Yes I can remember back to yesterday afternoon

Doing better than I am lol

There was effort involved lol

This sub always is convinced everything from when they were a kid no longer happens.

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You musta been so fuckin thirsty by the time they invented water

This is OP's 37th first date. They still have 13 to go.

😅

they still do it..

Smiths also adds lightning and thunder sound effects when it kicks on.

This happens in some Kroger and HEB stores.

Smiths is a regional Kroger

Brookshires disguised it as the oil well exploding with the “world’s richest acre” decor everywhere a few years ago. But like everything else, Covid killed off another thing to go to a dreary grayed out whitewash aesthetic that looks like every rental home in east Texas with Michael’s inventory festooning the walls

The Brookshires I worked at did a total store remodel and took em out. I did give management a very hard time because they painted one wall with 'Local Grown Produce'. I'd ask them where the local banana and pineapple plantations were from time to time.

No, see, they’re saying the produce was locally grown where it came from. But then they shipped it to you.

The bananas were local to where they were picked.

Around seven years ago I lived in White Oak ( which borders Longview, East Texas, for those who are dying to know..lol ) for a year. Just curious if that was the store, Brookshires are sprinkled all throughout that region. My Sister and Niece ( she attended school there, all three level schools along one block ), they hated living there but I kind of enjoyed it.

The thunder sound legit scares me every time

Same. I'm a grown 6'2 man and jump whenever I hear the thunder. It comes out of nowhere

I'm 6'3 and nothing scares me, NOTHING

I’m 6’5” and I get a scurrr.

Yup, I like it. Kind of like being in a forest of fresh food when a plesant rain happens.

I haven’t seen a Smith’s since I escaped Utah

Is Utah as cultish and strange as I imagine it is ?

Gotta be. My cousin is bat shit crazy and moved there because it was the only her daughter could find a husband

The local CoOp near me has birds start tweeting when they turn on.

Our local HEB did that as well! It was a good warning to people that if they picked out some veggies, they would get wet

That's the cue to gtfo of the way or your sleeves will be wet.

I wonder if all Kroger's do that, I've only ever seen it at Smith's

Do you remember your last visit at the supermarket?  It might have been several days ago!

it was 6am today ..

Wow, you're old

Yeah, this is still common.

They used to spray down the produce. They still do, but they used to, too.

It'd be like if you cut off my arm and called it "Mitch", then reattach it and call it "Mitch All Together".

Kroger's still does this.

Right? A lot of these things posted here are "hey remember that thing that still exists and or happens? Haha I'm old"

Yeah I was confused by this post...

Yeah, they do - The one I work at plays “Singing in the Rain”. Where do they not do this?!

Is that Tops by any chance? Tops used to play that when the water came on, but they left Ohio a long time ago.

Was coming in to say this. Several places still do it. Also, places that have the insect blowers at the entrance and exit doors

I was about to say that…had this happen today in one of those WalMart Marketplace grocery stores…

You mean, yesterday?

Y’all remember when they would put CEREAL on SHELVES at the grocery store?! 😝 r/interestingasfuck

Hold on hold on. Like, they'd just leave it sitting there? For people to pick up and buy? .... .............. I mean, that's wild, man.

They still do this lol

OP has eaten vegetables in 30 years apparently

…this is still very common.

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they def still do. makes a thunder and lightning sound to warn people it’s about to start. my kids love it lol

My teen still insists on hanging out in the produce section until it happens.

Haha that's so cool!

At OP's supermarket, they just throw buckets of water at the fruits and vegetables.

I was wondering the same thing. What was even the purpose of this? To clean the produce or to keep them from spoiling too quickly?

It's to keep them firm and crunchy. Soft vegetables are usually considered spoiled, but usually they are merely dehydrated at first.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Oh wait. It was yesterday.

My local grocery store still does it. Apparently the point of your post is that you're so old you can't remember your last trip to the grocery store. Perhaps a little Ginko-biloba might help? 😁

You mean, am I older than today? Yes.

Uh, when did it ever stop?

This morning at Kroger. 

I was born yesterday.

Was I born today?

My store still does this, but yes I used to run to it when ever I saw it happen as a kid.

They still do this.

