Disappearance of an Apple Pie Store

Been talking about apple pies recently which led to me having a craving for it over the past few days.

Thought that since I would be passing by Kita-Senju today, I'd drop by this apple pie store along the sweets corner of Lumine. And having a 10% off promotion for card holders meant that the idea was only more enticing.

Hurried to the corner after work and wandered to where the store is supposed to be.

Weird.

No apple pies.

Now this was not a shop I frequent very often - i’ve perhaps bought from it 5 times or so in total.

Did I remember its location wrongly?

Circled around the entire sweets section a couple of times, and am pretty sure that it was the right spot.

Alas, I went up to the counter and asked the staff what happened to the apple pies.

And the devastating news was delivered to me - apparently it was a sister brand, and they stopped selling the apple pies a year ago.

Sigh.