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Yes, it pains me to say it....

1. The previously mentioned VCR fiasco.

2. The prices seem to have recently gone up clear across the store. Cat food, the Millstone coffee you grind, even Great Value Shake & Bake! And not by a small amount, either.

3. It's bad enough they've had the Equate Pepto Bismol slot green dotted for over a month, now they've filled up the slot with more Pepto-Bismol.

4. Completely out of Great Value paper towels. Like I'm going to spend 3-4 times that for Sparkle or Mardi Gras. Nice try, Mecca!

5. No wingettes in the poultry section, just the whole wings. When I finally found a meat department employee to see if I was just overlooking them I only got a 'huh, must be outta 'em' and a blank stare when I asked if they could take a package of the regular wings and chop them in two for me.

6. I thought there was something else, but I must be suppressing it.

Now onto the chemical department question:

So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I think they're Tidy Bowl, but I can't remember the name of them. Or maybe it's Lysol, they have a picture of a Scrubbing Bubble on them. Yeah, I can recognize a Scrubbing Bubble, but I can't remember the company, ha! Picked up a package just because I'm progressive and cutting edge that way.

Here's Fanny! wrote:Yes, it pains me to say it....

1. The previously mentioned VCR fiasco.

2. The prices seem to have recently gone up clear across the store. Cat food, the Millstone coffee you grind, even Great Value Shake & Bake! And not by a small amount, either.

3. It's bad enough they've had the Equate Pepto Bismol slot green dotted for over a month, now they've filled up the slot with more Pepto-Bismol.

4. Completely out of Great Value paper towels. Like I'm going to spend 3-4 times that for Sparkle or Mardi Gras. Nice try, Mecca!

5. No wingettes in the poultry section, just the whole wings. When I finally found a meat department employee to see if I was just overlooking them I only got a 'huh, must be outta 'em' and a blank stare when I asked if they could take a package of the regular wings and chop them in two for me.

6. I thought there was something else, but I must be suppressing it.

Now onto the chemical department question:

So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I think they're Tidy Bowl, but I can't remember the name of them. Or maybe it's Lysol, they have a picture of a Scrubbing Bubble on them. Yeah, I can recognize a Scrubbing Bubble, but I can't remember the company, ha! Picked up a package just because I'm progressive and cutting edge that way.

I only have a few minutes left tonight, so I'll probably have to address this tomorrow morning.

At least we're not the only ones out of GV towels. We were out of them the whole week befor emy vacation, had some when I came back Friday night, and now we're out again! Maybe they ran out of trees in China....

Yeah, I will have to wait until tomorrow. I'll see if what you're talking about is that new Scrubbing Bubbles stuff in the little boxes we got in 2 months ago. Scrubbing Bubbles is Scrubbing Bubbles, that's the brand name....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:I only have a few minutes left tonight, so I'll probably have to address this tomorrow morning.

At least we're not the only ones out of GV towels. We were out of them the whole week befor emy vacation, had some when I came back Friday night, and now we're out again! Maybe they ran out of trees in China....

Yeah, I will have to wait until tomorrow. I'll see if what you're talking about is that new Scrubbing Bubbles stuff in the little boxes we got in 2 months ago. Scrubbing Bubbles is Scrubbing Bubbles, that's the brand name....

lb13

Yes, they're in a little package about the size of a Jello box and have a picture that looks like a glob of jello on the side of the toilet bowl.

So much for me having you glom onto the IL supply of GV paper towels and Equate Pepto and having them ship it to me. Ha!

Do your cats ever visit the toilet, either to sneak drinks or to play in the water? If so, don't take a chance on the Glob O' Gel. I looked on their website, but nowhere could I find any assurances that the product was safe for pets.

silvercamaro wrote:Do your cats ever visit the toilet, either to sneak drinks or to play in the water? If so, don't take a chance on the Glob O' Gel. I looked on their website, but nowhere could I find any assurances that the product was safe for pets.

I just went and checked the box (I guess it's a really big box of Jello, ha!) and it said keep away from children and pets, so I would assume it's not pet safe.

