We Have Created a World Where Old Folk Aren't Welcome. Have They Ever Been?

In a world that is changing apace, where the unrelenting march of progress is allowing technology to take over from human beings and putting millions out of work - a progress that actually threatens the economic stability and very existence of this world in which we try to live - it is becoming increasingly difficult to do something as simple as shop. Especially for old folk. This is just one old man's experience, and it happened in Lidl, one of many supermarkets where the shopping experience has become so bad that many customers pay delivery companies to not just deliver, but do their shopping too! And while this may seem a particularly good example of the sort of supermarket shopping woes that are experienced by the elderly every day, sadly it is typical of the sort of customer service we have all come to accept as the norm. And I can't imagine for one moment that the shopping scenario described in this video is restricted to just old folk. What we have in Lidl and other supermarkets today is a shoddy and quite unacceptable level of customer service, the product of a cash-strapped world - at least for most of us - where 'tis all pretence and no one truly cares. This service is a fanciful made-up notion that bears no resemblance to reality, a so-called service that is prevalent in a world where technology and profit have become more important than people's lives; a world where old folk are regarded as nothing but a nuisance and a barrier to the smooth running of a retail world gone mad.