ChikalampatersBUT.... 10min before the store's opening (at the 1st lvl), we already saw a super long queue that seemed impossible to find an end to. We decided to just hover around the metal shutters, waiting for the doors to open. Some other people were also hanging around the door area, wanting to buy other daily necessities. BUDDEN... there's this Carrefour staff who stood behind the shutter and was shouting, "you ppl queue up, or else I won't open the door!" INCREDULOUS! What if ppl simply wanted to go buy other stuff? Do they also have to queue up just to enter the shop too?? It totally made no sense to me! Anyway, pissed off, Mom and her quick-thinking got us to the basement lvl instead. The situation there was relatively less chaotic. Only about 30 odd pple were waiting patiently outside the vicinity. Yup. Then the moment arrived: the door to Carrefour opened... at last.
We rushed to the rice cooker section, coz they had an offer ($28 for a u.p. $98 rice cooker). Wah.. but those ppl before us were very chikers lah! Some carried 2 rice cookers out of the area! Do they NEED to eat THAT MUCH RICE? (ok. i'm just being mad here) And the Carrefour organisers are also to blame.. Less than 30 ppl got to buy the cookers lah! Why did they even publicize this offer if the stock is SO LITTLE? Secretly, I do hope that all the rice cookers that those chikers pple bought'd malfunction. muahaha...
Defeated, mom and I decided to head down to check on the chickens and oil. We got 4 bottles of oil, and were looking at the queue th
at formed at the poultry section.. the announcement then came on, saying that the chicken's out of stock le. Mom then looked at the queue, and her gut feeling told her that it's not over (her gut's often right). We went to the head of the queue, and the staff asked if we've gotten the ticket with a number. Apparently, only those who've lined up got a ticket. A feisty, red haired-woman then got all riled up, and made some horrible comments about the store that, to me, sounded quite sound! If this WAS a coupon-clipping-offer, w
hy do we still need to queue up to get a ticket?? Wouldn't the logistics ppl have catered enough chickens to satiate customers for the timespan of the offer (10-2pm)? Somehow, I think such chikers offers are devised by sadistic staff that just like to, in some sick manner, see customers fight it out for cheap deals.Anyway, mom immediately told me to go check out if they were still distributing numbers, and I did so. Fo
rtunately, we were one of the last few to get a ticket, and was secured 4 chickens, since 1 ticket=2chickens (mom got 1 ticket by looking at the ground for dropped tickets. Kinda reminds me of a vulture, scavanging for food..) So, the morning ended with us getting wat we set out to buy. Thankfully.Overall, this morning sure was an adventure, but it's an experience I'd rather not go through ever again.
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