Posted by wisbaker on January 15, 2015 at 19:04:05 from (173.26.84.185):
In Reply to: Laugh out loud funny posted by rrlund on January 15, 2015 at 07:15:45:
I had a near death experience in a store something like Whole Foods. I have a yuppie corporate CEO/President MBA from University of Michigan with no kids Brother in Law. For some reason about 18-19 years ago he invited the wife's whole family to his place in Boulder Colorado. At the time we lived in Tennessee and my youngest Daughter was about 1 1/2 years old. Our big vacation plans were to drive from Tennessee to Boulder Colorado, spend some time there then drive to upper Michigan, spend a night there then on to see my family in the Lansing Michigan area before returning to Tennessee. Big road trip and even if we were "environmentally conscious" still they type of event one would consider disposable diapers for. Miss Allie was busy and soiled the supply of disposable diapers available (okay they were actually some locked in the trunk of the car that was at the dealer's getting a new master cylinder installed). I asked where the nearest grocery store was, the BIL/SIL replied they do ALL of their marketing at the North Boulder Market and proceeded to give me directions. Hopped in the rental mini van and drove there, looked and looked but no disposable diapers, I decided to take a risk and chance loosing my Tim Allen fan club membership and asked where the disposable diapers where.....gosh you would of thought I'd admitted to being the Anti-Christ or was trying to annihilate them with low yield nuclear weapons. "WE'RE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY HERE WE DON'T SELL DISPOSABLE DIAPERS HERE" (I didn't mention at the time I was the site environmental manager for a recycling company and project officer for our plant's Audubon Society Wildlife Sanctuary Certification). I slinked out of there feeling lucky to still be alive, ended up driving back towards downtown Boulder, found a Safeway they not only had disposable diapers but put them in a plastic bag to carryout them of the store...what service.
As for now, we're in North Central Iowa, the nicest store we have is a HyVee, I don't shop there much, mostly on a service issue. You see here in Iowa we have a bottle return law and HyVee can't seem to keep the bottle redemption machines working, on top of that they seem to draw a dis proportionally large number of homeless or hygienically challenged individuals to their bottle return who seem to want to lovingly caress and reminisce over each beer bottle before returning it. I go where I can get service, yep I go to Walmart. They have more bottle and can machines, keep a larger percentage working, no homeless people gumming up the returns and our Walmart does a far job of keeping shelves stocked (well no any worse than HyVee). The selection isn't that great but I can find enough to keep us feed and save 40-60 minutes on each trip.
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