Being at a register during this Covid crap is a little scary. The store I work in doesn't have a minimum spend on card transactions and payWave is very popular here, you'd think more people would use it. When these "lovely" customers ask are you still taking cash, I can't say no but some of these people are wearing gloves and then handing me cash like they're trying to stretch their arms longer then they are to avoid touching me by handing over cash. If you want minimum contact, use your card. The other day everyone was using cash, to the point I had no change for a $50 because every order less than $20 some person was handing me a $50. Thank goodness I wear gloves as I still see people lick their fingers before pulling out a note out of their wallet, eew, gross. One of the major supermarkets here have plexiglass as a sneeze guard of sorts, which is impressive to me as they're promoting social distancing rather well. My place has us butt to butt, no social distancing in between workers. Plus wearing a mask here isn't required for anyone.
Someone once told me there was no money in Toowoomba, I think this person needs their eyes checked out. Working at a produce store I've seen the amount of money people spend on fruit and veggies among other things we sell, like smallgoods, cheeses and salamis and nuts and milk and these little Russian cookies shaped like walnuts that sell for $10. This week little punnets of blueberries are going for $10 and people are still buying them. They spend lots of money after they've already gone shopping at the supermarket down the way, I can tell as their shopping carts are full of bags.
On an average day going for a walk around my neighborhood we see so many cars, and they're not old dumpy humps of shit, they're brand new shiny cars that come with a hefty price tag. I was curious as to the cost of some of these cars. Once, putting fuel in my car we saw a McLaren which retails here for about $350,000.00, I'm sorry if you own that car you have that kind of cash to spare. I see Range Rover's dropping kids off to school here by me, those go for $420.000.00, you could buy a decent house for the price of that one. There's a guy we pass regularly and he owns 2 Porsche 911's and they retail for about $302.000.00 each. This morning we saw a Jaguar F-Type, retail $315,000.00 zipping down a side street. The other day at the supermarket parking lot there was a Tesla Model S parked, that goes for about $142,000. Currently there's a Porsche Cayenne picking up their kid from school, retail $195,900.00. Going to the bakery the other day we saw a brand new Maserati Levante, retail $330,000.00. There are plenty of Mercedes and Audis and BMW's parked practically on every street and doing the school drop off and pick up, so yes there's plenty of money in Toowoomba.
