On Saturday, I went to Save A Lot with a specific purpose. As opposed to just using their lottery machine and browsing. My goal was to get the mini Drumstick ice cream treats. Farmer H likes the regular size, at over 300 calories apiece. I just like a small sweet, and the minis are 100 calories. They still have the ice cream, nuts, and a crunchy cone, but are tiny.
Anyhoo... I was happy to see that the store was not busy. I got my scratchers. Looked for their store-brand steak sauce, which I add to chili and soup, and like with chicken. They didn't have any! In fact, there was not even a space or label for it on the shelf. All they had was brand-name A-1 Sauce. Which I like just fine. It's thicker, with a similar taste. But it comes in a glass bottle rather than plastic.
Anyhoo... I went over to the far end of the store, to the freezer cases, for my ice cream treat, which is not carried by 10Box. I don't know about Country Mart. That's too far to drive ice cream home anyway.
I was in shock when I came across the back aisle and saw the freezer:
It wasn't just the ice cream/dessert section. The meat section was also bare.
When I showed Farmer H the pictures, he said, "Huh. Their cooler broke, and they had to throw away all that food!"
Yes. I could imagine that happening. I sure didn't want ice cream that had melted and re-frozen. But dang it! I really was looking forward to my mini Drumsticks.
Now it's Monday afternoon. I'm giving it another try. Surely they wouldn't want to lose out on all that business. I'd imagine they have a cooler guy to call for emergencies.
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I got to my local Woolies early one day in January to find at least ten staff members frantically emptying the freezers to take all the foods back to the big storage freezers out back because the temperature in the freezers was rising above recommended levels and needed fixing. All was back to normal next morning but I didn't buy anything for at least a week in case partly thawed and refrozen goods were in there.
River,
I went back on Monday afternoon, and the cooler was still empty! I finally found my mini Drumsticks on Tuesday at the Sis-Town Save A Lot. They didn't have Farmer H's variety, but they did have a kind of Drumsticks the same size, but with chocolate or caramel filling in them.
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