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hate it. I hate it. All right. Hello and welcome back to way to another episode of the Chase Thomas

podcast from Stale, the A4 mentioned Chase Thomas County live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything

School, HQ. Joining me, the usual suspects here on a Tuesday night. We've got Landon Raby, co-host of more important issues. Landon, good evening, sir. How are you? Good, man. Good. A little hungry, but I'm good. I'm turning the page. I'm moving on. I'm more worried about what I'm getting to eat tonight. What is on mail in tonight uh i think some homemade chicken noodle

soup okay homemade chicken noodle soup i don't think i've ever had that i didn't know that was possible

yeah it's possible i don't know how to do well i'm not going to argue yeah yeah you got to know

how to mix a match yeah that's uh i i i don't trust myself enough to do homemade chicken noodle

soup i think that's i can probably do homemade tomato soup. That doesn't seem overly complicated, but I'll throw some, I gotta have some carbs. I'm throwing some chips and probably some stuff in there too. There you go. My carbs is going to be later night because I got the, I picked up the little Debbie Christmas tree. Uh, there you go. It's just an elite, an elite delicacy. You like Nutty Buddies? Those are good too. I got a little Debbie, let me throw you in our tree. Yeah. Christmas tree, nutty buddy. They have those. I didn't know that. I've never seen us. There you go. Yeah. Food City hasn't. I don't know about where else.

Oh, I go to Kroger, though.

I like Food City. Well, we got to fix that. Here's the problem of Food City. And look, could be a sponsor, not a sponsor right now. So I'm okay with saying this on this very program. The checkout counters are a disaster. I don't know who thought that we needed to reinvent like the which side you need to be on

to hand them your groceries

and... counters are a disaster i don't know who thought that we needed to reinvent like the which side

you need to be on to hand them your groceries and i it's a it's a weird interaction every time

because i don't know what to do there and then they're like oh just hand me your groceries and

we'll put it on the thing or i i never know what i'm doing in this oh Oh, I'm a fan. I'm a fan.

Ooh,

can't do it.

It wasn't broken. It was a classic. It's not broken. So let's not try and fix this. The system was good. It's worked for a long time. We didn't need to reinvent the wheel in terms of like how to how to do this. No. can't it it always gives me anxiety because I don't know how to approach it.

You have to get a buggy and you just roll it up there. But do you just, do you say anything or do you just push it? You push it to them. And you're just like, put it in there. Yeah. I guess this is a regional thing because I've been going to food cities my entire life because yeah in this general area. I've, I've, I've always thought that in Atlanta,

so I didn't grow up around him.

I think Aldi does that too. Who? Aldi. I never go to Aldi. I don't remember. Aldi's pretty cool. I don't go often. I, I'm, like, Kroger's my jam because it's dark. The employees don't want to be there. It's kind of dreary. And you just get in and get out. Like that's what I want out of a grocery store where if I turned you to ask you to find something, they, I want you to, I want it to feel like you're going to turn around and say to me, you have eyes. Look up. Like, go find it. Like, I want that kind of

customer service where they're like, man, I don't look, look, man, you got to figure it out on your own. Like, you're on your own, pal. Like, this is, it's the wild wild west in here. But Publix, well, lights are bright. They're very shiny. They're very happy to be there. I'm having to look over my shoulder like, are you fine everything okay?

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