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Senior Citizens' Day at Kroger

Just so you know... Don't ever go to Kroger on a Wednesday. Why not? Because it is Senior Citizens' Day. More specifically, I would advise that no one go to Kroger before noon on a Wednesday. It's only a 5% discount, but, man, do they flock for it. As soon as I walked through the automatic doors, I thought something felt a little funny. I felt very... out of place. I assumed that I was just the only young person who ever shopped before noon, but still more members of the older generation kept showing up! I was the only youth in the sea of discount-craving senior citizens. What on earth was going on??? Then I looked to the ceiling. If I had done so earlier, I would have seen the fifty or so signs declaring that it was SENIOR CITIZENS' DAY!!! SAVE 5% ON YOUR ENTIRE PURCHASE!!!!!! Not really... I exaggerated. There were only about 20 signs. And all of them had fine print on the bottom, which I'm sure no one, much less the targeted shoppers, could make out. Needless to