Yessirree, you young-uns - that's how we old folk expressed our dissatisfaction with things before the advent of the YouTubez and the MyFacebookSpaces and the blogs.

After we hung onions on our belts, of course. Then we'd fire up the old 78s and dance the Charleston.

Two Dogs Farking: "After we hung onions. . ."

I see my work here is done.

If the stores want you to shop locally, then they should carry items people want. This doesn't include the family-owned stores.

The sheer torrent of poetry that spills from the tip of this man's pen...

Oh, shut your pie hole.

Well, Goddamn it!

Well, after asking for them at the supermarket, why not write a letter?

Hey, it's better than most of the headlines here with the "do you a)go somewhere else b)write a letter to the editor of your newspaper or c)take a shotgun and kill everyone in the store.

"Stores should respond to customer requests"

Ok...here's our response:
'No'

/happy now?

FTFA: If the stores want you to shop locally, then they should carry items people want. This doesn't include the family-owned stores.

WALDRON H. SMITH

Stroudsburg

Would someone from Stroudsburg kindly explain that statement?

/then get off my lawn

Well, he certainly has a well-developed sense of entitlement, doesn't he? I guess it's good to know you young whippersnappers aren't the only spoiled brats.

/get off my lawn

Why has the media remained silent about the frozen potato shortage until now?

"I like them French fried potaters. "

i don't see where the problem is. he asked, they said no. so he wrote a letter about it. so what?
at least this way he gets heard. writing a letter to corp. office would only fall on deaf ears.

Apparently he's granted the family-owned stores some kind of mysterious exemption.

That's just how we roll in Wind Gap muthafarkers.



Shiat's on tap 24/7.

Fark greenlighted this crap?!? WTF??

I'm the customer, biatch!

Local newspaper prints inane letters to the editor? Submit a headline to Fark.com

I really thought this was a link to The Onion, but I didn't think Fark did that. It turns out, I was right.

I asked and got a shrug for an answer, along with zero interest in finding the answer. No, I won't write a letter, but I told the guy thanks for aaaaaaall the help, and I'll buy elsewhere.

Nice and loud, too, right in front of the manager.

It's a local store. For local people. And local potatoes.

They should respond to customer requests. OR you have the freedom to stop giving them your money and start giving it to another store. Why do you hate America, comrade?

As someone who has heard his fair share of customer requests for products I will say this:
fark you. fark you are your selfishness. There are 20,000 people that come in here a week. Do you think that you, of all people, are going to influence a major product purchase? We're going to give shelf space to to Bumblefarks Fried Tator's because YOU want them?

Get back on your lawn before I put you there.

But did he like 'The Dark Knight?'

Some people have alot of time on their hands. To drive outa town for Potatoes? And to complain? To the town newspaper? And to have it published?

People know that they sometimes will not get everything they want? This was taught to the kids right?

/Fark man get a life

It's a local store. For local people. And local potatoes.


They don't need no stinkin' immigrant potatoes.

I'm a published author, I tells ya! PUBLISHED!

My ex used to do this. She wanted some mustard pretzels. Begged and begged the store to carry them. They did. She bought one bag. 3 months later she went to get another - they stopped carrying them because no one bought 'em.

guardian_devil: As someone who has heard his fair share of customer requests for products I will say this:
fark you. fark you are your selfishness. There are 20,000 people that come in here a week. Do you think that you, of all people, are going to influence a major product purchase? We're going to give shelf space to to Bumblefarks Fried Tator's because YOU want them?

Idiot

Customers think you should have everything no matter the size of the store. You should also have infinite shelf and stockroom space. And if you don't have it, you should magically shop everywhere else and know who does.

\hates customers.

Yes we have no potatoes, we have no potatoes today.

If the stores want you to shop locally, then they should carry items people want. This doesn't include the family-owned stores.

Petty little way of biatchin' about Walmart.

Now THAT'S a letter to the editor.

ajbrycee: Some people have alot of time on their hands. To drive outa town for Potatoes? And to complain? To the town newspaper? And to have it published?

People know that they sometimes will not get everything they want? This was taught to the kids right?

