Wayne Boatwright said:On Fri 04 Feb 2005 09:46:09p, Dan Goodman wrote in rec.food.cooking:
Quoted message said:Nancy Young said:"Scotty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
> [censored], all she's saying is if you're going to post info about a
> particular store, then let us know where the hell that store is. In
> Vancouver, we don't have Bozwick's or Trader Joe's. So when you say
> "all you need to do is go down to Trader Joe's", I'm wondering what
> the hell you're talking about. Comprender?
I don't understand ... it's a chain store. Do you have one there?
Look in the phone book. Online. Whatever. If you don't, you ain't
going there. No big deal.
This works _only_ if the chain's store operate enough alike in every
city. There are such things as sales confined to one area. There are
also cases in which city high-ups interpret their orders from
headquarters very differently.
It's true that stores of the same chain in different parts of the country
or, for that matter, different parts of a city, are often merchandised
different. Still, if you're familiar with the stores you frequent, you
should have a pretty good idea whether they have the items in question.
And exactly when a store which usually charges (in my opinion) too much for
the quality offered has a sale?
In the Twin Cities, supermarket chains do not make it easy to know what's
on sale before you go into the store. There's the flyer in the Sunday
paper; there are the little ads elsewhere in the Sunday paper; there's the
in store specials; there's the ad in the Wednesday paper, in the section
you don't usually bother to read....
And I don't habitually go to _all_ the supermarkets near me.
Quoted message said:If
you don't, then you're probably a rather poor observer and shopper.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Also, it doesn't quite cover the case (cited in the original message) of
someone saying "The Starbucks in my neighborhood is dirty."
Your own observation should tell you whether the Starbucks in your own
neighborhood is dirty. Why the hell would you care about some place a
thousand miles away?
Because I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S A THOUSAND MILES AWAY.
And because it might be in the city and neighborhood I'm planning to move
to, or the one I'm planning to visit.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:And it most certainly DOES NOT cover something related which has annoyed
me -- people blithely stating grocery prices of certain items without
saying where those items were being sold.
Prices for the same item vary across a range of supermarket chains even in
the same city, not to mention across the country. If you're that niggely
about the price you should call the store.
I don't see what the big deal is.
Uh-huh. I sometimes correct people who think I grew up in New York City --
I grew up in the Catskills area. Usually, they don't see what the big deal
is.
I've known people who didn't see what the big deal is about gun safety.
I may be wrong, but you seem to be confusing "I don't see what the big deal
is" with "It's no big deal".
Quoted message said:The original request was petty
In _your_ opinion.
Quoted message said:and made to sound as though we "owe" this person the information. Not
the nature of newsgroups, to be sure.
Well, it would be polite to give the information, knowing that there are
people here who want it.
Quoted message said:If I had to research and post the source and price for every damn thing I
posted about, I would probably never post at all.
I see. It would be an intolerable burden to say "Chicken breasts cost me
$1.78 a pound at the Dangerway on Burr Boulevard in Iowa City."
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