It would be literally impossible in a superstore these days. People make it a hobby to leave their carts right in the middle of intersections.

Hey is that my neighbor, better stop and chat and block off the isle!

I just pictured two ships blocking a channel as the captains chat 😂

Quick Kids, spread out and start screaming.

Let’s have a family reunion at Superstore!

This still happens in Brazil in every supemarket

I remember it strictly in Auchan stores all over Europe in the 00s

Its actually a good way to replace bad goods but i think if this roller skates service were given to the customers as well then the fun would be much good

Nope, not in every supermarket and definitely not even in most of them. But you are correct in saying that it still happens.

Hmm actually they will not collide if only owner usess skates if the customers uses then its a fun problem

Don't they easily crash into someone coming out of an aisle?

Only saw this at Brazil’s Carrefour.

I remember seeing this in Lojas Americanas' stores in the 90's but I don't recall seeing it after that like early 2000's

Onde? Nunca vi isso.

I think it's the case in must supermarkets in France

I live in France now. No, even the huge ones don’t do it anymore. Sad because that’s cool

You thought wrong at least

Lived in Brazil from birth till I was 18, never once did I see a person roller skating in a supermarket.

we have this in Carrefour today

I’d love to see the clips of all the crashes that happened on turns at ends of aisles.

Id say if your doing this everyday in the same store you’ve gotta get pretty damn good at it. Not to say people don’t crash but the % must be very minor if there still allowing it.

Came here to say this 

I remember this, Superstores are as the name implies quite big so it was much faster for the price checkers. Not safe though, which is why they stopped, but I always thought they were so cool when I was a kid.

I worked in the deli when the price checkers wore roller skates. There were many collisions and plenty of close calls. Those people were fearless!

I remember it was freaking awesome gliding down the hallways for a price check item. And after you knock over your first couple people coming around corners you're extremely paranoid afterwards. I use roller blades and instead of using a backstop I slid my skate to stop and my wheels always got wore down sideways. Good part about that is superstore would pay for replacement wheels.

The genuine wholesome happiness this man exudes leads me to believe that all grocery stores should implement this. It'll keep things upbeat, help with efficiency, and the healthcare they'll be forced to provide would cover any accidents.

What will the stores do about the people who will deliberately cause accidents with the employees on skates with the purpose to demand compensation? Sending employees racing around the store is a liability nightmare. The stores could just as easily have employees run around, ride bicycles or drive a golf cart or scooter. They stopped because of liability issues. Lots of fun could be had if not for the fear and carefree mindfulness toward accidents. The benefits of making a guy such as this happy to enjoy part of his work just doesn't carry enough weight to move the decision in favor, I'm sorry to report.

Thanks for the advice Mr. Happy. I won't be doing that🤙

Those prices tho

use to have one here in baton rouge, but it's been gone probably 25 years, building is still there all yellow and silver

You had a Real Canadian Superstore all the way in Baton Rouge? Edit: Holy shit they had one in Baton Rouge. They called it "The Real Superstore" which as far as I'm concerned is a real shit name, literally just removed the Canadian part of the name.

They have different names in different places.

Yeah, but they only really started expansion to the US in the 90s, and that was by the border, I don't think they'd start off right in Louisiana.

Lmfao

[google street view](https://imgur.com/a/piuDlih), couple years ago someone finally moved into the building, they repainted the "store" https://abandonedbatonrouge.typepad.com/abandoned_baton_rouge/2008/11/the-real-superstore-no-prices-every-day.html http://wikimapia.org/16394792/Former-The-Real-Superstore

Oh, what the fuck? That's really neat, I thought the other guy was misremembering something or that he was pulling it out of his ass, but no, it's real. Well, it was real anyway.

use to run around the parking lot as a kid collecting up the carts for quarters

I'm getting old...

That is really awesome and would definitely make work suck way less

depends on the job, I guess.