When Mariah was a baby, she fell into the toilet and was too small to get out. Ever since then I've just automatically closed the lid, although the other three have really never even shown an interest. I thought about trying to train the cats to go in the toilet instead of a litter box, but the process seemed rather arduous.

The brand is Scrubbing Bubbles, btw. I could have sworn that the Scrubbing Bubbles started out as spokesmen for Lysol. Maybe I was just experiencing cleaning product inhalation hallucinations at the time. Ha!

Here's Fanny! wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:Do your cats ever visit the toilet, either to sneak drinks or to play in the water? If so, don't take a chance on the Glob O' Gel. I looked on their website, but nowhere could I find any assurances that the product was safe for pets.

I just went and checked the box (I guess it's a really big box of Jello, ha!) and it said keep away from children and pets, so I would assume it's not pet safe.

When Mariah was a baby, she fell into the toilet and was too small to get out. Ever since then I've just automatically closed the lid, although the other three have really never even shown an interest. I thought about trying to train the cats to go in the toilet instead of a litter box, but the process seemed rather arduous.

The brand is Scrubbing Bubbles, btw. I could have sworn that the Scrubbing Bubbles started out as spokesmen for Lysol. Maybe I was just experiencing cleaning product inhalation hallucinations at the time. Ha!

Scrubbing Bubbles is an S.C. Johnson brand. I have strong brand loyalty to them, but won't buy their scent crap or any stuff that turns your toilet water blue.

Here's Fanny! wrote:
Maybe I was just experiencing cleaning product inhalation hallucinations at the time. Ha!

Sure. Cleaning product inhalation. We'll buy that. I've tried cleaning products, but I never inhaled.

So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I think they're Tidy Bowl, but I can't remember the name of them. Or maybe it's Lysol, they have a picture of a Scrubbing Bubble on them. Yeah, I can recognize a Scrubbing Bubble, but I can't remember the company, ha! Picked up a package just because I'm progressive and cutting edge that way.

Since I have cats who drink from my toilet, I don't leave cleaners or blue stuff in my toilet all of the time.

Here's Fanny! wrote:Yes, it pains me to say it....

1. The previously mentioned VCR fiasco.

2. The prices seem to have recently gone up clear across the store. Cat food, the Millstone coffee you grind, even Great Value Shake & Bake! And not by a small amount, either.

3. It's bad enough they've had the Equate Pepto Bismol slot green dotted for over a month, now they've filled up the slot with more Pepto-Bismol.

4. Completely out of Great Value paper towels. Like I'm going to spend 3-4 times that for Sparkle or Mardi Gras. Nice try, Mecca!

5. No wingettes in the poultry section, just the whole wings. When I finally found a meat department employee to see if I was just overlooking them I only got a 'huh, must be outta 'em' and a blank stare when I asked if they could take a package of the regular wings and chop them in two for me.

6. I thought there was something else, but I must be suppressing it.

Now onto the chemical department question:

So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I think they're Tidy Bowl, but I can't remember the name of them. Or maybe it's Lysol, they have a picture of a Scrubbing Bubble on them. Yeah, I can recognize a Scrubbing Bubble, but I can't remember the company, ha! Picked up a package just because I'm progressive and cutting edge that way.

**I remember the prices of the things I buy (and some I don't buy) so I agree with you that the prices have escalated.

**I buy the Oasis brand of paper towels and our store wasn't out last week when I bought some. They are very inexpensive. The bizarre thing is that now the towel has a completely different texture. It is like they are using some type of paper filler.

** The cheese prices. OMG! It was OMG++, but now just OMG, because mysteriously the prices started dropping where I least expected it. The shredded cheese prices have come down considerably. I went ahead and bought some of the GV brand. The taste is different, and it melts differently. I think that they are using some type of filler in the cheese. I looked at the ingredients, but I have no idea what a filler would be called.

