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Default Tender stir-fry beef

Mark Thorson wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>>
>>> I brought a pen and paper to copy down the bizarre
>>> label I saw on a bottle of "cooking liquor". It
>>> gave instructions like "soak meat and fish to remove
>>> stench" or something like that. But it was gone!
>>> This is a new store, only opened about a month ago.
>>> I suppose this item was identified as a slow mover,
>>> and taken out of the inventory.

>>
>> After a month? More likely it was sold out.

>
> When I was in the store today, they were reorganizing
> the shelves, moving items around. At first, I thought
> they were just restocking, but then I noticed some of
> the shelves were bare. Entire sections are being moved.


Ah. I think they moved the stuff.

> I suspect they are analyzing what sells, and adjusting
> their inventory to optimize sales. When they opened,
> they sure had lots of weird stuff I'd never seen before,
> even though I frequently shop at the other two Asian
> food stores nearby. I guess I better go back there
> and buy those weird dried fruit I was thinking of
> trying before they drop it.


Good idea ... I guess. Depends on what weird fruit it
was.

nancy