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Never liked that place.At Belk
Never liked that place.At Belk
Are you calling Kevin old?!?I didn’t know they had been around that long.
Are you calling Kevin old?!?
Well, Belk was founded in 1888, so we know he has to be somewhat less than 136.
As a tall person (6'5"), I gave up on shopping in stores decades ago. Some stores occasionally carried big and tall sizes, such as JCP. Most don't, so I was ordering clothes out of catalogs long before there was an internet. I miss the Eddie Bauer stores that carried tall sizes. I now order most of my clothes from Land's End. All I get from regular stores are my boxer briefs. I even have to order my undershirts to get tall sizes. I used to hate it when someone would buy me a shirt for a gift and I'd have to donate it to Goodwill unworn because the shirt body and sleeves were too short (I wear 37" sleeves).I was in a Macy's earlier this year looking at coats. I swear these fancy stores, the majority of them really, have something against big people. Most sizes stop at Medium. They're neglecting a big portion of the population and leaving money on the table.
Well 6 seems a better count for two people = 3 a piece?Some companies are apparently proud of their shrink-flation. I've seen commercials from Pillsbury lately touting that their ready-to-bake refrigerated biscuits now come in a 5-pack, rather than 6. Better suited for a dinner for two, is the point of the commercial I think. Don't want a bunch of extra biscuits around.
Some companies are apparently proud of their shrink-flation. I've seen commercials from Pillsbury lately touting that their ready-to-bake refrigerated biscuits now come in a 5-pack, rather than 6. Better suited for a dinner for two, is the point of the commercial I think. Don't want a bunch of extra biscuits around.
I wish I could remember the film where one character is ranting about the mismatch in quantity between hot dogs, and rolls. Funny stuff. Might have been Steve Martin, in the remake of Father Of The Bride, come to think of it.I'm waiting for shrink-flation to finally even out packages of hot dogs and hot dog rolls.
Of course, it'd probably shrink both equitably so that there are fewer in the packages and still not the same number.
The most amusing incidence of shrink-flation that I've come across is with a brand of frozen meatballs that we get for when we have pasta for dinner. For the meatball count, the bags used to say "around 20" (seriously!). Most of the time, there would be exactly 20 in the bag, and occasionally, there'd be only 19. In at least one case, there were 21.
Anyway, nowadays, the bags now say "18", with no qualifier. So far, they've all had exactly 18. At least now the content is predictable.
A tradgic as it is, it could have been so much worse had it had happened at rush hour, right?So sad what happened in the Baltimore area this morning (a freight ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the structure to collapse). RIP, innocent victims.
The only silver lining is this didn’t happen at a high traffic volume period. Early reports are, of course, still sketchy, but it seems the ship lost propulsion, and a Mayday call was made not long before the collision.A tradgic as it is, it could have been so much worse had it had happened at rush hour, right?