Sidew13 wrote:Here in the Upstate, no beer or alky on sundays, PERIOD.
BLASPHEMY!!!
Not if your cutting back drinking
I'll agree with the Monkey on this... That's just BLASPHEMY!!!!!
No, it's healthy living
Don't tell me about healthy living! I changed from frying evey meal I eat in peanut oil, to frying every meal I eat in regular grease! I know healthy living!
RinglingRingling wrote:every two weeks or so on the download, but I check the balance fairly often too. and no, I tend to avoid the express lane if I have more than the requisite number of items.. oh, and I don't use the self-check lines either.
I LOVE THE SELF-CHECK LINE!!!! I guess it's my way of fulfilling my dream of one day becoming a grocery store clerk!
Been there, done that when I was in college. Other than goofing on customers, it's not worth the paycheck.
Sidew13 wrote:Here in the Upstate, no beer or alky on sundays, PERIOD.
BLASPHEMY!!!
Not if your cutting back drinking
I'll agree with the Monkey on this... That's just BLASPHEMY!!!!!
No, it's healthy living
Don't tell me about healthy living! I changed from frying evey meal I eat in peanut oil, to frying every meal I eat in regular grease! I know healthy living!
Moonie wrote:and I'm getting pretty good at checking my own..not too good at sacking right now, but I'm working on it....[/color]
I think you need a special degree for that or something... I can't figure out how to bag stuff properly either...
somehow, I end up with twice as many packages as I should have...and as far as putting things in the sack properly.....well...I need to work on that, too...
When it goes from full to crescent...I move in and out of tune...Everlasting Moon....
Moonie wrote:and I'm getting pretty good at checking my own..not too good at sacking right now, but I'm working on it....[/color]
I think you need a special degree for that or something... I can't figure out how to bag stuff properly either...
Heavy stuff used to go in first, unless the customer p*** me off. Then bread, tomatoes, grapes, nice squishy things, went in first. Or all the heavy things went in one bag. Lift this, b-itch.
Moonie wrote:and I'm getting pretty good at checking my own..not too good at sacking right now, but I'm working on it....[/color]
I think you need a special degree for that or something... I can't figure out how to bag stuff properly either...
Heavy stuff used to go in first, unless the customer p*** me off. Then bread, tomatoes, grapes, nice squishy things, went in first. Or all the heavy things went in one bag. Lift this, b-itch.
It does seem to be more common in the south. I see it still quite often around here.....hardly ever saw it in Ohio....but I know my mother still uses checks at the stores.
I've very seldom written checks at a store.....normally it's when I didn't have the debit card and the bank was closed to get cash. Very rarely.
We still use checks to pay some bills and to pay for things with the school that you need a 'paper' trail. The schools system charges 3$ if you do a debit or autopayment.
Well I’m a tidal pool explorer
From the days of my misspent youth
I believe that down on the beach
Where the seagulls preach
Is where the Chinese buried the truth... --Coastal Confessions
I work for Deluxe Corporation the worlds largest supplier of checks. Keep on writing them as I only have 11 years till retirement from them at the age of 47.
Mplsfins wrote:I work for Deluxe Corporation the worlds largest supplier of checks. Keep on writing them as I only have 11 years till retirement from them at the age of 47.
bravedave wrote:But I am all for any means to speed up checkout time.
I only use checks when I have to mail a payment somewhere.
The Piggly Wigglys down here have acutally installed a thing at the registers where you can pay with your fingerprint!
Seems like a pretty cool idea, but I'm just not sure I want a company with the name "Piggly Wiggly" to have my fingerprints...
Hmmm...seems we were a bit ahead of the rest of the country with this..
Where It Began…
Piggly Wiggly®, America's first true self-service grocery store, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1916 by Clarence Saunders. In grocery stores of that time, shoppers presented their orders to clerks who gathered the goods from the store shelves. Saunders, a flamboyant and innovative man, noticed this method resulted in wasted time and man hours, so he came up with an unheard-of solution that would revolutionize the entire grocery industry: he developed a way for shoppers to serve themselves.
Despite predictions that this new kind of store would fail, the first Piggly Wiggly opened September 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis. Operating under the unusual name Piggly Wiggly, it was unlike any other grocery store of that time. Shopping baskets, open shelves, no clerks to shop for the customer -- unheard of!
Piggly Wiggly Corporation, established by Saunders when he opened the first store in Memphis, secured the self-service format and issued franchises to hundreds of grocery retailers for the operation of Piggly Wiggly stores.
"I know it's a shabby old building but after all ain't we God's children
And Lord it's a good place for hangin' out .."
Geeze....I only use a credit card in an emergency...or when traveling.
When I use a check, it doesn't take any longer than using a credit card.
And I have a debit card, but after all the fraud with THOSE, I may cut it up.
I HATE to pay for food (for something that ends up in the septic tank). It's simply a mental thing....but when I saw our local Sonic with a credit card swiper on the microphone/choice stand, I rolled my eyes. But it's a college town and prolly the kids have to eat with Mom and Dad's credit card.
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.
FYI you can save at least $70 a year on postage and checks by using online banking. You go down the list, type in how much you want to pay for each payor, hit "pay" and your done. Five minutes tops. And they keep all your records for you. I still have the original checkbook the bank sent me when I opened the account over two years ago. Can't remember the last time I bought a stamp.
But it's a college town and prolly the kids have to eat with Mom and Dad's credit card. 
