Diced tomatoes?
Sure, Aisle 6, three quarters of the way back, two shelves below the kidney beans.
They’re on sale this week.
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January 21, 2010...12:01 am
#586 That one old guy in the grocery store who knows exactly where everything is
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January 21, 2010 at 12:44 am
Yes, that guy is amazing. There’s always one. Better than those greeters who don’t know where anything is. =)
January 21, 2010 at 1:17 am
Oh man, I know someone EXACTLY like this at our local grocery store! He’s simply unbelievably, we need to step back and admire such dedicated employees!
January 21, 2010 at 1:31 am
You’re right
This is much better than the guy stocking shelves who you ask “where are the diced pineapples?” and he very assuringly replies “next aisle over” and you realize it’s in the aisle you were standing in when you asked….
January 21, 2010 at 2:10 am
Teehee, yes!! :D
January 21, 2010 at 5:32 am
I freaking love this guy!
January 21, 2010 at 6:39 am
I used to work with such a guy in a DIY store. Not just did he know where all of the several thousand products were but had a 6 digit product code memorised for every one of them!
What made it all the more impressive was that it was one of his two full-time jobs and he was usually drunk!
January 21, 2010 at 7:32 am
I’ve got an independent bookstore owner like that. I can go in and say “I want a book… it’s about the Civil War… and there’s a dog in it….” and he’ll disappear behind his stacks and come up with exactly what I’m looking for, probably priced below three bucks, and throw in his personal review for free. AWESOME!
January 21, 2010 at 7:52 am
This is even better when they’re able to help you after a recent rearrangement of the store.
January 21, 2010 at 8:37 am
Especially when you’re looking for something and u give the worst and most vague description ever and they know exactly what you’re talking about and where it is.
Love that!
January 21, 2010 at 10:14 am
Seems every store has someone like that.
August 30, 2010 at 6:44 am
Nup, unfortunately most of the shops i go to have bad service :/
January 21, 2010 at 10:35 am
One of my goals in life is to be this guy in my later years.
January 21, 2010 at 10:46 am
This is a good one! I used to work in a grocery store as a student, and the full-time old guys were awesome! (except for the pervy one in the meat department)
May 21, 2010 at 1:16 am
I don’t know what it is exactly, but every meat department seems to have that perv in it…
January 21, 2010 at 1:37 pm
He’s my hero!
January 21, 2010 at 4:52 pm
I was that guy at the old Target where I used to work, but I’m only in my twenties…
January 21, 2010 at 6:20 pm
People like this are simply too amazing for words.
January 21, 2010 at 11:06 pm
My wife works at a small town retail store (the only one in town), and even though she’s usually at the checkout, if any cust. asks for an item, she’ll reply with a straight face; “It’s a small store….ya can’t miss it.” Nobody has complained in 5 years, everybody finds what they need, and most of the people know where everything is anyway.
January 22, 2010 at 1:48 am
normalguy, I am that old lady at our local Target.
January 23, 2010 at 2:14 pm
i love them. i hate when walmart takes out those stores in local towns! :/ support local!! <3 <3
January 25, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I’m that “old guy”…or was. Now it seems the stores move things overnight almost everynight….hoping the buyer will buy 14 other items while looking for the only item not yet in his cart.
February 1, 2010 at 8:38 am
Lol fun
February 10, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I stumped that guy one day. My wife had asked me to pick up some mint garlic. I looked and looked and could not find it, so I broke down and asked for help. The guy I asked had no idea, so he got on the phone. “uh uh. Yes, that would make sense. Hold on.” He looks at me – “is it possible that she asked for minced garlic?” I said yes, that would make sense. “Aisle 14, bottom right”. I slouched away embarrassed, but it does make a good story.
April 16, 2010 at 11:29 pm
I am that young girl…ask me where any office supply in Staples is and I’ll tell you what aisle, whether it’s on the left or right side, how far down the aisle, what it’s next to, and whether its high, mid or low on the shelf. Sometimes I’ll be able to tell you what color packaging it’s in.
We can do this because we’ve had to put the product on the shelf a million times….
April 21, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I work at a Home Hardware, and almost everyone who works there is this old guy.
I love it.
May 10, 2010 at 7:14 pm
These make my day :)
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