My Meijer Trip

The other day I went to Meijer and boy was it an experience!  About half way through the shopping trip, they announced that they were not able to take any electronic payments.   Supposedly all Meijer stores' system had gone down and they were only accepting check or cash at that time.  I was hoping that by the time I got done shopping the problem would be fixed.  Well, it wasn't.  I eventually weaved my way up through the extremely crowded store and got to the check out line.  It looked as if they were still only taking cash or check.  I thought, no problem I will just park my cart in an inconspicuous part of the store and walk up to the ATM to get out cash.  I left the cart in the middle of a deserted isle and went to get in line at the ATM.  Everyone else had the same idea so there were about 9 of us in line. There were seriously 8 old people in front of me!  It was taking each one SO long to get their money!  The had to get out their glasses, read over everything twice, push the buttons multiple times, etc.!  All the while, I'm watching the poor costumer service people collecting carts that had been abandoned because of the payment problem.  Good thing I parked my cart far away from the check out!  I got a little nervous after I watched 12 carts being collected.  Thankfully none of them were mine.  I watched carefully as each cart went by with a stressed looking costumer service employee.  They were even starting to put the frozen and refrigerated items away.  FINALLY, I got up to the ATM and withdrew enough money for groceries.  I zoomed back to the place where I had parked the cart and it was.... gone!  They thought I'd abandoned it and they took it to the customer service desk to empty it!  I speed walked over to the desk, picked my cart out of the other 20 some carts.  They had already put away all of my frozen and refrigerated things! :(  So, I went back and had to start all over again making sure everything on my list was actually in my cart.   Haha, what a fiasco!