Never go to a store opening especially if it opens on a weekend. Bad bad move.
That's what Dave and I did yesterday. They opened a Trader Joe's here, well not here here, but in West Des Moines and being that we became fans of the store when we were in Indy on business, we were looking forward to the one opening here. It actually opened on Friday but being that we had to go there, to West Des Moines on Saturday anyway, we decided to check it out. Bad decision.
We didn't have a problem finding a parking space, which was kind of surprising, but once we got in the store, there was hardly any breathing room, let alone walking room. Talk about feeling like a sardine in a can. There were people everywhere. And you know how people always tend to stop in the middle of the aisle at grocery stores, yes, even I have been guilty of it, people were doing it in every aisle. Since people were coming the other way in the same aisle, it was very hard to get around the person doing so. When the line was moving, I felt like I was in a very slow moving assembly line. I felt really bad for the employees too, the stuff was selling faster than they could restock the shelves.
The next time we go, it'll be after the newness of the store being here all dies down. Then we'll be able to really enjoy it. We learned our lesson, that's for sure. Hopefully we've learned it for good.
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