Blind loyalty is moronic.
That said, there are some things that I will not do again.
1. I will never eat at a Ponderosa restaurant. I went into one in 1988 and saw a picture advertising what looked like a big juicy steak of the variety that I wanted. I ordered it and when it got to the table it was a small steak at best. I walked over to the picture and looked again to make sure that I saw the right one and I did. I vowed then to never ever eat at a Ponderosa again and I have not.
The rest are more recent and I am going to leave out some things in between.
2. I will never order from Breck's Bulbs again. I have had several problems with flowers not growing at all and lots of problems with their so-called perennials not coming back the next year. I decided to give them another chance and ordered 100 dollars worth of plants this year. Half of the order were plants that get shipped in the spring. I went out and made three new raised gardens to put the plants into, ( yes, I cut the wood, put it together and painted it then dug up the sod and put the framing into position and bought new high quality garden soil to fill them with). The original date on their site that I should expect delivery was 5/19/2016. They changed that several times and I finally got the stuff on 5/27/2016. When it got here some of the plants already had blooms that were dead and brown and the foliage was turning yellow. The other plants were bareroots that were all clumped together in the 2 separate bags. I managed to somewhat separate one of the types of plant into the 6 pieces that were supposed to be there, but there were already new growth shoots and planting them was a nightmare as the new growth was going the same direction as the roots. The other type had all grown into one plant it seemed and there were supposed to be 3.
Breck's stated that they would refund my money and cancel the rest of the order and I also had them remove me from their email and catalog mailing lists. As soon as my money is refunded they will never hear from me again.
3.Just today I found out something else that I will never do. I will never again buy seafood from Kroger. I work at the Kroger store in question. I went in and saw a sign in the case that I thought read 3.99/lb on the salmon. So I got three little skinny fillets and when the clerk weighed them and I saw 11.97 I rechecked the sign and saw that it was 3.99 each for a little 6 Oz. fillet. There is another sign right on the case that says the salmon is 7.99/lb. Why were the 6 Oz. fillets in the case at 3.99/lb? The same kind of salmon right next to the strips was 7.99/lb. That is a blatant rip off and I apologize to anyone that shopped at the store and got had by that scam. Why didn't my co-worker double check that I knew the price was each? I won't be saying hello to him anytime soon either.
To add, I also noticed that the seafood cooler unit next to the department was empty and someone was working on it. I am wondering if they took stuff out of that case after it went down and unwrapped it and put it into the main case? Is that how they knew that the strips were 6 Ozs each? Is that where they got the rip off price?
