Just need to vent...

Except for electronics

 

Wow. I had a $500 TV.

 

Well, however hard you've gotta work to put by $525 today, that's how hard you hadda work in 1990 to buy that TV.

 

Ever ordered something from Amazon and at checkout find -1. an offer to join Amazon Prime you must say no to 2. an array of shipping options each costing more than the other? The item is stocked at an Amazon Distribution Center but unless you pay extra they will not ship that to you for days after your order has been placed, unless you pay extra.

Walmart seems to beat Amazon at its own game. We found some sheets last week at Walmart we liked but didn't buy them. A few days later I regretted that decision and went online to buy sheets - I checked Walmart and Amazon for the price of the sheets - Walmart was $3 cheaper + had a 5% discount off if you ordered online. Here is the kicker - Walmart said they would deliver it free the same day. Hard to believe but I decided to check it out. Sure enough 3 hours later the doorbell rang and there was a Walmart bag on my front doorstep with my sheets. Impressive.

I will continue to cross shop any online purchases but Walmart has jumped to the front as my preferred vendor.

 

While we're at it, how come milk cartons all have silly plastic screw-tops now?

It still works just fine to unfold the tent shape at the top and make a perfectly good spout.

(Fairness Doctrine for vent posts: "Benna's decision to go for plastic caps was taken for a number of reasons. Screw caps made it easier for the cartons to be opened by the elderly and people with mobility difficulties. They also help keep the milk fresher for longer and will combat wastage, especially in public places like hospitals where the old cartons gave the illusion of contamination and would be thrown away quicker" — Malta Dairy Products responds to criticism about plastic screw cap)

 

I see you answered your own question but......yeah.
Maybe because the spout was NOT perfectly good?

I dropped a 1/2 gallon paper carton of half-n-half the other day.
That would have been a MUCH harder cleanup with the folded paper closure!

 

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I lived with my grandparents each summer of my youth. We received our milk via delivery from the Sherman Dairy (Michigan). Originally milk (pasteurized, but not homogenized) came glass bottles but later milk (now homogenized) came in waxed cardboard (tall rectangular quarts) with a lift off tab plugging a hole on the top. Then an "improved' design with a folded and stapled triangular top with still a removeable tab covering a hole in the side of the top..

My Grandmother hated this design as it always spilled some milk when trying to pour milk into a glass. She discovered that removing the staple and unfolding the top created a great pouring spout. It was years later that the folded spout was patented.

My Grandmother, the Inventor. But alas she did not recognize the value of her discovery.

JeffD

 

Also consider continuing cross shopping in local brick-and-mortar stores. Some of them are price-matching Amazon. Or more likely, with so many shoppers now addicted to Amazon and so much market share, it no longer needs to undercut brick-and-mortar on many items, so can raise prices to match the legacy stores. Or sometimes even higher.

 

I've posted it before, and I'll post it again. China;


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Current thinking is that slaves were not used to build the pyramids.

JeffD

 

LOL
wow someone's humor switch has a short

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I'm pretty sure they used hewn stones.

 

revisionist history. that's what the guide told my in laws when visiting egypt. and like the gullible travelers they are, they came home and started spouting it to anyone who would listen

 

I needed to assign my home printer to a permanent IP address to keep it from wandering around my cable modem, DHCP pool. A decade since I last logged in. I remembered the password only to discover it ran ".NET", a dead, Microsoft software.

The cable modem would not render a usable page in Safari and neither Firefox nor Chrome would even connect. After turning on Safari DEBUG, I was to load a spreadsheet with the home page ASP source. Soon enough I could manually via URL editing bring up the relevant pages and get the printer MAC address tied to a fixed IP instead of wandering around.

When a printer gets a different DHCP address, the laptops and smart phone don' t know how to find it again. But a fixed IP address means everyone knows where it is.

Bob Wilson

 

^Switch to Starlink.