Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 9am, that's probably true for Safeway too since they share delivery routes.

That stings, dropped that much and got a rattle instead of smooth fades.

Check the stab wire again because solder blob is usually not the real problem there. A blob on the wire itself would sit outside the housing and barely touch anything, so the binding was probably lube gunk or a bent wire end catching inside the stab. Pop the stab out and look at where the wire actually rubs, that is where the drag comes from.