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On my way back home tonight I stopped at the grocery store (the same chain as the one I used to work at) to pick up some stuff. Anyway I struck up a conversation with a woman in line. She was a really nice lady and we chatted for the couple minutes until it was my turn to check out. When the cashier was done, I wished her good night and went on my merry way.
After tossing some gas in the car, and being about 5 minutes away from home I realized that I needed toilet paper, which was my biggest incentive for stopping at the store in the first place. Even though I hate going into the store where I used to work but rather than driving back to the store I had just left (about 10 minutes) I drove to my ex-employers store. As I walked up to the check out, I see the same lady from the last store holding the same Buy one Get one free sale item she ws holding at the other store.
After exchanging hello's again, I asked her if I had just seen her with the same stuff at the last store, to which she affirmed that I, indeed, hadn't gone crazy since last I saw her. Then she lowered her voice to almost a whisper. "These are buy one, get one free and I want to stock up on them while they are cheap, so I'm going to different stores to get them. They have a limit on them." I know I made some kind of
face. I pulled the weekly circular out of my back pocket and showed the ad to her, pointing to the part that said Buy one, get one free. Limit 3 free. The expression change on her face was priceless as she went from triumph at thinking she was beating the system, 
to total embarrassment as she discovered she was a total idiot for not reading the ad completely. 
After tossing some gas in the car, and being about 5 minutes away from home I realized that I needed toilet paper, which was my biggest incentive for stopping at the store in the first place. Even though I hate going into the store where I used to work but rather than driving back to the store I had just left (about 10 minutes) I drove to my ex-employers store. As I walked up to the check out, I see the same lady from the last store holding the same Buy one Get one free sale item she ws holding at the other store.
After exchanging hello's again, I asked her if I had just seen her with the same stuff at the last store, to which she affirmed that I, indeed, hadn't gone crazy since last I saw her. Then she lowered her voice to almost a whisper. "These are buy one, get one free and I want to stock up on them while they are cheap, so I'm going to different stores to get them. They have a limit on them." I know I made some kind of
face. I pulled the weekly circular out of my back pocket and showed the ad to her, pointing to the part that said Buy one, get one free. Limit 3 free. The expression change on her face was priceless as she went from triumph at thinking she was beating the system, to total embarrassment as she discovered she was a total idiot for not reading the ad completely.
But what better use could there be for the Walmart weekly ad?
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