3: Clean Up On Aisle 4!

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

How did the clerks in a modest grocery store change the world as we know it?

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0:00.0	This is the way I heard it.
0:07.7	September 16th started off like any other day for the employees at Randall's grocery
0:12.9	store.
0:13.9	They arrived at 5 a.m. and began prepping the produce and wiping down the cash registers.
0:19.2	The smell of baked goods filled the aisles as the employees began the endless process
0:24.4	of stocking and rotating thousands of products on hundreds of shelves.
0:29.4	It was really just an average day and an average grocery store until it wasn't.
0:35.4	The boss showed up, anxious and frazzled.
0:38.4	Apparently some big wig was in town visiting the nearby space center and they had just received
0:43.8	word he was about to drop by the grocery store for an unscheduled tour.
0:48.2	Who could it be?
0:49.6	Some muckety muck from the home office?
0:51.5	A shareholder.
0:52.8	Maybe Mr. Randall himself coming by for a surprise inspection.
0:58.4	The boss, barked orders to make sure the place was tip-top and the employees took things
1:03.4	up a notch.
1:04.6	A few hours later the store was sparkling and the mystery guest arrived.
1:10.3	Whoever he was, he didn't work for Randalls.
1:14.2	Looking outside through the glass the employees could see that this was clearly a very powerful,
1:20.6	very important man.
1:22.2	He had an entourage with security and the media followed close behind.
1:26.5	He was smiling for the cameras, confidence and sure.
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