[rangerone314]

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Simple rules of merchandising:

If you wouldn't buy it, don't try to sell it.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 'u')hhh, ever live in the Philippines? Where a doctor or lawyer works for five dollars a day? Americans are (temporarily) WAY overpaid. But thats about to change. A co-worker married a Filipina about twenty years ago, but has never been there. He just got back. His whole world was destroyed. He kept trying to tell me what its like (been there done that). For the first time in ten years I saw him scared.

[vision-master]

What do you do when you see someone speeding, step on it dummy. I bet 90% do. I know I do.

[IgnoranceIsBliss]

JJ, what a great reinforcement of how self-centered and clueless our fellow Americans can be. Very interesting that Germans and Canadians might be a little more civilized. I cringed when I read about you throwing out the organic apples. Those are all we buy because I want to minimize the toxic load to my toddlers. I can't believe that people walk around eating the produce! No brains at all...

I think when push comes to shove, a lot of people will get desperate quick because they refuse to eat anything blemished & refuse to eat things they "don't like." I can't wait until the amount of food waste here finally starts coming down and the picky whiners are forced to shut up (either by choice or brute force when they try to take from the rest of us).

Anyway, I have noticed a lot of empty packages lately in stores where someone slipped the product out of the package and stole it, leaving the bulky packaging behind.

As far as buying patterns, it's an all out war for the cheap crap. The other day at my local store, the Little Debbie and Ramen noodle sections were decimated by late Sunday. Snack sized Oreo cups were on sale and there were none left. I actually saw a couple with a toddler and the only thing they had in their cart was about 10 packages of pudding cups and a 2L of orange soda.

My husband and I are trying to buy whole foods and avoid high fructose corn syrup and sugar. 90+% of the items in any given grocery store are total junk these days.

[Maddog78]

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[JJ]

agentR wrote:

Whats more interesting is the subtheme that gets passed along here, over and over... That the wealthy are somehow less prepared for what's to come. Everything in my experience leads me to the conclusion that the modern cohort of the wealthy are more than adequately populated by people that can manage the combination of ruthlessness and vision that will enable them to maintain a comparable level of luxury in their lives; though the notable substitution of servants for technical product will be a modest change.

tend to agree. My sister is a multi-millionaire retires (at 40) in Pagosa Springs. When she used to come visit us (no longer) she would brag on the fact that they are completely off the grid. (catchment systems, solar panels, etc.) money can buy anything. When i asked her "what about your neighbors?" her husband quickly said "we don't care about our neighbors". And I believe him.

[ALBY]

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Petty shoplifting bothers you but the trillion dollar thefts by the billionaire banksters and military contractors you're ok with. Wow, have you got your priorities screwed up. Why don't you go wag your finger at the perpetrators of this financial debacle instead of their victims? Good luck finding them in their multimillion dollar Park Ave. penthouses and Bahamas villas paid for with your tax dollars and their deregulation assisted Ponzi schemes.

[nobodypanic]

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Petty shoplifting bothers you but the trillion dollar thefts by the billionaire banksters and military contractors you're ok with. Wow, have you got your priorities screwed up. Why don't you go wag your finger at the perpetrators of this financial debacle instead of their victims? Good luck finding them in their multimillion dollar Park Ave. penthouses and Bahamas villas paid for with your tax dollars and their deregulation assisted Ponzi schemes.

[Pretorian]

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Petty shoplifting bothers you but the trillion dollar thefts by the billionaire banksters and military contractors you're ok with. Wow, have you got your priorities screwed up. Why don't you go wag your finger at the perpetrators of this financial debacle instead of their victims? Good luck finding them in their multimillion dollar Park Ave. penthouses and Bahamas villas paid for with your tax dollars and their deregulation assisted Ponzi schemes.

[ALBY]

ask the people who inhabited the inner city 'donut holes' burnt out after the MLK shooting... 'how was life without a grocery store' ? detroit, newark, east st louis...

as far as I know, safeway did not get any TARP money.

so when they shut down YOUR grocery store because it is unprofitable, you will wish you treated them better...

stealing from your local grocery store, or allowing it to happen, is slightly more enlightened than rioting in and burning down your own neighborhood.

[Pretorian]

I do not know what bloated hordes of parasites of inner cities where every second has an IQ below a mild retardation level got to do with my idyllic example. Clearly those ghettos stood in a dead land in the first place