Doing It Right!
March 29, 2015
A couple of weeks ago I was having trouble finding my favorite flavor of Coffee-Mate. Never bothered asking the local Hy-Vee about it because I figured it would show up sooner than later.
Three weeks into the "Amaretto Coffee-Mate Drought" I popped off a Tweet to @Coffee_Mate who responded, timely by the way, "We're sorry but Amaretto has been retired why don't you try..."
WHAT? No Amaretto Coffee-Mate? My mornings were going to from sleepy to sad...very sad.
Over the past couple of weeks I Tweeted my disdain to my former friends @Nestle and @Coffee_Mate. Ya know, photos of the Coffee-Mate section without Amaretto. A friend of mine even chimed in with #FreeTheAmaretto for Twitter. The brand was sorry for my troubles and suggested that maybe some new "Caramel and Coconut Girl Scout" flavor might be a replacement. What? Who thinks of this stuff?
This past Sunday I included @Hy_Vee in my tweet...moaning about the loss of the Amaretto flavor. Within a few minutes I get a Tweet back suggesting that I send an email to [email protected] with my concern. Told them the flavor was retired but went ahead and sent an email anyway. On Sunday! Within the hour I got a response...from a real person...with a real name and a real email address.
Shocked! Who does this? What no Bot response...but a nice note from Kourtney?
I responded back...just to make sure it wasn't a Bot and she wrote back, "You’re most welcome Michael! We run a 24/7 operation here so if you ever have any store requests or Fuel Saver inquires there will be someone here to take care of it!"
Oh...so what did I do? Made my own! Another friend on Twitter supplied me with this recipe and BAM we're in business...and, of course, I picked up the ingredients from..."My Hy-Vee".
Welcome to Des Moines Price Chopper...you've got some work ahead of you.
Well played Hy-Vee...very!