To the Military commissary:

Ok, you had some GREAT products I Liked buying…organic stuff and no allergens; I was delighted, but couldn’t figure why the hemp milk wasn’t on the aisle with the other milk exceptions like soy and rice milk. And why was the great high fiber/protein flour not with the baking stuff on aisle 15?
Why was the delicious all blueberry juice not on the juice aisle? And NONE of it was on the special organic/alternative aisle! Instead it was in this obscure spot just where folks walk in…and PAST on their way to produce.

Oh, THATS why. So nobody noticed these great products and after four months you could drop them all because, riiiight, NOBODY bought them enough. Fuck you TWICE. You obviously WANT to lose customers so you can have the excuse to simply CLOSE the commissary that vulnerable lower ranking troops need desperately.

But hey, your prices don’t match Winco anyhow, because you have decided it is not “right” to COMPETE with local stores. But post-bound, cash poor young troops will be the ones that suffer, but hey, they are suffering already. Because your prices SUCK more and more the last few years.

Funny, it was ok to have carts labeled with store names and the high total prices posted UNTIL Winco stores opened, wasn’t it? They whip your ass on good produce and great prices. Winco is an employee owned chain and while they don’t have the same huge line of foods as the big chains like the expensive Top grocers, they do have as good or better product lines that the usual military commissary. YOU sell a lot of sugary crap and rotting produce and brand names that get ads.

This is why I buy coffee and a couple import items and very little else there now. Military families? Join a Costco. Hunt the local economies state-side. Do NOT trust and assume that the commissary and the post/base exchange are “there to serve” you with the best prices. They don’t give a damn about the best price, they cover their asses and obnoxiously presume they will always have the bulk of your business.

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