Majority of Shoppers Don’t Make Lists

[Kali]

14. RANT alert

Fucking Safeway.

I have two options in the nearest small town (besides Circle K), Safeway and wallyworld. I try to avoid wallyworld for all the usual reasons, but also because their meat sucks and few of their food prices are any better at least for what I buy, (with some excpetions)

Safeway has now made it a major headache to shop for sale and bargain items. Some things are automatically less with the stupid loyalty/data mining card, but other things are now "personalized" and you need to spend an hour on the computer every week to get those set up (often to find they are still on sale for everybody else anyway) and then there are the store coupons that you can cut out or add with the computer as well. OK whatever, buit THEN there are the regular weekly specials. Their computer program does not mesh both lists so you have to add things manually or just try to remember or carry the flyer around the store. then there are the $5 friday items that sometimes are good all weekend, but of course not the weekend you decide to go instead of Friday.

Once you have all the homework done and want to take a list with you , it prints out on 5 pieces of paper and you still cant tell wtf you are doing. Then when it is all over you are too fucking exhausted and brain dead to double check the receipt (don't get me started on how they don't list weights of meat anymore or how the coupons and "savings" don't show on the display till it is all totaled) I come out of there so aggravated half the time I just want to drive through he front door.
Then you get home and realize they ripped you off for 3 or 4 dollars on some thing THEY didn't have entered into their system correctly and you just want to cry because now you have to either drive back down there (not me - that is 15 miles one way) or TRY to remember to take the receipt and the goddamn print-out or flyer back when you go next time.

arrggghhhh why can't they just do the shit automatically? they know what I buy, either make the price what it is or not. I am so tired of all the extra work and hassle. it SUCKS.