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!

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

To be fair though, extra toated Cheese-its are goated.