• CriticalResist8A
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    1 year ago

    doing the groceries is now called a “run”? Do the associates also loot XP? Do I get to empty the cash register when I defeat the boss? Get real.

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      1 year ago

      Target has a deranged cult like atmosphere and they attempt to rename everything they can in order to build this air of importance and uniqueness.

      Having worked there, I can say it’s a literal hell.

      They call shopping “Doing a Run”, customers are “guests”, cashiers are “guest advocates, and so on.

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      1 year ago

      I can get down with joining your coworkers, and doing a boss fight with ones boss. Taking turns to hit them with your own special creative attack. I don’t know if that is effective praxis but it sounds like a great time.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting. I have heard “running errands”. But I’ve never heard buying groceries being referred to as a “grocery run”.

        (Then again, I mostly know English from the internet, so just because I never heard it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. If you don’t mind the question, which part of the world are you from?)

        Edit: Never mind, turns out I was replying to someone who got banned from Lemmygrad for being annoying in a different thread. I’m still curious where that phrase is used, if anyone else wants to tell me.