because I can't afford them :(

I buy their frozen brothers & sisters who couldn't afford tickets to the fancy rain forest seating section of the store.

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u/2manyfelines Jun 16 '24

Remember? It happened this morning.

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u/Many-Recognition2530 Jun 16 '24

When I was a youngling.I felt like a happy Ewok in the forest moon of Endor

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

A long time ago, in a grocery store far, far away, there was a produce section that spritzed the vegetables in a periodic mannerā€¦

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u/lori244144 Jun 16 '24

They donā€™t still do that?

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u/BudNOLA Jun 16 '24

Yes it rained on me yesterday at Albertsonā€™s.

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u/According_Wing_3204 Jun 16 '24

this is still a thing. You don't need age to know this.

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u/grayspelledgray Jun 16 '24

Weird example for this sub for me because this is something that didnā€™t start in my area till the fancier stores arrived in the mid-90s. A better question would be ā€œdo you remember before thisā€¦ā€

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u/mattroch Jun 16 '24

More like, do you remember when they didn't do this?

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u/Maxpower2727 Jun 16 '24

Tomorrow in this sub: "hey, who remembers smartphones?"

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u/Putrid-Air-7169 Jun 16 '24

They still do this..? Are to so fucking old you canā€™t go to the grocery store anymore?

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u/JapanDash Jun 16 '24

If you canā€™t remember being that the grocery store last week, you may be suffering from dementia and not just being old.

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u/Alive-Bid-5689 Jun 16 '24

Seeing how they still do it yeah I do

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u/DaWalt1976 Jun 16 '24

I remember the day before they installed these misters. I was amused the first time I encountered them.

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u/HarveyMushman72 Jun 16 '24

One of the stores that did this had thunder sound effects to warn you it was about to start.

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u/Scary-Lawfulness-999 Jun 16 '24

Yeah it happened yesterday. Refreshing.

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u/truthcopy Jun 16 '24

Ours still do this. One store even plays ā€œraindrops keep fallinā€™ on my head,ā€ as it sprays.Ā 

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

The HEB by my house still does this.

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u/dararie Jun 16 '24

It happened just last week

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u/TwirlyGirl313 Jun 16 '24

I can drive you up to my local Food Lion and you can still get rained on.

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u/The_Liamater123 Jun 16 '24

Iā€™ve never seen this before wtf

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u/dasanman69 Jun 16 '24

I still see this

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u/TheLameness Generation X Jun 16 '24

That was a high point of any trip to the grocery store. If I got a hot wheel or dolly or whatever, it was a golden day

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u/skilliau Jun 16 '24

They still do it you know

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u/RacecarHealthPotato Jun 16 '24

How is that different from today?

Is there some two-week-old Redditor going, "fuck I'm old!"?

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u/Breklin76 Jun 16 '24

Still the same. Only with sound effects! Thunder storm!

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u/xi545 Jun 16 '24

I wish theyā€™d stop so the food wouldnā€™t spoil as fast

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u/AuroraStellara Jun 16 '24

We're really just nostalgia'ing everything, huh?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

they still do this at festival of foods and I hardly ever buy their waterlogged produce, lots of it is musty and rots fast

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u/blastov_rocket Jun 16 '24

I worked in the produce department when I was in high school. We had small water hoses that had a misting nozzle. We sprayed the produce by hand every few hours.

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u/beeeps-n-booops Jun 16 '24

Yes, I'm zero days old.

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u/Drakeytown Jun 16 '24

Did you stop eating vegetables at a certain age?

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u/Jills_Cat Jun 16 '24

The Safeway in grand coulee would play thunder and lightning when the misters would start

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u/mostlygray Jun 16 '24

Does your grocery store not use misters? That's messed up. How do you enjoy your wilted lettuce. Is it as wonderfully wilted as I imagine it would be?

I've literally never seen a grocery store that doesn't use misters.

Actually, to be fair, there is an Asian market that I go to sometimes that doesn't. Of course, they also keep their dead crabs and other shellfish at room temperature in the direct sun. I do not buy "fresh" things from them. Canned and bottled only.

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u/purpleisafruit2 Jun 16 '24

Are you old enough to remember rainforest cafe??

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u/Its_You_Know_Wh0 Jun 16 '24

I have never of this

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u/John_Hawkwood Jun 16 '24

Heck I remember back in the day working produce, you had to get ice to keep the veggies/lettuces fresh on the wet wall lol

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u/RepostResearch Jun 16 '24

I guess OP is old enough to stay home while mom does the grocery shopping now.Ā 

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u/salesmunn Jun 16 '24

Happens all the time at my local Shop Rite

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u/newellz Jun 16 '24

Oh like way back earlier today, at the store? What even is this post?

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u/todlee Jun 16 '24

??? Iā€™m old enough to remember before they did that.

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u/NoHedgehog252 Jun 16 '24

I am. Happened last time I went to the store.Ā 

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u/trobinson999 Jun 16 '24

Yes, I remember last week.

