Less than an hour ago I saw a Houston Police Officer at the Kroger Starbuck’s. I asked him if he was fueling up to take on the losers. His answer was yes.
I thanked him for his service and he thanked me for thanking him
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The conventional wisdom in the alleged city of Houston is the alleged Philly team will trade for the so called tainted player because they hired a convicted animal abuser and they added him to the Philly Club.
This is talk radio info so take it with a ton of salt.
I hear our radio can’t hold a candle to the vile spewed on Philly airwaves. Correct me if I’m wrong.
You haven’t lived until you listen to a week of Philly sports radio . . . some of the callers are even coherent.
The animal abuser was eventually accepted . . . he did everything he said he would, owned his bad behavior, paid his debts rather than declare bankruptcy . . . and he played well.
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I’m coming since Philly is the largest US city I haven’t to.
I’ll be there after a really bad loss by the local Club and stay for a week glued to the radio.
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We have two major sports radio stations. I prefer one, but they’ll both satisfy any bloodlust: the baseball team has a chance, the team sucks; the football team shows promise, the team won’t win more than five games; the basketball team is right there, the team will never win with this group of players; the hockey team is on the right track, the team is doomed to mediocrity.
But you’ll eat well . . . from cheesesteaks and hoagies to high-end Italian and French fine dining. We have a few museums and cultural attractions too. Just duck the bullets and step over the trash 
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I didn’t forget. It took me a while to circle back and look at delivery vice curbside. I have a bunch of Safeway accounts for different places all on the East Coast. Looks like all the prices for food are the same between the store, curbside, and delivery. The only thing that varies is delivery charge based on time of day. I can’t tell if delivery is in-house or outsourced. Picking for curbside is in-house.
Do you see anything different on your side of the country?
Or learn how NOT to behave, though I doubt they’re the majority.
Looking back, my mother was the poster girl for bad grocery store behavior. I have visual memories of her jamming her thumb into avocados to see if they were ripe and then putting them back, likewise peeling the husks back from corn and popping a couple of kernels with her thumbnail. And I’ve said this here before, she never, ever once in her life put a shopping cart in the cart rack after shopping.
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There are times when I’m having a bad walking day and I will pull up to a stray cart and use it as a de facto walker.
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I’ve done that!
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I haven’t looked since I posted that, but it seemed delivery price varied with the length of time between order and delivery, and in house vs the other delivery options.
I just checked and right now I can pick delivery window first, one hour delivery is only available via “trusted partners” and cost $9.95. Today I didn’t see who the “trusted partner” ism but I seem to recall seeing at least two last month. 2 hour window cost less, and so does 3 hour. I thought the 1 hour referred to “I need this in one hour!”, but now it looks like with four hour the delivery could be anytime within a four hour window.
Here’s another screen shot. It looks like they consider $9.95 typical, but 2 and 4 hour windows are discounted.
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I can’t stand digital coupons. Watched a mom try to navigate the app, kids, cart and shelves all at once. What a bother.
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Ditto on digital coupons. Now they have three levels of pricing: regular sale price, better sale price with supermarket card, and best price with digital coupon as well.
The fact that the circular arrives Thursday, but I can’t load the digital coupons until Friday, and that I cannot load the app on my phone because it insists on using internal storage rather than the SD card don’t improve my mood.
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And, on a phone is a pain the arse. Too tiny!
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With you on that!
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Well, this is no longer true (though with scanners, no one does price checks anymore). At least one Do!lar Tree near us is now the Dollar-and-a-Quarter Tree, with only a few items still a dollar (e.g., ramen).
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At a high-end shopping plaza in Phoenix, you can ALWAYS count on there being a Mercedes parked in the red zone. Unless it’s a BMW.
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Me too…
I ran into another “gotcha” of digital coupons that is making me swear off them if there is a paper version in the flyer. Shoprite has always been annoying in that the flyer arrives Thursday, but the coupons cannot be loaded until Friday. Now it turns out if they have a holiday weekend special (Wednesday to Monday), the coupons you load Friday expire Saturday, and if you shop on Sunday they don’t show up even though the expiration date shown when you loaded it was Monday!
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My neighborhood HEB is pretty much perfection in a grocery store. My closest thing to a peeve is that they do not stock my favorite harissa. People are even nicer and happier there.
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#1. Unfortunately I’ve noticed some kiosks popping up in my favorite market. 
No jackals showing up yet but spotted some chipmunks darting back-n-forth which are somewhat tolerable.
#2. The market I use only had a carry out service, no drive up. So in the pandemic advent they blocked off an area of the curb near the doors for a pick up service. Unfortunately there’s insufficient room so it impedes vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Nothing too terrible but now that the service is rarely used I’d like to see it disappear.
#3. Handicapped parking. Why do they get the premium spots? That market segment doesn’t generate sufficient revenue so why not put them back a few rows? Makes sense, right?
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