"Attention Customers...."

Every Friday after work we go do our errands (shopping, bank, food, geocaching...) and we needed to go grocery shopping. We wanted to stay local so we went to the Walmart in Yelm. We started in the personal care aisle and worked our way to the pet care. Then we hit up the food. I ran into one of my middle school basketball player's moms so I stood there talking to her about basketball for a while. Then we ran into Janet and talked to her for a while. Then we ran into Sonny and Grandma. Then the power went out. Why did it go out? We're still not sure. But we did hear that most of Yelm had no power. Then we found out ours at home went off too. Then we heard over the intercom..."attention customers, please abandon your cart and come to the front of the store and make sure you grab your personal items as you leave." We were confused. No one said to take your cart and check out what you have in your cart. Apparently, they had enough power to check people out for 15 minutes. We grabbed our cart we abandoned and tried to check out. When it was our turn the power completely shut off and we had to leave our cart again. Grandma got through but we didn't and neither did Sonny. We needed our groceries so we drove into Lacey and did some deja vu shopping. Very random.