Every time I go to Country Mart, I bring home a little surprise. It's usually something that catches my eye, which I had no intention of buying when I entered. They might have wonky packaging in their deli, and expired foods on their shelves, but Country Mart has a clever marketer in their midst.
I was on the household cleaning supplies aisle. I'd picked up a 9-pack of toilet paper, because you never know when hoarding might start again. And a 3-pack of Puffs With Lotion, because I was down to one box. I really wanted a roll of paper towels, but that clever marketer must have exclaimed: "Paper towels don't belong on the household cleaning aisle! Paper towels belong with the paper plates and plastic forks." While looking and looking with slim hope that I'd just overlooked the paper towels, I spied THIS:
Mini bottles of hand sanitizer! Something you never know you need until you see it. The orange fragrance version in my purse is getting low. I've had it a couple years. Maybe more, because I know I used it when I shopped at the Devil's Playground where I haven't been since The Pony graduated and moved home, in May 2020. My casino purse bottle, with a cinnamon roll fragrance, is still over half full.
Anyhoo... the price on this 2-pack was $1.00. That is amazing! Remember how the prices got jacked up, back when you could hardly find hand sanitizer because the hoarders bought it to jack up the price? Only $1.00 for TWO bottles! I'm pretty sure it must be the kind that's been found to be poisonous! Surely you don't think Country Mart would take poison off their shelves, when they can command 50 cents per small bottle for it!
Heh, heh! I'm sure I'll be all right! It's LUCKY Hand Sanitizer! Maybe I should switch it out with the cinnamon roll version, to carry in my GAMBLING PURSE!
I asked The Pony if he could use a small bottle. For his hooves, heh, heh! The Pony said he could.
"Mine boiled off from riding in the LLV (Long Life Vehicle) when it was so hot."
"Well, it's not a brand name that you'll recognize. It might possibly be poisonous. So don't lick your fingers after using it!"
"I don't plan to."
Farmer H will just have to be unsanitary...
Fragranced hand sanitiser??
ReplyDeleteWe just get the stuff that smells like the ones used in hospitals, which is fine with me anyway. I wouldn't mind smelling like a cinnamon roll though.
The Marketing guy is correct; paper towels do belong with the paper plates and plastic forks, because that's all picnic and barbecue stuff. In our supermarkets we have packs of paper napkins by the paper plates, but there are no plastic utensils anymore, not even drinking straws. Our paper towels are in the same aisle as tissues and toilet paper.
River,
ReplyDeleteYes, it's usually in the Devil's Playground at back-to-school time, for backpacks and lockers. It's the small travel size. One of my favorites was "green apple." The big bottles I bought for my classroom were the regular alcohol smell.
The Devil's Playground puts the paper towels with TP, tissues, and the cleaning stuff. Paper plates and napkins and plastic silverware and foil and ziplock bags are the next aisle over.
I'm sure that won't disappoint Farmer H. He's the typical man: if it's on the verge of spoiled, if it has just a little mold on it, it's still good.
ReplyDeleteSioux,
ReplyDeleteBut not bread! Farmer H can smell mold! He'll eat 6-week-old hot dogs in an open pack from the depths of FRIG II, but don't you dare try to serve him a bun that's a day past the expiration date! Unless it's "dog bread" set on the counter to toss out, which he will use due to the ease of not opening the cabinet door.