Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
3 Dec 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
a lot of space to fill, even with mountains of conventional product This mindset is a problem in itself, yet it’s also beginning to have a snowball effect. Once the complainers realize that this is a trending, acceptable go-to, they will als...
2 Dec 2023 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The deepest recesses of a huge store: possibly a better place to hide than one’s office Failing the price audit up in Lorena, though, now this is Edgar’s responsibility. However, even in this instance, he feels the bosses’ thinking on this i...
1 Dec 2023 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
organically merchandised grocery section The end of January finds Edgar back at his actual desk — or for that matter, anywhere else but Lorena — for the first time in a couple weeks. It’s a surreal landscape, made even more so in confronting...
30 Nov 2023 15 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
a different kind of stagecoach holdup For some reason you simply cannot disabuse most upper managers of the notion that they know your job’s finer points better than you do, despite their having never done it before. This even with the obvio...
29 Nov 2023 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
organically arranged produce department Fortunately, there’s a buffer period of about a day before people truly begin freaking out about the pricing oddities. Edgar’s mostly able to get through the opening shift before that timed explosive d...
28 Nov 2023 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
one hot potato display The upper managerial mindset is truly a wondrous phenomenon to behold. More than anything else it’s a mass hysteria that has swept through the business world, another instance where everyone has gotten so wrapped up in...
27 Nov 2023 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Front end at a Stable 2 Table From Wholesome Shopper Market The ride home takes just under an hour, the first half of which is a state route bearing due south. One that passes through no towns, during this stretch, yet features isolated litt...
26 Nov 2023 25 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Just the expected candy display, at the front of a “natural” foods store. The big news as they arrive in Lorena on Tuesday comes from Universal Foods, as they announce that whatever it is RU Data’s attempting to do on the “EDI” ordering fron...
25 Nov 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
An Arcadia storefront in its former and future state At Todd’s insistence, Monday will mark the day of Edgar and Ken’s big road trip odyssey. Well, in fact, Todd did not specify a day, only that he wanted Edgar to pick one, for taking this f...
24 Nov 2023 17 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey
Deli area as a “metaphorical” crime scene: cross this line at your own peril The question is, though, which scenario is better? This is the thought occupying his mind as he drives to Lorena on Saturday morning. That Todd would latch onto a n...
