Well, I've missed a couple of days blogging due to being back at work and coming home knackered, but I thought I'd better get a quick picture in of this year's treat to myself!
Like last year I treated myself to a Halloween bag of sweets from CyberCandy in London - a shop that specialises in sweets from around the world that you can't normally get in the UK. The shop is near Covent Garden, although I have also visited another of their stores in the Lanes in Brighton.
Popping in yesterday I was somewhat disappointed to see a lack of Trick Or Treat bags and two rather gormless staff who hadn't a clue and couldn't make a decision if their life depended upon it! They did have a Trick Or Treat bag but the candy corn bag inside had split. I wasn't worried about this and would still have bought it but the prospect of doing something out of the ordinary obviously confused the two staff who showed minimal skills either in customer service, communication or even basic language skills. And as their boss was at a rather late lunch (c4pm) they looked as scared as a rabbit in a car's headlights would when I dared ask my question of whether I could actually buy the bag. Panic and indecision ensued among the staff and I left with nothing. With that experience in mind I found myself frustrated at not being able to buy sweets that I could actually see on the shelf behind the counter and I would not recommend anyone gives their custom to this shop now or ever...
Perhaps in my hatred I was also influenced by the half-term customers, especially some spoilt young teenage girls with their incessant badgering of their henpecked mother to buy them Twinkies and all sorts or candied crap at the extortionate prices charged by CyberCandy.
Anyway out of necessity, I decided to go back today just to buy the Reece's Pieces Pumpkin sweets that they still had for sale, having been told yesterday that there would be no candy corn for a couple of days. So imagine my surprise when I found they did have tons of the stuff today. Annoying kids were still clogged up the store; but the vacuous staff from yesterday were not working when I went in today, so I succumbed and bought the Trick or Treat bag, the contents of which I've shown below. So a happy ending after all!
Thursday 27th October 2011
