This is sickening. Summed up pretty well how I feel in this quote:
“You have to wonder: What’s the intention here? And if it’s just to sell more, that seems like questionable ethics."
It troubles me that daily lives have become so blasé that it takes drinking while shopping to makes the functions of daily life tolerable. Like...grow up?
Mikki Kendall says she absolutely hates grocery shopping. But sipping wine while she fills her cart...makes it tolerable. “Having a drink while you shop is the adult version eating samples at the grocery store,” the 43-year-old writer said. “You are walking around, enjoying something yummy.”
I find this very concerning, a good article but...as is probably obvious I am very critical of Big Alcohol, how they have their hooks in people and have socialized people to think constantly self-medicating with a drug is a-OK at 11am. So my recommendation comes with a grain of salt (but no lime, no tequila) haha.
Omg I had the exact opposite reaction to this! The whole time I was just thinking: "Fuck yeah, this is fantastic!" Some of the quotes seemed like they were straight out of The Onion:
Once, after a few glasses of sauvignon blanc, she picked up a crown roast of lamb that ended up in the freezer for six months.
I get how this can seem like some Romanesque post-scarcity consumerist debauchery but I'm all for it. I used to own a laundromat and we'd let the customers drink while they were hanging out doing their wash. In fact most of the time we'd be drinking as well.
I certainly don't think self-medicating at 11am is OK, but binge drinking is also a huge problem and from what I've read seems to be a uniquely American one. I feel like there might actually be some benefit to normalizing casual, moderate drinking (and fixing our ridiculous drinking age).
Love how our worldview shapes a totaaalllly different response haha. I'm definitely becoming stodgy about drinking in my older years, but totally ok with it. Down to agree to disagree on this one lol.
This is sickening. Summed up pretty well how I feel in this quote:
It troubles me that daily lives have become so blasé that it takes drinking while shopping to makes the functions of daily life tolerable. Like...grow up?
I find this very concerning, a good article but...as is probably obvious I am very critical of Big Alcohol, how they have their hooks in people and have socialized people to think constantly self-medicating with a drug is a-OK at 11am. So my recommendation comes with a grain of salt (but no lime, no tequila) haha.
Omg I had the exact opposite reaction to this! The whole time I was just thinking: "Fuck yeah, this is fantastic!" Some of the quotes seemed like they were straight out of The Onion:
I get how this can seem like some Romanesque post-scarcity consumerist debauchery but I'm all for it. I used to own a laundromat and we'd let the customers drink while they were hanging out doing their wash. In fact most of the time we'd be drinking as well.
I certainly don't think self-medicating at 11am is OK, but binge drinking is also a huge problem and from what I've read seems to be a uniquely American one. I feel like there might actually be some benefit to normalizing casual, moderate drinking (and fixing our ridiculous drinking age).
Love how our worldview shapes a totaaalllly different response haha. I'm definitely becoming stodgy about drinking in my older years, but totally ok with it. Down to agree to disagree on this one lol.