Cookie contention

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There is a specific kind of cookie I really like. I’ve seen ones like it
called Jaffa cakes, but the ones I like have raspberry instead of orange in
them.

The supermarket chain my wife and I most often use seems to have stocking
issues. If a company makes several things and only one sells well, they
don’t restock the popular one until the others are gone. (I assume they
have to buy packages of several kinds, so can’t just get what sells most.
The other theory is they would rather have out product that isn’t popular
so they don’t have to restock it much…)

This often results in large holes on the shelves where product should be,
but isn’t.

Yesterday at lunch time I went to the store. As I went past where my
cookies normally sit there was the big empty hole. Two older women were
next to it pushing their cart.
I looked in the hole to see if any of my favorites were all the way in the
back.
There was, as is often the case, a large number of orange ones. But, the
hole where the raspberry ones should be was very deep.

“We got the last one!” one of the two women said to me. “They won’t
restock for the rest of the week and we got it!”

I reached all the way into the hole and pulled out another box.

“There was one more!” the other woman shouted.
“Long arms,” I said and walked past them.

“You got lucky!” the first one said. “You should never look for cookies on
a Monday! We’ll get them first!”

“Monday does seem to be a bad day for this,” I agreed and turned the corner
to the next aisle.
They seemed to be arguing over having left a box for me to find in the back.
I moved on.