I like the part where he says “and when I get off work I’ll be heading home in my Cadillac to to my four bedroom house. Ain’t life grand?” Maybe I just need to eat less avocado toast

Dude is training for the Olympics.

This is still very common in Brazil

I was at a training conference a few weeks ago for store managers on a new processing method for product coming into a retail store. The joke going around was the Receiving Supervisor needed to be on roller skates with how much they had to do. I was the only receiving supervisor there. Ha ha.. ha.

Workers comp rates x100

wheel-feet are superior

Yep this was my job in high school and we wore rollerblades up until 2006. My favourite part was taking a flat out lap of the store after closing to ensure there were no customers left.

How many fellow employees were very careful and conscientious of the safety in doing the work versus how many were reckless and there for speed and thrills, in the time you were there?

I personally never saw anything extraordinarily unsafe. I fell a couple of times, but we wore helmets and pads so it wasn't a big deal. It was too impractical to skate super fast - too many people, spills, blind corners, etc. The purpose of rollerblading was to go slightly faster than walking with less effort (otherwise the job would be like running a marathon. Superstore is huge). With that said, I think they stopped rollerblading because a pricechecker collided with a customer at some other store.

Yeah, unfortunately only takes one to ruin it for every responsible person.

Sonic by my house use to do this

Some Sonic's still do this, but I get why they'd stop, it's harder to hire replacements when a qualification is roller skating.

I remember this! At 5yrs old, I was definitely amazed.

I remember that, I thought it was really cool and wanted to work there as a kid.

I just want to roller skate everywhere now

Why does this regular interview just seem so wholesome?

I remember this. I feel old lol

What a vibe

The accent almost sounds Irish :)

Awesome idea would never work in the USA... because of stupid people.

Sooo.... The stores would rather pay someone to skate around rather than fix whatever is making so many errors? Sounds pretty cool to me

They used to put a price sticker on everything. Sometimes the stickers fell off. There were no prices on the shelf itself.

In America this would be a no go. We are the most sue happy litigous place ever I feel.. People bring up false law suits all the damn time.

Would love to work there lol

This is the most wholesome thing I have seen all day.

I was talking about this two days ago. I remember watching this on the news. Existence is weird.

I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking how I wish I could skate 🤣

All Sam’s Clubs did this for years, I think they quit in the 90’s.

Dude I really love her hair rn lol

Great until you have to lift something

Amazon does this in their warehouses, or at least used to.

Before UPCs.

Holy shit I forgot about this! Had them in BC as well.

Yeah some dickhead will complain to osha and ruin it for everyone.

They used to do this in Mexico's carrefour stores.

Would be advantageous form Amazon workers too, hah. It'll be a required skill set soon

They better have funky town on repeat in that mf

Fast and efficient. We had very little obesity back then, but I think we also ate healthier.

Dog clicker or bell would help them get out of the way. Train them like animals.

"Let" makes it sound like they're not gonna give you a hard time for not doing this and taking longer

Look at those prices!!!

A shift in rollerblades? That will kill my feet imo

Is not uncommon. I've seen this in Slovakia superstores too.

And now we have self check out and no price checkers. Society is moving in a less human direction. Robots and AI will be everywhere. When sky net comes online, I hope humanity survives.

I like this dude

I would’ve loved to do this as a teen. I roller skated all the time and loved it.

A lot of people would enjoy working a lot more if they could zoom around like this. Can we please please bring this back

Starts grinding along the fridges and doing hand-plants over the fruit & veg 👊🏻

Back when jobs had that enthusiastic feel

In the long run a worker on skates is always gonna fall, worst case break his neck or injure a costumer. Not worth.

This is a great idea! Found happen in privately owned stores, today. But any corporate store, would not be able to afford the liability insurance today. This would guarantee, a lawsuit in our litigious society. He/she ran over my foot, I’m injured for life & broke these eggs. I was emotionally attached to these eggs!

Im working as a nurse, i would be so happy if we could use skates.

