WE SHALL SEE!
“You’re gonna like this stuff,” said the bubbly check-out girl at the Canandaigua Wegmans, after scanning a pint of Wegmans Premium Organic Dark-Chocolate ice-cream I had bought.
“My boyfriend got this, was gonna just taste it, but ended up eating the whole thing.”
“WE SHALL SEE,” I said. “It’s competing with Ben & Fat Jerry.”
“Did you find everything you were looking for?”
“Not Ben & Jerry’s chocolate ice-cream,” I said. “You never have it.”
“Well, maybe we should look into it,” she said. “I don’t want you to leave our store unhappy.”
She was young enough to be my granddaughter.
I hope she can maintain her enthusiasm.
She finished my order. I paid, but then the poor girl was at loose ends.
There I was, a customer she wanted to please, yet more customers were standing in line behind me.
“Ask at the Service-Desk,” she said.
Fear-and-loathing; the old stroke-effect speech hesitation kicked in.
“Can I help you?” a callow youth asked.
“Ben & Jerry’s chocolate ice-cream,” I said.
“Right over there in Frozen,” he said, pointing.
“You never have it,” I said. “Haven’t for some time.
“Well, let’s see if we do,” he said.
“Frozen call Service-Desk,” he barked on the storewide all-call.
Minutes passed. Nothing.
“Let’s see if it’s in our online inventory.”
He began fiddling a computer terminal; “Ben & Jerry, Ben & Jerry, Ben & Jerry.
Ah, there it is. Actually we discontinued that some time ago. Not enough sales.”
“Right,” I said. “Now it’s all garbage flavors; Sauerkraut Supreme, Rotting Lettuce, Dublin Mudslide......”
Guess what Bubbles, I’m leaving your store unhappy.
Although not that much.
Wegmans hasn’t had it for eons.
But I can’t get it anywhere else.
I have this dreadful feeling Ben and Jerry discontinued it, and Ben & Fat Jerry’s is the best chocolate ice-cream in the entire known universe.
• “Wegmans” a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua. (“Canandaigua” [“cannon-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city to the east nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.)
• RE: “Did you find everything you were looking for?” —Wegmans coaches their check-out people to ask this.
• I had a stroke October 26, 1993, and it slightly compromised my speech. (Difficulty putting words together.)
“My boyfriend got this, was gonna just taste it, but ended up eating the whole thing.”
“WE SHALL SEE,” I said. “It’s competing with Ben & Fat Jerry.”
“Did you find everything you were looking for?”
“Not Ben & Jerry’s chocolate ice-cream,” I said. “You never have it.”
“Well, maybe we should look into it,” she said. “I don’t want you to leave our store unhappy.”
She was young enough to be my granddaughter.
I hope she can maintain her enthusiasm.
She finished my order. I paid, but then the poor girl was at loose ends.
There I was, a customer she wanted to please, yet more customers were standing in line behind me.
“Ask at the Service-Desk,” she said.
Fear-and-loathing; the old stroke-effect speech hesitation kicked in.
“Can I help you?” a callow youth asked.
“Ben & Jerry’s chocolate ice-cream,” I said.
“Right over there in Frozen,” he said, pointing.
“You never have it,” I said. “Haven’t for some time.
“Well, let’s see if we do,” he said.
“Frozen call Service-Desk,” he barked on the storewide all-call.
Minutes passed. Nothing.
“Let’s see if it’s in our online inventory.”
He began fiddling a computer terminal; “Ben & Jerry, Ben & Jerry, Ben & Jerry.
Ah, there it is. Actually we discontinued that some time ago. Not enough sales.”
“Right,” I said. “Now it’s all garbage flavors; Sauerkraut Supreme, Rotting Lettuce, Dublin Mudslide......”
Guess what Bubbles, I’m leaving your store unhappy.
Although not that much.
Wegmans hasn’t had it for eons.
But I can’t get it anywhere else.
I have this dreadful feeling Ben and Jerry discontinued it, and Ben & Fat Jerry’s is the best chocolate ice-cream in the entire known universe.
• “Wegmans” a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua. (“Canandaigua” [“cannon-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city to the east nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.)
• RE: “Did you find everything you were looking for?” —Wegmans coaches their check-out people to ask this.
• I had a stroke October 26, 1993, and it slightly compromised my speech. (Difficulty putting words together.)
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