The World Still Tick-Tocks While You TikTok, Part 3
I’m stocking the frozen food section when I notice a small group of tween girls setting up their phones on the floor and positioning themselves between the pizza rolls and the frozen waffles. One starts scrolling on her phone while the others practice a little routine.
Me: “Nuh uh. I’m shutting this down.”
Tween #1: “What? We’re just making a TikTok!”
Me: “This is a grocery store, not a dance studio. You can’t block the aisle, and filming in here isn’t allowed.”
They groan and roll their eyes.
Tween #2: “Ugh, you’re such a buzzkill!”
Tween #3: “Yeah, [Store] will never be relevant without people like us.”
Me: “Are you being serious? Did you just say ‘relevant’?!”
Tween #3: “…yeah.”
Me: “We sell groceries, sweetheart. We don’t need to be trending because the need to eat will always be trending, get that? Anyway, if being ‘relevant’ means having tweens come by the frozen section to do a synchronized dance, then we want to be irrelevant, thank you very much.”
They huff and start gathering their stuff. As they’re heading off, one turns back.
Tween #1: “I thought the customer was always right.”
Me: “Did you actually intend to buy anything? Because if not, you’re not customers, you’re just loiterers in leggings.”
Silence.
Me: “That’s what I thought…”
They left the store, probably to go and moan to their many followers about the mean old lady in the grocery store.
Related:
The World Still Tick-Tocks While You TikTok, Part 2
The World Still Tick-Tocks While You TikTok