** The size of the GV tuna cans have decreased, but the prices have remained the same. I probably wouldn't have caught this, but I use an online program to monitor what I eat on a daily basis. (sparkpeople.com btw) Although the site has a huge database of food items, many times the items I eat are different than what is listed on their site, so I just enter the nutritional information manually into the site. I know that the tuna cans used to be 6 ounces, but they are now 5 ounces. SNEAKY! In all fairness, I had heard that reducing quantity of the items, rather than raising the prices, might be coming into play due to the cost of gasoline, etc., this was just my first experience with it.

** On a rather surprising note, I found out that WalMart sells prosciutto! Who would have thought? LOL

cindy.wellman wrote:**I remember the prices of the things I buy (and some I don't buy) so I agree with you that the prices have escalated.

**I buy the Oasis brand of paper towels and our store wasn't out last week when I bought some. They are very inexpensive. The bizarre thing is that now the towel has a completely different texture. It is like they are using some type of paper filler.

** The cheese prices. OMG! It was OMG++, but now just OMG, because mysteriously the prices started dropping where I least expected it. The shredded cheese prices have come down considerably. I went ahead and bought some of the GV brand. The taste is different, and it melts differently. I think that they are using some type of filler in the cheese. I looked at the ingredients, but I have no idea what a filler would be called.

** The size of the GV tuna cans have decreased, but the prices have remained the same. I probably wouldn't have caught this, but I use an online program to monitor what I eat on a daily basis. (sparkpeople.com btw) Although the site has a huge database of food items, many times the items I eat are different than what is listed on their site, so I just enter the nutritional information manually into the site. I know that the tuna cans used to be 6 ounces, but they are now 5 ounces. SNEAKY! In all fairness, I had heard that reducing quantity of the items, rather than raising the prices, might be coming into play due to the cost of gasoline, etc., this was just my first experience with it.

** On a rather surprising note, I found out that WalMart sells prosciutto! Who would have thought? LOL

Does the prosciutto have any filler?

cindy.wellman wrote: ** The size of the GV tuna cans have decreased, but the prices have remained the same. I probably wouldn't have caught this, but I use an online program to monitor what I eat on a daily basis. (sparkpeople.com btw) Although the site has a huge database of food items, many times the items I eat are different than what is listed on their site, so I just enter the nutritional information manually into the site. I know that the tuna cans used to be 6 ounces, but they are now 5 ounces. SNEAKY! In all fairness, I had heard that reducing quantity of the items, rather than raising the prices, might be coming into play due to the cost of gasoline, etc., this was just my first experience with it.

Shrinking the size of the standard package has been a trick retailers have used for a long time. Have you seen a one-pound can of coffee, lately?

Here's Fanny! wrote:Yes, it pains me to say it....

1. The previously mentioned VCR fiasco.

Not much I can help you with here. The Wal is trying ever so much to compete with Best Buy, Circuit City, and the other big Electronics stores, so the VCR's were kissed goodbye a while ago. Hell, I went looking for a ball mouse for my computer back in May, and they don't even carry those anymore... only the optical and laser mice. I wanted the ball one to replace my dying ball mouse because it was the only thing I could control the cursor with when I was doing my drawings, but I have since adjusted to the speed of the laser mouse....

Here's Fanny! wrote:2. The prices seem to have recently gone up clear across the store. Cat food, the Millstone coffee you grind, even Great Value Shake & Bake! And not by a small amount, either.

Yep. I think there are 2 reasons for this...

1. The economy that BiT says is an important issue to all of us.

2. The fact that our gimmick this year has been to pick certain items and lower them to some crazy even dollar amount for a couple months to attract people into the store. I don't think it's any coincidence that the price increases seem to come in spurts after each such lowering....

Here's Fanny! wrote:3. It's bad enough they've had the Equate Pepto Bismol slot green dotted for over a month, now they've filled up the slot with more Pepto-Bismol.

OK, I have no idea what you mean by green dotted. We don't do anything like that here. But either they have discontinued the Equate Pepto, or they have expanded the room for the Pepto, or whoever stocked it is plugging....

Here's Fanny! wrote:4. Completely out of Great Value paper towels. Like I'm going to spend 3-4 times that for Sparkle or Mardi Gras. Nice try, Mecca!

