Friday, July 27, 2018
Saturday, July 7, 2018
How many steps does a megastore clerk walk?
It is recommended that we walk about 10,000 steps
every day for our health.
A friend of
mine used to work for a suburban megastore as a clerk. Clerks had to try all
the goods in the store. If they were selling a new type of dog food, he had to
eat it so that he could describe its taste to the customers.
One day, they
started selling a new pedometer. He tried it of course. He walked around the
huge store all day as he usually did. From the pedometer, he learned that he
walked over 30,000 steps a day.
Once we had a
small shopping arcade in my town. There were many privately owned stores in it
then. Today, it is a deserted shopping street. If the arcade were still in use,
I could have walked around it and bought products from it every day. I might
have walked about 10,000 steps. Instead, I now drive a car to a megastore every
week, and I go to a gym for exercise.
The Japanese
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries has announced that about 8
million people have limited access to shopping facilities in Japan. People who
can’t drive cars can’t go to the suburbs to shop. Someday, when I have to give
up driving, I could become one of them.
We might be
making a terrible mistake.
Picture by
freehandz
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