Sketchy Supplements?

[Mother of Chaos]

This reminds me of the time I sent my husband out for kosher salt. He wound up at the hippie health food store and after a long discussion with an employee came home with coarse grain Celtic salt. He thought I would be so pleased. Until I said, “how am I supposed to clean the cast iron skillet with that?”

I text my husband a photo (from something I already own but running low OR from a website) in these situations. Instructions: "If it looks like this, buy it. If it doesn't, don't." Fortunately, he's not offended, by this at least.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I text my husband a photo (from something I already own but running low OR from a website) in these situations. Instructions: "If it looks like this, buy it. If it doesn't, don't." Fortunately, he's not offended, by this at least.

This is what I do with mine for all things chicken lol. But since normally he cleans the cast iron I felt it went without saying. I guess not

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Let's hope that the person who did the "favor" is not also employed as a personal shopper for other items!

They aren't an employee, so it's not that type of situation.

An acquaintance.
It's kind of normal around here to be like "I'm going to the store, you need anything?"

 

[Mother of Chaos]

They aren't an employee, so it's not that type of situation.

An acquaintance.
It's kind of normal around here to be like "I'm going to the store, you need anything?"

Right, that's what I figured.

So maddening, especially with the expense!

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Cool.
Neither supplement is "sketchy" just not ideal for an emergency.

Good to know.
I'm still going to see if I can return them, as they're unopened and aren't useful for my flock...

I'm hoping it's the type of store that just returns the money to the original card if I bring in the receipt. >.>
... if I can even get the receipt in the first place

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Hmm, depending on the situation, maybe you could let them think the calcium citrate is for you instead of for the chickens-- that would at least keep the person from buying other, expensive, things that are labeled for chickens. (Unless the person shopping is equally creative with requests for human supplements, in which case it would not do any good.)

Yeah, it was a whole thing.
We did already have calcium, but ALL of it had other things in it. So I specified that it was for the chickens for emergencies and it needed to be plain calcium citrate. And it was fine if the store didn't have it (sometimes online isn't accurate about if a store has something)

I don't know how it got to the point of them buying unrelated items...

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

This reminds me of the time I sent my husband out for kosher salt. He wound up at the hippie health food store and after a long discussion with an employee came home with coarse grain Celtic salt. He thought I would be so pleased. Until I said, “how am I supposed to clean the cast iron skillet with that?”

Hey there, now my local health store sells things at a very reasonable 30 year mortgage rate.

(that adventure does sound a little cute, though)

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Hey there, now my local health store sells things at a very reasonable 30 year mortgage rate.

(that adventure does sound a little cute, though)

Reminds me of the common name for Whole Foods grocery stores —> Whole Paycheck.