Why must my favorite supermarket stock different items at different locations even though the distance between these locations is only a few short miles?
Case in point: I want a store brand diet cream soda. Store A has it, but Store B doesn’t. I also want Chips Ahoy Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookies, which Store B has in stock but Store A doesn’t. So in order to get the all the grocery items I want, I have to go to both stores.
What a load of crap. And then the worst of it is when I want to get a few cases of my favorite Snapple drink, Diet Lemonade-Iced Tea, which my supermarket doesn’t stock at ALL. There’s only one market in town that does, and of course they just HAD to be in Ghetto-We-Shoot-White-People-For-Fun-Ville. Still, I love this Snapple flavor enough to risk dodging molotov cocktails just to grab a few, and besides, after you’ve stepped over enough chalked outlines of dead bodies and broken glass as you make your way to Aisle Number 5, you kinda get used to it after a while.
Still it’d be really nice if just ONE supermarket could stock ALL the grocery items I buy on a regular basis. Is that really too much to ask? Stupid economy.
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I know that sucks. That’s why I buy my groceries online and have them delivered!
But in the case where you can’t, I’d ask the store manager to carry Item X if they don’t. You will often find that they are willing to listen and/or work with you on that. Stores can’t guess what everyone wants to buy! Perhaps other people also want to buy those things at Store A, but they, like you, just walk off to another store after getting p-o-ed about it. So one of you folks has to stand up and say what you want. If they don’t, you should!
Never thought to ask the store manager to stock them, I just assumed my opinion didn’t matter. Must be a New York thing, where opinions never matter unless you use violence.
This is why I don’t get attached to brand names, it makes it easier to get what I want if I don’t absolutely need Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. But that is my two cents.
Dena
http://www.blacknright.wordpress.com
@Dena: But who else could have that special blend of diet lemonade-iced tea flavor that I find just so tasty???
LOL. Wish I could help you Lincoln but I’m Mormon so I had to give up tea when I rejoined the church. So I can’t help you with that. But boy I sure do miss it every once in awhile. (Imitiating Homer Simpson with tongue hanging outside of mouth and drooling, “Arrrrgh.”)
@Dena: I couldn’t live without sweet, luscious, lemon flavored iced tea.
To each their own though.
Hell would freeze over before I gave up caffeine for a church.
…mormons don’t drink Tea? Lemme get this straight, polygamy=great, tea=devil’s brew?
Another reason the mormon “church” is a cult and apostate.
I’m forming a new facebook group: Drink Tea for Jesus…anyone wanna join?
;)
Maybe it’s the caffeine. :-D
Oh brother. Mainstream Christians think Jesus is his own father, (can you say inbreeding) but we’re the strange ones! We think God and Jesus are actually two separate beings “Ahhhh! The heathens! How can they think something that actually makes sense!!! Let’s burn them all!”
And yes, we don’t drink coffee, tea or alchohol. We can drink herbal tea but not anything with caffeine in it. Because they last thing you want is a bunch of buzzed 19-21 year old missionaries getting manic and trying to spread the Gospel at the same time. We are also told to eat more grains, fruits that are in season and meat sparingly. It is called the Word of Wisdom and it is our health code. And guess what everything Joseph said nearly 200 years ago is now being touted as how healthy people should eat. So it seems like the rest of you are a little slow on the uptake.
As for the polygamy, get over it. We did it now we don’t. Just like White people don’t like slavery being thrown in their face every two seconds, we don’t like always being associated with polygamy. And if you are referring to Warren Jeffs and the FLDS, they have cut themselves off from the real church and we are not any more a part of that church then we are a part of the Baptist church.
One more thing, if you thought the tea thing was something, we also don’t drink Coke or Pepsi because of the caffeine. We do Fanta, Sprite, any soda that does not have caffeine. In fact, I have only had 2 Cokes in five years. I went from drinking a 2 liter of Coke a day (sometimes more) to none. And people say there is not a God. LOL Only he could pull that off.
I don’t think that’s a mainstream belief, as I think most denominations believe in the Trinity. You must be thinking of the Unitarians or certain Pentecostal groups that hold to “Oneness” theology.
Regardless of what Joseph might have said, the Bible is clear that we are allowed to eat most foods (sans gluttony), so long as it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer, and also indicated that any commandment that demands complete abstention from meats is a satanic doctrine (as well as forbidding people to marry.)
As for polygamy, I have enough trouble find one girl, let alone 100.
OMG…I thought I was the ONLY crazy one out there forever searching for the same flavor Snapple….it’s my favorite and it does not come in a case… so I stock up and wipe out the entire store’s section and my bottles are all clanging in the basket… NOW…they have a new look to the bottle…still tastes the same… black tea…but I can’t tell… I’ve even stalked the Snapple Guy in the grocery and told him – everyone loves this flavor… why not make it in a case and stock more of it in every store… I find myself going to stores JUST to hunt this “Best stuff on earth”! forever frustrated too… glad I’m not alone!
Oh my, LOL!! pretty soon we’re gonna have a support group here! :-D
So it’s called Black Tea now? No wonder I could never find any! I’m going to check for it next time to see if any of the markets here stock them. I need my Snapple fix!!