A particularly difficult shopping trip

Today we had to pick up a few things, and price check a few things.  This meant going to 4 different grocery stores.  We started at Walmart, as David had to order a prescription. While there we decided to check the availability of Highliner Cod Fillets.  I've been very, very disappointed in buying less expensive brands, and we had talked about it and decided to find somewhere to buy this brand, one I've been happy with before.  Nope, not there.

The next stop was Superstore, where soft drinks were on sale and, what's more, we had dollar off coupons.  Checked the Highliner Cod Filets, only because I had once found them there, but never since.  Well, they had them.  Bought 3 packages.  We also bought 8 cases of soft drinks and four 2-liter bottles.  Then to Vita Health for peanut butter and rye flour.  We couldn't find either, but David spoke to personnel, (!), and a computer search was done,  Finally a jar of peanut butter was found " in the back", but no rye flour. The clerk got annoyed.  " of course we have rye flour.  The computer must be wrong."  A lengthy search of shelves, by us and three clerks. It seems that we should have been looking for Stoneground rye flour, and the computer would have told us just where to look.  By that time I'd found some,  in a brand we trust, in a totally different part of the store.  This is a new location for Vita Health.  It's at least 3 times larger than the "hole in the wall' we're used to, and includes everything, including a deli section, but no-one, including staff seems to be able to find anything.

Then off to Sobey's ( with a quick stop at Starbuck's for my daily coffee), and finally home.  Then poor David had to schlep all those soft drinks into the house and down the basement.

And why was this difficult?  Everywhere,  every flipping-where, all of the Hallowe'en candy was on display! Boxes and boxes of little chocolate bars, packages of M&M's, boxes of small bags of Cheezies and chips.  And where there wasn't candy, crackers were on sale.  All of the types of crackers that we're often used as snacks.
As we left one store, I mentioned to David how difficult I found it, and he just laughed, saying that he was feeling exactly the same thing.  At least he can sneak down to the freezer for those leftover cookies!  ( They're downstairs for a reason)

The meeting yesterday went well.  There were just three of us, but we had a good chat, enjoyed our coffee and cookies, to say nothing of the cinnamon loaf--(that was go-o-o-d!)  We again discussed whether it was worth our while to host these things when no-one appear to give them any priority, but decided ti carry on, even if it was just the three of us. 


Otherwise, I've spent the day dealing with those little annoying things, details that are time consuming, have to be done, but mean very little in the grand scheme of things. Needless to say, after the busy weekend, and two day cleaning frenzy, I slept well last night.