I was over at my local Safeway (yes, the one with the poo) this afternoon getting a few sundry items. As an aside, they have started selling mixed nuts again (which of course, they do every year right before the holiday season). But I digress.

While going through checkout, the saleschick surreptitiously stuck a pink leaflet in my bag. Well, she was wearing a tshirt with some breast cancer awareness text on it and they have been asking all month if I’d like to add a bit to my bill to donate to breast cancer charity, so I assumed, pink leaflet, pink equals breast cancer.

Got all the way home before looking at it and realizing it’s a help wanted ad.

Yes.

Evergreen Village Safeway is holding a Hiring Event next Wednesday afternoon. Amongst all the other positions they are looking for qualified applicants for, they are also hiring for their “”soon to open” Starbucks Stand!”

That’s when it hit me.

With Starbucks announcing their new chocolate “drinkable dessert”, Chantico, Safeway has obviously realized that after a while, we’re not going to be in the mood to shuffle 100 feet down to the other side of the mall to get our 390-calorie, 6-ounce cup of chocolatey goodness, and then 100 feet back to do our shopping. I mean, come on. That’s…. 200 feet. That’s like, almost… one-twentieth of a mile! Have a heart. I already have to walk all the way to the back of the store for my donuts!

Safeway, I salute you. That was pure genius. Now, Staples, and …uh, mortgage place, I expect you guys to be stepping up with your own little starbucks stands too!