Monday, February 13, 2006

Picture Frames and the AOSEPT search

After getting out of work this morning, I went to the craft store in town to pick up the two photographs that I had framed for an upcoming gallery show. This past Saturday, I went to the craft store to sign the matte's. I found out the frames were on sale starting on Monday, I decided to wait for the sale. I went back to the framing department and rang the bell for service. A guy that works in the framing department walked out of the backroom. I told him I needed to pick up my frames. He comes back and said that they weren't put together yet. He said he could do them in 10 minutes. I groaned and walked around the store for the next 10 minutes. I come back to the framing department and he is still not done with them. I wait and wait. Twenty minutes later he is finally done. It took him almost a half hour to frame two 12x16 frames! Mr. Framing employee, please don't quote me 10 minutes again to frame anything again because I know you can't do it.

After finishing up some work at home. I decided to go to Meijer to buy some groceries that we needed. I bought some milk, chips, Dial refill and garbage bags. After picking those up I had to go to the other side of the store to pick up AOSEPT Clean Care solution for my husband and me. I got in the eye care aisle and they were out. I didn't think anything of it, because it has happened before. So I took my cart to a cash register, paid and decided to drive to Wal-Mart to pick up the Clean Care.

I got to Wal-Mart's eye care aisle and they were out too. I asked a associate if they had anymore and she said they had about 10 and they just flew off the shelf. She told me K-Mart should have some. I left Wal-Mart and drove to K-Mart. K-Mart was the same as the other stores, none on the shelf. I was leaving K-Mart and was next to Country Market. I stopped to see if they had AOSEPT Clean Care. They didn't have any either. After leaving Country Market, I stopped at Rite Aide and Walgreen's. They were out as well. I decided to get another brand, I think I remember my eye doctor gave me some free samples of it before. But it just wasn't the same.

I drove to a total of seven stores and they were all out of AOSEPT Clean Care. What's up? I checked their website to see if they had any information on why no stores in Adrian had it on their shelves. Nothing! Hopefully whatever problem they had or are havingis fixed soon because I'm not a fan of change.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you ever find out what happened to Aosept, let me know! My husband just got back from 5 different stores before giving up. Thanks, jhenry227@cfl.rr.com

Anonymous said...

I cannot find aosept either. I went to 10 stores (Target, Walmart, Eckred, CVS, Safeway, Giant, Wegmans, Harris Teeter, Super Fresh, and Food Shoppers). I have been using the product for 10 years and I am trying to figure out why the product has been pulled from the shelves.

Anonymous said...

I stumbled across your blog looking for info about this.

It looks like all Ciba solutions (AOSept, ClearCare) have stopped being produced due to problems at the production facility. See for instance here and also the sidebar here.

Only guesses I've seen for when they'll be back are April 2006 and August 2006.

It's frustrating to me, too, since I've been using AOSept for 10 years as well. Ah, well. I guess we all need to call our eye doctors to get recommendations for an alternate disinfectant to use.

Deloris said...

The answer to when AOSEPT is returning to the shelves can be found on my April 7, 2006 post.