Recently I heard a lady complaining about small amount of veggies in a local produce department and I happen to know that this lady has only been in Southeast for a very short time. I wanted to defend the store, so I told her \u201cjust wait until winter.\u201d<\/p>\n
New residents need to really realize that the only way in and out of here is by air and by water and what that means for them and their expectations. The barges are slow, the ferries break down, the airplanes can\u2019t fly in lots of weather. No matter what any store does, there is always a chance that Mother Nature or mechanics are going to ruin your day by not having something you want. Learn that Juneau is not the Lower 48, and schedules that work for them probably won\u2019t work here. All the order models in the world won\u2019t account for all the microclimates that food and supplies have to go through getting here, any one of which will stop the process. Bread has to be frozen, meat, fruit, veggies have to arrive by a certain time, there is no guarantee that will happen when getting to Juneau. When it arrives wilted, bruised, etc, it isn\u2019t put out for customers. Embrace it, tell the people who work at the store that you understand. Don\u2019t make their life harder; the food managers and assistants are trying to serve you in a timely manner.<\/p>\n
I remember seven years ago that Juneau was without any service for 13 days because of fog \u2014 no mail, no bills, no food coming in (that\u2019s why we have stocked pantries), nothing including people in or out. So know that the people in Juneau who are actually running the stores do a great job with working with weather and time constraints. If you were looking for a lamp, it wouldn\u2019t be so obvious that there wasn\u2019t one available. The food workers have the most visible job and the hardest. It helps that some stores put out signs saying that \u201cdue to whatever the circumstances, item not available.\u201d It doesn\u2019t help you if you need oregano for your dinner, but at least you know it isn\u2019t the store\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n
When you can\u2019t find something at one grocery, you may be lucky and another happens to have it in stock, but you probably won\u2019t find it anywhere else. Everyone has to bow to Mother Nature\u2019s whims.<\/p>\n
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