I have been to several locations of both grocery chains in Halifax that start with the letter S and have been unable to find 2 items that were on sale one in each store… eggs and toilet paper. Why bother having a sale flyer if you are not going to have the sale items on the shelf until after the sale is over.
—REALLY PISSED OFF.
This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2009.
Get there faster.
life as we know it is, like, totally ending because of this.
Um, most flyers start FRIDAY, and you’re going on the following WEDNESDAY to a store expecting sale items to be left over?
I bet you’re one of those jackholes who headed to my other half’s place of work asking for Halloween candy at 4:00pm on October 31st.
The early bird gets the worm, dude.
here we go AGAIN crying because of a sale on fucking eggs…..they sold out – GET OVER IT and ask for a rain cheque or shut up. No rain cheque you say….BOOO HOOOO you didnt save 50 cents.
FUCK
I know of a particular store that regularly fails to stock sale items at all. I’m with the OP on this one. I’ve tried to pick up sale items the SAME day as they went on sale only to be told that they are out (and won’t be getting any more)because STAFF stocked up!!! Why bother indeed!
They’re EGGS for fuck’s sake.
God, how much do they cost when they’re not on sale—a million dollars each?
You’d think they were made of gold for all the effort you’re wasting trying to track them down.
You probably spent more money on gas driving around to the other stores than you would have saved from the “sale.”
well faberge eggs are close… if not more than a million..
though I suspect so’s beez don’t have sales on them very often.
Christ, for the amount of gas you spent going to and from both locations, you could have save 20 bucks by going to Shopper’s Crack Mart or Stupor Store. Unless you’re juicing up for a bodybuilding convention and need all of the eggs you can get.
OP, I’m having a strange sense of déja vu…have you been on here befiore complaining about the lack of eggs that were supposed to be on sale, but were not available/
Have you considered buying some hens?
Lots of people, myself included, sometimes walk to the grocery store so the gas consumption is not relevent to all.
I doubt that’s the case Oceanlady. The OP went to 2 locations. Of that particular chain, they’re spread too far out to be reasonably walked to. Unless you’re taking the bus, and even then, that’s a waste of money.
Moron! Get rainchecks…there’s no limit on how much you can buy with a raincheck.
Actually Sebastian, they do specify the number of items a raincheck entitles you to.
Shop at Costco, they never run out of shit.
Dr Fever: The OP said they visited both chains that start with ‘s’, a walk that is easily achievable in my neighbourhood.
Broc…maybe Costco is buying up all of superstore’s eggs and reselling them.
The drugstores appear to regularly have eggs on at a lower price than the groceries stores lately.
left over H1N1 vaccine eggs are worth less. Pharma Reps sell them to the drugstores at a discount.
You’re right, OL.
Good try Miles, but you can’t beat my brothers’ attempts to gross me out when it comes to eggs. Their personal best was the time they put incubated eggs that had died into the fridge–not quite formed chicks, but close. After cracking one into the frying pan, I couldn’t eat eggs for a looong time.
“are these shells in my crunchy omelette?”
“nope…it’s beaks”
It’s called being “sold out” get a rain cheque.
Why ARE boys so clueless, anyway? I mean, they put live trout in our well so that they could fish in the winter. We had to drink chlorine for the rest of the summer.
OP probably collects coupons too… Save 20 cents on…who gives a shit…
If you drive you spent more on gas going from store to store than you would have saved… mind you bus fare I think is like $2 now too so even that’d do it…
fuck nuts all bitching bout eggs you lamers need a life – oh wait its cheap eggs sorry you need a better job
Lol! @ Miles! Beaks (and eyeballs)…the omelet the REALLY says good morning!
HKM, my head hurts.
Tell me “they put live trout in our well so that they could fish” is not true.
How long did they intend to leave them there?
They were 7 and 10 years old so they probably hoped they would multiply = )
It was a busy summer for them–their next idea was to try to catch a groundhog with my Mom’s big stewpot. I bet you think it can’t be done, huh? It can when the groundhog has rabies.
ha ha.
I once tried to dig to China with an empty cat food can. My mom put a stop to it when we got the septic tank.
That was last summer.
You got TO the septic tank or she let you go until the hole was big enough to put in the new septic tank? = )
Wouldn’t a rabid groundhog be faster, and harder to catch?
oops. “TO the tank”. But conning us into digging a hole for her would be the kind of thing my mom would do. She once ‘let’ me chop down some trees in the backyard because she wanted to make a small clearing. She also ‘let’ me take apart the old washing machine so the pieces would be smaller for carrying to the curb. I also was allowed to do that.
I’m shocked kay isn’t all over this thread attempting to sound intelligent with a bunch of legal jargon she overhears about how “S” is “false advertising” or something related.
Nope, it heads right for you, but generally it’s staggering and such. It must have been quite far along, because they simply ran up to it and threw the pot over it. When they yelled for my Mom to come see their new pet, she noticed it was going ballistic under the pot one of them was sitting on. She yelled, do not move and do not let it out. She ran in the house, grabbed the gun, ran out, then yelled, “jump off and run as fast as you can”. By then, between her fear and the gun pointing right at them, they were scared, so that wasn’t a problem = )
Moms’ are very clever, aren’t they? She sounds like Tom Sawyer, but you sound like the kid who paid him to do the work = ). Poor, little, trusting Miles. Be sure to take your Mom when you go to buy a car = p
Hmm…I can’t help noticing that we focussed on the eggs. How about the more important thing?
I just hope the OP didn’t decide to skip TP until the next sale rolls around, since it was such a mission.
Eggs are funny.
Someone going all over town in an attempt to save a few cents on a carton and then getting all angry about them not being there is even funnier.
eggs and TP….maybe the OP ran out during Halloween and needs to restock. How’s your bar of soap situation OP?
OP, for our insensitivity, please, eggs-cues us. Ha Ha Ha, I crack me up!
Ha Ha, Logic, I forgot about the toilet paper. OP will be blowin’ in the wind for a bit, I guess.
whoops, *blame :).
Well melectri I went into Shoppers Drug Mart on Spring Garden Road and bought 3 kraft dinner at .99 each and get 500 bonus points… this was in this weeks flyer. It came up as 1.99 a box and when I pointed this out to the cashier she went off in a huff to check on the price and came back and put in the right price and I told her that there was 500 bonus points if you buy 3. She got madder and checked through the flyer and started muttering something when she saw that I was right. I suppose this is all my fault.
That has nothing to do with what I was saying except that I worked at a drug store. My only assumption is that cashier just finished dealing with the OP, or you said it like “UMM THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ON SALE!” or maybe that cashier is just a bitch, I don’t know, I don’t work there, sorry.
I meant the blaming part… you said the OP should blame his or herself for not being able to find any of the eggs that were on sale so I assumed that I should be blame for my rotten experience at Shoppers Drug Mart.
Exactly right Bon. Why is it so unreasonable for a store to expect a huge demand for a sale item and therefore stock accordingly?
get a raincheque. that way, you’re not going to every store all over HRM looking for the sale items. The raincheque insures that you get what was on sale and unavailable, at sale price when its not on sale. Problem solved. Unless you really need TP THIS INSTANT AND CANT WAIT TILL TOMORROW.
…in which case you would be willing to spend 5$ per square.