Now people, it is the silly season. But you don't have to run around like irrational impatient people looking at stores for things that they don't have anymore. After all, it's only two weeks till Christmas, and stores don't have manufacturing warehouses out behind them. The clerk or the salesperson working in the stores has no ability to get more stuff from other places except where they work. I'll cut them some slack, they're doing their best. After all they have families  too. They have family and children too. I'm looking for the same thing you are for hours and sometimes even when the stores have it staff members are not allowed to buy it first even if they see it first. So the next time you go into a grocery store or department store, it would be nice if you could say to these people “you are doing a good job,” and smile. After all, they have to put up with this 12 hours a day where some might only have to shop for an hour. And keep in mind you don't have to listen to Christmas music 24 hours a day. Even prisoners in prison camps get a break —Santa helper