Jun 14 2008
BOGO Rant
OK, so today our grocery store was advertising By One Get One Free on Kellogg’s cereal. I wasn’t there for cereal specifically, but being that we’re a one income household, naturally I was giddy with the prospects. Normally, I’m not a very successful bargain hunter, but this was too good to pass up. So I load up a box of Frosted Flakes and another of Froot Loops, thinking “kaching” to myself, while exercising my usual cautious restraint. I snake through the remaining aisles with 3/4 of my children, pick up a few essentials as well as a few non…then make my way to the registers.
Of course, when the cereals get scanned, I’m watching the screen for the discount which never comes up. Then I have this whole internal debate on whether or not to say something to the cashier, before finally deciding I should. So I do.
She promptly tells me I must be wrong, since I’m trying to pass off two completely different brands of cereal…one is loops and one is flakes, never mind the prominent Kellogg’s logo on the boxes or the fact that they were all stacked together on an endcap display. She insists on ringing me up for both. Behind me two more customers are waiting and glaring, glaring and sighing, crossing their arms, rolling their eyes. I’m making my case alternately in English and Spanish. At some point a security guards saunters over to make sure I’m not causing a ruckus and I’m directed to the manager, who nods alot and returns to me the $4.17 I overpaid. Meanwhile, two of my kids have disappeared behind the fireworks display and my toddler has lost one of his shoes.
Still, I won. Ha. I think to myself as I’m leaving. Following that thought is the the question of why I bother to leave house sometimes? Ugh. Double ugh.
