We bought his for our 3 year old daughter for her birthday and she loves playing with it even her older sister who is 10 enjoys playing shops with her. Next day delivery and easy to assemble. THE GOLD STANDARD IN CHILDHOOD PLAY”: For more than 30 years, Melissa & Doug has created beautifully designed imagination- and creativity-sparking products that NBC News in the US called “the gold standard in early childhood play.” KID-SIZED GROCERY STORE: Melissa and Doug’s freestanding, sturdy wooden grocery store includes a hand-cranked conveyor belt, a bagging area, card swipe machine, a realistic beeping scanner,and cash drawer.

ok as someone who is easily overwhelmed by the prospect of potential human interactions, these things are a godsend. like the “don’t pet me im scared” signs dogs sometimes have, but for people When I was in Denmark last summer it was obvious that the locals took this courtesy very seriously.PLAY SHOP: Classic wooden role play shop with realistic interactive features, including: hand-cranked conveyor belt, a scanner with beeping sounds, 1 card swipe machine, 1 chalkboard, 1 magazine holder, shelves, & openable cash draw and display store cabinet. PRETEND PLAY SHOPS and ACCESSORIES WITH TOY TILLS FOR KIDS - Our supermarket toy playset and kids till is just one of our fun and engaging play shops for kids that make fantastic gifts for 3 year olds and up. Add the Melissa and Doug 'Fresh Mart Grocery Store Companion Set', 'Play Time Produce and Vegetables' or 'Food Groups' wooden play food sets for toy groceries to round out the kids shopping till role play experience. Bought for my 2 year old sons birthday, delivered next day, great quality and easy to assemble! Would highly recommend this product!

Free Play-Traditional role play, the app recognizes and responds to the item kids are using with fun animation, encouraging phrases and fun food facts Then, too, I like pondering the circumstances of its invention: Where did this thing come from? It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. The patents you find on Google pertain to little tweaks and updates on the original design, which, again, is minimal: A bar of wood can and does get the job done. I can only guess that the divider followed soon after grocery stores adopted conveyor-belt systems, beginning with some overeager attempts at futuristic convenience in the late 1930s. For all I know, it was a fed-up cashier who whittled the first of these rods, thereby changing history. One time I put it down and the guy behind me said “No, I’m good”. I had 0 ideas about how to react to that so I laughed. Then he got in my face and asked what was so funny White people can’t wait to put the grocery divider on the conveyor belt at Kroger… bitch I don’t want yo raisins too close to my ramen noodles anyway

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brought this for my grand daughters 4th birthday, she loves and so does her 6 year old sister, they have played lovely together. slightly small in height but great creative play with it. sometimes I put one thing on the conveyor and there's a huge gap between me and the person behind me, like 3 feet almost, and they'll put one up on the belt. like the Teller might get confused. I get so pissed I like them but they sometimes feel like they're weaponized by people trying to disassociate themselves from my grocery choices The cashier put it down in the middle of my brother and his wife’s shopping, assuming they weren’t a couple, because she’s way better looking than he is. Thank you for reminding me to tease him about this. Michel Foucault would regard it as a technology of self-regulation and, therefore, of self-oppression. Also, strikeouts are boring. They're also fascist!

Love them or loathe them, most shoppers regularly visit a supermarket for their main weekly shop, and the kids are often taken along as well. No wonder that toy suppliers make a whole range of excellent toy supermarket equipment for children to role play when they get home. A toy shopping trolley or basket is the first requirement, and once that’s loaded up with pretend food the real fun starts! I truly wish we lived in a society in which we did not need them. Sadly that perfect world has not dawned. KIDS SUPERMARKET SHOP WITH PLAY TILL TOY CASH REGISTER FOR KIDS AGE 3 to 6 - Melissa and Doug's wooden shop role play playset has been designed and crafted with care to produce a freestanding, safe and sturdy kids play shop with smooth, curved corners that includes a hand cranked conveyor belt, a bagging area, card swipe machine, a kids tills cash register with scanner that beeps realistically, cash drawer and plenty of storage and display space. This makes complete sense if you reflect on it for two seconds — the register job is both highly repetitive and speed-oriented — but the fact is lost in the noise of customer-to-customer drama. That is, we see the divider as a way of separating our items from those of the next person in line, yet we forget who that separation is for. It’s not us! To the shopper, it’s obvious that this banana is ours, while that yogurt is theirs ; to the cashier, it’s all just stuff, and those boundaries should be made as clear as possible to facilitate the process so that the line keeps moving.GREAT GIFT FOR AGES 3 AND UP: This grocery store makes a great gift for kids ages 3 and up. To round out the pretend play shopping experience, consider adding the Melissa & Doug Fresh Mart Grocery Store Companion Collection. How can this object, basic as it is, contain all that meaning? A deep mystery deepens further. Underneath the subtle fissions of protocol, we are still fascinated by the thing itself, a remarkably thing -y thing, so stupid it epitomizes a kind of genius, so simple that it’s strange to describe. People say their kids like to play with it, that their own affection for it is inexplicable, that stores have trouble with people shoplifting theirs. Cashier at Vons will completely disregard a 12” gap in groceries and continue to ring up items. There absolutely must be a spacer for her brain to process the break between customers’ items.

Speed Scanner-Ten food items appear on the screen, find them, and scan them all before time runs out i always put the divider down as soon as i'm done loading my groceries for the person behind me. i worked retail so i know how important being fast is for the cashier, and i do anything i can to make everything as efficient as possible for everyone involved As a cashier, the amount of people who don't use it and then get mad when you mix up their stuff or ask them to clarify which is theirs or the next person's stuff is crazy. My whole retail experience has thought me that a solid 80% of people are idiots.Take several home, surround your plate with them to warn off anyone who might be THINKING about reaching over and helping themselves to your lunch. THE GOLD STANDARD IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PLAY” according to NBC News, Melissa and Doug are proud to have been making beautiful wooden toys for kids for over 30 years, because we believe that the quality of play influences childrens' development across the board.; product made with FSC-certified materials that support responsible forestry; applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584) The little space between two dividers containing my groceries is the closest i will ever come to the sensation of owning property Her observation comes in response to a tweet in which I called for a discussion of the politics and preferences around the divider. As she suggests, we are far more aware of what the divider can say to other shoppers, or about oneself, than we tend to let on. To my amazement, the post garnered spirited debate and hundreds of additional replies.