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Re: Wal-Mart: Made in China at the Highest Price

rickcain2320 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:09:56 -0000

I thought Leviton receptacles are now made in China too. My house uses USA-made receptacles and switches made by Pass & Seymour and I can attest to their superior quality.

Re: American Greetings–“Made in China”

Janet — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:24:24 -0000

I might just start my own line of greeting cards! Anyone interested in joining me?
I can rhyme, I can speak,I can twitter, I can tweet! What is it you want to say? I can say it anyway! Anyone need a rhyme? If you have the need, I'll find the time~ Like Valentine maybe? Will you be mine?

Re: Cash Will Not Save Sears, but Customer Service Just Might

Robert Stinnett — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:24:25 -0000

@4ab7964fe7129dfe76dcc7423f906c2b - Exactly. Sears was never known for being the "low cost leader" and it makes no sense for them to even try to be that. However, you can't charge a premium price and deliver Wal-Mart style customer service. That is not a winning formula. This is really Sears downfall, they forgot about the customer and in return, the customer forgot about them :-(

Re: Cash Will Not Save Sears, but Customer Service Just Might

Tamara — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:13:43 -0000

I totally agree about customer service. This is one reason I try to avoid Walmart at all costs! In addition to almost getting run down by people with carts, I have gotten the rudest cashiers! They are cheap, but I'd much rather go to Target and pay a little extra if it means I'm treated like a human. Customer service is about taking that extra step, not just doing your job.

Re: National Supermarkets

Robert Stinnett — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:31:46 -0000

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Give it a shot now. I have the photo problem fixed. Let me know if you run into any problems!

Rob

Re: National Supermarkets

G Perkins — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:26:03 -0000

I was disappointed to not be able to access the photo album on Flickr that you mentioned above. I love seeing the old products as they were always in our pantry.

Re: National Supermarkets

Szman — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:49:18 -0000

I'm sorry...I meant to say 8925 Natural Bridge Road, in Bel Ridge 63021, Not Page.

Re: What Does the Cloud Mean to You? What Does $100 Mean?

Jimmy Dickson — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:07:40 -0000

The cloud is where everything being synced and waiting to be used, it should be automatic and hassle-free, invisible and fool-proofed but always ready to be pulled down and edited, properly indexed and versioned. And it should be fast.

Re: American Greetings–“Made in China”

Janicelee — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:13:41 -0000

I do my best to use only USA made products. Consumers will have to let these companies know they will not buy products made overseas regardless of the country they are made in.

Re: The Numbers Don’t Lie with Google+

Randy Pickard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:39:19 -0000

Did the folks at Google really think the world needed another social media outlet? My speculation is that the key driver behind the launch of Plus is owning all the posts of users in order to improve search results

Re: Wal-Mart: Made in China at the Highest Price

Guest — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:53:42 -0000

Well in the beginning I also thought that Wal-Mart was cheaper. With my shopping savvy sense realized that Target sale items are lot cheaper than Wal-Mart and are of better quality. Hm...when was the last time I went to Wal-Mart?

Re: Wal-Mart: Made in China at the Highest Price

Patrick D. — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:51:28 -0000

I concur. Wal-Mart is evil.

Re: National Supermarkets

Tdkstl — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:47:40 -0000

In the late eighties/early nineties, the big bend/141 location had the coldest beer known to mankind. This was the first place I ever purchased liquor ( I was sixteen or seventeen), they weren't as strict with carding back then.

Re: Cutting off Walmart

Robbie Peoples — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:49:54 -0000

Walmart is all there is on our twin city (there is nothing in our town) except a few grocery stores and a dollar general that does over charge unless you happen to get a coupon that says 2 12 packs of coke for 5 dollars.

So I still have to shop at Wal-Mart to get relatively cheap products compared to other stores in our area. So I can't quit unless I want no food in my house (most places charge the same or more...and if they charge less...you might want to be checking for mold) and no body wash...no shampoo. And those other fun things.

I would give up Wal-Mart if I could, but the only thing in our area is Wal-Mart...because the local competitor is 15 minutes away in two directions from us...and charges a lot more than Wal-Mart and there is a lot more tax than our local Wal-Mart.

Re: What the Hell Is Wrong with Sears?

