Whenever you do your Shabbos shopping, the store you buy it from has to have it ready before you get there!
At Seven Mile Market, the closer it gets to Shabbos, the busier it gets. According to Moshe Boehm, vice president of Seven Mile Market, “Everyone wants the freshest possible food for Shabbos, so people want to buy things as close to Shabbos as possible.”
When: Sunday the store has a few customers stocking up for the coming week. Monday and Tuesday the store is relatively quiet. By Wednesday things are starting to pick up for Shabbos, but hands down Thursday and Friday are way busier than the rest of the week.
The head cashier tries to get as many cashiers as possible for the Erev Shabbos crush. Lately there have been lots of staffing shortages (not enough people available to work) due to Covid and other illnesses, so if the store can’t get enough cashiers, they’ll get extra baggers to make things go faster.
“Thursday evenings are full of teenage girls shopping for their mothers, and we see a lot of bochurim on Fridays. They’re all so polite and pleasant. It’s really something beautiful,” Moshe says. “It’s so nice to have a safe, heimish environment.”
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