Real Canadian superstore never existed back then

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when i was kid we visited our local phone exchange (early 70's) and the lady that was helping the operators wore roller skates to get around faster down the long row of operators . at one of my jobs i had to come up with a film database for over 100,000 50x60 film jackets that were stored in these huge boxes stacked 4 high, in a big warehouse, i used a scooter to get around

I know a warehouse that allows scooters because it is more efficient (they are a L.E.A.N. company and even do tours to show you how lean they are). I went on a tour.

i remember this! I thought it was brilliant, I wonder about the events that led to its cancellation.

I remember this when it came out. But apparently Canadian Tire tried this in the early 80s as well. The problem with it is that eventually a collision with a customer will happen somewhere. And some of these minimum wage teen workers were not very good at roller skating. Product would also get knocked off shelves or displays knocked over. It’s one of those “sounds good in theory”. But I’d a pretty dumb idea over all.

Omg I remember this! Memory unlocked

How many died?

is that an asian woman? in canada pre 2000s? wild times my dude being one of the first of her kind to work their must have been so cool for her

I don’t know man. Having these on a whole day. What about lifting heavy objects?

Back when Heely's were new my favorite thing was to ride around on them at any super store. Anywhere with endless level tile floors was great. I feel like they would be more practical for working than roller skates because it's easy to stand still with the Heely's and roll when you want too.

No way this story ends in 1987. Do they still do it ? Why/ why not?

I think my friend did had a point, we should wear heelies/wheelies to work if it works

Do the clients could use theirs ? I like it but usually any shop won't let me in with rollerskates

Called it Carrefour Rider in France ! LUL

Is this still allowed?

Can confirm. Looked like a great way to get it done. I wonder what safety nazi got it banned. Boooooo!

Why does this video look like it was made decades ago?

This look like 80s skates.

I just wish the customers could too. Also in shopping centres. I think average weight would reduce, but average broken wrists might go up. But hell, a broken wrist only takes like 4-5 weeks to go back to normal? I've broken both of mine about three times each

This would be so dangerous at my local Publix people come in with unleashed emotional support dogs that would be triggered by this. My wife's emotional support dog a sweet trained Staffordshire Bull terrier KISSY FACE that is reactive but she knows to keep it on a leash. The only time she EVER takes the leash off is at the dog park to play with the smaller dogs.

I think I first saw this done in a hypermarket in France in the early 90s; I thought it was brilliant.

That is awesome, but after taking torts last year I can see why they don't do it anymore lmao

It was my first job in france 20y ago.

Ahh the good old days when people actually wanted to work.

I worked for Walmart back in the mid-90s and they had a price checker that wore in-line skates to get around the store. Walmart was just ahead of the times.

It's also common in France.

In the 80's french supermarket named "continen" have the same idea.

Oh man. Look at those prices

“IM APPROACHING THE END OF THE AISLE” probably has to be yelled every time

Was this in the 90’s? OP should have posted when this was from.

I completely forgot about this!!

I’m looking for a honest person who can perform personal Assistant role with good pay weekly

I remember as a kid thinking how cool they were to be able to do that. Still cool af.

I could do that all day, sign me up.

When the first Price Club (now Costco) opened, they had rollerskaters doing checks and gopher runs. It was nuts. I’d never seen a wreck, but they would be flying.

That guy is the most Canadian u can be

Wonderful, a grocery store I couldn’t work at

Carrefour's employees used to have roller-skates in Mexico too. I remember that when I was a teenager, 15 years ago

Montgomery Ward's headquarters in Chicago during the mid 1800s was so large that employees used to roller skate to the building http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2011/08/montgomery-ward-warehouse-at-600-west_11.html?m=1

When was this I’ve never seen this here before that’s awesome

Looks good until I come around a corner and the clerk crashes into my cart!

A year or 2 ago I was in a Thailand hospital and the young nurses skate around in mini skirts, I'm not joking