It’s New Years Eve and I’m working. No wait, I’m closing from 4 PM to Midnight. Despite requesting the day off, my wish wasn’t granted because even with 10 years of service with the company I am still low the totem pole. The theme of the day is food stamps and alcohol. Many customers would buy cartfuls of groceries using food stamps and then use other forms of payment such as their credit card or cash to buy massive amounts of alcohol. Now how does that work? I was waiting for something exciting to happen but it never came. This New Year’s Eve was a dud, we did the countdown over the intercom in the store and with four people in the store, the result was very uneventful. Courtesy clerk Kyle threw some poppers, you know the ones you throw on the ground to make them ‘pop’ once midnight struck in the store and that was as loud as it got. I was baffled with why he did it in the store because he had to sweep the same mess he just made. New Years Eve at the grocery store was just another day, yay for 2010…
