When last we left Paul, he was discussing his flashmobbery with a cop outside the Mt. Auburn Street Star Market - said cop having been one of three alerted by Shaws that Paul and his nefarious flashmobbers were on the way. Paul gets home to discover 1,198 hits to his site from psn1a.shaws.com.
Say what you will about Star Market. At least they know what the Internets are for. Seems the Mt. Auburn Star was prepared for Paul and his TV-screen flashmobbers yesterday: Not only were three cops waiting for them, but the store made sure all the registers were manned to keep his band of merry pranksters from gumming up the works - because they'd heard all about it via a copy of the e-mail Paul'd sent out:
Paul's putting together a flash mob for a local Star/Shaws this Saturday at noon. Yes, of course he has a reason - to convince the chain to keep all those wonderful TVs that seem to go mostly unwatched:
I fear that if customers don't start paying attention to these screens, they'll take them out of the stores. I don't know about you, but I cannot bear to think about a world where you can't watch TV in the supermarket. ...
The mega-humongo-hyper-huge Star Market on Rte. 1 in Dedham has a freezer section that seems to stretch for about a mile. And a good thing that is, given that whoever designed it apparently had a warehouse full of exclamation points they had to do something with.
Sarah wonders when the Auburndale Star Market decided to hire crazy people, specifically, the bagger who starts yelling at her when she tries to use the self-checkout line:
... "Hey miss! are you trying to put me out of a job?"
"um, no", i said (not quite realizing the crazyness)
"yes you are. you want my job!" he said, narrowing his eyes, "you ALL of you want my job!" he motioned to them people using the scanners in front of mine ...
And then a co-worker joins in ...
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