Take a Lude!

Here's what happens if you go to the Commercial Mexicana during Christmas Vacay in the Marina. First of all, you will spend long minutes circulating the parking lot looking for a space to park the car and maybe you'll find one miles from the actual store. Then you will have to arm wrestle another person for a shopping cart and when you finally get one, the "fun" truly begins and here's why: All the shopping aisles are narrowed, blocked or otherwise littered with merchandise and WAY too narrow for the passage of more than one cart; in fact you have to squeeze through slowly and you may or may not knock something off the shelf as you do. Then there's the bumper car scenario which happens when ignorant shopper person leaves their cart in the middle of the aisle and makes any kind of passage impossible. After a few of those, you just bumper car them out of the way out of sheer frustration with the stupidity of it all. Then there's the young workers unloading merchandise in EVERY aisle during peak shopping hours and in the case of today, causing an honest to goodness log jam of shopping carts in which the only solution was a U turn and an attempt at another congested aisle. The Pharmacy inside the store is not to be believed! An old Gringa with her pills not sure if it's the Mexican equivalent and the 18 yr. old behind the counter cooly eyeballs the mounting line of customers and proceeds to haul out a 2,000 page medical dictionary and begin to slowly flip the tissue thin pages. Later for that! In the juice aisle there were only 3 cartons of orange juice left and they were on the highest shelf at the back and one needed a step ladder to get to them, or a pogo stick or a store assistant (not to be found for the price of gold) so shoppers are left to their own creativity. Meanwhile, an entire family of 10 is shopping en masse and want to pass by. It's a living, breathing circus and I warn you to not attempt it unless heavily sedated or drunk.