Forsyth MO. - On a promised to
be hot July day in 2018, I wandered into a local grocery store known
as Country Mart and as I stepped into the Produce Department, a line
from Stephan King's book. 'Dark House' came to mind. It concerned
the term 'slippage'; 'It’s a feeling of a kind of inevitable,
sometimes hard to detect degradation into darkness. Everything is in
a state of entropy. So, you’re either working to improve or letting
things degrade and break up.' Half empty bins, containing limp
produce greeted my eye in a department that heretofore had always
been a shining example of veggies done right! I was going to purchase
some Romaine, but after looking at the ragged offerings, I passed.
As I quickly exited the area, the
damage had been done and now my mind was queued in to spot other
areas and shelves with products that had gaps in between one item and
the next. An image that was not at all like the one pictured above... Like I
said, slippage was apparent most everywhere on this date and in this store....Update: The very next day, the Produce area looked a lot better (see picture at right)! Just perhaps, I did show up on an off sort of day.... I was also informed that the long term employee, Randy, who did such an outstanding job maintaining that area had moved on...
