"Ed Pawlowski" wrote:
>"Damn DisAbel" wrote:
>>
>> Don't make me laugh, Dave. We are talking about a supermarket checkout
>> line. The last thing that stores want is people sitting down. My
>> father is 93 and has two artificial knees. He needs to sit down and
>> rest his legs. The only place I remember in a store where you can sit
>> is in the shoe sales. There is very seldom any other place. My local
>> store used to have a hard bench in the very front of the store, for
>> people who were waiting for a ride (taxi or someone they had called).
>> It was the noisiest and least discrete area of the store.

Dad should have been seated in one of the electrified riding shopping
carts that are right at the entrance of every stupidmarket.

I've never seen a shoe store inside a stupidmarket, but hey, could be.
And why does someone need private and discrete just to take a load off
their legs... you want private/discrete go to Motel 6, Pops would
probably enjoy Magic Fingers.

>Many of our supermarkets now have a place to sit. A bench up front, but
>also an eating area with a few tables and chairs. Problem is, it is usually
>up front so you may have to walk all the way across the store to get to it,
>then back to resume shopping.

Yes, most every store does have seating and in several areas but
nowadays *every* large store also has electric riding shopping
carts... it's the law... I'm not sure to what size store it applies
but I've never been to a stupidmarket without... malls have plenty of
seating inside and outside stores in beautiful garden surroundings,
and malls also provide plenty of electrified riding carts, will also
provide wheelchairs and infant strollers... and plenty of big box
stores sell furniture too and don't mind folks trying it out (that's
why it's displayed - duh). Even the tiny stupidmarket in my 2 x
nothing burg has a grouping of wooden park benches just outside their
entrance and and again just inside their entrance... and there is
almost always a display of patio furniture somewhere inside where
folks can sit and chat. Oh, there is also a saving bank branch
inside, there is seating there too, a few arm chairs and two nice soft
sofas, and not 20 paces from the check outs.

For many years now I can't remember shopping where there wasn't
seating conveniently available... even gas station convenience stores
provide seating, inside and outside... how can someone not find
seating in the land of fast food.