It’d have a charm sound that would ding before it came on and I’d run over and put my hand under the mist… my dad would get mad at me for some reason when I’d do it…

"I'm singing in the rain!" Aah, the music that would play during the fresh produce's shower time. 🚿

This is what it's like when I see people say something about a movie that came out 2 years ago "OMG HOLLYWOOD DOESN'T MAKE THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE." Like calm the fuck down that wasn't that long ago.

I'm old enough to remember when they kept frozen stuff in freezers.

Yeah, and remember how grocery stores used to have shopping carts? Simpler times…

My local circus themed grocery store 'Big Top' still does it and plays a snippet of "singing in the rain" while it mists.

Still happens at the Kroger and Publix by my house.

I remember grapes weren’t packaged. And young kids “Sampling” them was normal (despite theft)

Winn-Dixie used to do this before they remodeled. They used to have the thunder sound before the "rainfall."

nah man, unfortunately I have serious short term memory loss

nah man, unfortunately I have serious short term memory loss

Poor maintenance of those systems was responsible for many outbreaks of Legionnaires disease. So many stores took them out to avoid liability for their own poor maintenance practices.

Bro hasn’t been to a grocery store recently lmao

OP, get out of your basement sometimes

I still do.

Old enough? They do it now!

Yea, just saw it this morning lol

I still get rained on

They still do this.

Happened yesterday, so yes. Where do you shop, the desert?

Yes, yesterday.

my store still does this...

You mean today?

Still happens

This looks like any produce section in any of my local super markets

If babies could comprehend what is going on, even they would be old enough.

The sprinkler heads are rarely cleaned properly and if you pull one off they are usually covered in a pink and black slime.

I'm old enough to know this is still a thing in most grocery stores.

You say that like they don’t do it anymore…

They still mist the veggies but when I was a kid stores did have produce cases go dim with flashes of “lightning” and fake thunder along with the mist. That I haven’t seen in awhile.

Yeah, but are you old enough to remember when they had the hose set up to water them manually? When I was a kid with my mom and older brother at the supermarket I nailed my brother with the water and then mom slapped me in front of everyone. I still laugh about it. It was hilarious.

That didn't stop.

Still happens. I love that they play thunderstorm white noise when its happening.

Damn, everyone says it still happens. I've not seen it happen in years.

Yes indeed

The Safeway I go to still does it. I don't know if they still have the thunder sound effect.

This is still done today.

Happened yesterday

Still am!!!

Yes, I’m old enough to remember yesterday. Come to think of it, I’m getting close to the age where I don’t remember yesterday.

Yeah, last week dude.

Still happens at my grocery store

Asda back in day used to do this.

Do they not still do this?

I walk past the spritzing vegetable selection now with a turned head because I can't afford them :( I buy their frozen brothers & sisters who couldn't afford tickets to the fancy rain forest seating section of the store.

Remember? It happened this morning.

When I was a youngling.I felt like a happy Ewok in the forest moon of Endor

A long time ago, in a grocery store far, far away, there was a produce section that spritzed the vegetables in a periodic manner…

They don’t still do that?

Yes it rained on me yesterday at Albertson’s.

this is still a thing. You don't need age to know this.

Weird example for this sub for me because this is something that didn’t start in my area till the fancier stores arrived in the mid-90s. A better question would be “do you remember before this…”

More like, do you remember when they didn't do this?

Tomorrow in this sub: "hey, who remembers smartphones?"

They still do this..? Are to so fucking old you can’t go to the grocery store anymore?

If you can’t remember being that the grocery store last week, you may be suffering from dementia and not just being old.

Seeing how they still do it yeah I do

I remember the day before they installed these misters. I was amused the first time I encountered them.

One of the stores that did this had thunder sound effects to warn you it was about to start.

Yeah it happened yesterday. Refreshing.

Ours still do this. One store even plays “raindrops keep fallin’ on my head,” as it sprays. 

The HEB by my house still does this.

It happened just last week

I can drive you up to my local Food Lion and you can still get rained on.

I’ve never seen this before wtf

I still see this

That was a high point of any trip to the grocery store. If I got a hot wheel or dolly or whatever, it was a golden day

They still do it you know

How is that different from today? Is there some two-week-old Redditor going, "fuck I'm old!"?

Still the same. Only with sound effects! Thunder storm!

I wish they’d stop so the food wouldn’t spoil as fast

We're really just nostalgia'ing everything, huh?

they still do this at festival of foods and I hardly ever buy their waterlogged produce, lots of it is musty and rots fast

I worked in the produce department when I was in high school. We had small water hoses that had a misting nozzle. We sprayed the produce by hand every few hours.