/Fark man get a life

A few weeks ago, my local fish wrapper featured a letter from some guy who lived near the railroad tracks and was complaining about the train whistles waking him up at night. The comments people left for that letter would have made Fark proud.

Ten years ago, the paper used to get letters from people who were outraged that there would be a strip club built next to a shopping mall. These were from people who just moved to the area. What they didn't know is that the strip club had been there when that mall was nothing but some guy's corn field.

Umm... frozen potatoes?

/Never ever seen them

guardian_devil: As someone who has heard his fair share of customer requests for products I will say this:
fark you. fark you are your selfishness. There are 20,000 people that come in here a week. Do you think that you, of all people, are going to influence a major product purchase? We're going to give shelf space to to Bumblefarks Fried Tator's because YOU want them?

Get back on your lawn before I put you there.

Yeah! How DARE you expect that someone would want to stock what you want to spend money on! Take your money somewhere else where they stock what you want, dammit!

By the way, when's the Customer Service awards banquet? I want to make sure I cast my vote for you, ya big ol' lump of altruism, you.

Malinki:

Yeah! How DARE you expect that someone would want to stock what you want to spend money on! Take your money somewhere else where they stock what you want, dammit!

By the way, when's the Customer Service awards banquet? I want to make sure I cast my vote for you, ya big ol' lump of altruism, you.

Because if one person wants it, you are automatically required to stock it. Chances are if you can't find it in any store in your town, there is a good reason for it. Customer service goes as far as the customer deserves. Some deserve none.

Watch out for those Wind Gap frozen potatos. It's not named "Wind Gap" for nothing.

here (pops) is a letter from the rag from my old stomping grounds. Of course if you go to the opinion page, it appears that mostly it is the D.A. writing open letters to the paper's editor and the editor responding or other staff members filling space with their musings on day to day life. I have to say though, at least this paper is online, not compared to the paper from where I grew up atoka (new window) which as far as I know still doesn't have an online edition but the highlight of that weekly paper is to look on the front page and see which farmer had his cows tipped on Friday night, or flipping it over to the back and reading about EVERY single person that was stopped by a police officer coming through that town. sheesh.

For some reason, the words "get a life" come to mind.

Blueintheballs: Umm... frozen potatoes?

/Never ever seen them

How could you?! The farking stores won't stock them!!

I don't understand why this is fark-worthy.... was the person supposed to hold store management at gunpoint until they stocked a product they wanted?

I personally have ordered a product from amazon and paid more for shipping when the local stores would not stock a specific brand I wanted. Too bad for the local guy, huh, not stocking what customers want to buy. That's lame.

FTFA:

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paulg1 July 27, 2008 09:34 AM

I believe that you can find answers to your questions here: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3762495"

\Alright, who's the FAKER?

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Dear Sir,

I am writing to complain about that last letter...

Ned the Wookie: Apparently he's granted the family-owned stores some kind of mysterious exemption.

Ironically, they're the ones most likely to special order an item for a customer since they don't have a corporate bean counter breathing down their neck, determining how many inches of shelf space how high above the floor each item is allocated.

Realistically, I think most stores would do this if the wholesalers they already did business with carried the item. They're not going to open an additional account with another wholesaler in order to service one or a few customers, though. I have no idea how obscure this person's prefered brand is.

GORDON: I don't understand why this is fark-worthy.... was the person supposed to hold store management at gunpoint until they stocked a product they wanted?

I personally have ordered a product from amazon and paid more for shipping when the local stores would not stock a specific brand I wanted. Too bad for the local guy, huh, not stocking what customers want to buy. That's lame.

How many do you buy at a time? How many does the store have to buy to get enough of a discount to actually show a profit? Ah, fark it, the store should lose money so that I get what I want.

Er, that should be FARKER

Does this include family owned stores, like Wal-Mart, and Albertsons? Frozen potatoes? Seriously, what are these? Like MacDonald's hash browns? or what? Why not just buy some fresh potatoes, and freeze them?

Mad Scientist: Now THAT'S a letter to the editor.

At first I thought it had to be fake, but then I remembered the country I live in. All I can say is, WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?