I really shouldn’t have to post this, but here it is:  If you place a special order, you must pick up your special order.  What don’t you understand?  Doesn’t matter what store or what product.  If something comes up (you don’t get your coupons or decide you don’t need the item or picked it up somewhere else), your first call is to the store to ask if they  have enough other buyers to take up the slack.  If the answer is no, then you either high-tail it over or you end up on The List.  Stores actually maintain a list of people who have placed special orders in the past and didn’t claim them.  Try ordering from them again and your order will not come in (won’t even get placed, but you’ll never know). Remember, you are giving them your name and phone number, so even those of you using an alias will eventually run out of names and numbers…

Remember that Angel Soft/Healthy Choice soup cat at Jewel?  The HC price spread was giving up incredible amounts of overage, which we were all applying to toilet paper.  I had a large order of this expensive toilet paper come in…with a notice that the warehouse had suppressed all the HC soup.  I paid a ton for that toilet paper.  Was I pissed – puhleez, but had I not picked it up I would have effectively burned my relationship with Jewel.  And if you think it’s easy to find stores to work with you on special orders, take another hit off that crack pipe.