On 7/30/2014 9:47 PM, Doris Night wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:47:59 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> Does your grocery store get an item that you like only to have it no longer
>> be stocked the next time you are in?
>
> No.
>
>> Albertsons is doing that now. They
>> had wheat grass. Then they didn't and I was told they no longer stocked it.
>> Now they do but it's far from fresh. They had bagged radishes with no
>> leaves. Now they don't. The only radishes they had were puny and mostly
>> leaves. Now no more Ciabatta bread and no whole wheat bagels of any kind.
>>
>> As I was looking at the bread, another woman was looking in the very section
>> that I was, with a disgusted look on her face as she searched and turned
>> packages around to read the ingredients. Much of what was there had high
>> fructose corn syrup. I suspect that's what she didn't want. I also suspect
>> that she too wanted Ciabatta bread. I was tempted to ask her but she looked
>> pretty angry so I didn't.
>
>> This is very frustrating! There are things that I buy that are only stocked
>> by one or two stores. It's hard enough to try to remember which store sells
>> what and then they do this!
>>
>> They are also getting rid of Brach's Pick A Mix. SIL told me that their
>> store got rid of it some time ago. Ours only got it in perhaps a year ago
>> if that. And now? It was sitting in a cart, bagged oddly. Some bags
>> contained all of one kind but others were seemingly random mixes. Each bag
>> appeared to be at least a pound and each bag was selling for 99 cent. I did
>> feel it and it was very fresh. So a good deal if someone wants it (I
>> didn't), but there will be nowhere else to get it now! Fred Meyers used to
>> sell it but I think they quit too.
>
> What the heck is Brach's Pick A Mix? Some kind of mixed vegetables?
>
> Doris
>
I thought it was a bag of candy.

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