I Think My Grocery Store Is Training Me

Margret only went in for eggs.

A simple errand. No list. No distractions. No unnecessary decisions.

Just eggs.

But somewhere between a grocery store that quietly rearranges itself, an employee labeled “Observer,” and a self-checkout machine that already knows her PIN… Margret begins to suspect that something isn’t quite right.

At first, it feels like a minor inconvenience. Then… a pattern. Then something far more deliberate.

Because the store doesn’t just react.

It anticipates.

It tracks.

And, for reasons Margret doesn’t fully understand… it appears to be guiding her through a series of steps she never agreed to take.

As she returns for a second visit, things become clearer—and somehow even more unsettling.

There are rules. There is progress. And there may not be a way to opt out.

In this episode of Tales That Tickle, Margret discovers that what started as a routine grocery run may actually be something much larger…