Yes, you now own ALL THAT PEANUT BUTTER

[Pixelated]

We have a promo going on right now, where people with our rewards card get fairly large jars of [Brand] peanut butter for $2 off the regular price. Management has decided it would be a good idea to put eight or 10 of these jars at the end of each register, so that the cashiers can let people know of this deal.

I had an elderly couple come through my line today. I was talking to the wife and told her of the deal. She opted to buy one jar, so I rang it in and packed it. Meanwhile, her husband was standing at the end of the line and sort of haphazardly helping to put stuff into their buggy to get it out to the car.

I think I heard him ask two or three times, each time in an incredulous tone, whether he was really supposed to pack all that peanut butter. His wife kept telling him that no, she'd only bought ONE jar and the rest was just a display ...

Don't know whether he's got cognitive difficulties or hearing difficulties or both. But either way, I still had to smile at his apparent shock that they now owned eight jars of peanut butter ...

[Ghel]

I like peanut butter, but 8 jars at once would be a lot!

[RealUnimportant]

I was eating it pretty regularly for a while, and i bought a kilo (2-pound) tub... lasted me months. Now I have to go for the more expensive non-peanut stuff due to a newly developed sensitivity - which is unrelated to the amount previously consumed, but no less annoying for it.

[EricKei]

That reminds me of when My brother and I were teens. He utterly loved these honey mustard pretzel things (Dad was the regional guy for a snack maker, so we got whatever was left when it came time to pull the older stock off the shelves). Ate them all the time. Then - BAM! - one day he popped one in his mouth and had an immediate (but manageable) allergic reaction o_O It's faded away since then.

Similarly, my mom, who loved cats her entire life, was allergic to them until she reached middle age, and only discovered that the issue had resolved itself when she was at a friend's house one day (who was unaware of this because it simply never came up) and her kitty zoomed into the room into Mom's lap and no sneezing came of it

[Seanette]

I once had a friend who was horribly allergic to cats, except when pregnant. We found this out with her first child, when she was able to cuddle the longhair we had at that time with no trouble. Both the friend and the cat were delighted by that discovery.

[Ghel]

except when pregnant.

I'm curious. Did the allergy return after she had the baby?

[Seanette]

I don't think it was tested due to her moving.

[Slave to the Phone]

Don't know whether he's got cognitive difficulties or hearing difficulties or both. But either way, I still had to smile at his apparent shock that they now owned eight jars of peanut butter ...

I vote for deaf, not paying attention and married for a million years.

I don't like peanut butter. Hubs only eats one certain kind of stupidly expensive organic stuff that has to be bought at a health food store.

I have been known to buy huge amounts of stuff for donations, a poor friend or whatever.

Had we been that couple, hubs would have rolled his eyes and tried to pack up all the peanut butter because that was easier than asking me to explain what I was going to do with it.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Having a display of items at the end of the checkout where the groceries are packed is not a good idea. Unless management wanted them to disappear quickly.

[EricKei]

IA - It's been my experience that manglement/owners at many places refer to that as "not my problem." In other words, they'll blame the cashiers if too many of them mysteriously disappear because they "didn't prevent the thefts."

[Smapti]

I thought this thread was going to be about someone trying to return the 50 jars of peanut butter they bought last March and never used after discovering, to their chagrin, that they weren't all locked in their homes for months while all stores and restaurants were shut down and the cops arrested anyone who was out on the road at any time, as they seemed to believe was going to happen.

We had enough of those at the Store that we had to put a disclaimer on the bottom of our receipts that we wouldn't be accepting any returns for "overpurchasing".

[Monterey Jack]

We had enough of those at the Store that we had to put a disclaimer on the bottom of our receipts that we wouldn't be accepting any returns for "overpurchasing".

There are people probably still sitting on that $1,000 worth of T.P. and hand sanitizer that it'll take them ten years to work through.

[Kittish]

If it's the right brand of peanut butter, I absolutely will buy 8 or 9 jars at a time. It's hard to find the exact stuff I like around here; it's no stir, no sugar added peanut butter (they add just a little bit of palm oil to keep it mixed- every other brand that also does also adds sugar which I do not want). I don't like the 'stir' type no sugar added peanut butter, the texture is never right since you can't get the oil properly mixed back in all the way down so you wind up with peanut butter that's either too oily and thus runny or that's too dry and crumbly and won't spread right.

[EricKei]

It may just be my eternally stuffy nose, but I can barely tell the difference between sugar-packed PB and the no sugar added kind -- aside from the fact that I think the latter simply tastes more..."peanutty" (?). Thus, I go for the latter. My ideal is the ones whose labels read "Ingredients: Peanuts, salt." I also recently discovered a sugar-free bread that isn't nearly ten bucks a loaf (nature's own makes one for about 40c more than their regular loaves).

[Nunavut Pants]

Wow. I picked up a jar of the no-sugar-added low-salt kind and it was ... not good. At least, not to my tastebuds. I'm so used to the regular commercial type that the other tasted positively insipid. It was tolerable on pretzels, where the extra salt from the pretzel made up for some of the missing salt from the PB. But it was only tolerable, then.

Of course, I grew up on the least-expensive store-brand PB that we could find, since "single parent graduate student" doesn't usually == "high income". So I guess that's what I'm used to.