KOMMONSENTSJANE – ATLANTIC WRITER COMPLAINS ABOUT TOO MANY CHOICES AT THE GROCERY STORE

That is the way it is with libs – when you don’t have enough upstairs in the noodle to process big decisions – they become confused and agitated.

He does have a choice – stop at the local MINI-MART – that would be much easier.

Yes, to a liberal – a round hole is always square.

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American Thinker

June 27, 2023


Atlantic writer complains about too many choices at the grocery store
By Monica Showalter


Leave it up to The Atlantic to tell us we’ve got too many food choices in a grocery store, and for our own good, we ought to have less.

That’s pretty much what writer Adam Fleming wrote in his plaintive cry against too much choice at the grocery store.

On a recent afternoon, while running errands before I had to pick up my kids from school, I froze in the orange-juice aisle of a big-box store. So many different brands lay before me: Minute Maid, Simply, Tropicana, Dole, Florida’s Natural, Sunny D — not to mention the niche organic labels. And each brand offered juices with various configurations of pulp, vitamins, and concentrate. The sheer plenitude induced a kind of paralysis: Overwhelmed by the choices on offer, I simply could not make one. I left the store without any orange juice.

According to the American Time Use Survey, an average grocery trip takes more than 40 minutes. That may not sound like much, but the task can feel overwhelming and time-consuming in the midst of a busy day, especially because every trip consists of a plethora of decisions. Through this lens, what seems like a modern benefit — 100 different kinds of ice cream! Every imaginable chip flavor! Hot-dog buns sliced on the side or on the top! — can become a bit of a burden.

Cripes, of all the things to complain about.

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