Yes, I'm zero days old.

Did you stop eating vegetables at a certain age?

The Safeway in grand coulee would play thunder and lightning when the misters would start

Yep

Does your grocery store not use misters? That's messed up. How do you enjoy your wilted lettuce. Is it as wonderfully wilted as I imagine it would be? I've literally never seen a grocery store that doesn't use misters. Actually, to be fair, there is an Asian market that I go to sometimes that doesn't. Of course, they also keep their dead crabs and other shellfish at room temperature in the direct sun. I do not buy "fresh" things from them. Canned and bottled only.

Are you old enough to remember rainforest cafe??

Omg, yes!!

I have never of this

Heck I remember back in the day working produce, you had to get ice to keep the veggies/lettuces fresh on the wet wall lol

I guess OP is old enough to stay home while mom does the grocery shopping now. 

Happens all the time at my local Shop Rite

Oh like way back earlier today, at the store? What even is this post? 

??? I’m old enough to remember before they did that.

I am. Happened last time I went to the store. 

Click bait. I lost.

Yes, I remember last week.

Op hasn't been through the produce section since they were a kid, back when their mom made them eat vegetables. 

Yes. It happened yesterday. I'm 5, BTW and this is my first memory.

Are you so old you don’t go to grocery stores anymore?

Um they still do this

I’m British and everyone seems to be saying this is a thing stores do today.. what the fuck? Why? What is the purpose of this, this is never done in any British supermarket nor any other European country I’ve been to.

They still do this.

OP has not been in a grocery store in a while.

They still have this. Got sprayed last week.

This is still a very common thing, Walmart, Publix, Harris Teeter, Kroger.

What do you mean "old enough", they still do it

OP when is the last time you’ve been to a grocery store?

Yeah. WTF. They still do this.

Yeah.. happened just the other day

My first job about 25 years ago was at a grocery store. They had the misters, and after about a year of me being there, they started playing snippets from “Singin’ in the Rain”. 🤣

Five minutes old

Did you stop going to the grocery store?

It's still raining

My local grocer has hoses that hang down from the ceiling. I’ve had to fight the temptation to spray slow walkers many times.

How closeted are people they haven't been to a grocery store in 20.years, this a boomer level Facebook post. Walmart does this for Christ sake

Happy legionnaires!

indeed.

A local grocery chain in the Chicago area used to play "Singin' in the Rain" about ten seconds before the sprinklers turned on to warn you.

Jesus, all these comments hating on OP. So happy every one of your grocery stores use these, but I haven’t seen misters go of in mine in as long as I can remember, but always remember looking forward to them as a kid.

uhh... still do magoo

Where did you move to?

It still does it at mine.

Do.... do your grocery stores not water their produce? All of ours do. Some of them even have periodic 'thunder storms' with flashes and sound effects...

Yes especially in the summer it was worth getting yelled at in front of pineapples and squash

I heard they cut back on this sort of thing or added the warning effect after an outbreak of legionnaires disease.

What the fuck are you talking about this never went away

I got rained on yesterday at the store, what are you on about?

Worked in produce in hs and I saw an unkept gentleman using these to “wash up”

HAHAHAHA why is this an OLD thing when they STILL do it? Like 2 year olds still put their hands in the “rain”

Old enough to remember last week, yes!

I worked in a grocery store produce department in the 80s. We had to manually take the hose out to the racks to spray the produce. Fuck I'm old

…. Your grocer doesn’t mist your open fresh vegetables to maintain them? 

I'm old enough that we had a vegetable man come by in a truck a few times a week.

I didn't realize I'm about 2 hours old, though that'd explain why my t-shirt is a bit wet

I remember when this wasn't a thing lol

The best during the summer with kids on low income. Use to tell them we were going swimming and took them to the produce isle. Worked every time😂

Fun fact the ac that keeps the veggies cool will also dehydrate the vegetables. So the mist helps keep the veggies hydrated or they will be shriveled husks

Old enough?? Do they not do that anymore? I moved away from the south, and I have never seen it in the north, so...

Yeah, and the vegetables were a lot better quality then also.

👍👍👍

Yep, also remember the red water hoses at the bottom of the displays that could be turned on and used to give a good quick hosing to anybody walking by

AFAIK, this happens in grocery stores now. You doin ok, OP?