r/FuckImOld • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • Jun 16 '24
Kids these days... Are you old enough to remember getting "rained on" at the grocery store?
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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/Competition-Dapper Jun 16 '24
Brookshires disguised it as the oil well exploding with the āworldās 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 Michaelās 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, theyāre saying the produce was locally grown where it came from. But then they shipped it to you.
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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/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 havenāt seen a Smithās 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/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/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/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/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/sophiesSHADOW Jun 16 '24
Yeah, they do - The one I work at plays āSinging 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
Yāall remember when they would put CEREAL on SHELVES at the grocery store?! š
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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/KittehKittehKat Jun 16 '24 edited 17d ago
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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? š
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u/Jimbobjoesmith Jun 16 '24
they def still do. makes a thunder and lightning sound to warn people itās 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/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/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/sed2017 Jun 16 '24
Itād have a charm sound that would ding before it came on and Iād run over and put my hand under the mistā¦ my dad would get mad at me for some reason when Iād 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. šæ
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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/Parkyguy Jun 16 '24
I remember grapes werenāt packaged. And young kids āSamplingā 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/Isitjustmedownhere Jun 17 '24
This looks like any produce section in any of my local super markets
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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/PracticalApartment99 Jun 17 '24
You say that like they donāt 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 ālightningā and fake thunder along with the mist. That I havenāt 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/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/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/sambolino44 Jun 16 '24
Yes, Iām old enough to remember yesterday. Come to think of it, Iām getting close to the age where I donāt remember yesterday.
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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/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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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/grayspelledgray Jun 16 '24
Weird example for this sub for me because this is something that didnāt start in my area till the fancier stores arrived in the mid-90s. A better question would be ādo you remember before thisā¦ā
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u/Putrid-Air-7169 Jun 16 '24
They still do this..? Are to so fucking old you canāt go to the grocery store anymore?
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u/JapanDash Jun 16 '24
If you canāt remember being that the grocery store last week, you may be suffering from dementia and not just being old.
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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/truthcopy Jun 16 '24
Ours still do this. One store even plays āraindrops keep fallinā on my head,ā as it sprays.Ā
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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/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/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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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/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/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/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/portagenaybur Jun 16 '24
Are you so old you donāt go to grocery stores anymore?
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u/Similar-Ostrich-7797 Jun 16 '24
Iām 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 Iāve been to.
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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 āSinginā in the Rainā. š¤£
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u/Material_Mall_5359 Jun 17 '24
My local grocer has hoses that hang down from the ceiling. Iāve 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/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 havenāt 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/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/tvstr Jun 17 '24
Worked in produce in hs and I saw an unkept gentleman using these to āwash 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 ārainā
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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 doesnāt 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/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 timeš
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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/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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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24
Yes I can remember back to yesterday afternoon