The place are the Aplenty cheddar puffs, Amazon?

Trendy life is filled with tragedies. There are the massive ones — the local weather disaster, dwelling in late-stage capitalism, take your choose — however the little ones sting, too. Like discovering out that there are 200,000 folks forward of you within the queue for Taylor Swift tickets or taking a screenshot whenever you meant to show your cellphone off. Or, let’s say, discovering that your favourite snack is out of inventory on the solely place it’s bought, and it’s in all probability by no means coming again. 

I’m not pleased with it, however ordering groceries from Amazon Recent has change into a weekly behavior in my home. It’s handy, plus Recent sells some surprisingly good snacks beneath the Aplenty home model. That’s to not be confused with the Complete Meals model, or the 365 home model, or the Recent-branded stuff. The opposite-other-other home model. It’s hit-and-miss. You’ll be able to skip the rosemary herbed almonds, however the runaway hit in my home has been the white cheddar puffs. 

Let me let you know in regards to the white cheddar puffs. To begin with, they’re puffy as heck — ethereal and satisfying to chunk into. The white cheddar seasoning is intense. It’s sharp and in-your-face. It type of makes your mouth harm after some time, in one of the simplest ways doable. 

Out of inventory on Recent however eternally in our hearts. Picture: Amazon / The Verge

Pirate’s Booty? Cheez-Its? Pfft. Kiddy stuff. Nothing else has the identical sharp cheddar tang or the thick coating of powder just like the Aplenty cheddar puffs do. After we found them, my husband and I began ordering them each week. Then we deserted all sense of self-respect and began shopping for a number of baggage directly as a result of we’d end the primary one in two days and didn’t wish to wait every week to purchase extra. 

So it’s been an actual scenario in my home that Aplenty white cheddar puffs have been out of inventory since January. I do know that’s once they have been final in inventory as a result of Amazon taunts me with a tragic little “Bought in January” badge each time I seek for the white cheddar puffs, which is weekly. I’ve checked whether or not they’re accessible for pickup reasonably than our ordinary supply — generally there’s completely different availability for gadgets in case you use pickup — however no, not for my valuable cheddar puffs. 

I feel ol’ Andy Jassy must take this up as a matter of urgency

I don’t wish to inform anybody tips on how to do their job, however I feel ol’ Andy Jassy must take this up as a matter of urgency. He must cease doing no matter he’s doing — constructing AI robots that comply with us round and promote us laundry detergent or no matter — and unravel the white cheddar puff scenario. What’s the holdup? The place’s the snag within the provide chain? For a corporation that’s so customer-obsessed, I feel any person should be obsessing over the white cheddar puff disaster. 

I don’t wish to consider what will be the painful fact: that the white cheddar puffs are by no means coming again. Somebody at Recent in all probability didn’t just like the ROI on the puffs and simply by no means ordered any extra from no matter firm really makes them. And reasonably than simply give it to me straight, they’re dangling the potential for future cheddar puffs in entrance of me, like some type of sick sport. 

I plan to maintain on checking for the puffs so long as there’s a product itemizing for them, however within the meantime, I’m taking options for an additional snack to fill the puff-shaped gap in my cupboard.