Pics or it didn’t happen. 
I haven’t read the whole thread but the OP is a novel and ain’t nobody got tie foar dat.
Every K-Mart I’ve ever been in, from the 1980’s up to today, has looked exactly like this. It must be a scheme to ensure that anybody with even the smallest amount of pretention will go somewhere else.
Actually, all of the K-Marts around me have closed over the last couple of years. The last one finally [del]gave in to despair and committed suicide[/del] closed permanently a few months ago. I figure, K-Mart as a whole has maybe a couple of years left, at most.
I’m not worried. I can afford to shop at Target 
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There’s a Kmart about 2 miles from my house. It’s never empty but never busy; never clean but not that dirty; shelves are under stocked but never denuded; employees rarely helpful but never rude. It think it will be there for eons, just in a dreary stasis.
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The one by us is like that and adds the trick of the lights not being dim but not bright enough either. Perpetual twilight.
Considering that russian heel was wrong on four points out of the five he made, I’d have to disagree.
And yeah, Drunky, the OP is one of the least concise, most poorly written things I’ve written in awhile, and there’s no way I could object to a TL;DR comment. But the choice is between responding with TL;DR and responding to the content of the post. One can’t really do both.
Is it so surprising the realize medicines work for different people in different ways? Me, I never take Benadryl because it does put me to sleep but it totally doesn’t wear off by morning. Instead I am loopy and exhausted well into the next day.
Even if the OP is totally taking a placebo, let him. Sleep is incredibly important and if the placebo lets him sleep, why is it any skin off our backs?
Also Kmart sucks.
IMO, Sears was a lot better before they merged with Kmart. Sadly, both are now terrible places to attempt to shop.
Melatonin can be helpful for me, too, but I can’t take a 3mg tablet unless I want to have nightmares. Cutting one in half seems to get me to a reasonable dose.
I making an analogy to reflect the bizarre spectacle of a K-Mart employee trying to figure out what the hell 500mcg of Meltonin is.
I believe the reason Walton succeeded is because Walmart is actually a distributor, not a retailer. Therefore, customers don’t have to pay the extra markup.
Where the hell did you get that pile of shit?
Are you seriously getting worked up over this?
I tell my students in our database class that that big store on the edge of town isn’t a store, it’s a big database. That’s why Walmart succeeded - they manage their inventory and distribution system much more efficiently than anyone else. I picked that up from Business Week in the 1980s as Walmart was starting its expansion.
Sam Walton was not a bad guy. Too bad about his kids…
In what alternate universe does the K-Mart employee have to figure out anything? He just scans the barcode. If K-Mart had advanced to where Wal-Mart was 20 years ago, he could then query the computer to see whether there was any more of that item in the store.
I figured that K-Mart’s logistics, while not up to 2015 norms, would at least be up to 1995 state-of-the-art. That’s part of why I was taken by surprise by the second-level manager going to look in the back to see if there was any more of it, because (a) stuff should only be ‘in the back’ very briefly before moving it to the shelves, and (b) if it’s ‘in the back’, it should have been scanned in on delivery, and they should know if it’s there without going there.
In big boy science we use lots of Greek letters and seem to get by just fine.
(Seriously, though, the really annoying part is that FDA actually encourages the use of mcg)
Or do what do, which is to simply use a u as a place holder. 3 ug reads much better than 3 mcg.
In big boy math we used lots of Greek letters too. But we didn’t expect the rest of the world to manage as easily with that as we did.
Right. Yet another example of the low expectations of mathematicians. I see you’re trying to be kind to BigT, but in the end you’re hurting him.