Today I got up early to go to the grocery store, the Hannaford grocery store to be more precise. I did this because Hannaford had Impossible ground on sale beginning today and while I prefer Beyond ground sale prices matter particularly since Beyond costs over $5 dollars at Walmart now, when they have it which is not very often these days, up almost $2 dollars from before the New Year, and costs over $11 dollars at the Honest Weight Food Coop. I wanted it because I cook Beyond or Impossible burgers with chips for Danish hygge on Friday night for me and my friend.
I should have known, and I actually thought about this, before I went to the grocery at 7:30, that they would not have the item I sought, an item that was, to add insult to injury, to be the foundation of a coupon I had for $10 dollars off of $60 dollars. Nor did they have the Noosa Strawberry and Rhubarb yoghurt I sought or the Brown Cow large Maple Yoghurt I sought. And this was Sunday, the day items went on sale and one of the busiest days for grocery shopping during the week.
I asked the meat stock person if they had the Impossible ground. She said no and that the item had been out of stock for a couple of weeks at, one assumes, the distributors. I then asked why have a sale on the item in the first place if it is unavailable. She rightly said to contact Hannaford headquarters.
Annoyed, not angry as the cash person assumed but then most humans can’t work outside of binary modes of coded thought and realise that annoyed it not anger and vice versa, I complained again about the lack of the item and the fact that I could not use my coupon which expires on Tuesday. He contacted the manager and arranged for me to get a rain cheque for the Impossible and for me to use the coupon whenever I can get the Impossible. Quite nice.
Of course, whether I will be able to get the Impossible ground or use the coupon in the future is another matter. Time will, as it always does, tell.
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