Well, Now I’ve Seen Everything

“Oh no!! I am sorry to hear this”, was the reply I received yesterday to ratting out the unsanitary unsafe conditions at the craft store the day before. “The safety of our customers and staff is our number one priority. Please rest assured that your voice has been heard. I have directly addressed your concerns with the store leadership to ensure that they are aware of all the opportunities they may have to improve your experience going forward! Thank you for bringing this to our attention!”

I can’t believe the “store leadership” had to be told to sanitize the carts during a pandemic, as I’m sure “store leadership” must have observed how carts are cleaned for use between customers to avoid contamination in other shops/stores. I also can’t believe that, with all the long line of shoppers I’ve seen lined up to enter the craft store, these many months, that no one else brought up the issue.

Maybe they did ... in person and were ignored. It’s not so easy to ignore internet complaints that go beyond “store leadership”.

So that’s the end of that, but I’ll be sure to check on compliance next time I’m in that area ─ which won’t be for a while.

Under the category of  “now I’ve seen everything”, my friend the Archeologist commented yesterday on my facebook posting about Snoop Dogg’s wine ... “download the app so the label talks to you on your phone!”

What’s she talking about, a talking label? thought I, but okay, I’ll look into it.

Following her suggestion, I came away with just the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

So cool in fact that I went to the adult building next door and asked a friend of granddaughter’s, who works there, to record what was coming up on my phone so I could show you.

It’s augmented reality (AR). The phone scans the label and it comes alive ... talks to you.

The app indicates that every face on 19Crimes' bottles are real flesh and blood people. “Rebels and poets. And each was sentenced to punishment by transportation, banished to Australia for committing one of the 19Crimes. Download the experience to hear these historical convicts tell their incredible stories”.

Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m easily fascinated by such things but, next time I’m at Sprouts, I’ll have to check out the story behind two other faces I took photos of because they looked interesting and I'd wondered why they both looked so rough and what they'd done to earn a spot on the bottle.