Sick of site searches that don't work!
All I wanted to do is check to see if the bread flour I like to use was on sale this week. Go to the store site, search for "flour". Get 270 results.
Now I know they do not have 270 different brands/sizes/types of flour there, so what gives?
Okay, be more specific: include the brand. Search for "Rogers flour."
Get 280 results.
It is mathematically impossible for them to have more offerings of a specific flour than they do flour in general. But the results said otherwise.
Try "bread flour". Try "best for bread". Try "fuzzy woolen mittens" if you want: you get the same nonsensical numbers.
In other words they want you to look through every page of 'results' until you find what you're looking for. Some of those results included items that are used in making bread, such as yeast and sugar, but also a surprising number of items that have nothing whatsoever to do with bread. I won't bother mentioning how absurd the results got, but let's just say that drawing a line between "bread" and the ultimate stupid suggestion would have required one helluva imagination. And a somewhat perverted one at that.
So you're supposed to give up, go to the store, and look for yourself. That's not very helpful. Nor economical. If you don't have what I want, why would I go to your store? Oh; so you can con me into buying something, anything under the pretext of my not wasting the visit.
Or I can just stay home and you and your faulty search engine can pound sand. (There's not even a feedback link like some places offer so you can tell them how disappointed you are with the results.)
There are other stores that have exactly this problem. In fact every retail web site I look at has it: type anything in, get everything back. "We have stuff! Come buy it! Don't see what you need? BUY SOMETHING ELSE YOU STUPID CUSTOMER! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? WE HAVE PROFIT GOALS TO MAKE! HAND OVER YOUR MONEY!
And no, using 'logical operators' doesn't help: type in "flour +bread" and you'll get flour, bread, batteries (because they have a '+'), anything that uses '+' in its description (Calcium + Magnesium for example), and again a whole lot of things that have nothing to do with any of the criteria.
The worst part is, the store I was looking at is the only one that has the bread flour I like to use. Not that any other store is any better, mind you.