Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

When I’m surfing around the other Photo Hunters’ blogs, I like to look at the rest of the blog too (not just that entry) and see what else they’re chattering about. Today I found a neat story on Hootin’ Annie’s blog about a grocery store chain that is building stores that cater to the elderly. Supposedly this chain is global, which makes me wonder why we don’t see their stores (and the neat advances in shopping that they bring) here. I’d gladly shop at this store if I could; the changes they’ve made are great for seniors but they’d be extremely useful for weary moms of young boys, too! I know that my parents would also like shopping here; my mom is 5′1″ and could really use those diamond-plated steps, and my Dad would like that seat in the cart to help him rest now and then when his back is aching. They could even make the seat do double-duty and include a safety release that you can hit so you can put kids in the seat and still push it at the same time.

Check out the video on the left sidebar in this ABC news story and see what I mean. And then ask yourself - when are grocery stores here going to get with it and bring these advancements in? We’ve got carts with baby seats, carts with toddler seats, heck at Farm Fresh here we’ve even got teeny little carts FOR the toddlers to push around… but the only thing we’ve got for seniors, disabled, or even folks who happen to be in pain at the moment (like my Dad with his back pain) is motorized carts.

(I’m including the link to Farm Fresh because they have an online shopping area, and all of my international friends like to go in there and compare products and prices to what is in their own country. It’s a neat thing to do!)

What do you think? I wanna know! Please leave a comment :)
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