I was given some orders...
Mar. 29th, 2005 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naruki_oniPick up 5, not 4, 5 tubes of EAU Thermale Avene Cleanance K Oil-control lotion and ship them to Japan posthaste. I was given the CVS contact information for Boston, with the suggestion of finding a closer CVS if possible so I wouldn't have to drive down there. Getting them to ship was a third suggestion, though one that turned out to be in vain: CVS won't ship to my home.
So I check Avene's website store locator links. There are about 20 CVS stores in Mass, 2 in New Hampshire. They don't appear to sell their products anywhere else. They also don't have a nice quick link to Map Quest, so I had to cut and paste the zip codes from one browser window to the other about 22 times to see which store is closest to me.
Salem, NH is the winner. I print out the map with directions and call the store to confirm that they have what I need. They do, and in fact they will hold them for me. How nice! Off I go.
22 miles later as I'm nearing my destination I have a thought. That thought is that my destination is the center of the zip code. Yes, that's right. I didn't put the street address into Map Quest, just the zip code. Doh!
So I stop at Dunkin Donuts and ask for directions. Purely out of guilt, mind you, not from an uncontrollable sweet tooth, I also purchase a drink and a muffin. Sadly, they aren't really sure where the CVS is but the give me a road and say they think it's there.
It's not, but I found a PetCo and picked up some much needed kitty supplies. Then I call CVS (fortunately I'd used my cell phone the first time and still had their number) and get directions. I was less than a mile away as it turns out. They were inside some mall. Yay!
I arrive and ask for the products. What products? The products I called about and had set aside for me. Who'd you call? Beats me. What products? The oil things - I think I see them over there against the wall.
We go to the cosmetic wall and there is a sampler and one tube. Um. She checks the computer to see how many tubes are supposed to be in the store: 6. That's the one on the wall and 5 missing ones. There is no note from the mystery clerk and nothing stored wherever set aside products are usually stored. Hmm.
Did you call this store or the other one? Well, I called the one in Salem. This one or the other one? I think it was this one, since I hit redial and got directions that brought me here, but I left my cell phone in the car so I don't know the number.
The manager (who was in street clothes and seemingly on her way out) waited to help me, as well. She said the other store doesn't carry that product, and the only other CVS that does is far away (confirming what the Internet told me). Must have been this store, then,
The extra stock is nowhere to be found. Well, can you come back in a few days when we have more? Sure, but in the meantime I'll just take this one remaining tube - it's an emergency.
At the checkout counter ringing up the tube and some candy (hee hee), I glance at the cigarettes behind the cashier. Top shelf, a note scribbled on a piece of paper covering some boxes. My name on the note.
He he he. That mystery clerk hid the damn things right in plain sight. Gotta love her.
So I check Avene's website store locator links. There are about 20 CVS stores in Mass, 2 in New Hampshire. They don't appear to sell their products anywhere else. They also don't have a nice quick link to Map Quest, so I had to cut and paste the zip codes from one browser window to the other about 22 times to see which store is closest to me.
Salem, NH is the winner. I print out the map with directions and call the store to confirm that they have what I need. They do, and in fact they will hold them for me. How nice! Off I go.
22 miles later as I'm nearing my destination I have a thought. That thought is that my destination is the center of the zip code. Yes, that's right. I didn't put the street address into Map Quest, just the zip code. Doh!
So I stop at Dunkin Donuts and ask for directions. Purely out of guilt, mind you, not from an uncontrollable sweet tooth, I also purchase a drink and a muffin. Sadly, they aren't really sure where the CVS is but the give me a road and say they think it's there.
It's not, but I found a PetCo and picked up some much needed kitty supplies. Then I call CVS (fortunately I'd used my cell phone the first time and still had their number) and get directions. I was less than a mile away as it turns out. They were inside some mall. Yay!
I arrive and ask for the products. What products? The products I called about and had set aside for me. Who'd you call? Beats me. What products? The oil things - I think I see them over there against the wall.
We go to the cosmetic wall and there is a sampler and one tube. Um. She checks the computer to see how many tubes are supposed to be in the store: 6. That's the one on the wall and 5 missing ones. There is no note from the mystery clerk and nothing stored wherever set aside products are usually stored. Hmm.
Did you call this store or the other one? Well, I called the one in Salem. This one or the other one? I think it was this one, since I hit redial and got directions that brought me here, but I left my cell phone in the car so I don't know the number.
The manager (who was in street clothes and seemingly on her way out) waited to help me, as well. She said the other store doesn't carry that product, and the only other CVS that does is far away (confirming what the Internet told me). Must have been this store, then,
The extra stock is nowhere to be found. Well, can you come back in a few days when we have more? Sure, but in the meantime I'll just take this one remaining tube - it's an emergency.
At the checkout counter ringing up the tube and some candy (hee hee), I glance at the cigarettes behind the cashier. Top shelf, a note scribbled on a piece of paper covering some boxes. My name on the note.
He he he. That mystery clerk hid the damn things right in plain sight. Gotta love her.
