1 hour ago, Ponds said:

I don't shop Walmart at all and purchased very few things from Amazon unless I couldn't find it other places, but I ordered a buttload of items on-line these past 2 years.  I'm on a first name basis with my UPS driver.

Ordinarily, I avoid both (in the beginning, it was just Walmart, which I rarely even ventured into, since there were almost no stores in my area anyway. But over the past few years, I added Amazon to the "no buy" list even though, once upon a time, I used to place orders with Amazon dating back to the late 1990s!)  Last year during the pandemic, they were literally just only two places that had certain necessities in stock that weren't charging exorbitant fees and had timely delivery. It pained me but I had to bite the bullet and order. Thankfully it was only about six or seven times for the entire 2020.

Edited December 26, 20213 yr by DramatistDreamer

Kroger still exists? We had one when I was a teen. I use to go in just to read the soap mags and check out the latest Nielsen ratings.😂

It went out of business due to Wal-Mart.

I have to be honest and admit, I have never been to a Kroger supermarket.

12 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I have to be honest and admit, I have never been to a Kroger supermarket.

All I remember is that the items were overpriced. We only went there because it was the only store that carried the dish soap my mother used. 

There are still lots of Kroger markets, they just go under different names by region.  In the NW they are Fred Meyers.

We have an Amazon Fresh supermarket in my neighborhood.  It seems built for delivery rather than weekly shopping, because it looks more like a warehouse than a market.  But, the oddest thing is that they are frequently out of stock on major items like flour and soda pop.  If Amazon is out of stock, you know the supply chain must be an issue.

4 hours ago, Ponds said:

There are still lots of Kroger markets, they just go under different names by region.  In the NW they are Fred Meyers.

They are known as Harris Teeter in NC and they still go by Kroger in GA, SC and TN. 

At least I can say that I stopped watching The Dr. Oz show about a year after it debuted, so I didn't have to be a witness to the rise of this charlatan.

It's really a shame though, that someone who could exude such charisma and could have done so much to foster greater trust and connection between people and the medical community seems to have done the opposite. There are a cavalcade of kooks running on the GOP side for the Senate in PA, including a former soap opera actress, who was an ambassador under Trump.

Dr. Oz was a chief promoter of hydroxychloroquine on Fox News. As medical professionals, we believe he should lose his license. As Americans we believe he should lose his election. https://t.co/1CRpRThGbC

— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) December 26, 2021

 

On 12/26/2021 at 6:58 AM, DramatistDreamer said:

Amazon and Walmart so often last year,

 

On 12/26/2021 at 3:45 PM, Ponds said:

I don't shop Walmart at all and purchased very few things from Amazon unless I couldn't find it other places, but I ordered a buttload of items on-line these past 2 years.  I'm on a first name basis with my UPS driver.

ditto. And the thing that makes me mad about Amazon is seeing the same products or very similar in quantity be so vastly different in price, for the same thing.  Like this past week, I was sick of buying soup by 2 or 3 cans at a time (I know - white people problem) - I just like to use my reusable/recyclable bags at the grocery store and you can only carry so much - so I went to Amazon and found VERY different prices on Progresso soups  - same ounces per can, but 5 cans versus 8 cans - and they were the SAME price.  Same soup.  5 cans vs. 8 cans.  Someone could easily pay that amount of money for 5 cans and could get 8 right next to it.  The 8 was closer to what the price should be per can.  If you hadn't noticed and bought the 5 can choice, it was $24.99.  FIVE DOLLARS EACH Per CAN.  That's INSANE.  It's that way with SO many things I see.  Same product, different prices for no reason, and just out and out GOUGING.  BOTH of my examples were from WHOLE FOODS!!  

 

His 2010  election, where he managed to get a GOP primary win for a moron who went on  TV telling people to barter chickens for health care, was political genius.

Edited December 29, 20213 yr by DRW50

Senator Reid was a fighter, through and through, to the last. R.I.P.

 

We’ll see what he can do with this city: