OK sometimes I'll pick up something for a neighbor, and I pay for it and they reimburse me - often over paying me. But I don't shop 'separately" for them, just a couple items I lump in my cart.
But today I was in Super Pola and their were two Dominican women together, each with their own cart.
I wound up behind them because I was at first behind a Chinese lady who was using her ATM card, except she didn't know the pin and she stood their after her items (dozens) had already been bagged - So after 5 minutes of her continuously texting and dialing from her phone I could see she wasn't going to finish in the short lifespan l have left, so I went to the line putting me behind the two older Dominican women.
So what transpired was they each had about 20 items each, but as they begin to have them scanned, then they would stop the cashier after each 3-5 items and pay. Sometimes with cash, once with a card. This went on as each lady was obviously buying for neighbors, a few limes, a plantain and some vinegar, STOP. Pay. Rescan a different Super Pola card, Scan some meat, one single orange, six bottles of water. Pay with cash, wait till the bagger bagged them and so forth until each one had doe the process 4 times.
After the 2nd lady scanned her last items, Adobo, butter and eggs - she didn't have enough to pay. She was about 35 pesos short, so she asked the other lady, after she had scoured her purse for every peso. The other lady had a 100 peso bill but then it became a discussion on who would pay her back....
Turns out the Chinese lady and the guy behind her and the woman after him all got out of the store before me.
Moral of the story - try not to get behind older Dominican women, as they are likely shopping for neighbors just like the Dominican men at ATMs, withdrawing from a dozen ATM cards (could be neighbors' cards or clones ?)
But today I was in Super Pola and their were two Dominican women together, each with their own cart.
I wound up behind them because I was at first behind a Chinese lady who was using her ATM card, except she didn't know the pin and she stood their after her items (dozens) had already been bagged - So after 5 minutes of her continuously texting and dialing from her phone I could see she wasn't going to finish in the short lifespan l have left, so I went to the line putting me behind the two older Dominican women.
So what transpired was they each had about 20 items each, but as they begin to have them scanned, then they would stop the cashier after each 3-5 items and pay. Sometimes with cash, once with a card. This went on as each lady was obviously buying for neighbors, a few limes, a plantain and some vinegar, STOP. Pay. Rescan a different Super Pola card, Scan some meat, one single orange, six bottles of water. Pay with cash, wait till the bagger bagged them and so forth until each one had doe the process 4 times.
After the 2nd lady scanned her last items, Adobo, butter and eggs - she didn't have enough to pay. She was about 35 pesos short, so she asked the other lady, after she had scoured her purse for every peso. The other lady had a 100 peso bill but then it became a discussion on who would pay her back....
Turns out the Chinese lady and the guy behind her and the woman after him all got out of the store before me.
Moral of the story - try not to get behind older Dominican women, as they are likely shopping for neighbors just like the Dominican men at ATMs, withdrawing from a dozen ATM cards (could be neighbors' cards or clones ?)
