This is why I keep meaning to start taking my iPod with me whenever I go shopping. A long line doesn’t seem so bad then. Heck, if it’s really long, I might have enough time to watch all of last night’s national news.
Now you know my secret. 
Robin
The Welcome to Canada guide on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website used to mention that in most stores in Canada we don’t bargain over prices. It no longer appears to.
I recently went to one of those Leadership Conferences for women (you know, where they make you say aloud over your bacon at the opening session that you are beautiful and capable and shit . . . but I digress). One of the break-out sessions that I attended was about negotiation. The professor who lead the session spoke about how she taught classes in negotiation, for which she sent her students out to try to negotiate anything and everything.
She said the only thing for which her students were repeatedly unable to negotiate was a lower price on gasoline.
Apparently she never sent them to CostCo.
Or DID she . . . .?
Actually that one isn’t his either; it’s from “the weakest link.”
denquixote
It was an observation. Not a quote.
Like telling you to “get a life beyond TV dolt”. It is an observation, not intended to be an original quote.
I don’t buy soda, so my savings were, like 100%, man. That’s some shopping acumen.
I tell my customers who do that that I can’t bargain with my suppliers so there’s no leeway for the customers to bargain with me.