{"id":85103,"date":"2026-08-02T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85103"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:48:40","slug":"baby-boomers-hate-10-things-about-todays-grocery-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/baby-boomers-hate-10-things-about-todays-grocery-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boomers Hate 10 Things About Today&#8217;s Grocery Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/food-drink\/chefs-reveal-favorite-grocery-stores-where-shoppers-can-save-most-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_food-drink_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">Grocery shopping<\/a>\u00a0has changed dramatically over the past 50 years, and not everyone is happy about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Baby boomers \u2014 generally defined as those born between 1946 and 1964 \u2014 are particularly frustrated by many of today&#8217;s grocery store features, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetakeout.com\/2219956\/boomers-cant-stand-grocery-store-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_food-drink_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">The Takeout<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Technology-driven shopping is among their biggest complaints, along with several other modern grocery store changes.\u00a0\u00a0No. 1: Self-checkout:\u00a0 When asked to choose between self\u2011checkout and cashier\u2011assisted checkout \u2014 each with equal lines \u2014 62% of respondents to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.com\/en-us\/daily-results\/20260420-bfe38-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_food-drink_article_main-content_article-body_6_4\">YouGov survey<\/a>\u00a0aged 65-plus said they preferred cashier-assisted checkout, compared to 34% who said they like self-checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Grocery shopping\u00a0has changed dramatically over the past 50 years, and not everyone is happy about it. Baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85105,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85103\/revisions\/85105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}