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Do you have any hand cream and also inserts to cushion feet?

Hands him a muffin and a mimosa, along with a gentle hug.

Will you be joining us for Christmas dinner?

Passes out hugs, muffins, and mimosas to the rest of the region as well.

You're all invited to join us.

Show up with king cake. Dance in the aisles.

Dear La eme, we miss you in The Local Supermarket! Please take a look at the telegram I sent you a while ago?
Faithfully Yours,
Sales Team, Middle Management, Advertising Team, Delivery Drivers, Accounting, Loyal Customer Base, assorted visitors and of course your hard-working retail & janitorial staff.

Mafiosi wrote:

...first rate DIY igloo construction plans.

*Stocks a shelf with Iglue™ Extreme Cold-Weather Adhesive*

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Pimply bag boy wrote:

I can pull it over in my delivery wagon.

*Goes to the loading dock to get his wagon but after looking about he cannot find it where he left it*

This is weird. Who would take my wagon without asking?

*He walks around the outside of the supermarket to the front hoping to find it, thinking he must have moved it or left it near the front doors*

Hmmm, not here either.

*He notices a large tour bus at the far end of the parking lot and goes to investigate. What he finds is disturbing*

Crap, someone abandoned their bus in our lot. By the smell coming from the engine compartment it probably ran out of oil and broke down.

*The bus has been jacked up onto cinder-blocks and the tires are all missing*

I wonder if it was stolen and taken for a joy-ride. Then when it broke down they just left it here and made off with the only thing they thought they could sell.

The only place around here that might be interested in buying old tires is the Auto Repair Shop down the street.

Maybe we should look into acquiring that Auto Repair Shop.

Clerks, why stand here moping when you could be mopping?

*Sweeps the floor at the front of the market, whistling tunelessly to himself*

*forces open the supermarket door with the handle of the pruning shears she is carrying*

A-ha! Busted! Stop sweeping the floor now, Pimply bag boy, or whatever you are called! Are you trying to destroy evidence?

Pimply bag boy wrote:

Is that your bus abandoned in our lot? I was going to have it towed but as long as you're here you can take care of it.

Well, not our bus, though it could belong to someone we know. The question is, who brought it here? Also have you observed any other suspicious activity in the supermarket lately?

Pretty periwinkles wrote:

Well, not our bus, though it could belong to someone we know.

*Is suspicious of that answer*

I am suspicious of that answer.

Pretty periwinkles wrote:

Also have you observed any other suspicious activity in the supermarket lately?

Now that I think about it, my delivery wagon has gone missing. I usually leave it parked out back on the loading dock as I make frequent deliveries to The House at Pooh Corner, which is just beyond the treeline and across the meadow.

But a few days ago it wasn't there. I hope that whomever took it will bring it back soon.

Janis Holmes wrote:

I take it you didn't see who left it here and took its wheels?

Nah, it was there when I opened up in the morning a few days ago.

I wanna get it out of the parking lot before the boss comes back and has a fit.

Pretty periwinkles wrote:

Interesting clue. I think this is our next destination, then. Let's go!

Well hold on. I've been over to the meadow a few times since the bus was left here without its tires. I didn't see any tires over there and the folks who live there aren't the type to go around stealing tires.

I think you're barking up the wrong tree, as the saying goes.