@MC: Eurgh!
Oh, then they're simply clumsy.
Or maybe they read this forum and don't want you to boycott them for the rest of your life.
There have been a few times when I've told them flat-out that since they either didn't have what I wanted, or I could find it cheaper elsewhere, I was going elsewhere. I wasn't obnoxious about it and neither were they. I think the manager realizes that if he can't match the sale price London Drugs gave me on cat litter (his price was close to double), I'd go with London Drugs.
It would take a lot more than this to get me to boycott this place. It's where my pharmacist is, and it's a co-operative that's been around for decades. My family has had a membership there since before I was born, and I get an annual dividend cheque from them every spring.
But the point is that when a customer places an order, they're supposed to get it right. I had a phone call just a little while ago and I will be seeing my missing items today. At least it had better be today.
I'm looking forward to the explanation for all this. Since there was no mention of a bag or two left behind yesterday, I can rule out the manager's carelessness. It's the fault of the clerks who handled this - the one who didn't write the order down correctly, the one who picked the order incorrectly, and whichever of the two should have called me to mention that they were sold out of some of it (as I found out during the phone call this afternoon; the missing soap was because they were out of the kind I wanted and they didn't bother to call and ask if I wanted to substitute something else or get a rain check).
what's so boring with not-semester
For academically-minded people, two weeks tends to be about the maximum time a vacation can last before boredom sets in and the mind craves diving back into a textbook.
That happened to me one summer, so I designed my own summer school that let me get a jump on Grade 11 Social Studies. And years later in college, I spent about a week of the Christmas break getting a jump on my physical geography labwork. It saved me quite a few late nights in January, as it wasn't unusual for me to still be working on these assignments at 3 am; they had to be handed in by noon the next day.
