Got a call about the great deal on the Simply Asia noodle bowls on sale this week for .88. The Lombard Ultra had tons on display with $1 peelies attached. woot! Drove up to freaky-deaky land for that and the one-zip rain checks (’cause we all know Ultra never has stock during a sale). Yes, they had tons of the noodle bowls, both on an endcap display and on the shelf. Loaded up the cart with them, salmon and some fruit (for the overage). It was not to be, however.
Cashier says she can’t scan the coupons because they’re for $1 and the noodles are .88 each. Well, they’ve done it plenty of times in the past, but the overage is not that important to me so I take off the fruit and fish. Half way through the sale, the phone rings and someone asks her about the check out. Fatboy comes over and says that I can’t purchase all these. When I point out that there is no limit in the ad or on the display and it’s the last afternoon of the sale, he shows me the ad where it says they reserve the right to limit quantities. So my limit is apparently 12. O k a y, then, pay for the 12 with the coupons, make sure that they subtract a nickel for my bag (goes into tax – fuck ’em) and leave the cart for Fatboy to reshelf.
I’m not really upset or surprised. In the first place, these suckers are nasty-high in sodium (56% mdr) and secondly, the reason I call this Ultra freaky-deaky land is because so many of the shoppers wear those black shrouds that cover them from head to toe. What’s going on in there, anyway? The creep-factor to me is enormous. Let’s just say that I’m deeply suspicious of any religion whose God dictates that says men can wear whatever they damned well please, but women have to follow the Cousin Itt approach to fashion…
Yeah, lucky for me I have an Ultra in Wheaton. The few times I have been to Lombard I too have not enjoyed the shopping. The area has really changed. I also don’t understand the whole dress code thing. I mean in the summer the guys are in flip flops, shorts and tank tops and their wives are dressed head to toe in black. Pisses me off. I want to grab them and start the conversation off with…. Listen girlfriend……
i like you!
wish they’d put an ultra up here in the boondocks…all I hear about are the great sales and the closest one is at least an hour away! Boo!
no…you…don’t…
Becky.. Besides some decent sales you really are not missing anything. Think of a really dumpy Cub foods. That is Ultra Foods.
LOL – “really dumpy Cub foods” – I’m gonna use this. I usually tell people it’s “like Cub foods, but not even as nice as that”.
Oh! And you should see the Forest Park Ultra. Even though it’s only 2 blocks from my house, it’s such a bummer shopping experience that I’ll only go there if there is a REALLY good deal to be had.
You mean to say: It’s almost as nice as Cub Foods!
I want to start a blog ala peopleofwalmart.com for Ultra. Seems like every time I go in there, there is a mom yelling at her 8 unwashed kids and beating two or three at any given time.
You think Ultra is weird in the daylight hours? When my husband and I were in college, we would go to Ultra for grocery shopping after he got off work at midnight. Talk about the crazies coming out of the walls at night…and oddly enough you would still sometimes run into a mom who has hauled her kids out that late and was yelling at them. Very weird indeed.