Dee Randall wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Rhonda. Will try this... funnily enough the store-bought ones we
> > had were made in Australia - El Paso brand? or something heh heh heh.
> > Went to look for them at the store we got them last time and guess
> > what? None to be had. <sigh>
> >
> DH & I have a saying for that situation: They're just too darned popular!
> Now, why if something is so darned popular, can't they get more.
> But -- they say, their supplier will only supply them so many.
>
> Or they will say, nobody buys them anymore, so they don't worry about
> stocking them.
>
> If it's a product I can't do without, I get busy and start looking; don't
> take anyone's opinion as to why it is not on shelf.
>
> This is akin to the answer when you are trying to find out if you've
> overlooked the location in the store for a product;
> The question is: Do you carry "such and such." The answer is, "If you don't
> see it, we don't got it." Tee hee.
> This scenario doesn't arise at Trader Joe's. Wonder if TJ's has alerted
> them not to say this pulling-your-hair-out answer.

It's just so annoying.... we shop at certain stores because they have
certain foodstuffs... which usually lasts about six months - and it's
gone! Then we shop elsewhere. We don't have TJ's in this country - wish
we did, but we have stores like Woolworths Food Halls - they usually
keep a pretty good stock of most "good stuff" on an on-going basis.

Cheers
Cathy(xyz)