Very Peculiar

Last night at the grocery store, I found myself in the cereal aisle. Well, a week or two ago, I was also in that aisle and was puzzled by the lack of cereal WITHOUT ALMONDS. I lamented the fact that so many consumers were duped. SO MANY that the stock was completely out. I was saddened.

But last night...

Last night I realized something amazing. That cereal was back, in the orange box. The one that used to say "without ALMONDS." Yes. It USED to say that. But now, on the shelves, there are about 15 or 20 boxes of that old cereal, but there is NO MENTION of it being without almonds anywhere on it! The boxes are fresh, crisp and new! As if they had recently been manufactured. There wasn't even a sign of the cereal boxes of yesterweek, when I had been angered beyond reason.


Could it be that Kroger's desire for complete customer satisfaction made it so that ONE long-winded complaint caused them to redesign a box of cereal? Or was it that I happened to be the ten thousandth complaint on that same topic? In other Kroger stores across the region, have all of the cereals been replaced? Or just in the local Kroger here in this town, the one they know I use to buy groceries?

We had noticed the missing product 2 or 3 weeks ago, which was the VERY NEXT time we had been to the store AFTER my formal complaint. I joked about it then. I never expected that my petty whining would ever make a difference.

That's right.

I Made a Difference.


Enter a new era of Amanda Wood. The one who will not hesitate to put in writing her annoyances and irritations - FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE WHOLE WORLD!

Perhaps Mark and I will start our own Committee which will be a consumer review and we'll be all lobbying against poor service and misleading advertisements and all of that stuff.

I am finding that in adulthood, you try to make a hobby out of anything you can.