Do you ever look to see what others are buying?

Some of us shop at Costco and others shop at Sams Club, whichever is your preference, it can be really hard not to walk out the door without spending hundreds of dollars and a chunk of junk food in hand.

As we stood in line to pay for our crop of food for the week, a male and female were putting all of their items onto the conveyor belt and as they were lifting their boxes of processed foods we noticed how winded they became.

Both of them were creeping up to 300 lbs at least and then we looked down into their cart to see what they were buying.  You can't buy anything in small quantities at this store and this may have been the only workout they were going to get.  Here is a run down of what they had; hot dogs, bratwurst, macaroni and cheese, potato chips in single serving bags, and then even more big bags of potato chips.  It was amazing the amount of food in their cart.

We searched and couldn't see any fresh vegetables and no fruit in sight.  They had butter and cheese and then I saw him unearth this giant box of corn dogs and put it on the conveyor belt.  After they paid for their groceries, they looked at each other and walked over to the hot dog stand.

I then looked down in my cart to see agave, syrup, organic eggs, organic green chili 505, minced garlic, veggies, fruits, organic milk and oatmeal.  We still spent a good amount of money, but nothing compared to what they spent on their convenience foods.  Somewhere in that cart was a box of skinny cow ice cream too.  We have been very careful about reading the ingredients on what we are buying and while it does take a little longer, it's very eye opening to see what is really in those prepackaged foods and more surprising what is in foods that say organic or natural on them.  We are watching the sodium content of everything and even I have found it to be hard to eat foods with little to no sodium and you would think immediately that since it says its organic and natural it should be good to eat.

As we paid for our food there was a woman in a wheel chair grocery basket waiting for her turn.  An employee asks her if she needs help out to her car and she told him yes.  He asked her why she was in the wheelchair.  I was taken aback, because I thought that was kind of rude thing to ask a person.  I couldn't believe her answer her though, she said I just don't want to walk around the store.  Nothing was wrong with her to prompt her to use the wheelchair cart except laziness.  I wonder if she parked in the handicap space also.

Here is a little exercise for you this weekend.  When you go to the store, take a look at the items in the carts and then take a look at the people.  Do they match up?