living larger

after a year's layoff my wife and I decided to go to Costco and do a little shopping. Costco is by far the biggest store of any kind in the city of Sata Cruz and the theme of bigness permeates every corner of the building. The first thin one notices is the size of the shopping carts....they are more than twice the size of even the largest supermarket type. For some the carts, even with their impressive capacity are insufficient. For those megashoppers there are rolling pallets with a load capacity of a half a ton. All of the products offered on the towering rows of shelves are sized for enormous families. Massive gallon jugs of hot sauce, mayonnaise,salad dressing,shampoo, window cleaner line the aisles. Ten lb. cans of Mexican rice , green beans , applesauce , etc. are pretty much the size available. Prices are low so there isn't a worry about wasting half or more of the contents of the goods....no wonder the rest of the world is starving-we have everything here ! The other thing one sees are people that match what they are purchasing, i.e., a huge cart full of microwave dinners and frozen desserts is pushed by a person who probably weighs 300 plus lbs. . So there it is....the huge store, the gigantic items necessitating the equally huge cart creating a race of super-sized people. It isn't just Mc Donalds that is fattening America. The Big-box store demands that people buy more than they need so that they will get used to overconsuming , thus becoming dependant on that whole industry. MY purchase was a few bottles of wine ( one of the only normal size items offered ) and five pair of pants that although they were marked with my size were relaxed fit, seeming to becon me to putting on a few more pounds-hey, why not? The pants have room for them.