Complaint Department

Most Sunday mornings I get up early and read the paper. What a pleasure this is after so many years of having every Sunday morning be the equivalent of taking a stress test.

Sometimes I read the drug store ad - you know, the one that's the size of a magazine with lots of coupons bordering the bottom.

Sometimes, after church and lunch and exercise I stop by the drug store to pick up some of these bargains.

Guess what? They are consistently out of many of them. Usually paper towels. How can a major nation wide drug chain be out of paper towels?

I feel so sorry for people who actually need these bargains to make ends meet. Today I had a long talk in aisle 7 with one of those people. She was exhausted and almost in tears after running around trying to buy basic essentials at the best price
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It's hard for most of us to remember that half the people in the country have to live this way.

These weekly sale items are called "Loss Leaders" and they're drastically reduced to get you into the store. Fine. But please play fair.

All in all, I ended up having a pretty productive time in the store.

But still, no paper towels.