"jinx the minx" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 7/30/2015 8:48 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Roy" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 12:54:54 AM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>> Someone in this house likes the little cans of pears to eat with >>>>
>>>>>> cottage
>>>>>> cheese. I normally buy them at Albertsons but two different stores
>>>>>> >>>> were
>>>>>> out. Totally out. They had other sizes of canned pears and the
>>>>>> small cans
>>>>>> of all other fruits. I remembered that I had bought some at Big
>>>>>> Lots. I
>>>>>> went there today and they did have them but in heavy syrup. The
>>>>>> eater
>>>>>> prefers in juice or light syrup. Other stores such as Walmart do not
>>>>>> carry
>>>>>> the little cans. Yes, I know I could buy other sized cans or the
>>>>>> >>>> little
>>>>>> plastic cups. And I have. But this person wants the little cans.
>>>>>> Have you
>>>>>> seen these in your area?
>>>>>
>>>>> No...have not found them or want them.
>>>>> Why not tell your anonymous person to buy his/her own cans of pears
>>>>> and
>>>>> make your life less complicated. You should learn to say NO or I can't
>>>>> find them and make it final? You are never going to satisfy everyone
>>>>> in your home and especially those anonymous ones we can't identify
>>>>> but who live there with you apparently.
>>>>> ====
>>>>
>>>> Why not mind your own business? You don't know. You could have left
>>>> it
>>>> at that.
>>>
>>> Why do you post this stuff if you want everyone to butt out? We don't >
>>> actually care if your daughter or your husband will only eat small cans
>>> of > canned pears. You're the one inviting commentary.
>>
>> I asked specifically if anyone else is having trouble finding this size
>> of canned pears. Apparently, nobody here buys them at all. It wouldn't
>> matter what I had said. Someone would have made something of it. I well
>> know that I can buy pears in all sorts of can sizes. I am not stupid.
>> That is the size that I wanted so that's what I asked about.
>>
>> Apparently I can't ask anything here, even if it is food related. People
>> are going to make a big to do and tell of other things that I could be
>> doing, as though I am stupid and can't figure things out.
>
> You should be asking YOUR STORE what THEIR issue is getting/keeping them
> in
> stock, not wondering what OUR pear situation is,as if there is some small
> can of pears conspiracy going on. You may be able to figure things out,
> but this post says otherwise. If I couldn't all of a sudden find a common
> food like canned pears, I sure as hell wouldn't ask RFC first. Ridiculous
> attention seeking at its finest. Ask your grocer why they aren't stocking
> them!!

It isn't just one store. And if this continues, I might try to ask but most
likely not since I never seem to get anyone that has an answer anyway. And
at the rate that stores are going out of business or changing hands here,
who knows. It's also not a matter of not stocking them. If they were no
longer stocking them, there wouldn't be a SEM.