Johnny Good — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:30:16 -0000

It has been going down hill for many years. Started when Ed Liddy was CEO. His ideas were implemented. Then he went to Allstate and dismantled employee agents, firing all 6,500 employee agents. (In year 2000) Converted agents contracts or they left. When done with that throat cutting, He was appointed to head AIG, after its fall, to straighten out that company . Liddy resigned after only 1 year at AIG. Perhaps it was already in the same state at Sears and there was nothing left to do?

Re: National Supermarkets

Iamsamm — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:45:09 -0000

I worked for national for over 21 years, in their IS department... it was a sad sad day when we learned of the buyout by Schnucks. I miss all the old friends that I worked with over the years.

Re: National Supermarkets

Shawn Robinson — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:53:40 -0000

I remember my mother working at National Food Store in the late 1970's and the early 1980's.
She worked at Standard Dell Farms which was a branch of National in Crawfordsville, Indiana
I remember her wearing a bright orange smock.
Plus I remember her working hard and proudly

Re: National Supermarkets

SLUGirl — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:55:20 -0000

Hello,

My cousin lived on the first block of Redbud close to WF.

I think my cousin married his friend not too long ago. I think his name is Ronnie.

I think about him every day.

Re: National Supermarkets

Mdobynes — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:38:23 -0000

Hey SLUGirl this is Mickey Big Sister. This is a nice shout out to Mickey. Thanks for thinking of him in such a nice way. Just so you know I went to the probation hearing yesturday of one of the killers of Mickey and your letter was read before the probation board. Thanks this may make a difference in the killer not being released. It shows the strong possibility of a life he could have lived if he had not experienced such a horible death. Misty Marr. PS what street did your cousin stay on.

Re: Whole Wheat Flaxseed Cookies

Rachel Dayton — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:10:12 -0000

I've been searching for some healthier versions to make a cookie basket for my bf (he is in the middle of his training for a competition), he loves sweets! and this looks like a delicious way to satisfy his sweet tooth! thanks for the recipe!

Re: National Supermarkets

Szman — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:00:37 -0000

Are you speaking of the Bel Acre store? It was at 8925 Natural Bridge Road. it moved there from two doors done in 1966. The old store became a P.N. Hirsch store. The new National was next to the old Ben Franklin dime store.

Re: National Supermarkets

Szman — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:58:31 -0000

Yes, Paul is my brother. He is now selling furniture for some company in St. Charles. I have nto seen Claire (my cousin) since the 1960s. I am currently running the frozen food business for Schnucks. What do you do?

Re: What the Hell Is Wrong with Sears?

HalltreeGR — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:53:02 -0000

Holy Cow! I grew up with there catalog - it's how I learned to read! Our Sears store in St. Clair Co. MI is no longer busling, I'm not sure it ever did. In the past 2 years, I've purchased a new washer/dryer, fridge, and a 26 hp garden tractor, snow blower and all the stuff that goes with it. May I say O need service on the snowblower twice. Both times it took 3 weeks to get a service man to come out. No sales, no sales papers come in the newspaper/mail or for that matter online.
Hey guys! Time to get your butts in gear and save this company!

Re: National Supermarkets

John Riley — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:47:58 -0000

Robert, as a former Kroger employee I can tell you National never bought out Kroger stores in the St. Louis area. I lived in Decatur, Illinois from like 1980 to 1999. Decatur, Illinois is about 2 hours drive north east of St. Louis. I'll tell you what did happen though. Kroger built a new and bigger store at a different location. Kroger then sold the old store or stores to National. I've seen that happen several times while working for Kroger from 1996 to 2003, both in Decatur, Illinois and in Tupelo, Mississippi, where I got transferred too. Kroger is now the world's largest Grocery ONLY retailer. Notice the word ONLY... That means they beat Super Wal-Mart at selling GROCERY products only. So, to go backto what I was saying. Buying a few old stores from a company doesn't mean they bought them out. Thanks.

Re: Control-M CTMLOG Analyzer Script

Robert Stinnett — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:40:50 -0000

The calculation is done on the total number of EXECUTIONS (a single job may execute many times) versus the number of FAILED executions.

So I may only have 5 jobs, but they could be cyclical and run 20 times each -- so that would be 100 executions. If out of those 100 executions we had one failure, that would be 99/100 or 99% success rate.

Robert