shopping woes

sadly not every store can be as completely awesome as walmart... take albertsons for example. it used to be 'my store' according to their adverts and for a while i believed it. but no more... i went yesterday to find my personal parking space now says 'reserved for online order customers ONLY'. well that sucks, i thought ALL customers were valued. so i found another space and then noticed it said 'reserved for the police'???? hmm, if they are shopping while on duty and squandering my tax dollars, then i really don't think they should be given a good parking space to boot. walmart does NOT give all the good spaces to it's special customers - everyone is treated equally (maybe poorly... but equally poorly) at walmart :)

plus my favorite hebrew national 99% fat free hot dogs are $5.99 at albertons. at walmart they are $2. TWO FREAKING DOLLARS!!! you can get 21 hotdogs for the same price as 7 at albertsons and freeze two packs for future hot dog nights. which reminds me, i don't understand why buns are in packs of 8 but weiners in packs of 7...? another albertson's hate: pizza is 20% off on friday. and friday ONLY. so can i buy a pizza, even if i really really really need it on thursday night? or saturday morning? nope, because i can now ONLY buy pizza on friday :| thanks for making my life far more complicated and painful than it really needs to be, albertsons :|

my other hate: coupons. just reduce the prices everyday by a little bit! i hate coupons! i never have scissors so i have to tear them out which causes major anxiety in case i rip the bar code and the cashier gives an exasperated sigh and gets out HER scissors to make them neat and sometimes, even worse, as i am whisking through the store, the coupons fly out of my hands and then i can't find them and i have to put back the thing i went in for. urgh hate them.

worst offender: costco. they send books of them valid from this day to that day on this many items with these barcodes ONLY and not the low-fat ones, etc etc etc. i used to love costco... now i don't so much (but i do keep them around because you can print a 12x18 sheet not auto corrected in an hour and you can't do that at walmart :)

sigh. off to joanns... i hate joanns too!! i can only buy one thing per day because i can't possibly NOT use a 40% off coupon on my wares - do they realize i'd buy more stuff if they'd just bring the prices in line with walmart's everyday prices...? arrghhhhhh!!!!