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Dan Neely wrote: bad management actions
Probably to be compared to how Amazon are treating their employees and destructing jobs everywhere, but I get your point. I have multiple stores for trivial things around, so this is not going to happen any soon that we have only online as an alternative/protest. Buying from Amazon remains the exception, fortunately.
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Unfortunately I only have one reasonably close large grocery chain.
There used to be a second (but it was generally lower quality or more expensive), but the company who owned all its localish franchises went bust a decade ago; and the current quasi-monopoly bought all their buildings in the bankruptcy sale to prevent a rival from moving in. That leaves me with various dollar stores, one medium sized grocery in a poor part of town that almost exclusively has cheap low quality stuff, and if I want to drive 20+ minutes across town a Wallmarx. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Wishlists have a similar problem. By the time someone actually wants to buy something on a wishlist, the product page it's linked to has often changed, particularly the price has gone up!
I always do a fresh search whenever I want to buy anything. Even a repeat order. It's the only reliable way to be sure you get what you expect, for the price you want.
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Perfect reason to NOT use auto-reorder for anything.
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You completely missed the point. Because they changed the existing product record replacing the unscented bags with pre-stenched ones my normal manual reorder process would have and probably did fail as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Those Febreeze products are some of the most repulsive things I've encountered. The fact that there's a market for such shite says volumes about many consumers.
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If I had a kid in diapers I could see value in them. 💩🤮💩🤮
Otherwise unless you're trying to pinch pennies by only emptying your trash every few weeks, by which point any food on the bottom is going to be quite rotten, the cure is worse than the disease. And if you're that cheap, you're probably not buying premium trashbags anyways. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Febreeze saved me when my boys played ice hockey...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Same for dog blankets/towels. I hand wash in a bucket with soap, rinse, then soak for an hour in diluted febreeze. Only way I have found to get the funk out.
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I have learned for $$ purchases, one best screen capture the order page. I have been burned by Amazon changing the order after the fact. Don't even get me started on the customer support. Pecker heads
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If your girlfriend asks you to play "Smoke on the water" should you not throw a toaster in her bath?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Your post is shocking ! Watt were you thinking?
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Whew! at least it wasn't Burn or Fireball...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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What should you not do if her favourite song is "Light My Fire" (The Doors)?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Or, maybe a little darker . . . "The End".
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A toaster in the bath gives no smoke, it just makes the lights go off. No special effects like in the movies either. No lightning flashes for five seconds in the tub, and no screaming either. Muscles contract when electrocuted, so your weak electric signals from the brain are overwritten.
One might turn a deep purple color after though.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Shouldn't make the lights go off. The toaster would be plugged into a wall socket, the lights run off a different circuit (with their own circuit breaker and/or fuse). If you've done this and the lights went off as a result, you should call an electrician and have your house checked out.
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DerekT-P wrote: Shouldn't make the lights go off.
It did. I mean, in theory it does.
DerekT-P wrote: The toaster would be plugged into a wall socket, the lights run off a different circuit (with their own circuit breaker and/or fuse). If you've done this and the lights went off as a result, you should call an electrician and have your house checked out. |
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If you that person, I skip.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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DerekT-P wrote: Shouldn't make the lights go off.
If you have an earth-leakage circuit-breaker on your house/apartment's main electricity board (required in all Israeli construction), then it will shut off all electricity to the house/apartment. This includes lights and everything else.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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In the UK we have multiple circuits in the home; typically upstairs lights, upstairs sockets, downstairs lights, downstairs sockets; and often a separate one for cooker and/or shower. We use ring mains, rather than radial distribution, and each circuit is independent of the others. So when there's a problem with one thing, you can usually find your way to the problem because the lights are still on.
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I don't know the technical name, but the Israeli design for homes is as follows:
- A single connection (single-phase or three-phase) to the grid.
- This connection is protected by an earth-leakage circuit-breaker, which breaks the connection to the grid if earth leakage is detected.
- Behind the earth-leakage circuit-breaker, there are separate circuits (upstairs lights etc.), each protected by a fuse.
Most electrical faults trigger only the relevant fuse. The only time that I can recall the ground-fault circuit-breaker jumping was one winter, when we discovered that an external power point was inadequately waterproofed. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So you have gone from deep thoughts to Deep Purple thoughts!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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No play it like you know it even through the solo and she'll go up in smoke anyway.
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Since yesterday's CCC solution was Half Inch, being Cockney rhyming slang for Pinch.
The answer to OriginalGriff wrote: If your girlfriend asks you to play "Smoke on the water" should you not throw a toaster in her bath?
must be She'd be brown bread. (i.e. Toast, but also Cockney rhyming slang for Dead).
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