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I HATE when a grocery store has a reno/facelift and changes everything around!
Honestly, it takes me months and months to get my bearings again on some of those little things!
Wow, I was sure I’d be the first to bring up raisins but is well covered.
I’ll add certain Mexican foods in a mass market store. The crema and queso may not be anywhere near the Dean’s and Kraft stuff. There’s a grocery near me that has dedicated a small island cooler… in between the bakery cakes, the fresh flowers, and produce.
Tortillas may be in more than one place, too. Nationally or regionally distributed manufacturers may have some room in the bread aisle or perhaps an endcap. The good, local stuff wrapped in paper and delivered daily isn’t in the vicinity. Protip: If you’ve checked the expected sections for tortillas but still can’t find these superior staples, look for a low shelf in front of the deli or butcher cases.
Cashier: “Did you find everything you were looking for today?”
Me: “Uh, well, actually not. You’re out of [something mundane like yellow onions or flat parsley].”
Cashier: “Oh. Um…sorry about that…?”
I no longer answer this question truthfully.
I think Velveeta is illegal in Wisconsin. I know some Irish butter is. The cows have spoken.
Is there anything more difficult to find in a grocery store than Velveeta?
High-end call girls aside…
Oft times I find it more difficult to find Valvoline Axle Grease at my local grocery store.
Ironically, when I shop at my local automotive store, when I browse the Axle Grease isle, guess what I find? That’s right—Velveeta!
An open check-out aisle?
I have trouble finding vinegar 
. I know! Different stores have it in different locations. No signs for it. And either it flies off the shelf, or they don’t keep much on hand. Or both.
I thought you were all saying Pearl Bailey. :o Time for new spectacles.
A few years ago Mrs. Daylate was looking for some mincemeat for one of her great pies. After searching for it in our local grocery, she finally collared a clerk (male, about 25 Y.O.) and asked him where it was. He promptly lead her to the meat counter, and started looking.
Don’t remember if any mincemeat was ever found.
Daft me - I’m always having to ask where the individually-toed socks section is.
Never had Velveeta before.
too chicken
In some stores, the most difficult thing to find is a working shopping cart.
Oh, there’s one over by the Velveeta.
Same here. I’ve never seen Velveeta in the refrigerated section. It’s always in various places around the store. It doesn’t need refrigerated if the package hasn’t been opened.
Wal-Mart’s app does this. It’ll even tell you if an item is in stock in the store you’re shopping in.
Yeah, our grocery store is shifting everything around right now. They used to have handouts with an index of what things were to be found where, I hope they’ll do that again soon so I can sort my lists properly.
Snap-E-Tom brand tomato-green chili cocktail. I looked through several stores trying to find some when I had a jones for it to no avail. Yes, there’s a spicy V-8 but it’s not the same. Googled to make sure they still made the stuff (Del Monte said they did); considered ordering a case online but I don’t drink it that often and was afraid it’d expire before I reached the end of it. Apparently there are others in the same boat.
Something like six months after my quest, looking for something else entirely, I saw in the Hispanic section, end of the section by a cap, top shelf, single-facing so it was two cans wide, with neither can showing the, um, tomato-red sombrero-wearing mascot, my prize. I’m sorry, but somehow I just didn’t think of it as, you know, really Mexican.
The six-pack was a little dusty.
Yeast. I looked ALL OVER the baking aisle. Up and down it, three times.
It was on a kiosk near the bacon. Of course. Because when I think yeast, I also think “bacon”.
ETA: the store manager told me it was “so it wouldn’t get warm”. It was Massachusetts in January. I’ve bought yeast in Florida in August and it was kept in the baking aisle.
I assume you’re talking about the dry yeast and not the cake yeast (which usually or should be in the refrigerated section.) Yeah, a couple of times I have seen this, too. It should be in the baking aisle, but sometimes ends up in the prepackaged deli meats section for some reason.
There was a protein shake I was looking for at Safeway a few weeks ago. I knew they carried it, but there were 6 or 7 different places it could have been. Turned out, they stocked it in 2 different places within the same store. Same brand, same item, two separate locations.
Now, if you’re looking for tofu, that might be anywhere (or nowhere)!
Wegman’s (a regional chain mostly in upstate and Western New York, and eastern Pennsylvania) has this, as well. Or at least on their website–not sure if they have an app, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Target has one, too.
I’ve never heard of that, but it sure sounds tasty! I wonder if it’s even available anywhere in my area (Chicago.)
Some years ago, we were hosting dinner for some friends just before Christmas. My wife was baking a cake recipe she’d found in some gourmet magazine, which featured gold and silver “balls” as part of the frosting, made from fondant and dragees (a.k.a., the little gold and silver BBs that you used to put on Christmas cookies when you were a kid).
She sent me to the grocery store to pick up a number of the ingredients for the dinner, including the cake. I scoured the baking aisle (where other cake-decorating stuff was located), and could not find dragees. I went to a different grocery store – no dragees there, either. I called my wife from store #2, and she was both disbelieving and despondent: “But…if I don’t have those, how can I make this cake??”
I finally stopped at a specialty food store. They actually had dragees, but I noted, in large print, on the package: “Not a Food Product.” I suppose that explains why traditional grocery stores don’t carry them any more. 
Underlining added. That’s an interesting sausage recipe you’re using. :eek: