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| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Feb 14 04:09PM -0800 https://thehill.com/policy/finance/430013-us-retail-sales-suffer-steepest-drop-in-nine-years |
| JohnDoe@BadISP.org: Feb 13 11:01PM -0500 >> Todd Flanders' hobbies include being quiet on long rides, >> clapping to songs and diabetes. >It's pretty much a store for hippies with a lot of money. Well, I'm far too old to be a millennial, but maybe a hippie if you just count persons born during WW2. I don't think that's what you really mean though. Maybe "Yuppie" or "Yuppette" would be more accurate. Personally I shop at WF for the visual impact of the gorgeous, young, well-dressed female millenials and their offspring. Even the older Yuppettes are passable with bodies honed by hours in the gym, makeup by movie-level professionals and clothing from the Upper East Side boutiques. Only Fairway comes even close and then you have to exclude the "mistakes" they made in situating some stores in the ghetto. In both WH and Fairway you can sit and ogle while having a nice cappuccino. Oh I forgot Trader Joe but there you don't have a cafe and you have to go on a Saturday for the ogle parade. But back to the food and prices at WF. Their 365 line is often cheaper and better than other supermarkets even in the ghettos. Milk, frozen pizzas, frozen fish, potatoes, pineapples, cantaloupes, and avocados (at the moment) are all lower in price and better in quality than any other store I go to. Some cakes too but my local Italian bakery beats them on both quality and price for bread and similar. I wouldn't buy toilet paper, paper towel or laundry detergent from them though. But Bev, I seem to remember a conversation some years ago with you and (IIRC) Trader wherein you commented that you went to an upscale French restaurant, had a meal, and then remarked that you were so hungry afterwards that you had to have a fill-up meal from a nearby Chinese take-out. Ugh! --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Feb 14 01:23PM -0800 > restaurant, had a meal, and then remarked that you were so hungry > afterwards that you had to have a fill-up meal from a nearby Chinese > take-out. Ugh! Not Chinese, McDonald's. If I'd known how good the broccoli with bearnaise sauce was going to be I would have ordered extra when I made the reservation. BTW, I was treating a client to an expense-account lunch; I would have have gone there otherwise. Who were you then? -- Cheers, Bev Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Feb 14 02:28PM -0800 On 02/14/2019 01:23 PM, The Real Bev wrote: > bearnaise sauce was going to be I would have ordered extra when I made > the reservation. BTW, I was treating a client to an expense-account > lunch; I would have have gone there otherwise. NEVER have gone. I used to be a good editor... -- Cheers, Bev I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. |
| JohnDoe@BadISP.org: Feb 14 05:48PM -0500 >bearnaise sauce was going to be I would have ordered extra when I made >the reservation. BTW, I was treating a client to an expense-account >lunch; I would have have gone there otherwise. Do you mean "I WOULDN'T have gone..."? >Who were you then? On this NG I've been JohnDoe since 2009 or at least I haven't archived posts under any other name since then but of course I could have deleted the thread in question or it could have been to another NG. My comment was strictly from my fast-deteriorating memory. It's possible that I just read your post and neither replied nor thought it was sufficiently durable to keep. Sorry. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
| "catalpa" <catalpa@entertab.org>: Feb 13 09:08PM -0500 <ggggg9271@gmail.com> wrote in message news:0c373075-3f6c-49f1-b6ad-7b0a039c63b2@googlegroups.com... > https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-17/inflation-is-nowhere-in-sight Key paragraph here: "With slowing economic growth here and abroad, deflationary forces should intensify, especially with global total debt at a record relative to gross domestic product. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund have both revised lower their forecasts for worldwide economic growth this year and next." Deflation and massive debt are the recipe for global economic disaster. The world's central bankers have been pouring gasoline on a fire by expanding debt over the last eleven years. |
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