Tinfoil Chef

I’m really getting aggravated with WalMart these days. A few weeks ago I wrote about a recent find my wife discovered at WalMart in the form of Philly Cheesesteak Pringles.

They were great and we’d looked forward to having them again sometime. Tonight we were there and remembered them and went to get some more. Not only did they not have any, they didn’t even have a place on the shelf where they were supposed to be. Apparently they weren’t just out of stock, they were just plain off the menu.

Of course, that’s pretty much WalMart for you, just when you get used to something or decide you like it is when you stand a good chance of it disappearing from the shelves never to be seen again.

On this same trip, we were also looking to buy a ham. We’ve been buying this particular 5 pound Corn King ham for $6.95 for years. Far as I can recall they’ve never been “out” of them. They always have a chunk of cooler space loaded up with dozens of them if not actually a hundred or more at any one time. They’ve been moved around once in a while but that’s another Wally World adventure that while we find it aggravating as all get out, we’ve come to expect it.

I asked an employee where I could find it, He replies that he works in the dairy dept and doesn’t know. He points to another guy halfway down the meat area and suggests I ask him. I do so. He gets yet another person to ask. That person disappears through a door behind the meat area and returns less than a minute with the pronouncement “we’re out of them”.

I’m betting that he ducked through that door, waited a bit and then returned and gave us the news simply to avoid having to deal with the situation. By this time we’re tired of the whole thing and just want to get out of there.

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