The Salt Lake City Costco removed all tomatoes from the store before a Sarah Palin book signing

[Are_grits_groceries]

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Unintended benefits : Sarah Palin might have miffed the Utah Republican Party and left her hairdresser unpaid, but Helen Rappaport, a Utah Democrat, was thrilled with the former Alaska governor's visit to Salt Lake City.

Rappaport stopped at the Salt Lake City Costco to do some shopping, unaware that Palin was scheduled to be there for a book signing.

So Rappaport, after noticing the parking lot full of cars, was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to maneuver her shopping cart through the store with hardly anybody in the aisles. She also got a prescription filled with no wait.

While going through the check-out lane, again with no wait, she told the clerk she forgot to get some grape tomatoes, which she loves, so she would be right back.

That's when the bells went off.

The clerk told her they had no tomatoes that day.

No tomatoes? At Costco?

As she was leaving, she noticed a man with a store manager's name tag and asked him why they had no tomatoes. He informed her the store did have tomatoes, but they were taken off the shelves for a few hours.

It turns out that Palin had been pelted with a tomato at an earlier stop on her book tour and the management at the Costco was determined it wouldn't happen here.

The manager told an employee to go into the storage area and get Rappaport some tomatoes, which he gave her for free.

So, because of Palin, Rappaport not only got to shop with no lines, she got free tomatoes.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14003093

Read the first part of the story about the hairdresser.

Hmmmmmm. A tomato bigot.
There should be another throw in with all kinds of produce. Then they can rope off part of the entire store.
The Queen isn't this picky.

[TexasObserver]

1. Recommend. I'm making an exception to not recommending Palin stories.

This one speaks to a larger issue - the kind of psycho she really is.

One guy throws one tomato, and suddenly, there's a war on tomatoes?

[tularetom]

2. Eggs work pretty well too

[The Gunslinger]

3. LOL..................Apples would be better anyhow.

[TommyO]

4. Costco has pretty good pumpkin pies this time of year!

They also have cans of Redi Whip.

There's nothing like a good old fashioned pie in the face.

Palin, stay out of Costco!

[surrealAmerican]

13. Surely, banana cream is the "gold standard" of pies ...

... for this application.

[TommyO]

14. True, but I haven't seen those at Costco

That doesn't mean that they don't exist, I'll check today when I pick my contact lenses up!

[AspenRose]

18. PIE!

Hey, if it's good enough for Ann Coulter, it's good enough for Sarah.

[JTFrog]

5. ROFL! n/t

[lame54]

6. they still have canned tomatoes

[sasquatch]

7. We have got to put this on the front page

[Canuckistanian]

8. They removed even the grape tomatoes?

That's taking it a little TOO far.

[cascadiance]

9. Perhaps they were trying to be nice to help her avoid a Dan Quayle moment...

.

[SpiralHawk]

10. Well, at least Sarah didn't get Burlisconied...

Which would have been beyond the Palin...

[Vinca]

11. What about the eggs? Or a nice, squishy, ripe banana?

The Costco management is as stupid as Palin.

[charlie]

12. Somebody bag her with a pumpkin

so I can watch her do the rest of her tour in mattress factories.

[tanyev]

15. Stiffed a hairdresser and the Utah GOP.

Keep it klassy, Sarah!

[dgibby]

16. So where were the eggs? n/t

[Jamastiene]

17. Hmm...did they make everyone remove their shoes too?

:evilgrin:

[Shagbark Hickory]

19. dumbshits. They coulda sold a lot of mados

[NightWatcher]

20. what about eggs, D-cell batteries, whipped cream, hockey sticks.....Be creative Salt Lakers

[BeHereNow]

21. Dog shit is free!

Why waste produce on her?
Recycle!

BHN

[Umbral]

22. Sarah Palin getting pelted with tomatoes at Costco would be good press for Costco...

Wait, it was in Utah, nevermind.

[calico1]

23. In my store they put out very ripe produce for

next to nothing. Pineapples, bananas, oranges...not to mention day old baked goods. A nice blueberry pie..eclairs...

Are these people really that stupid?

If a person really wanted to throw something at Palin do you think that they would think "Oh My God! No tomatoes!...Damnn!" or would they get creative and find something else?

Maybe a supermarket type place is not the best place for a book signing.

Too bad they don't sell stale fish.

[Brother Buzz]

24. Did Costco management make that decision or did Palin's handlers made that demand?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Initech]

25. There's plenty of other things that could be thrown!

[niyad]

26. and just today I was bemoaning the lack of stocks and pillories.

[astral]

27. But what if I just wanted to have some tomatoes

and was only going to throw ONE of them?