In this country we can no longer pay by cheque as our bank cards no
longer
serve as cheque guarantee cards. At one point the banks wanted to
phase
cheques out altogether but there was so much opposition they had to
abandon
the idea v- for the present, at least.
***
I wrote a check for a item in
Counting Walmart, there are five supermarkets in town, but
only three that I can get to without making a big hairy deal
out of it.
Aldi expects you to bring your own bags (bags, including
insulated bags, available at reasonable cost) *and* expects
you to do your own packing. I like their system
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From: Joy Beeson joybee...@comcast.net
To: Chat lace-chat@arachne.com
Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 15:29
Subject: [lace-chat] Re: Green thing
Counting Walmart
Liz said: Here was the girl on the checkout - not your normal girl on the
checkout, but an Oxford University student paying their way through uni by
slumming it in Sainsburys as she looked down her nose at me and
said; 'Why haven't you got recyclable bags to save the environment'.
My answer
