Two months without Fred Meyer

Time flies when you're having fun. It's hard to believe it's been more than two months since we learned that Kroger, the Cincinnati-based parent company of the Fred Meyer and QFC stores, had put Elaine Chao on its board of directors. Yes, that Elaine Chao, the ex-Trump transportation secretary and wife of the most evil bastard of our era, Mitch "Turtle" McConnell. Excuse me while I spit after saying his name.

Anyway, I swore that the Chao thing was the last straw for me, and I would no longer shop at Fred Meyer. As for QFC, I never shopped there anyway. They had a store near us for a long time, but they closed it quite a while ago.

Have I kept my vow for the last two months? Mostly. I have been inside a Fred Meyer exactly twice since the Chao news broke. Once was to pick up a prescription refill, and I will ask my doctor to change that situation going forward. The other visit was necessitated by the infamous Costco toilet paper incident.

I did show up in the EffEm parking lot a third time, to drop off a couple of bags of returnable beverage containers. They had to sort them and credit me my deposits. Take that, fascists.