Sunday 26 February 2012

Shelf Stacking





Andy,
if I've told you once,
I've told you a HUNDRED times before:

ALL TINS
must be the RIGHT way up!

See that one on the top shelf?

Well then, DO something about it!
And never mind about being distracted by your art,
you can concentrate on THAT
in your OWN time.



59 comments:

  1. Hee hee. The stacking of the cans reminds me just a little bit of the ... stacking in your closets. Very clever!

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  2. Andy indeed. Is this how he got his start?

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  3. Friko,

    How observant of you to notice the upside down can on the top shelf. However, where is your evidence that Andy did it? If he is the stock clerk, I think he should be proved innocent.

    Even if he did it, he has paper towels in his basket, many paper towels, which means he is a customer looking for cans of soup to add to his shopping.

    He is also sight impaired,and he might put one back in the wrong place.

    He will need the towels to mop up the soup he spills when he does his soup drip painting which will be tomato red I think.

    Dianne

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  4. My very first job was as a shelf stacker in a supermarket ... you need to do something to relieve the monotony!

    Nice light hearted post.

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  5. Holy Wow!
    Superb!
    And what observational powers you have!
    :)

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  6. Now I know why I've never appreciated his iconic painting. I've got it hung upside down!
    Great Magpie, Friko.

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  7. Hysterical! (and I like Doctor FTSE's comment :) )

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  8. Funny! Didn't everyone work in a grocery store at least once in their life?

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  9. and I find it irritating when the labels are not all facing forwards (specifically to the English side)!

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  10. In the future, everyone will enjoy fifteen minutes of oblivion.

    Mmm, mmm, good.

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  11. I must show this to my son ... he works at the front of a large supermarket. 'Blocking' is what he does at the end of each shift .. putting items back where they belong, right side up! This is priceless.

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  12. Excited that his mother is going to take him to see the Queen on her 60th, Andy, his basket already loaded with ultra-absorbent paper towels, now focuses on the tomato soup. It's his one shot at fame.

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  13. I was in admiration at your closet – so spacious! I, also, have many outfits from my corporate days, and even earlier – I tell my husband that those hippie outfits from the sixties will be worth some money sometime… I also would like to be friend with a catholic during Lent (or any religious person who gives up chocolate) as I am not religious but very willing to help by eating the chocolate for them! Looking at your picture of the stack of cans – it takes so long going to the supermarket with my husband as he likes to move cans around so they are straight. My daughters have inherited this passion of keeping cans straight and they get upset when I mess up their neat little stacks.

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  14. Well spotted, and delightfully sent up! :)

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  15. A delightful visit thanks to you, Friko, and your delightful community of commenters!

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  16. haha so that is where he got his inspiration....

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  17. I also failed shelf-stocking, so I empathize with Andy. A couple of years later, people stocking supermarket shelves were making more than I was making as a feature writer for a small-town daily. Career choices, always a gamble.
    K

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  18. I reckon a customer changed his/her mind and put the can back on the shelf upside down and poor Andy got the blame for it :-).

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  19. That IS so observant of you. is that really Andy Warhol, or just a lookie-likey?
    Di
    x

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  20. Yes indeed, quite observant. Good of you to point it out. The photo is considerably deeper because of that upside down can, once you see it.

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  21. Andy, desperately seeking Warhol, lurks for weeks behind the soup display.
    XO
    WWW

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  22. I knew he he had to get his start somewhere.

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  23. That upside down can leapt out at me swearing. Which probably explains why, sadly, I am not an artist.

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  24. You are as quick-witted as you are strong-willed, Friko.

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  25. Andy Besmitten! I too saw it right off LOL.


    jolly\



    Warm Aloha from Honolulu
    Comfort Spiral

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  26. so easy to comment again!


    J O Y !

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  27. it does look like mr warhol, doesn't it

    Would the world of art have been the same if he had bought Baxters, or Heinz instead of Campbells?

    Hmmm

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  28. What a clever take on this. You are as always very sharp, Friko. I enjoy your intellectual journeys. :-)

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  29. I know I'll have a hard time controlling my laughter when I get to the soup aisle at the grocers. I'm having a hard time right now.

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  30. And aren't you glad he did concentrate on his art?

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  31. Very clever- been there, done that, but I was never distracted by my art!

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  32. If someone is truly OCD, then they should be CDO. Andy Warhol would be proud!

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  33. I, for one, am amazed that you spotted that wrong-way up tin. Do you think that's how Warhol came up with his Campbell's Soup obsession?

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  34. Dear Friko,

    You just keeping finding subjects that you can write about with a different slant. Like light coming through a window and casting itself on the carpet a different way throughout the seasons.

    Peace.

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  35. Roses are red, violets are blue,
    there's hardly a blogger
    as clever as you.


    ;-)

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  36. cute and funny! nice observation...

    JJRod'z

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  37. very nice take on the pic...thanks for sharing this

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  38. Laughing. Too funny! Didn't even notice the upside down tin.

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  39. You caught me there, Friko! Didn't see it coming!

    Hank

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  40. You never disappoint, m'dear... :)

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  41. So that's what Andy did before he started painting!

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  42. LOL! I've had to do that. Worked in a grocery store for a time. ;)

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  43. And when you've finished with the soup, restack those paper towels! Never mind trying to make them look like a forest this time...

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  44. Ha, Du hast wahrlich ein aufmerksames Auge und was Du aus dem - verzeih mir - eigentlich recht langweiligen Bilde gemacht hast, ist doch erstaunlich!
    Dir einen guten und friedlichen Abend!
    Renée, bis bald!

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  45. Yet again you give the ordinary a completely different slant, Friko. The eye of an artist....

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  46. All of us worked at a grocery store at one time or another...

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  47. Ha! One of my pet peeves, too! Nicely captured!

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  48. Hee hee......that's how to tell him...!!

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  49. You are so observant! This is wonderful. Thank you. *giggle, giggle*

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  50. Haha! But for whose benefit do the cans have to be the same way? The illiterate store manager, the illiterate customer or the illiterate shelf-stacker??!!

    Sorry to hear of your troubles in the previous post. Hope all is well.

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