As I said, we have had a problem with not receiving GV towels as well. We were empty last night, but got one, yes, one whopping case of them in tonight. There has to be a problme somewhere along the distribution chain, and it must be nationwide, or at least across a wide region. But don't think the Wal's trying to trick you into buying Sparkle or Mardi Gras. The generic's almost always got the highest markup....

Here's Fanny! wrote:5. No wingettes in the poultry section, just the whole wings. When I finally found a meat department employee to see if I was just overlooking them I only got a 'huh, must be outta 'em' and a blank stare when I asked if they could take a package of the regular wings and chop them in two for me.

Can't help you here since we are not a StupidCenter, but all I can say is "been there, done that" with the employee response. Are you sure he was a meat department employee and not someone from another area who happened to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. I hate it when I'm sent to an area I know nothing about and am expected to be an expert in everything over there. Hell, I don't even know everything about the stuff in the area I've stocked for over 7 years...

Here's Fanny! wrote:6. I thought there was something else, but I must be suppressing it.

Now onto the chemical department question:

So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I think they're Tidy Bowl, but I can't remember the name of them. Or maybe it's Lysol, they have a picture of a Scrubbing Bubble on them. Yeah, I can recognize a Scrubbing Bubble, but I can't remember the company, ha! Picked up a package just because I'm progressive and cutting edge that way.

It didn't occur to me until I got to work that those little boxes had the stick things in them. I remember the first time I found one a customer had opened and left sitting on the counter, I had to show everyone else in my little stocking crew because it looked like we were selling dildoes...

Those little boxes have sold pretty well since we got them in. Now, I've been around long enough to know that early sales success does not always mean that the item is great. The road of failed items is littered with products that sold like crazy when we first got them in and coupons were in every paper only to eventually end up collecting dust on the shelf (The Dawn Spin Brush instantly comes to mind). Since my only expertise with the products I put up is their sales trends, that's the only help I can give you is that for now, they are selling pretty good. But then again, the Automatic Shower Cleaner, another Scrubbing Bubbles product, used to sell pretty good and is now a mediocre seller, and it's lucky it even sells at all given the way Consumer Reports ripped it as a complete waste of money.....

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MarleysGh0st wrote:

cindy.wellman wrote: ** The size of the GV tuna cans have decreased, but the prices have remained the same. I probably wouldn't have caught this, but I use an online program to monitor what I eat on a daily basis. (sparkpeople.com btw) Although the site has a huge database of food items, many times the items I eat are different than what is listed on their site, so I just enter the nutritional information manually into the site. I know that the tuna cans used to be 6 ounces, but they are now 5 ounces. SNEAKY! In all fairness, I had heard that reducing quantity of the items, rather than raising the prices, might be coming into play due to the cost of gasoline, etc., this was just my first experience with it.

Shrinking the size of the standard package has been a trick retailers have used for a long time. Have you seen a one-pound can of coffee, lately?

My favorite is how they lop off the quantity by small amounts every so often. The trash bags have almost all done this over the last year, reducing the quantity of trash bags you get in each box for the same price.

My favorites are the products that reduce their quantity for a short while, then bring in the old sized package and advertise it as a BONUS! Cheer did this about 5 years ago, shrinking from 100 oz. to 80 oz. for the same price.... then a couple months later bringing back the 100 oz. size, but with 25% MORE FREE printed at the top of the label. Then there's Cuddle Soft sheets, which we always have sold in the 50 ct. package. So what comes in last month? New boxes, still 50 count, but with "50 sheets for the price of 40" written on the box. WTF are they trying to pull there!?!?!?

And beware of the packages with the giant XX% written on the label. If you look at the package closely, a lot of times you will notice that it's only saying that it has XX% more ounces than YY size. You are getting nothing for free, except for, as Mr. Carlin once put it, the huge customer service dick up your ass.....

lb13

Here's Fanny! wrote: So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I'd like to know this, too. Pets aren't a problem, but I've got some industrial-strength stains to get rid of in my bowl.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote: So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I'd like to know this, too. Pets aren't a problem, but I've got some industrial-strength stains to get rid of in my bowl.

tmi

Rexer25 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote: So, what's the skinny on those new toilet cleaner sticks where you just stick on a glob of stuff onto the side of the bowl? Good, bad, actually work, just another gimmick?

