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I had to go to town yesterday for medicine. Because I was already there, I also went shopping at the two stores across the street. The first was a discount department store. I walked through the first set of double doors but couldn't enter the main store. I stood there, next to the shopping carts, for several minutes, looking stupid and trying to find anything that would tell me the store hours. There was nothing. Employees inside walked past me as if I wasn't there. I went back outside, but still couldn't find the hours. I figured it would be opening soon since it was almost 9:00 AM and stuck around. At some point I went out a second time and finally found the hours posted on the front windows of the store, not visible from the entrances. These people are geniuses.

One of the signs I saw while I was waiting noted that cashiers would automatically add 2% to all bills as a bonus to their staff for coming in. I normally oppose tips but I'm actually okay with this kind though I do wish it would be implemented in the form of posted price increases. That type of tip is far more honest than the type restaurants have foisted upon their customers, leaving it up to the customers whether to tip or not, and how much, essentially waging a decades long guilt war on every customer. It would be far more honest to just increase prices by 15% or 20% or whatever they want it to be, and lose the guilt.

It occurred to me today that the department store owner will have a very difficult time ever rolling this policy back. To the employees, it will come across as a demotion. My guess is that the current employees will forever keep their higher pay. Newer employees may also, or they might be put into a lower pay status which will probably result in chips being on their shoulders. It's a problem.

At the grocery store I went to next, I found the deals of the year on both chicken leg quarters and Budweiser beer. The chicken was 49¢ per pound… Less than half of what it usually is. And Budweiser was $9.99 per 18 pack of bottles. There was a limit of two and that's what I took.

You can probably guess what we had for dinner yesterday!

This was obviously a push by manufacturers to clear excess inventory. As my wife pointed out, Memorial day must have been an enormous bust for the beer industry. As for chicken, I've been hearing for a while how farmers are having to slaughter their flocks. This is sad. The low prices are temporary. Permanent higher prices will be coming our way.








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