Yesterday I had to stop at the store on my way home to pick up coffee and sparkling water. I was late getting out of work and was meeting some friends for supper. Lidl being between work and home, I gave the store a chance. I had some of Lidl’s water while visiting a friend and liked it. According to my friend, the price was much better than what I had been paying for my usual choice.

First, you guessed it, there were no shipping carts inside the store. I walked back outside of the store to grab a shopping cart.

Second, I started scanning the labels on top of the aisles for one that listed coffee. I walked up and down each of the aisles but I couldn’t find coffee. What?

Thankfully, I had found the water I was looking for and picked that up while on my coffee search. I reached the front of the store and still had not found the coffee, so I asked the cashier where it was. He told me what aisle it was on, then off I went to get the coffee.

I didn’t see any coffee. I was thinking to myself, I am in the twilight zone. I went up and down that aisle two more times. Finally, someone in a Lidl shirt passed me. I stopped him and asked him “Where is the coffee?” He looked at me like I was on a bad trip and then pointed to the shelves in front of where I was standing. The problem was the coffee was completely hidden behind a display of stacked boxes, I looked at him and said, “You’re kidding, right?”

He began to walk away. I almost lost it. I asked him how he expected me to get to the coffee. I actually think he was considering telling me he had no idea, but after doing a quick study of my face, he decided to move the display out of my way. I was thinking to myself, “what genius had placed those boxes there in the first place?” Probably him!