I'd like to know this, too. Pets aren't a problem, but I've got some industrial-strength stains to get rid of in my bowl.

tmi

I had no idea Marley suffered the same fate I do. Ooooohhhhhhh!!!!!

On a rather surprising note, I found out that WalMart sells prosciutto! Who would have thought? LOL

Think of making a melon quilt?

Here's Fanny! wrote:Yes, it pains me to say it....

Doesn't pain me at all. With all due respect to lb and his specific location, which I'm sure is magnificent, I avoid WalMart like the plague. More like Gehenna than Mecca to me.

I've disliked the local one since it was new. Amidst all the "community friendly" ads, they began selling Christmas trees at prices undercutting (no pun intended) the three or four local fund-raising groups just down the street as well as the local farm stands. Not to mention their 20 checkout stands - a maximum of three with cashiers, and the several new self-checkouts never functioning properly and taking longer than waiting in line for the manned stations.

GW will force me to go into it once in a while, most often to look at eyeglass frames but occasionally for regular shopping. None of the visits change my opinion.

gsabc wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:Yes, it pains me to say it....

Doesn't pain me at all. With all due respect to lb and his specific location, which I'm sure is magnificent,

I see you haven't been in my "magnificent location" yet......

lb13

christie1111 wrote:

On a rather surprising note, I found out that WalMart sells prosciutto! Who would have thought? LOL

Think of making a melon quilt?

I'm actually showing my friend your melon/proscuitto quilt. She is a quilter, whereas I'm not. She likes interesting food items too, so I think she's going to get a kick out of your melon/prosciutto quilt.

I must say though, I've never had prosciutto with any other type of melon besides cantelope. I'm excited to try the other ones now. Thanks for posting your beautiful piece of work!

My cable sucks, too. And I'll say it out loud. My son crawled under the house and fixed the connection, so their lazy-ass technician can just stay away. And I saved 50 bucks and I'm back online!

Ice cream is what is pissing me off with the downsizing. Breyer's is down to 1.5 quarts in a half-gallon, and they've added "natural" gum to stretch that stuff out. The Hunter brand is still real natural stuff that belongs in ice cream, comes in the 1.75 quart downsized half-gallon, and costs a dollar less.

You can imagine ice cream doesn't last long around here, so I need a big vat to start with!

gsabc wrote: GW will force me to go into it once in a while, most often to look at eyeglass frames but occasionally for regular shopping. None of the visits change my opinion.

I was going to post this in another thread, but I'll go ahead and just comment here. After spending close to $250 last year for Sam's glasses, I received a tip from a friend about purchasing glasses online. She gave me the address of a couple of websites. When Sam's glasses broke two times, (default in manufacturing) combined with the fact that she needs a new prescription for her lenses, it was time to shop elsewhere. We ended up going with 39dollarglasses.com . I purchased the frames and the lenses last night for $64. That included the priority mail shipping! They also have a program where you can just replace the lenses on existing glasses. The prices are excellent as well. I plan on sending in her warranty replaced frames and getting the new prescription put into them. Then she'll have a backup pair. Sam has a pretty basic prescription being farsighted with astigmatism. I know that they have other options for things like bi-focals etc. You pay a little more for those, as well as some of the other more expensive lens types.

(sorry for hijacking your thread dear Fanny)

Perhaps all the missing stuff is being shipped to the new Super Walmart opening here after a 4 year fight with the watermelons.

My bad.

I thought this was gonna be some Islamic thing.

It's about WalMart?

Made me laugh.

peacock2121 wrote:My bad.

I thought this was gonna be some Islamic thing.

It's about WalMart?

Made me laugh.

One of those weird and confusing nicknames.

Like calling silvercamaro "Uday".