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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1575 on: August 18, 2010, 06:32:34 PM »
That's why you shouldn't patronize chain stores.  Support local businesses and say fuck you to the corporate chains.  Having worked for two different restaurant chains I much prefer to go to local places instead.  Restaurants (Gallos, Puerto Azul, Blue Rock, etc.), music stores (Rasputins, The Beat, Amoeba), book stores (I'd go to Curious if it was close, Hicklebee's), toy stores (the Wooden Horse in Los Gatos), Doughnuts (Psycho Donuts!), etc.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1576 on: August 18, 2010, 06:35:34 PM »
Starbucks coffee has an aftertaste like post-nasal drip, anyway.  Seriously, it's nauseating.  Strongest in the cold bottled drinks, but even in the hot coffee.  Urgh.

Their ice cream is surprisingly awesome, but it's probably made by a different company that just licenses the name, or something.

I do know a lot about how corporations get so fucked up, but it still boggles me every time.  SO STUPID.  And you know that the deranged congenital twitwads who make those moronic decisions get paid well in the six figures, if not more.

I remain convinced that there are almost no meritocracies that have more than maybe 50 people involved.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1577 on: August 18, 2010, 06:40:29 PM »
Quote from: random axe on August 18, 2010, 06:35:34 PM
...I remain convinced that there are almost no meritocracies that have more than maybe 50 people involved.

It's probably somewhere around 50 but there are a few exceptions.  Harry Snyder had well over 50 involved before he died (see Zorg's comment).  I wouldn't say that it's a true meritocracy now, but back then it certainly was.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1578 on: August 18, 2010, 10:43:02 PM »
Quote from: mo on August 18, 2010, 06:24:28 PM
Of course, and that's why it pisses me off so bad - I can't take it out on the person who's been forced to ask, and I don't have the corporate overlords address to pay them a late night visit. I have to swallow my anger and politely answer the stupid question, becoming just as much a puppet as the person behind the counter. And I'm paying for the privilege!

Since you put it that way ... man that really sucks.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1579 on: August 19, 2010, 06:14:56 AM »
You can always shoot a message to corporate.  On their websites under contact us they have a tab usually where you can send them an email filled with your complaints, kudos, etc.  I sent one regarding an Arby's I like to frequent when I'm on the road (a kudos) and actually got a really nice email back.  So sometimes they do listen.  Just a thought.  OR you can continue to stew.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1580 on: August 19, 2010, 09:47:01 AM »
Did they send you a free tub of horsey sauce?
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1581 on: August 19, 2010, 11:20:43 AM »
I've learned complaint letters usually get you coupons for free stuff. Which works for me.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1582 on: August 19, 2010, 11:24:17 AM »
:hmm:

You must complain differently than I do.  My complaint letters tend to close doors, burn bridges, leave not one stone standing upon another, and salt the earth.  I pretty much only go there when I'm dropping it from orbit with no plans to visit the surface again.

I could use coupons for free stuff, but, now that I think of it, I probably wouldn't actually use them.  But I could give them away.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1583 on: August 19, 2010, 11:45:23 AM »
:hmm:

I would like more than a carton of "free" eggs from Trader Joes when I march in there with my half empty carton, the LA times article, and a stool sample n attitude. On the other hand if I reduced them to a smoking abrasion in the Earth's crust it would be inconvenient for me to do my grocery shopping.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1584 on: August 19, 2010, 02:05:02 PM »
Support local grocers who source as locally as possible rather than shipping eggs from Iowa to Santa Barbara, when there are plenty of sources like Ripon and Petaluma much closer.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1585 on: August 19, 2010, 02:14:58 PM »
Yeah, well usually we do buy local eggs there, but this last time they were out and I got the default.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1586 on: August 19, 2010, 02:18:36 PM »
At Whole Paycheck or Cosentinos we get the ones from some farm in South San Jose.  I'm just wondering if the people across the street will expand their laying operation and let their two little boys go into the egg business and Barbara Kingsolver's daughter did.  That would be cool :detta:

I guess I should leave a copy of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle on their front porch as a hint....
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1587 on: August 19, 2010, 02:21:56 PM »
Quote from: The Incredible Hmof on August 19, 2010, 02:14:58 PM
Yeah, well usually we do buy local eggs there, but this last time they were out and I got the default.



And then you got deruns.
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1588 on: August 19, 2010, 02:26:46 PM »
:galm:

Yeah got ranked out by the wife, too, for buying the wrong eggs. Before we learned they'd been visited by Ms. Ella.
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"*drags taint* Oh cool, I didn't know you could do that." - mo.d
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Re: More News You Really Don't Need
« Reply #1589 on: August 19, 2010, 04:10:17 PM »
Ella is definitely a better first name than surname.

*notice pb in the url?*
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