Here’s a perfect example of a pissing match. You are so hungry for a certain coupon that you lose sight of what you’re actually getting:
There are already 7 bids for a coupon with a maximum value of $4.99. Add the .44 shipping and you have paid $4.69 (at current bid) and that’s if there are no more bids, unlikely since there are still 2 days left in this auction. Is this a realistic way to shop or are people hoping to get on Extreme Couponing…
You can tell it’s a slow news day when I’m hitting the Sun Times. Must be because all those sites have stopped sending me deals… Anyhoo, this tiny article says, well, it’s tiny enough to reprint:
Mar 24, 2011 06:59AM
Jewel-Osco baggers are being trained to stop double-bagging, refrain from bagging an item with a handle, and never ask, “Paper or plastic?”
The rules are aimed at saving money — to the tune of $4 million to $6 million yearly — with each 2-cent plastic and 5-cent paper bag left unused at the checkout counter.
Every cent counts for Jewel-Osco’s parent company, Supervalu of Eden Prairie, Minn., whose Jewel, Acme and Albertsons stores collectively use 1.5 billion plastic and paper bags a year. Supervalu has suffered 11 straight quarters of falling sales as shoppers defected to discount grocers during the recession.
I try to always bring my own bags, just because I get tired of hauling them back for recycling. The plastic bags are crap; so thin that I’ve had them rip when I put in tissue paper, so how comfortable do you think I’d feel with eggs? It’s easier for me to leave most stuff unbagged and transfer them from the cart to a banana box in the trunk. Bring in the box, empty and return to trunk. Nothing rips, rolls around, etc.
A Breaking Business story in the Trib (copied from CNN) says that traffic to deal sites is dropping. Gilt Groupies is down 22 percent since the start of 2011, and Groupon has fallen off 13 percent during the same time period, although both are still up year over year.
While I do see a lot of the same places/deals on various sites, I certainly would miss them because there are some sweet packages out there. If you want to read the whole (short) article, click here.
Just wasted about 20 minutes to score a .50/2 coupon for Suave Professionals products. yeah, like that’ll help anyone. sheesh. Anyhoo, click here and play this game where they present two models for every product, do nasty things to them (and it’s funny) in the hopes that the stylist will be able to pick the Suave vs professional product line. You have eight little clips and you have to score 4 to win a free product. And honestly? sometimes the stylists are right and sometimes they’re wrong, so just guess.
Cops: Restaurant owner hospitalized by customer unhappy with his bill
The 55-year-old owner of Outriggers in Tinley Park was hospitalized with eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung Friday after an intoxicated customer unhappy with his bill allegedly attacked him Friday night.
A 40-year-old Mokena man faces a charge of battery after allegedly attacking the restaurant’s owner, police said. He was arrested at 10:37 p.m. Friday at the restaurant, 15917 S. Harlem Ave., after police responded to a call about a fight in progress and found the man being restrained by two employees.
The attacker cursed at police and resisted arrest, but was eventually taken into custody.
The owner was found in the restaurant’s office, sitting on a chair, slumped over his desk and complaining of chest pains. Before being taken by an ambulance, he told police that he had asked the customer to leave the store when he began to argue about his bill. He was walking with the customer toward the exit when the man stopped and slapped him in the head and punched him in the upper chest.
Others in the restaurant told police they saw the man hit the owner in the face with an open hand several times and then punch him in the chest. They also told police the man choked the owner by putting his arm around his neck before kicking his legs out from under him and slamming him to the ground.
After the incident, the attacker’s ex-wife and her 8-year-old son approached an officer outside of the restaurant and said they were with the man earlier, but had left before the incident occurred. Police transported the woman and her son to the police station to arrange a safe ride home because the woman was intoxicated, police said. The man was released after posting bail and is scheduled to appear in Cook County court April 27.
So this newspaper story earns this couple today’s Good Parenting Seal of Approval...
and yet another good reason to read the Trib!
Major spam network shut down.
The complete story in the Breaking News section of the Trib. Which explains why I only had 60 pieces of spam in my junk folder instead of the usual 100. and people wonder why we use google…
And then here’s another Breaking News story. Procter & Gamble Co will raise detergent prices by 4.5 percent in June as the world’s largest household products maker starts to 
respond to rising costs for materials, packaging and transportation.
So we stock up now for the next year. What’s the big deal? Oh, wait, you mean other people don’t stock up for a year?
Police: Man paid couple for sex party, but told wife he was taken hostage.
An Orland Park woman, who awoke recently to find her husband and a man she’d never seen before standing by the bed in their underwear, told police she didn’t understand why her husband wouldn’t let her call the police after claiming he’d been taken hostage, or why he tried to talk her into going downstairs.
Police arrested the husband for felony disorderly conduct, and the man and another woman for misdemeanor prostitution.
Police arrested Geries Fakhoury, 32, of the 9400 block of John Humphrey Drive, and Thomas C. “Chris” Chatham, 35, and Shina Tousant, 49, both of the 1200 block of South Tripp Street in Chicago on March 8.
Fakhoury told police he was the victim of an unprovoked attack by two persons he’d never met and had no idea why he’d been targeted.
Police said Fakhoury initially told them he’d been accosted by a screwdriver-wielding man and a woman as he was entering his home around 10 p.m. March 7. He allegedly told police the two made him smoke a substance he suspected was crack cocaine, coerced him into entering his home, then demanded money.
Fakhoury reportedly told the couple he had no cash but agreed to go to a nearby bank where he withdrew $800 in two $400 transactions from a cash machine.
He said he and the couple returned to his home, where they forced him to smoke some more of the substance, strip down to his underwear; the two men then paid his wife a visit.
After questioning all four, police believe instead Geries Fakhoury paid Chatham and Tousant $400 apiece for a sex party meant to include the unsuspecting wife. The wife declined Chatham’s advances and remained alone in the bedroom, police said.
Chatham and Tousant left around 12:30 a.m., taking car keys, Fakhoury’s wallet, the garage door opener and the $800. Shortly thereafter, Fakhoury allowed his wife to call police.
Yes, it’s true ’cause I just read it in the Trib: Costco is the latest major retailer to launch a bridal collection. Costco says it’s making the all-important dress selection process more convenient, casual and affordable. Frankly, even their $700 “discount” dress seems nuts to me, but it you’re planning to spend thousands on a dress that you’ll wear for a few hours, pay to have professionally cleaned and stored for your unborn daughter to refuse to wear in 20 years, then I say go for it…
I’ll take Caribbean cruise for $1000, Alex.
Does anyone else find it odd to see prostitution and bust in the same sentence? It’s been a quiet couple of weeks on the floozie front, so here’s some cheer from the Trib local. Click the link that takes you to the booking photos. I vote these girls get to Charme for a makeover quick ’cause if there was ever a group in need of pampering (not pimpering), it’s them. Ignore the first picture of their butt-ugly mother pimp. Why can’t pimps be better looking, anyway? pro’ly for the same reason ho’s don’t look like Julia Roberts…
and I wouldn’t have it any other way! Christina write:
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!! I had to move quite a few (free) items out of the way for the head to fit in the fridge, but the 8 year old wanted it there to say Happy St. Pat’s to the older girls, for when they awoke this morning. The heads have a long history of the warped-ness of our humor over here. But, you have to admit, it is a unique greeting! Those are cookies they all took to school today. We also made ‘cereal’ (like rice crispy treats) bars out of some of the 93 packages of fruity pebbles from last week. (And free butter and free marshmallows… gee, do you see a theme here?!)
Here’s the “head” she talks about – imagine waking up to that in your fridge!
