On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 3:47:59 PM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
> Does your grocery store get an item that you like only to have it no longer
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> be stocked the next time you are in? Albertsons is doing that now. They
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> had wheat grass. Then they didn't and I was told they no longer stocked it.
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> Now they do but it's far from fresh. They had bagged radishes with no
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> leaves. Now they don't. The only radishes they had were puny and mostly
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> leaves. Now no more Ciabatta bread and no whole wheat bagels of any kind.
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> As I was looking at the bread, another woman was looking in the very section
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> that I was, with a disgusted look on her face as she searched and turned
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> packages around to read the ingredients. Much of what was there had high
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> fructose corn syrup. I suspect that's what she didn't want. I also suspect
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> that she too wanted Ciabatta bread. I was tempted to ask her but she looked
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> pretty angry so I didn't.
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> This is very frustrating! There are things that I buy that are only stocked
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> by one or two stores. It's hard enough to try to remember which store sells
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> what and then they do this!
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> They are also getting rid of Brach's Pick A Mix. SIL told me that their
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> store got rid of it some time ago. Ours only got it in perhaps a year ago
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> if that. And now? It was sitting in a cart, bagged oddly. Some bags
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> contained all of one kind but others were seemingly random mixes. Each bag
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> appeared to be at least a pound and each bag was selling for 99 cent. I did
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> feel it and it was very fresh. So a good deal if someone wants it (I
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> didn't), but there will be nowhere else to get it now! Fred Meyers used to
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> sell it but I think they quit too.

God, Albertson's is as bad as shopping at 7-11.