It's called willpower. On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 6:26 PM Bob Rentfro via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I was thinking, as I was in the self check out at the Safeway the other > day, that we’ve been told if the minimum wage and Arizona goes up to > whatever it is supposed to go up to, we can expect to see a rise and prices > to reflect that. Which lead me to think I don’t remember prices going down > when they got rid of cashiers and I had to start checking out my own > groceries. > > But we all know there is a check valve in the pipeline of rising prices. > > AZBob > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 19, 2024, at 3:19 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > I went to El Mercado de Wal to get a battery for my tractor today and > figured I'd pick up a coupla jugs of antifreeze. Saw the blue stuff for > Euro cars was on clearance for $9.50 which was lower than any of the other > stuff they had, and was $16.63 regular price. There are some blue versions > for Asian and Merkun cars too but this one was on clearance. I grabbed the > 4 jugs on the shelf, said it was for 2014 and earlier Benzes. > > > > Go to the (self) checkout and the jugs rang up normal price so I called > the attendant woman over and she adjusted the price for me, no questions no > checking, so I appreciated that. It got me thinking I could have said > anything, I don't think she really cared one way or the other. The lack of > oversight there I could have walked out with the whole load had I been > inclined to do so, which is probably not very uncommon. It wasn't very > busy there either which was kinda unusual, I hit Costco too and it was > mobbed for some reason on a early Tuesday afternoon. > > > > There is no full strength AF on the shelves any more, you have to buy > the 50/50 stuff which I guess is more convenient but I kinda like to roll > my own. Oh well, progress and an accommodation to the dumbing down of the > populace. > > > > Anyway, it was a good deal. Costco had M1 oil on sale too but it was > still quite a bit more than the Costco flavor. > > > > -- > > --FT > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
