What is happening????

[Marilyn]

Okay, what is happening to our retail stores???? If your experiencing some of the same things we are and want to share them. This is the thread for you!!!

1. Hubby stopped by the grocery store, HEB Plus (big super grocery store that even carries furniture), to grab some wooden clothes pins. They did not have any, just plastic ones. Why?
2. I went to Super Walmart to buy embroidery thread. You can buy knitting needles, crochet hooks, thread, buttons, fabric, patterns, scrapbooking supplies, jewelry making items, sewing machines, but no embroidery thread? Why?
3. I went to Super Target to buy some Anchor Hocking pie plates. They carry them in some Target stores, and are on our daughters gift registry, but there is "limited availability in some stores" and ours does not carry them. Limited availability for PIE PLATES???? in a SUPER TARGET? Why?
4. I stopped by Hastings to buy a book. Finally found what I wanted and went to the registers. None of them were open. There were two women at the customer service counter laughing and talking. Finally one acknowledged my existence and told me she'd meet me at register 3. I stood there while she continued her chat with the other woman and she finally moved to the register to check me out and the whole time was shouting to the other woman at the customer service counter, continuing their conversation. I felt like an imposition to her. What is happening and why??

I don't know about you, but I thought the big super stores were supposed to be a one stop shop. Not so, at least for us. We just have to walk farther inside the store to find out they don't have what we need.