I remember a similar incident in my old neighborhood in the Big City, at an old neighborhood grocery store that had been there for a great many years. Among my purchases was a barbecue lighter, and it scanned at a price a good bit higher than the posted price. When I pointed this out, they gave it to me free. I actually objected and said it wasn’t necessary, I just wanted to pay the posted sale price, but the cashier said it was store policy – any price mismatch, and the customer gets the item free.
Needless to say, the store is no longer there. The entire little strip mall it was in, within walking distance to my old house, is now occupied by a gigantic highrise condo, creating ever more traffic and population density in the area with ever fewer shopping resources. Such is “progress”. I’m glad I moved the hell out to the suburbs.
So that really is a thing. It’s never happened for me on the rare occasions I’ve asked for a price check. My mother’s best friend always insisted that this was a policy. I assumed she was just being a Karen’s mother type of bitch about it when she was checking out.
I has a sad with you … and didn’t know that GS cookies were already on sale, so I checked my neighborhood board. And now you can get them either shipped directly, or through contactless delivery. Things have sure changed a lot from when I was a Girl Scout …
sigh I miss Girl Scout cookies - Thin Mints in particular. They don’t do them in Australia, and won’t ship to Australia either. Sometimes I find them on Ebay, but at a ridiculous price.
Ah, well.
True - fortunately, other than a craving for Hershey’s every now and again, there’s not much chocolate I want to import. And I can get those from local shops. It’s their problem to get it imported in edible condition.
Just about everything else I may want I can get from Australian resellers - I recently got a box with a bag of Fritos, a box of Cheez-its, and a couple of bags of Skittles. My usual source.
I’ve long wondered if I’m romanticizing Girl Scout cookies. Maybe if I searched, I’d find some chocolate mint cookies, and some lemon cookies that are even better… AND some awesome chocolate-on-shortbread cookies to replace Thank-Yous (is that what RitterSports are? The pictures look like it).
The remaining one has been pulled from eBay and will go out next week. The seller, whom I’ve bought from before, is presumably waiting for everything to return to what passes for normal.
I became a member of a specific writing methodology group - well, to be clear, I spent a lot of time and money on it and got myself certified as an editor. I don’t really regret that time or money because the original set of writing tools were solid and they advanced my personal goal of writing better books. But the whole thing is built up around one guy. I guess in retrospect I should have seen this coming.
Over the last few years, I’ve seen it devolve from a humble little enterprise with a great community into a cult-like movement that exalts this guy and his increasingly bizarre ideas. It exploits its editors for free labor and does a bunch of other really shady shit, like stealing content and plagiarizing. Given all of this I’ve decided to cut ties with said organization. But I’m so pissed about how my friends were exploited. And I feel so fucking stupid for believing I had found something really great and authentic and now I’m learning it was all a bunch of bullshit.
Even though the original tools are really helpful I feel dirty just for using them or recommending them.
So the accuweather app on my phone has been upgraded and now defaults to landscape mode when I open it. Wait, that’s not quite right, a better description is that landscape mode is the only fucking option, it simply does not have a portrait mode. I want to slap the stupid motherfucker who thought that was a good idea.
The Aldi version of Samoas or Caramel Delights or whatever the Girl Scouts are calling them these days is pretty darn good. Indistinguishable from the “real thing.”
