It's a conspiracy!

To make my life a misery.......me and close ones keep joking about the concept of there being a conspiracy to remove anything we like from the sale of goods (i.e remove it from the shelves before we can get to the retail shop that it's sold in)

The reason for this is whenever I find a product I like, when I got back to buy it again.... 9 times out of 10 they have decided to discontinue that particular product or they don't have it in stock and neither does the rest of the Country!

This has happened soooo many times now I am getting really frustrated!

It covers everything....and it's not just products I like when it comes to being out of stock.....it's like I decide I need something and have to search the whole city looking for it to no avail.....so then you spend another day searching perhaps in another city or online....and pay way over the odds.....aswell as the fuel costs and endless hours searching for it....then couple of days later you notice every freaken shop has it in at a fraction of the price you've just paid!!!!ahhhhhh

The other day me and my mum noticed a steam cleaner in B&Q . It was in the sale and was a proper carpet cleaning one with all the tools to do other things around the house. I was trying to persuade my mum to buy it as she has recently starting developing alot of allergies and she has dogs, so I offered to go round and steam clean the whole house for her should she buy it. Anyway she decided she couldn't afford it, so we left. Couple of days later she changed her mind so off we went to get it at B&Q. We get there and the whole bit that sells hoovers and cleaners was empty!! So we asked a member of staff who informed us that they had been packed away, because they are having a re-fit and are locked away in cages out in the warehouse for now!....cages!! why do they come alive at night?. They said it could be weeks before they bring them back out. We ended up searching the town and couldn't find one like that at full price let-alone sale price. In the end we found a cheaper one, which didn't look as good as the other one but mum got it anyway. So I go round to do it for her but it dosen't come with any cloths, you need them to attach to the carpet cleaning attachment. Out we went again to get cloths.....traffic was horrific....we pass B&Q so decide to look in there for thick floor cloths....no cloths have been packed away, hoovers and STEAM CLEANER is out on display.......well I could have screamed.....we'd already opened the other one and used it now...can't take it back...and would take all day again in the ridiculous traffic anyhow....we could not find any cloths anywhere......

Found some since and it's all good now....but this is a regular occurence

It is a conspiracy I tell ya

[Disfunktional-DJs]

Sounds abit like sods law.

something similar happened to me.

My son wanted an I-pod docking station (tower speaker)

went around the usual haunts and couldn't find one he wanted...then went to a discount centre (members only) and they had one he wanted £91...there was only a couple on display and it said end of line model...so thought best get it now before we miss out...didn't really want to be going round any more stores looking...anyway bought it my lad was happy... couple days later I needed an extension lead and I remembered seeing a really good one @ that store and it was on route... so I nips in to buy it... low and behold the speaker towers were still on display but the price had changed to £44 plus v.a.t... I was fuming lol...wile paying for my extension lead I asked the lady on the till if I could return items that have been opened and she said only if faulty... so when I got home I took the wires out of the plug and took it back to the store asking for a refund...they said they didn't do refunds but I could have a store credit note... guess what I bought with the credit note... 2 docking stations. one for daddy too

[Dan Michaelson]

I'll participate in this thing. I think that food markets/stores purposely move stuff around occasionally or worse, and to stay with the subject of this thread, stop offering an item anymore. Just to piss me off I"m sure. The latest? Cheese cubes (bits o cheese in the shape of cubes, like at a party with toothpicks in em). That's right, cheese cubes. I like them. They are handy for all uses (salads, snacks, throw em in other stuff, catching mice, toy building blocks, non-lethal projectiles...etc..). And the MF's have stopped carrying them. Hell, I alone was helping them make a profit on the damn cheese cubes. What can I say? It sucks to be me......

[Kelly Mitchell]

I think you're onto something Saph & Dan. I recently acquired a taste for a certain chili mix, Carol Shelby's Texas chili. The best being the white chicken version. Now, I've found it so hard to find that I had to order it by the case at Amazon. The cooking instructions were so bad that I see why it didn't sell well. It seems to move around the supermarket shelves too.

