LOL!
Maybe I should subject her to this one next... this is the one I showed her last time:
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Maybe I should subject her to this one next... this is the one I showed her last time:
My cat is strangely perturbed by the curtains in the hallway.
Are stores losing a lot of money when they ship giant and/or heavy stuff for free? I bought two bags of kitty litter and with coupon code shipping it was slightly cheaper for me than in-store pickup, so I did that. But I can't imagine how much it would've cost the store. FedEx said the box weighed 59.2 pounds.
The short answer is "yes".
Bricks-and-mortar stores have struggled to recoup the costs of ecommerce operations and the end result has been to see prices overall go up - not just in terms of delivery charges but also the onshelf prices for all. Of course, businesses have shot themselves in the foot in that they are, firstly, competing with themselves (people don't buy more, they just buy differently - as in your case) and secondly, having got into ecommerce, they can't withdraw for fear of losing ground to other companies.
Likely, yes.
The idea in retail is a "loss leader" or a service to invite customers to keep coming back. Companies are hoping that the convenience aspect will help retain customers and make up for the loss through buying other items or services.
In the sporting goods industry this is often game licenses, since the store receives pennies on the dollar from the state for each transaction yet they use it to hope people buy equipment for their excursion.
Rite Aid makes no money on Western Union but hopes people will come in and buy other things.
Tony Slattery - a veteran of the British Whose Line Is It Anyway? - has died. 
Fallout should probably be thought of more as a cautionary tale, and not so much as a planning document.
Tony Slattery - a veteran of the British Whose Line Is It Anyway? - has died.
Aww! How sad. He would always crack me up.
You know that tech millionaire who is so obsessed with trying to extend his life beyond human norms he's been taking who knows how many supplements and is injecting his son's blood into himself, and on his death bed he'll realize he wasted his life away instead of actually living and realize some of those supplements are probably what's killing him? He's stopped taking one of his pills because he's convinced it's actually aging him faster.
I refuse to believe the US is actually trying to make Canada into more US. This has to be some sort of a sick joke or something.
Fallout should probably be thought of more as a cautionary tale, and not so much as a planning document.
I just watched some dude let his Rottweiler poop on the grass between the sidewalk and street beside my house and he just walked on without picking it up!
time to give that trusted 10 mil a thorough claning?
Fallout should probably be thought of more as a cautionary tale, and not so much as a planning document.
Too bad he never had a chance to work with Drew or even Aisha. God only knows what they would have done together.
Not familiar with Fallout?I refuse to believe the US is actually trying to make Canada into more US. This has to be some sort of a sick joke or something.
I would guess that @carcinoGeneticist was referring more to the real-life situation that inspired my post.
I'm not inclined to think it will happen.
America has too many problems to add the Great White North to its strained economy.
I'm not really inclined to believe it will happen either. To begin with, our constitution makes it, well, not strictly impossible, but very, very difficult. Meaning the only really viable path, if you were to call it that, is a military takeover, and I'd like to think that saner heads would prevail well before it ever came to that.
However, the threat has already been made, the international diplomatic conventions have already been eroded, and it's difficult not to feel like we have a target on our back. And I'm guessing people in Greenland and Panama are feeling a similar way.
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