I've decided I hate this Hannaford. Not only do they refuse to carry items that I know are carried…read moreby other Hannafords where I have shopped regularly before (and then the "customer service" rep here insists that they do in fact carry everything that every other Hannaford carries, and it is *I* that am mistaken!), but they are often out of basic staples that any grocer should have, large or small.
Once, they were out of fresh basil. OK, I can see that -- it is perishable, it's an herb, you can sub the dried stuff, and they usually only keep a small stock anyway.
But on that same day, they were out of strawberries. Well...I mean, it was the end of summer, but you can usually get them even in February in a large supermarket chain, right? Another time, I could not find a single banana that was not as green as the Vermont mountains in June. And the last time I was there, all the flat parsley (what little there was of it) had been freed from their little bindings...and, thus liberated, had been strewn, bruised and battered, all over the other produce. The cilatnro, in particular, were not amused.
So *maaaaybe* I can excuse being out of some produce...I mean, it is perishable and all, right? So you don't want to order too much and throw the rest out all the time...
But what excuse can they give for being out of dried foods, like Near East Original Rice Pilaf? Jiffy corn bread mix? Press-and-Seal food wrap??!!? The Press-And-Seal, I am betting, does not even have an expiration date!!!
Inexcusable. Clearly, they need new management. Particularly in produce, where every time I ask the produce manager to help me find something, she gives me the wrong answer ("no we don't have it" when they do) or I find it before she does. C'mon.
