Ah ..... Renovations

We are undergoing renovations at the store. We were bought out by a Quebec company called Metro three years ago. They have done some studies and asked employees (Not any that I know) what they think about names etc.

It has been decided that The Barn, Dominion, A & P, and Ultra Mart will be gone. We will all be 'Metro' which, I'm sorry, sounds like a subway. The only lucky one is Food Basics because they operate in a different category. (Although, lately some of their prices aren't so great.)

Anyway, the customers are getting a little panicky. We had to close the self serve salad bar for a while because there is work going on in that area. OMG!! What will they do without their salad stuff already being made?

Also, we are a little low on stock of some more obscure items and of course this is the week that all have come in looking for those things. Ah, well. Never fear. They can always ask or complain to the cashiers. After all: we know EVERYTHING.

We also are integrating our lottery and Western Union section with the first cash register so that there is not so much moving from one area to the other to serve customers. Not sure if there is an opportunity for a little extra knowledge there. Would be nice to be able to at least sell the lottery tickets. HHHHmmmmm

And last but not least, there is much speculation about the new uniforms. Rumours have them being neutral colours like orange (Yappy said that), or red and white or grey and there is talk of ties from clip-on to bow. All I can say is that if there is a tie involved I don't think I'll be working there for much longer. I would really miss the people and the job, but I DON"T do things around the neck. It has to be a humongous blizzard before I even put on a scarf!


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On the Yappy Front. She is gone. She quit over some silly thing that basically boils down to taking her ball and bat and going home. More later when it is safer.

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About the Olympics:

I was listening to a radio talk show last week about how the Canadian athletes have "let us down" with their "poor" showing.

Ex-freaking-cuse me?????? If I competed in something and came in 7th or 8th in THE WORLD I would be ecstatic. How great is that? I mean, sure, you don't get a medal but, WOW, to be THAT good. We need to support our athletes more and we definately need to be prouder of them than we are.

And watching Michael Phelps swim was a thing of beauty. I watched Mark Spitz back when he set his records and it was nice to see someone else do it. I really liked when Michael was receiving his 8th medal and it finally hit him what he had done. He was out of swim-race mode and able to be a young man overcome with the emotion of winning the OLYPMICS.

WOW