When I got off work, I got some food for the upcoming Labor Day weekend. I get things I don’t normally buy such as ice cream. I noticed the packages shrank since the Independence Day holiday week. In the ancient times of the early 21st century, ice cream came in 2 quart packages. A fewContinue reading “More shrinkflation”
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Holidays are here
At Wally World we put up the holiday grocery display in the aisle this week. This is where most of the pumpkin spice stuff is going to be from now until Easter. They couldn’t even wait until Labor Day this year.
Shrinkflation
By now people have companies making packages smaller to keep prices down. This has not been totally successful as prices are going up anyway. They may not notice these same companies switching to cheaper ingredients or diluting liquids. Retailers are pushing back and in some cases refusing to stock products. This is why some ofContinue reading “Shrinkflation”
Football kicks off
High School and college football kicks off this weekend. The high schools in the area had scrimmages last night. While most states have scrimmages, this has been a recent development in Kansas. Schools have a choice between a three or four team scrimmage, with each school having a total of 36 plays equally divided againstContinue reading “Football kicks off”
Heat dome collapses
After today temperatures drop from the unbearable 100s to the normal nineties. The biggest difference is in the night temperatures. 75 degrees or more is like putting salt in the wound, but lows in the 60s when I get off work feels refreshing.
Revival in the neighborhood
There are two abandoned churches is my neighborhood. One of them was an historically Black church where revivals were held until held until a decade ago. There will be a weekend revival this weekend. There was an article in this week’s Chronicle about the spiritual and structural revival of the church. This should be aContinue reading “Revival in the neighborhood”
Don’t hold my beer
A shout out for the Michigan convenience store customer who shot a would be robber while holding a six-pack of beer in the other. I’m surprised there aren’t memes of this all over the internet.
Slowly fading away
I never had much experience with old people growing up, since most people in my family died under age 60. Things such as dementia are alien concepts to me. My current tenant is in her late 70s and is the early stages of dementia. Her granddaughter lives next door and keeps an eye on herContinue reading “Slowly fading away”
Impressing the neighbors
At the bottled water company I worked at we had to change out the charcoal in the carbon filter roughly annually. This was an all day job and a messy one too, as we couldn’t avoid getting wet charcoal all over our uniforms. One year a teacher at the school next door shoved one ofContinue reading “Impressing the neighbors”
Mailing it out
The publisher of the Wichita Eagle announced this week that the e-edition of the paper would be updated during the day. He also announced that the paper would be mailed to customers starting October 23. Wasn’t this the same paper that got its bulk mail permit pulled for monkeying with the numbers in its annualContinue reading “Mailing it out”
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