Trader Joe's rocks

[firecat]

Trader Joe's runs out of stuff regularly, and sometimes it's a while before you can figure out if you've had a run of bad luck looking for something, or if it's discontinued. The OH and I like their frozen chicken pot pies. We haven't seen any for a while. Today I went there and again I found no pot pies.

The checkout person made the mistake of asking me if I had found everything, so I said there were no pot pies and asked if they had discontinued them. She said no and asked another staffer to check for pot pies in the back. But the staffer hadn't reappeared by the time I was checked out, so I headed to my car.

I was very surprised when the checkout person chased me down in the parking lot and handed me a pot pie, saying "They found some in the back, this is on me."

I thought that was a very cool gesture. It won't make me shop at Trader Joe's more, because I already get practically all my food there. But it makes me a little bit happier about shopping there.

Comments

[bunnybutt.livejournal.com]

mmmm, just had one of their pot pies for dinner.

I'm told by the staff at my store that individual stores will often stop carrying something that can be found at other stores. (As opposed to the well-known discontinued phenom, where they get me addicted to something, like their hot and sour soup, and then just stop making it. feh.)

Like others here, I do almost all my food shopping at TJs!

[firecat]

hot and sour soup

I KNOW! I LOVED THAT SOUP!!!

[phoenixpdx.livejournal.com]

They did that to us with the Volcano coffee beans. We *finally* found the perfect bean to blend with the New Mexico Pinon, to make one truly excellent cup of coffee. And then poof! No more. We've been searching for 2 months and finally think we've found one.

And what does it say about me that I parsed that subject line as "the rocks of Trader Joe" and my brain went "ow!!" ?