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windows2020 an hour ago

Sometimes on a hot day for the short period the kid's napping I find myself at Home Depot searching for this or that tired from the work week under pressure as the clock ticks down having no idea what I'm doing and I make it to checkout tired no exhausted and I see the ice cold cooler the Coke its last moments before it's soaked with condensation open the door scan it rush to the car twist it open it screams wow sometimes there's nothing like an ice cold Coke.

ethbr1 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

There's two takes on America.

One: It's terrible that you're shopping at a big box hardware retailer instead of a local hardware store and drinking high fructose mass market soda.

The other: Home Depot usually has what's needed, at a decent price, nearby. And Coke from the cooler next to the cash register is convenient, cold, and delicious.

Neither of these are wrong, and they're both worth keeping simultaneously in mind: life should be both aspirational and satisfying.

mc32 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

The French, I guess kinda the paragons of mom and pop (well along with Italy and Japan) still built out lots of carrefours where lots of people go shopping for stuff while still enjoying the corner pastry shop and non-chain coffee shop.

As you say it’s not one or the other.

kelipso 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Indoctrination via decades of advertisements in clear demonstration. The imagery from this description are taken directly from coke advertisements. Either that or this is a parody.

mc32 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I suppose but fizzy drinks while not as popular today were yet pretty popular before the aftermath of WWII unleashed a vigorous advertising industry. Sure before then you had roadside painted signs (T bar style) but it’s not attributable to saturation.

pessimizer 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Or, humor me, bubbly cold sugar water tastes good when you're hot and tired.