I use Velveeta in my mac’n’cheese recipe (don’t judge me, it’s a great recipe!)
At one store, Velveeta is by the pasta. In another, it’s by the chips, popcorn and beef jerky (??) Target keeps it in the refrigerated case for some reason. It is almost never located by the other Velveeta product, Shells’n’Cheese. I end up canvassing the entire store just to find this overpriced junk!
It does seem to vary store to store. Sometimes with the other cheeses, sometimes with pasta, sometimes with baking items. And if you shop at several stores you forget where they keep it next time you look. And for some reason, it is very hard to find unless you check every aisle in the store very carefully.
When I first saw the thread title I thought it was going to be a claim that nobody carries it. But still, I’ve never had trouble finding Velveeta (which spellcheck seems to think is not a real word.) It’s always either in the dairy section, or with the dips and salsas. And nearly always in a prominent display with various other cheese spreads.
Indeed, Velveeta is in odd places in our local stores. It’s not even next to the generic equivalent at one store.
But the real puzzler is sauerkraut. You ask someone and they send you to one place. A person there sends you to another part of the store, etc. No one will know where it is! There are even employees that don’t even know what it is.
Around here, I think I generally see it by the pickles. I’m trying to think where else in the store it would possibly be. Maybe the canned vegetables section? (OK, this is not counting the store that has barrels of self-serve saeurkraut and pickles in the deli section, but you can’t miss those.)
Velveeta is in the dairy section in the store I go to, which is good because my mac & cheese calls for 3 different cheeses and they’re all right there.
But, I only shop in one store for that kind of thing so I had no idea it would be outside of the dairy case anywhere else. Now I know!
Raisins can be tricky IMHO. They used to be in the produce section at my store, then moved farther back past the produce, and now there is a large dried fruit and nut section tucked next to the fish, even further past the produce.
At Wal Mart I looked by the produce, the candy, the baking stuff and didn’t find it. Finally someone helped me find it by the fruit snacks which are behind the pop.
I asked my friend who is a manager at Wal Mart if he knew where the raisins were. He had to give it some thought but he did come up with “fruit snacks.” He also agreed that they do get moved a lot.
Tahini. I’ve found it near the peanut butter, in the deli near hummus, with condiments, with pickles and olives, with salad dressings, and in the ethnic food aisle.
Maraschino cherries. I only buy them twice a year at Christmas and Easter to put on the ham so I always have plenty of time to forget where they are.
Canned fruit section? Nope. Near the canned pie filling? Nope. With the sundae toppings (conveniently located in the bread aisle)? Nope. Jammed between the cake mixes and squeezy frosting? Bingo.
Mincemeat. Even in season, it’s on an obscure end cap or the lowest, dustiest shelf in baking or fillings.
This year, I was lucky enough to ask the store manager who was the only person who knew it was in a box in the back, request-only like condoms used to be.