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Cap Thieves

Over at the store down the street in the downtown area we noticed something strange. Someone stole just the cap of this here beverage. After further investigation we found out that this theft was a common occurrence. Just about every week the employees find a drink with a missing cap. Usually it’s sitting in the coolers with all the other drinks but sometimes they find them around the store.

It always seems to be the either a Lipton tea or one of those Nantucket Nectars. We have enjoyed both of those drinks lately. There is nothing special under those caps. We could understand if the stolen caps where coming from a Snapple. We all know that under those caps lies an interesting message. So stealing those caps would make a little more sense.

Perhaps it’s a prank but usually when one pranks they like to be around and see the outcome. We’ve been told that every now and then an unsuspecting customer will grab an uncapped tea and spill it on themselves but no one is around to see it happen.

So what’s up with this?

Lost List Number 3

Well, here we go again. One of our bloggers was shopping at the store, grabbed a shopping basket and stumbled upon a lost list. First things first lets break it down.

  • Non clorine bleach
  • laundry detergent
  • poligrip
  • fruit cups
  • pily cheese
  • pies
  • chocolate MY
  • 4 baking soda
  • 2 baked beans
  • Kleenex
  • eggs
  • cereal
  • assorted pies?

Now spelling aside, this is interesting. It would seem there’s going to be some cleaning and cooking happening. Again this is a bit vague, so let pretend that this list was given to us and we are off shopping. In the meantime we’ll think of what all these items will be used for.

Non chlorine bleach and laundry detergent, well thats simple, they’re getting a jug of clorox 2 and some name brand detergent.

Poligrip. Thats for dentures. This must be an elderly person or an unfortunate younger person. However there is about 6 different varieties of this product. So we’ll grab the most expensive. You don’t want to skimp out on your teeth.

Fruit cups. We’ll assume (and yes we want to make an ass out of you) they want mixed fruit. A six pack will do.

Pily cheese or Philly cheese. Again this a bit vague. Do they want a brick, a tub, whipped, chives, strawberry? There’s just to many options. In fact there’s about 4 feet of this crap. This list looks like they will be doing some baking so we’ll grab they regular brick of regular philly cheese.

Pies. We love pie. Up at the top of the list we saw “assorted pies” then Pies again at the bottom. Since it is plural we are going to grab one of each pie that we see.

Chololate MY.  This doesn’t make sense. We’re grabbing a regular Hershey bar at the check out.

4 Baking soda. I do hope they are on sale and they are stocking up. Unless this person has multiple refrigerators. Unless they are using it in some large recipe.

2 baked beans. We asked around the market. Unfortunately these beans come in cans and no one knew how many beans are in the cans. We do know that each can does have at least 2 beans in them. One can it is.

Kleenex. Simple enough.

Cereal. They clear state that they do not want cheerios. We did notice the Oh after that. So lets grab some Oh’s, those are good.

Eggs. One dozen it is.

Ok what could all these Items have in common?

Perhaps they are making some kind of cheesy chocolate bean dip to go on pies. They know it will be a messy task so they are planning ahead with the detergents.

Would you have shopped differently?

Let us know!

 

 


Lost List #2

Oh we found another lonely shopping list this week in a basket

Each time we find these list we like to imagine that the list was given to us and we are to go out and shop with no other information except for the list. This is where we let our imaginations wonder.

First things first lets break it down

  • Figs
  • Milk
  • Cake
  • #7-5-9
  • yogurt + ice – cream

Figs.  We enjoy figs, in fact we do have a delicious recipe for figs on the grill. Now there’s no specific number of poundage of figs so we’ll pick a pound of figs.

Milk. Then there’s some milk but how much milk? A gallon? A pint? Perhaps just a single serving. Have you seen the selection these days at the market? It’s a whole damn aisle. We don’t know the person very well, in fact we don’t know them at all so we now have to pick out some milk..If it were a flavored milk it probably would have been specified. With that in mind we going with the whole milk. As far as size, They’re getting a gallon and we are not going cheap. Grab that light blocking carton because that damn fridge light is always on…

Cake. Well, there’s just to many option now. In fact just thinking of what to grab hurt our heads. It could be crab cake, angel food cake, red velvet cake or even this little cake that mom use to pack into our lunches. The list could go on. I guess they getting a very small coffee cake from the checkout.

#7-5-9 Well this has to be lottery number to get. That’s the only thing that comes to mind. Hopefully the market sells lottery tickets that only have 3 numbers…

Yogurt + ice – cream. Or is it yogurt + ice = cream? If so they should have check their math. Maybe it means yogurt, ice and cream. They already had milk on the list. I would think if they wanted cream it would have been up at the top near milk. With that in mind we’re picking up a tub of plain yogurt and a some coffee ice cream.

Well, how do you think we did?

Would you have done anything differently here?

What could those number represented?

*Revisited*-Toilet Paper Bucket

Maybe it’s the lighting because every time I go to the supermarket I have to go number two. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t. Like this time. There are a lot of things that I wish not to look at while on the thrown in a public setting. I would have never thought of a bucket of once wet now dried toilet paper to be on that list.

Now I said I had to go number two. So of course while looking at all the nasty looking toilet paper, I glanced at the roll that was on the holder..yeah, it was looking the same. Then I began to wonder what made it wet. Then I tried to forget that thought.

Well i was luckily for me it was a one wiper and only one square of that paper was used, then flushed, note to self carry wet wipes

A Quick Update!

I really think it is the lighting..This time around the bucket is now wrapped in a nice thin layer of plastic. All the toilet paper seemed to dry and fresh looking. I’m just going off what I saw, I surely wasn’t going to touch it. I wonder if i go them on a bad day or maybe they visit this site.