The idea of a commercial space aping the design of a city is somewhat familiar when it comes to the suburban shopping mall. Malls were famously designed after urban downtowns or shopping districts. The big-box discount store, on the other hand—with its exposed steel ceiling, utter lack of ornamentation and warehouse atmosphere—makes no pretensions. So it is striking that even in such a utilitarian setting, and such a quintessentially suburban one, the old urban DNA still survives.
when walmart bought asda they brought the concept of greeters to my shit town
we have dour customer facing people even by british standards, cos you know, they live in this hell hole so of course they're miserable
so seeing the big american style fake smiles and cheerfulness from someone making minimum wage standing outside the supermarket all day was really fucking weird lol