If you want to avoid the early Christmas present of an assault and battery charge, don’t shop at the Wallingford QFC for now. In the middle of a complete remodel, many aisles are jammed with carts chock full of comestibles being rearranged onto shelves and in the freezers. Don’t even attempt upstairs and the cockeyed mine field that is the “natural foods section.” By contrast that makes downstairs….And don’t even think about looking for caramel sauce. It’s not with the baking items. It’s nowhere near the honey or syrup or hot cocoa. “It’s in the junk food aisle,” said an employee, finally, the third I asked, “Next to the chips.” That’s awfully judgmental, and how did she know what else was on my list?
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