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scan as you shop gizmo attached to the handle of a shopping cart

The future is always beginning now ~Mark Strand.

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While I check out my items at the grocery store, I can’t help but think about the last time I went through a cashier’s lane. We exchanged the usual pleasantries. She asked how I was. I responded, fine, how are you. And then she launched into the reasons why she shouldn’t be there. It wasn’t her shift. Someone called in sick and she was summoned at the last minute. She was really tired.  …

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Hose-worthy

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Buying a simple garden hose isn’t so simple anymore. You need to almost be a professional shopper in order to make sure you’re not getting ripped off by all of the so-called LAST HOSE YOU’LL EVER NEED! claims out there. By the way, if there is an opening somewhere for a Professional Shopper, kindly accept this as my application.  …

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Throwback Thursday – Prom and Circumstance

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My niece is looking for a prom dress. This dress is the most important article of clothing in the world. It must be perfect. It must not only flatter but enhance and beyond that, it must meet with the approval of the Wardrobe Committee – her girlfriends who have individual veto power over each contender. They’re not shopping with her. They’re receiving selfies, one at a time, as she shops with her parents who are nearing their wits’ ends. One gown almost made the cut until one of the Committee members responded to it with a text that read, “Ewwwww!”    …

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Beyond Tragic Circumstances

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It was unexpected, as these incidents always are.  London’s southwest Costco, jammed with Friday afternoon shoppers, suddenly ducking and covering from raining shards of glass as a vehicle backs through the front doors.  How it missed the posts that hold the huge panes of glass, how it ended up going backwards into an area full of people, are still under investigation.   …

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Brandt’s Randt – Stop Helping the Thieves!

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This week’s randt came from a frequent observation at local grocery stores. I’m sure its’ quite common in other cities and towns. I was once in a store when someone took to the PA and announced that a thief was going around snatching purses from shopping carts.  My purse never, ever comes off my arm.  Ergo, I randt.

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