Supermarket

Checkout lanes stretch across the front under stark fluorescent lights, where cashiers fumble bills and coins at registers, struggling with basic change calculations. Customers shift impatiently amid the hum of idling carts and distant announcements, their transactions highlighting Tal's grievance over vanished arithmetic skills in daily commerce. Aisles recede into shadows of produce and pantry staples, framing everyday commerce as a marker of societal slippage.