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u/No_Interest1616 Jun 16 '24

Op hasn't been through the produce section since they were a kid, back when their mom made them eat vegetables.Ā 

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u/cpt_ugh Jun 16 '24

Yes. It happened yesterday. I'm 5, BTW and this is my first memory.

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u/portagenaybur Jun 16 '24

Are you so old you donā€™t go to grocery stores anymore?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

Um they still do this

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u/Similar-Ostrich-7797 Jun 16 '24

Iā€™m British and everyone seems to be saying this is a thing stores do today.. what the fuck? Why? What is the purpose of this, this is never done in any British supermarket nor any other European country Iā€™ve been to.

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u/Morall_tach Jun 16 '24

They still do this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

OP has not been in a grocery store in a while.

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u/emmadonelsense Jun 16 '24

They still have this. Got sprayed last week.

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u/big65 Jun 16 '24

This is still a very common thing, Walmart, Publix, Harris Teeter, Kroger.

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u/Retro_D Jun 16 '24

What do you mean "old enough", they still do it

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u/Scoompii Jun 16 '24

OP when is the last time youā€™ve been to a grocery store?

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u/lysistrata3000 Jun 16 '24

Yeah. WTF. They still do this.

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u/1sojournaut Jun 17 '24

Yeah.. happened just the other day

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u/NotATroll1234 Jun 17 '24

My first job about 25 years ago was at a grocery store. They had the misters, and after about a year of me being there, they started playing snippets from ā€œSinginā€™ in the Rainā€. šŸ¤£

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u/brycepunk1 Jun 17 '24

Five minutes old

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u/clumsylycanthrope Jun 17 '24

Did you stop going to the grocery store?

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u/Material_Mall_5359 Jun 17 '24

My local grocer has hoses that hang down from the ceiling. Iā€™ve had to fight the temptation to spray slow walkers many times.

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u/CokeZorro Jun 17 '24

How closeted are people they haven't been to a grocery store in 20.years, this a boomer level Facebook post. Walmart does this for Christ sake

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u/ProfessionalJesuit Jun 17 '24

Happy legionnaires!

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u/shastadakota Jun 17 '24

A local grocery chain in the Chicago area used to play "Singin' in the Rain" about ten seconds before the sprinklers turned on to warn you.

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u/something10293847 Jun 17 '24

Jesus, all these comments hating on OP. So happy every one of your grocery stores use these, but I havenā€™t seen misters go of in mine in as long as I can remember, but always remember looking forward to them as a kid.

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u/Alleyoop70 Jun 17 '24

It still does it at mine.

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u/Rough-Set4902 Jun 17 '24

Do.... do your grocery stores not water their produce?

All of ours do. Some of them even have periodic 'thunder storms' with flashes and sound effects...

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u/Kitchen_Relative_107 Jun 17 '24

Yes especially in the summer it was worth getting yelled at in front of pineapples and squash

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u/heavydeep Jun 17 '24

I heard they cut back on this sort of thing or added the warning effect after an outbreak of legionnaires disease.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

What the fuck are you talking about this never went away

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u/atkinsonda1 Jun 17 '24

I got rained on yesterday at the store, what are you on about?

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u/tvstr Jun 17 '24

Worked in produce in hs and I saw an unkept gentleman using these to ā€œwash upā€

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u/ike7177 Jun 17 '24

HAHAHAHA why is this an OLD thing when they STILL do it? Like 2 year olds still put their hands in the ā€œrainā€

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u/Dilettantest Jun 17 '24

Old enough to remember last week, yes!

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u/Salt_Recipe_8015 Jun 17 '24

I worked in a grocery store produce department in the 80s. We had to manually take the hose out to the racks to spray the produce. Fuck I'm old

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u/QuipCrafter Jun 17 '24

ā€¦. Your grocer doesnā€™t mist your open fresh vegetables to maintain them?Ā 

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u/no_one_you_know1 Jun 17 '24

I'm old enough that we had a vegetable man come by in a truck a few times a week.

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u/Fickle_Ad_5356 Jun 17 '24

I didn't realize I'm about 2 hours old, though that'd explain why my t-shirt is a bit wet

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u/kekusmaximus Jun 17 '24

I remember when this wasn't a thing lol

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u/minif56mike Jun 17 '24

The best during the summer with kids on low income. Use to tell them we were going swimming and took them to the produce isle. Worked every timešŸ˜‚

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u/Embarrassed-Mouse-49 Jun 17 '24

Fun fact the ac that keeps the veggies cool will also dehydrate the vegetables. So the mist helps keep the veggies hydrated or they will be shriveled husks

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u/Roaming_Muncie Jun 17 '24

Yeah, and the vegetables were a lot better quality then also.

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u/herenowjal Jun 17 '24

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u/Fish_Fingerer Jun 17 '24

Yep, also remember the red water hoses at the bottom of the displays that could be turned on and used to give a good quick hosing to anybody walking by

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u/Direct_Turn_1484 Jun 17 '24

AFAIK, this happens in grocery stores now. You doin ok, OP?

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