[Michael Ritchie]

That is so damn funny because it's so true. Either that or there is just a few of us that take notice to these kinds of things! My local store just stopped carrying the beef jerky that I liked for years and they always told me they couldn't keep it on the shelves. What? Anyhow got a kick out of your post!

[Saphfire]

lol glad I'm not the only one then!

My latest was trying to find Tutti Fruiti icecream........they don't seem to sell it anywhere...used to love that flavour when i was a kid!

Before that it was orange cream biscuits.....nowhere to be seen on this earth!

Asda did this lovely chicken and bacon pasta bake ( family size) it was really tasty and everyone who tried it commented on how nice it was...then all of a sudden they stopped doing it....they do it as a meal for one....but the not the family sized one anymore...and it works out too expensive to buy the single ones...ahhhh...why??? Why???
They also did a lovely pineapple & Coconut drink...they don't do it anymore!


Anyone else experienced the parking drama....another thing that gets on my nerves.......you enter car park......you park in a space that has plenty of other spaces around you...plenty of room to get in and out...to pack your shopping into car afterwards etc. Then low and behold along comes 2 cars whom park right next to you (too Closely) out of all the f******g spaces in the carpark you had to friggen pick these spaces. Then when you come back to the car....there they are again...back at the same time as you...fathhing about...getting in your way....your having to squeeze in the door to get into car due to them being parked too close........this happens everytime we blimen park

[Michael Ritchie]

I think I can explain using simple logic and reason your three conspiracies.

1st. The tuuti fruiti company wants you to try their new released flavors before they restock the shelves with their current favorite "tutti fruiti". Or you may never try their new flavors?

2nd. You actually answered your own question on this one and that's cost. They don't sell many family pasta's units but do sell the single which makes more profit. Bye Bye Family size pasta.

3rd. Well that's just the fact that most people are assholes and think that this is their world and everyone else is just living it. They have no idea that they were inconsiderate and parked too close. Remember, they don't even know you exist and if they did? -Don't worry they wont!

Now as for my beef jerky? That's a real conspiracy because they were always sold out most times. Explain that? The company didn't go under and they still sell it at other markets. Must be a conspiracy from beef suppliers directed soley at me! I'm sure of it! pretty soon I wont be able to buy any beef product I'm guessing? No Mcdonalds nothing!

Take care. By the way, I know exactly what you mean so maybe we should start a support group and call AcA "Absolute Conspiracy Anonomous" probably make a fortune!

[dawnsinclair]

Ok I am in.....how come when they have a fab offer on something, there's none left on the shelves? If there's none left and the offer is no good any more, take the stinking sign down!

Another thing, how come you can buy McCoys crisps in mixed flavours and yet, when they separate them and sell 6 in a bag of one flavour, there are NEVER plain ones? My hub only likes plain crisps and so I have to buy the mixed for him and give away the other flavours. The special offer is on ALL the mixed packs and never on the one flavour packs too....why>? Is it cheaper to put different flavours in opne bag than all the same? I'd have thought the reverse was true.

Oh there's so many things that make no sense, like we shopped at Sainsburys for years until all the recent indecent rises in prices and are now forced to shop around...BUT only now does our car get banged about in one supermarket carpark ...which one? You guessed it ASDA.....we have 3 new scrape/dents in the space of two months because, presumably, the spaces are smaller in ASDA or else because ASDA customers (not you Sapphire of course) are shite at parking?!? I am beginning to think it's false economy to shop there but their fruit and veg are better and their petrol is soooooooooo much cheaper than anywhere else.

[Saphfire]

Originally Posted by dawnsinclair

Ok I am in.....how come when they have a fab offer on something, there's none left on the shelves? If there's none left and the offer is no good any more, take the stinking sign down! .

The other thing they do is place a different size of the same product onto said 'fab offer' shelf. So the offer is for say 12 toilet rolls.....which are right at the back and in front of them is several packs of 24 toilet rolls...same brand..... the 24 pack is compacted so you can't really tell....and the 24 pack is NOT on offer!
Unless you are aware of this you just pick it up and throw it in the basket! You have to be a bloody detective when you going shopping now. I'm thinking of starting a blog...The Big Shopping Conspiracy

Do they think were stupid........

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