This week on It’s Ben A Week, Ben tackles one of life’s greatest inconveniences: grocery shopping. What starts as frustration over a parasite outbreak linked to lettuce quickly turns into a full-blown breakdown of everything that’s wrong with the modern grocery store experience.  

From fluorescent lighting and mysteriously rearranged aisles to self-checkout machines that never work, wandering shopping carts, awkward parking lot conversations, and the ongoing debate over who actually returns their cart, Ben hilariously dissects every step of the weekly grocery run.  

Along the way, he shares his thoughts on:

• the lettuce parasite outbreak
• why grocery stores feel like casinos
• self-checkout becoming a part-time job
• shopping cart etiquette
• people who block entire aisles
• grocery store fashion choices
• and why running into acquaintances is somehow the worst part of the entire experience.

If you’ve ever found yourself arguing with a self-checkout machine or silently judging someone who abandoned their shopping cart, this episode is for you.

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