On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:25:13 -0400, Maxine in RI >
wrote:

>On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:25:46 -0600, Gary >
>spake:
>
>|I would never expect a large food chain to even listen, much less stock something
>|at *my* request. OTOH, that gives the smaller stores an advantage over the big
>|ones. That's a way for them to take customers away from the big chains.
>|
>|Gary
>
>Funny. I've made special requests at Super Stop&Shop, and they
>have complied, and called me to boot when the stuff came in.

I've asked our local price chopper to get more flavours of Diet Rite.
Though they were already getting the cola, so it wasn't something entirely
new. They added one new flavour, and not the one I wanted most. *shrug*

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