too much produce

[redbird]

We had groceries delivered by Instacart yesterday, including two cucumbers and four bananas.

What turned up was two cucumbers and four loose bananas, plus a bag containing four bunches of bananas, a cabbage, and a head(?) of broccoli. We also got the wrong yogurt.

I checked the "report an issue" box on their web form. They are refunding the price of the yogurt, but ignored the part about the extra bag of produce. We left it on the porch overnight, just in case.

We kept a few extra bananas, and I texted a couple of neighbors about the bananas. Ariel responded, and is looking forward to making lots of banana bread. When I handed her the bag, we chatted a little, and she said that her partner had been making a shopping list and she told him not to buy bananas, because they were about to have plenty.

I'm hoping cattitude will make braised cabbage with caraway seeds in the next couple of days, and we might use the broccoli.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Ooh! I LOVE cabbage with caraway!

[readerjane]

How odd! You wonder what goes through the shoppers' heads sometimes.

On one Instacart order, I asked for three single baking potatoes and got three bags. It was my own fault, though. I hadn't read the webpage carefully. The photo had showed loose potatoes, but the fine print *did* say bag, and gave the pounds. So I didn't complain to Instacart about it. I just gave away as many potatoes as I could. We still couldn't use the rest before they spoiled. =(

[redbird]

I'm fairly sure that they were combining deliveries and just grabbed one bag too many when they got to our place. I just hope this didn't make things too complicated for the person who was supposed to get that bag of stuff: the options for "missing item" are to refund the money, or credit it back to your account for next time, with no option to have it brought right away, rather than as part of a new order.

[otter]

Another friend got a dozen boxes of bananas, or some similarly ridiculous amount. It's been a running joke for most of the pandemic