Hurricane? Flood? Zombie Attack?

I have never seen so many people in a supermarket as I saw in Market Basket this afternoon...at least not when there wasn't some national emergency announced on the local news. And I used to work in a supermarket (three different markets actually), when I was in high school...for a 4 year period of time...and once when there was a hurricane approaching (remember that Jim Jenkins when you wouldn't close the store and we all had to drive home during a deadly storm where my car was struck by a falling power line? But back to the real story).

Anyway. Apparently a rainy Sunday is the day to avoid shopping at Market Basket...everyone in the world was there and they were all in a hurry...and cranky. Whenever we go to this particular store, it's like roller derby with shopping carts. Everyone cuts you off, the isles are crowded, people zip past you and bump into you. And everyone blocks the isles going in the opposite direction when they stop to check out how cute Nathan is. I know every parent says that, but people keep stopping us in the market to tell us how handsome he is. So yeah, traffic jams all over the store and everybody shoving everybody else aside to get where they want to be. Sounds like good times, right?

So why go to Market Basket and battle this massive crowd when the other stores are empty? There's a reason the other stores are empty...Shaws and Stop & Shop have ridiculously higher prices. And to get any kind of discount at the expensive stores, you have to have a card. If you don't scan your card...you pay more...even though you're already paying more. So Market Basket is a huge moneysaver if you can get past the danger of the other customers. It's worth it for me...would it be worth it for you?