OK, Google has forced me to have a second level of security for my Gmail on my computer. It’s a pain in the butt, but I get the need for some solid security protocol. However, about 80% of the time they send me an error… Read More
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Thank you Mr. Weston
That Mr. Weston. He’s always thinking about his customers and how to improve the grocery shopping experience. Like when they tried out price-fixing on bread on a massive scale, so we wouldn’t be confused with all those different prices. Now they’ve got a new idea,… Read More
Amazon Fail
What’s going on with Amazon? Recently 3 items I’ve ordered through them have disappeared. They have not been delivered and Amazon has been unable to tell me where they might be. With the shipper? Sitting in a warehouse? Lost or stolen? Who knows? I’ve had… Read More
Billionaires in Space
It says a lot about our society that there are people who have such a disproportionately huge amount of money they can piss it away making spaceships and launching themselves. Too bad. They had an opportunity to be heroes by using their obscene amounts of… Read More
Everywhere, Coffee Cups
Everywhere I go, I see disposable coffee cups littered on the ground. Today I went for a walk through the lovely naturalized parkland at Humber Bay and picked up one from Tim Horton’s and another from Starbucks. The cup in the photo was steps from… Read More
Grocery Store Apocalypse
Until recently, along the front of my local No Frills store, there were bins full of empty boxes, the idea being that customers were welcome to take a box or two if they needed them, and I suppose since the store had to dispose of… Read More
If they were any smaller, I’d topple over
I have big feet – 14s, DD width. They work well and most of the time they keep me upright. I’ve always had trouble buying shoes in retail stores though. There seems to be a consensus among shoe retailers that folks with big pods are… Read More
Rogers Rant
Rogers keeps calling me. I try to be polite. I ask them not to call anymore. Please take me off your list. I don’t want to hear about the deal of the day. Honest, I don’t. Usually at that point they hang up. I’ve asked… Read More
Yellow (a retail rant)
Regular visitors to this part of the blog swamp know that Tuffy P and I make custom mosaics. We’re working on a set of goldfinches made from broken crockery, tiles and what-have-you so today I dropped into our local Value Village in search of yellows.… Read More
Bottom-feeding: the ticket business
CBC has been doing investigation into the ticket-selling business. The results are ugly. It seems there are scalpers’ conventions and they allege one major ticketseller has sent reps to recruit scalpers who “cheat its own system to expand its resale business and squeeze more money… Read More
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