Don't you just hate it when you go into the store and they don't have your favorite kind? Pants! I go in to get a couple pair of 501's and they have every other size and kind but mine. I go in to get my favorite cookies and they have 100 different kinds but they are out of mine. Chocolatechip icecream. You'ld think they would always have chocolatechip ice cream. No! When I don't want any they have 100 gallons on hand. Cocoanut scented surf wax? No! Bubblegum or strawberry but not what I want. Damn!!! Don't they know to stock my favorite kind? What about your favorites? Pissed and Cranky

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2000

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I know EXACTLY what you mean and feel your pain. This kind of stuff happens to me with pants - I am tall (not freakishly so, but might as well be) and have a VERY difficult time finding them long enough... even places that carry brands that SHOULD have my length, they are never in inventory and refuse to special order them for me. Top notch customer service, youbetcha. I also hate it when stores do not have BASIC things, like tomato soup or lemon yogurt. And, does it really take a rocket scientist to figure out A LOT of people shop on the way home from work so, perhaps, MORE cashiers can be on hand? or there can be some late afternoon stocking of produce and dairy products?

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2000

So I've noticed over the last month that Target is emptying out their store. I need a Tide refill, an extension cord, you know, the basics. And they have NONE. So I asked, why is the store so empty? "Because we're getting ready to stock for the holidays." So I guess the store is only going to carry Halloween candy and Christmas decorations until after December. Wal-Mart, here I come. Frustrated and grumpy. Vicki

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2000

No, they won't have just Halloween candy and Christmas decorations. They'll have Halloween candy and Thanksgiving decorations and Christmas decorations, just to make sure you enjoy the holiday season extra hard. Feh. Damn stores.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2000

I know whatcha mean. I eat like a bird and only go to the store every couple of weeks, but I am starting to think about trying one of them on-line grocery delivery thingies (I always used to think groceries delivered was much more justifiable for folks w/ a real "household" to run w/ kids and stuff)I've had some disappointing experiences w/ unstocked shelves and surly, slow checkers.

Maybe all of the internet shopping I'm doing these days is making me fussier about the whole shopping experience. Now I expect to get exactly what I want, without my time being wasted. Hooray for choices.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2000

Ya'll are laboring under the delusion that the stores are there to serve you and for your convenience. *Snort, chuckle* Forget that. They exist so the owners and managers can make money. So why don't they inventory the stuff you want? Well, you need to purchase the stock that's not moving first, stoopid. Do you expect them to EAT all the inventory no one obviously wants? How fucking inconsiderate can you be? And look, stop complaining that they MOVE your favorite items everytime you go to the store. If they didn't, you'd go directly to it, make your purchase and leave without wandering all over and being exposed to all the OTHER stuff they want you to buy impulsively. See, silly? It's all about marketing; eff you, the customer. Oh, and the girl who acts like she's taken a handful of reds before she came on duty? The one that checks your stuff? She's there for that teeny salary she gets and you're just bothering her. The help on the floor? The ones who are supposed to assist you? They don't know shit, because HEY MAN! they just work there because they gotta fix their car, ya' know. How naive can you be? James, I'm ashamed for you. You're a lot more hip than this.(And observant too, according to Floosie.) Service, smervice. Ya'll are living in the past. What you have to do is indulge in acts of anti-goober terrorism. Be snide and demading. Raise your voice and demand to see the manager. Be an asshole, in other words and all you really want is your favorite ice cream. Welcome to the modern world. When I see clerks at chain stores whispering to each other as I walk in - I know they're say "Oh no, it's that crazy mutha-effer" - I take that as a compliment. They know I expect to be waiting on fairly efficiently. This is why I don't like the big city. In the small town I live in, they see me walk in, they go "Hey Bubba, if there's no Bud Light in the cooler, I got some in back, okay?" without me even saying a word. That makes all the difference.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2000

i hate when some one bys all the kathie lee cloths. i think i know who it is its that b*****itch marcy who i hate and hates me. i know she bys them all up cuz she knows how much i love her coths. and then shell seeme on the street and flaunt her new kathlie cloths in front of me!!!!! i hate her and shes not invited to me wedding.

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2000

*sigh*
Shoes.
I wear a 12 and I'm po' right now. So I shop at Payless. I get the coupons in the mail showing all the new styles and I get all hyped about some cute ass platforms. I get in that store and there's like 10 styles for my size, none of 'em what I want. The only other store I can afford that carries my size is Nordstrom Rack, and they've got like 5 rows for each size, but a half a row for mine. Pisses me off...

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2000

Oh, man...every time I find a product that I like, I mean, really like, especially with makeup, they discontinue it totally or the most convenient store stops carrying it.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2001

Ooh, Spats, I hate it when that happens. Sucks!

-- Anonymous, March 23, 2001