Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

The best was to protest is to take your business elsewhere. We shop in three stores -Safeway, for the general stuff, TJ for the specialty fun stuff and Podesto's a locally owned store for meat. At each one, we are known by name and we frequently chat with the various clerks there. Heck, two of the owner's sons at Podesto's run the check out stands and the father works in the meat counter in the back.

To be put through that sort of crap is too much, not when there are so many other choices. I wonder if the store is possibly have financial issues - it sounds like it might be. And for all the reasons you state. I'm sorry you had to have such a bad experience.