Who knew buying a tomato plant could turn into a saga? Certainly not me. But it all turned out so funny! So, a couple of days ago, on my way home from the doctor, I stopped at Kroger to buy some comfort food and cough syrup to soothe my very bad cold. On the way in, I remembered they had some very good looking tomato plants and decided to get one. I looked at them but didn't see any prices so I checked with customer service, who advised me the price was $16.99. Since I wasn't feeling well, I asked if someone could help me get the plant inside the store so I could check out with it. No, they had no way to do that. Okay. So I went out, picked the plant out, and amazingly it wasn't as heavy as I anticipated. I put it in the cart and went in to get the other items I wanted. Arriving at the checkout, I asked the checker to double check the price and he advised me it was $7.99. Oh, that sounded much better! So he rang it all up, I paid, and I left. Then I trundled it onto the patio also.
So today, I went to fill out the survey form Kroger provides - hey, I might win the big price - you never know! As I go through the survey, I did a little whine about the tomato plant incident because at this store, they are always very, very helpful and always offer to help get the groceries out to the car. So it was so surprising not to get any help at all into or out of the store that day with my plant! Mid-whine, I check over the receipt and guess what? The tomato plant is not on my receipt. Not at all. Not for 16.99 or for 7.99. It's just not there. Now maybe if I'd been feeling better, I would have noticed the price discrepancy but I didn't. Not till today. So how can I whine about the tomato plant? I can't!
Anyway, I called Kroger, told them my little story and said now what in the world should I bring you so that I can pay for this tomato plant? There's no tag on it now and I certainly didn't plan to steal this plant! The young man I spoke to was very nice and heard me out, in my barely legible voice, all choked up with this cold. He said not to worry about it at all. I said I didn't want to just take the plant. He said not to worry, they had not helped me very well with the matter when I was in the store so just keep the plant.
Isn't that great! I still feel like I should try to pay for it though..... This store is at Belt Line and Marsh in Addison and they always do provide a really terrific place to shop. I'm in there several times a week and it's always clean and usually very, very helpful.
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