A lame attempt at saving my life, but worth considering FWIW
...had this been an actual intrusion of the "Emergency Socialized Intrusion System" you would have been instructed where to tune for further directions on how to surrender....
Wow - this just in from Bentonville, Arkansas....... a letter from Sam's Club headquarters, which in and of itself I think, is a great thing. (Albeit a lame attempt at saving my life.)
Everybody has been subjected to the news/information about Salmonella contagions from peanut butter, and subsequent product recalls, to include some pet foods as well as jars of peanut butter, etc.. Anyway, I get this letter yesterday from Sam's Club, about the recall initiated by CLIFF BAR & CO., in cooperation with the FDA, and that (Sam's Club) records reflect that I purchased "Cliff Bar Associated Products with UPC's of xxxx and yyyy."
In it is stated, "We request that you review your inventory records and segregate and return the item to your local Sam's Club for a full refund."
WOW. I will yard the supply box of remaining Cliff Bars down and haul them on in and surrender them for my money back, no sweat - and THANKS Sam's Club. Cool. But, the mind fairly reels.......
I bought the stuff to get ready for Baja last Spring, and ate up a whole box already (coughy, tingling feeling just now - when was that anyway, last March I ate 'em?) Anyway, I still have some left in the other case, and they'll go back to recall jail soon. I must have paid with my Discover card, but regardless, even if I used cash, Sam's has a record in their database because of the nature of the member info used at point of sale with the member card.
So, almost a year after a purchase of a box of Cliff Bars, the private sector tracked me down and snail-mailed me with the exact UPC numbers from that purchase last February, and they got me. And the message was good, benevolent, a happy ending.
But what power the database yields, and an interesting consideration of how it is wielded. Something to think about the next time you are buying something, posting something, or chewing on a Cliff Bar in Baja. (The sledding there sucked by the way, but the off-road biking was a good adventure for a couple weeks....) And the stuff you would consider putting in your mouth after a few days in the cactus down there kinda skews the whole concept of a peanut butter recall. There were times I might have intentionally swallowed a botulism infested turd to get the taste of whatever out of my mouth.......
Stovebolt
Team Ruptured Buzzard
(soon to be a whole case of Cliff Bar expense richer.....)
...had this been an actual intrusion of the "Emergency Socialized Intrusion System" you would have been instructed where to tune for further directions on how to surrender....
Wow - this just in from Bentonville, Arkansas....... a letter from Sam's Club headquarters, which in and of itself I think, is a great thing. (Albeit a lame attempt at saving my life.)
Everybody has been subjected to the news/information about Salmonella contagions from peanut butter, and subsequent product recalls, to include some pet foods as well as jars of peanut butter, etc.. Anyway, I get this letter yesterday from Sam's Club, about the recall initiated by CLIFF BAR & CO., in cooperation with the FDA, and that (Sam's Club) records reflect that I purchased "Cliff Bar Associated Products with UPC's of xxxx and yyyy."
In it is stated, "We request that you review your inventory records and segregate and return the item to your local Sam's Club for a full refund."
WOW. I will yard the supply box of remaining Cliff Bars down and haul them on in and surrender them for my money back, no sweat - and THANKS Sam's Club. Cool. But, the mind fairly reels.......
I bought the stuff to get ready for Baja last Spring, and ate up a whole box already (coughy, tingling feeling just now - when was that anyway, last March I ate 'em?) Anyway, I still have some left in the other case, and they'll go back to recall jail soon. I must have paid with my Discover card, but regardless, even if I used cash, Sam's has a record in their database because of the nature of the member info used at point of sale with the member card.
So, almost a year after a purchase of a box of Cliff Bars, the private sector tracked me down and snail-mailed me with the exact UPC numbers from that purchase last February, and they got me. And the message was good, benevolent, a happy ending.
But what power the database yields, and an interesting consideration of how it is wielded. Something to think about the next time you are buying something, posting something, or chewing on a Cliff Bar in Baja. (The sledding there sucked by the way, but the off-road biking was a good adventure for a couple weeks....) And the stuff you would consider putting in your mouth after a few days in the cactus down there kinda skews the whole concept of a peanut butter recall. There were times I might have intentionally swallowed a botulism infested turd to get the taste of whatever out of my mouth.......
Stovebolt
Team Ruptured Buzzard
(soon to be a whole case of Cliff Bar expense richer.....)
