When I suddenly fixate on a food, the shelf is not restocked, and even 2 or 3 days later, I can’t buy it again.
Feel like “Truman Show”, as if the store and other shoppers are just some illusion for me and they can only restock in great numbers what I usually buy.
Edit: Can’t believe it’s happening to so many others here!
I once got a fixation with a certain spicy hummus. I emailed the grocery store to ask them to stock more of it because I was constantly buying all of it.
The head manager emailed me back saying they would, and they would order a larger quantity just for me.
I stopped eating that hummus 3 weeks later. I was so ashamed that I never went there again.
Sometimes I feel like I’m personally responsible for a store’s ordering system going haywire. Like, a store can stock like 1 or 2 of the item a month and be fine , then I become fixated on it and they need to start stocking 20+. By the time the store catches up with me ive moved on and they are stuck with dozens of that item.
I have literally seen this happen to my local dollar general with Cheese-Its Extra Toasted. They used to never stock them. I randomly caught a hankering for them after trying them out.
They went from only ever having maybe 5 boxes on the shelf to having it 3 rows of 5 deep after a month.
After 3 months I lost the hankering. Still get me a box every now and then though. They still keep that shelf filled.
When I suddenly fixate on a food, the shelf is not restocked, and even 2 or 3 days later, I can’t buy it again.
Feel like “Truman Show”, as if the store and other shoppers are just some illusion for me and they can only restock in great numbers what I usually buy.
Edit: Can’t believe it’s happening to so many others here!
I once got a fixation with a certain spicy hummus. I emailed the grocery store to ask them to stock more of it because I was constantly buying all of it.
The head manager emailed me back saying they would, and they would order a larger quantity just for me.
I stopped eating that hummus 3 weeks later. I was so ashamed that I never went there again.
Sometimes I feel like I’m personally responsible for a store’s ordering system going haywire. Like, a store can stock like 1 or 2 of the item a month and be fine , then I become fixated on it and they need to start stocking 20+. By the time the store catches up with me ive moved on and they are stuck with dozens of that item.
I have literally seen this happen to my local dollar general with Cheese-Its Extra Toasted. They used to never stock them. I randomly caught a hankering for them after trying them out.
They went from only ever having maybe 5 boxes on the shelf to having it 3 rows of 5 deep after a month.
After 3 months I lost the hankering. Still get me a box every now and then though. They still keep that shelf filled.
To be fair though, extra toated Cheese-its are goated.