01/28/09

ice cream?? i dnt think so!!

by coughEqueen

Ewww, when i went in craving a chocolate malted crunch, all i found at the cooler in the counter was 4 buckets of pure butter pecan old looking ice cream with bottles of open sodas that had to be from employees. I had rather gone to Baskin Robins and choose from 31 flavors and spend 4 dollars on one scoop, than having no choice for an ice cream flavor.

08/02/08

NOT THE SAME QUALITY AS BEFORE!!!

by howc

Stay the he** away from this ice cream. Beside charging more for less ice cream per carton, the choices and quality have dropped precipitously of late. They used to have monthly/seasonal flavors (like peppermint during the holiday season). Those are now gone. The flavors they do have are mostly chocolate and vanilla with the faintest amount of extras thrown in to differentiate one flavor from another. Please follow me as I list several of my greatest disappointments with Thrifty Ice Cream...

1. Chocolate Malted Crunch: This was a favorite of mine, now I won't touch it. The last few cartons (purchased at different times from different stores) contained malted bits that, for lack of a better word, tasted stale. A real shame, because this ice cream used to be excellent.

2. Mint and Chip: The previously creamy ice cream has been icy and "crunchy" the last few times we've bought it. Also, the mint flavoring used to be good, now it tastes medicinal.

3. Pecan Praeline: Vanilla ice cream with approximately 5 to 10 sugared pecans per carton. Nothing like the original...

4. Black Cherry: Vanilla ice cream with purple food coloring and approximately 5 to 10 cherries per carton. Seriously, you have to go hunting for the things, yet on the packaging they make it look like you get more cherries than ice cream. Can we say "false advertising"?

I could go on, but I'd just get myself even angrier. Do yourself a favor, stay away from Thrifty Ice Cream. You'll get better value buying the buckets of generic store-brand ice cream.

• Pros: Same Thrifty Name
• Cons: Everything else

05/20/08

LESS FOR MORE !

by LINTECJERRY

Less product for more money seems to be the new American way of life. Corporate America has been scamming its customers at an alarming rate lately. I fear that the dumbing down of the general public is a frightning sucess. I am over 60 years old and have have been enjoing Thrifty Ice Cream for more years than memory serves. New managenment of Rite Aid has gotten greedy and has decided to value the bottom line far more than it's fine reputation that has been built over many years of good value to it's loyal customers. I am refering to the new marketing scheme of Thrifty Ice Cream. It recently sold a good product in a simple but efective package at a reasonable price. Now Rite Aid has changed the low cost packing to a more costly desinger package that is holding less product and is offered to it's unsuspecting customers at a higher price. Shame on Rite Aid for ripping off it's loyal customers. I continue to consume more than my share of ice cream from Rite Aid's competeters.