Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 04, 2019

Sometimes when I go grocery shopping with Dad, he — on his iPhone — Face Times my stepmother to show something if that’s what something on the list looks like. The plugger in the panel must not know how to operate an iPhone.

After all these years of being married, aren’t you supposed to know what she wants and needs?

It’s better than getting home only to have to go out again.

It’s not only Pluggers. I’ve seen many ‘Pluggers to be’ in stores getting orders from their wives.

Just think how this was accomplished before cell phones.

Longest memory is a short pencil and a small notepad :-)

Cell phones have changed grocery shopping in more ways than just for this, a lot of special prices are tied in to phone apps now and some of the millennials shop like it’s some kind of game to be won

I run the dairy department for a grocery store, and half the people shopping are on their phones for one reason or another (and generally clueless to the world going on around them)

I do 90% of the shopping and if my wife wants something, she has to put on the list.

Plugger has a flip phone so he can’t even take a picture to send to her to be sure it is what she wants. Of course that also stops her from emailing him the list so he can still do the shopping.

We compose our list, I put it on my phone and I go from there. No need to bother her when I am at the store.

You can’t do this any more – they seem to change the packaging all the time just to confuse me. (except for Oreos …but then there are so many varieties of Oreos these days I can’t choose one)

my KeyRing app lets to put pictures on my shopping list

My Pop was sent by Mom to buy napkins. My immigrant Dad bought ‘sanitary napkins’, oh, and a can of figs. Never ever saw canned figs before or since. God bless him!