This is what happens when you go grocery shopping hungry, and feeling a little down, so you might as well treat yourself. $192.00. Holy Cow.It was, however, a very positive experience. Thursday night is the night of the big San Luis Obispo farmers market, so Trader Joe's was practically empty. I will always do my grocery shopping on Thursday nights from now on. The Thursday Farmers is really just a big street party featuring restaurant sponsored food booths, bands, bounce houses, street vendors, and arts and crafts galore, with only the occasional produce stand. This is why I go to the less popular market on Saturday which focus's less on showy-ness and more on the produce.
Upon leaving Trader Joe's today I was thinking about their reusable grocery bags. The lady next to me in the check out line was offering why she forgot her reusable bags. "I feel like I should tell you why I don't have my bags with me today." The checker-man replied, "I'd rather you didn't. Everybody who comes in tells me why they forgot their bags." Why is it that we feel guilty when we forget our reusable bags when we shop at Trader Joe's but it doesn't even dawn on me to take them with me to Vons or the dollar store. Is the eco-culture so localized to farmers markets and alternative grocery stores that we code switch when we shop there? What needs to change to make it an actual practice rather than something we do for an anonymous grocery checker?
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so i've been doing research on moral emotions and their role in motivating altruistic actions....there was a study that found that today's society is considerably high in civil action, but only in visible actions...like how we dress, what our clothes say, what cars we drive, and even charitable acts that could be done in secret are advertised on our websites...while "invisible" acts like voting are at all time lows. our narcissism seems to be our motivation huh?
run a lit search on d. batson if you're nerdy like me. good stuff. :)
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