Friend reports a line around the block outside the trader joe's near their mechanic's shop.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@MLE_online well its that or like, be exposed to the news, i guess

[felis_catus_domesticus@mstdn.party]

@MLE_online

Millenials:

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@Viss You know that the people standing in that line are also choosing to be exposed to near-lethal levels of doomscrolling

[negahyphen@infosec.exchange]

@MLE_online Hopefully it's just FOMO with all the folks stranded in lines at various airports across the US today.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@Negahyphen They do this every time there's a new tote!

[felis_catus_domesticus@mstdn.party]

@MLE_online

[viss@mastodon.social]

@MLE_online its plausible, sure. if they're smart though, theyre just being chatty in line instead

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@MLE_online Maybe collect rare sneakers or something…

[crenquis@mstdn.io]

@MLE_online
Asked a friend that works at TJs about it:
We clocked 80 phone calls an hour for these %^(@ bags. We sold out an hour after we opened.
People were going to their cars and changing their outfits. We called them out and told them to leave.

[misternineham@mastodon.social]

@MLE_online i had to look up what this queue-forming tote looks like and of course it's depressingly generic

[ruenahcmohr@infosec.exchange]

@MLE_online This is what they are, this is what they do. They cannot comprehend your disdain for their ways.
THEY
NEED
THE
NEW
THING.