Showing posts with label Safeway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Safeway. Show all posts

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Groceries Delivery Goof


 I often have my weekly groceries delivered to me as I find it difficult lugging the bags up the stairs to my apartment. If requires several trips especially when I have purchased a lot of liquids. There have been many times when something was sold out by the time they shopped my order so they either remove that item from the order or try to substitute for something similar. One time I had to call because of some mix-up at the store. I think the order wasn't placed in the to be picked up in the for delivery section. A bit of an unexpected delay and the problem was taken care of.

Recently on Saturday 29 Aug 2026. This happens. My order was delayed and delivered, however they dropped it off in front of the wrong apartment. The photo they included for the delivery didn't show the apartment number but it was clearly not my apartment, the door knob on the apartment they left it at was on the opposite side of the door from mine. Plus the doormat was different looking. I contacted the main customer service and had 2 options have a re-delivery the next day (Sunday) or get a refund. Well I need my groceries so I opted for re-delivery. While on the phone with customer service it looked to me that the apartment that received my order was the one directly across the hall. I should have knocked on their door and inquired about any deliveries but I didn't I was already in the process for re-delivery. I probably should have, but that would have needed to done when I discovered the problem which wasn't too much later than the delivery. 

I seem to recall hearing the rustling of paper bags being delivered, that a minute or two later someone was talking in the hall and then the bags rustling sound again. The neighbors probably noticed the order at their door, said "what the? I didn't order this. Oh what the heck" and then took the stuff inside. At the time of all this I hadn't yet gotten the notification of the delivery. I also don't like to open the door while the driver is still delivering in case they had to take a couple of trips.

I am guessing my neighbor had discovered the delivery and just brought it in thinking nothing of the mix-up and not noticing that the bags are marked with my name, well part of my name they don't print my entire last name it's one or two letters short. it doesn't include the address so even if you saw the other name you wouldn't know who was supposed to receive it. Unless you know all your neighbors.

As I said I had talked to customer service (corporate I think) and they supposedly put in a re-order and gave me a reference number. Checking my email and my account early Sunday morning I noticed there weren't any updates. So I call the store's number get put on hold at the first answering, get disconnected. Then with the 2nd call get hold of the lady in charge of deliveries and she was not aware of any re-order until I reported it to her. She assured me she would take care of things and I finally received the re-order at a reasonable time. Earlier than the expected re-ordering delivery was supposed to be by about a hour maybe an hour and a half.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Pop-Tarts Another Taste Test: Frosted Crisp Apple

 OK so here I am, well was a few months back, with another taste test of what I hope will be a restoration of childhood nostalgia. Once again I saw a different Apple of Pop-Tart on the grocery store shelves. This time it was FROSTED CRISP APPLE. Yum!


Now if you have read all my posts on this blog you might remember I have done a couple of Pop-Tart taste posts. One was for another apple flavor "Frosted Orchard Apple Cinnamon" and the other was of all things Fruit Loops. Back to this "Crisp Apple". On the surface it looks like another Kellogg's attempt to bring back the favorite "Frosted Dutch Apple". Right? Wrong. Well sort of. I don't know if they intentionally keep introducing apple flavors that are similar to the original Dutch Apple flavor or not.

As with many other Pop-Tart flavors this one is a bit dry due to the pastry part. The filling part was so-so unheated, but slightly edible when heated up (toasted). OH well.

I have come to the conclusion that due to the recipe changes of the pastry over the years, and the use of  dryer chemical sugar substitutes particularly in the frostings, they will never revive my old favorite flavor FROSTED DUTCH APPLE.






Saturday, July 04, 2020

Pop-Tarts Limited Edition Taste Test: Froot Loops

OK so once again I was tempted by the evil Pop-Tarts demon. This time it was a new limited edition flavor for kids "Froot Loops". Based on the Kellogg's breakfast cereal of the same name. I think I had seen this flavor on the shelves before but didn't feel the urge to try it until just recently. I bought a box of 8 pastries at my Safeway.


I didn't know what to think of the things. I wasn't expecting anything super great, and I was right. They taste pretty much like you would expect them to. My first bite of the first one I tasted was awful. Sure it had a bit of the "fruit" flavor of the cereal and the filling and frosting do sort of have the Froot Loop flavor, but mixed with the new awful dry floury taste of the pastry's base dough it was hideous. I guess I started to get used to them after the first two, which I didn't think I would even be able to get through the first one let alone two that first morning. The following days they weren't as bad but they still weren't enjoyable.


To attract the kids to beg their parents to buy these things there are six different patterns/designs drawn on the frosting. I only come across 4 of the 6 designs. Well maybe 5. Not sure about that first design in the upper left showing the group of six or seven however many of the cereal "loops", but I definitely did not get the one that says "I'm with Sam". I got three of the spoon and 2 or 3 of Sam himself only 1 bow tie and 1 of the "glasses".


I'm sure to kids these things taste great, and for the kids that are Froot Loop freaks they can't go wrong. However for me and probably most adults they are to be avoided. Blah.

Monday, October 31, 2011

DVD Update - August thru October

 AUGUST - OCTOBER 2011

It has been many many moons since I've updated any of this blog, ACK the last few minutes of October are passing me by. This update has just August and September DVD purchases since I didn't get any in October, although I do have a couple of discs in transit from Columbia House.

NOTE: At the time I started working on this post my Amazon Associates link thing wasn't working properly so I couldn't add the links I wanted to, perhaps I'll have to edit later to improve this entry.

 
First up in August I went to Target and got a DVD that I had forgotten I also had on order from Columbia House. It was the Sci-Fi Action Time-Loop movie Source Code. It is a blind buy. The first thing about the film from the trailers I've seen is the main plot of having to go back into the past just before some tragic event and try to make it right, re-doing it if you fail. Sort of along the lines of the 90s TV Show Seven Days.

 
Moving back a little further through time we have the Third installment of The Mummy Franchise The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. I haven't watched my DVD of it yet but I have seen the flick. Got this from Columbia House.

This Classic Steve Martin comedy I got for real cheap at one of my local Safeway stores. Excellent comedy with the classy Bernadette Peters. They worked well together, too bad it was only because they were dating at the time.

A sight unseen very B-grade Sci-fi Time Travel movie. Perhaps straight to DVD starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Jason Priestley. Again a very cheap purchase from Safeway.

Yet again a Safeway sight unseen B-Grader this time a Sophomore or perhaps Freshman comedy from National Lampoon called Pucked looks like a parody of high-school Hockey flicks with a girls team. These movies can be very Hit or Miss.

That was the August fair next the two September Flicks I got.

First up from Columbia House as the Director's Choice of the Month pick one of the latest Superhero flicks from Marvel Comics Thor. Looks to be 10 times better than that Hulk vs. Thor Made for TV movie from the late 1980s.

The last entry was a DVD I got from one of my friends so it was a Freebie. He upgraded to Blu-Ray so he gave me this copy. This historical action Classic starring Micheal Caine might make one want to chant weird things.