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Sometimes on a hot day for the short period the kid's napping I find myself at Home Depot searching for this or that tired from the work week under pressure as
by windows2020 5mo ago
Sometimes on a hot day for the short period the kid's napping I find myself at Home Depot searching for this or that tired from the work week under pressure as the clock ticks down having no idea what I'm doing and I make it to checkout tired no exhausted and I see the ice cold cooler the Coke its last moments before it's soaked with condensation open the door scan it rush to the car twist it open it screams wow sometimes there's nothing like an ice cold Coke.
- kelipso 5mo agoIndoctrination via decades of advertisements in clear demonstration. The imagery from this description are taken directly from coke advertisements. Either that or this is a parody.
- pessimizer 5mo agoOr, humor me, bubbly cold sugar water tastes good when you're hot and tired.
- mc32 5mo agoI suppose but fizzy drinks while not as popular today were yet pretty popular before the aftermath of WWII unleashed a vigorous advertising industry. Sure before then you had roadside painted signs (T bar style) but it’s not attributable to saturation.
- x-complexity 5mo ago> Indoctrination via decades of advertisements in clear demonstration. The imagery from this description are taken directly from coke advertisements. Either that or this is a parody. How can you be so sure you've broken free of the indoctrination, when what you have written is also the product of indoctrination? The only practical difference is the banner under which the indoctrination happened under.
- ethbr1 5mo agoThere's two takes on America. One: It's terrible that you're shopping at a big box hardware retailer instead of a local hardware store and drinking high fructose mass market soda. The other: Home Depot usually has what's needed, at a decent price, nearby. And Coke from the cooler next to the cash register is convenient, cold, and delicious. Neither of these are wrong, and they're both worth keeping simultaneously in mind: life should be both aspirational and satisfying.
- mc32 5mo agoThe French, I guess kinda the paragons of mom and pop (well along with Italy and Japan) still built out lots of carrefours where lots of people go shopping for stuff while still enjoying the corner pastry shop and non-chain coffee shop. As you say it’s not one or the other.
- com2kid 5mo agoJust went to my neighborhood HW store yesterday. They didn't have any of what I needed, so now I'll be going to Home Depot. I just wanted some landscaping rocks. I didn't think I was asking for much....
- bluedino 5mo agoHome Depot Coke. $3, and in a plastic bottle. The worst Coke. At least the grocery store sells cups at the register and there's delicious fountain Coke to be had on your way out the door.
- rogerrogerr 5mo agoWhat region are you in that grocery stores sell fountain drinks? Never seen this in the NW US.
- floxy 5mo agoWashington State has grocery stores that sell fountain drinks. Yoke's: https://shop.yokesfreshmarkets.com/store/yokes-fresh-market/products/18078614-large-fountain-soda-drink-each https://shop.yokesfreshmarkets.com/store/yokes-fresh-market/... ...also WinCo Foods. Or at least the closest one to me does, right next to the in-store pizza counter.
- sgerenser 5mo agoPublix in the southeast and Wegmans in the northeast both have fountain drinks.
- bluedino 5mo agoMidwest. Kroger, Meijer, plus Costco and Sam's Club.