In article >,
says...
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:30:18 -0800, Sheldon wrote:
>
> > "Jean B." wrote:
> >> MarieD wrote:
> >> > "Omelet" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Why not? ï¿=3FIf you take the empty bottle to the cashier and pay for
> >> >> it, what is the harm? ï¿=3FI usually hit the gator aid when I'm not
> >> >> feeling well...
> >>
> >> > I guess I would be worried about being accused of theft.
> >
> > You had a damaged childhood... Marie, probably raised strict Roman
> > Cathelic. GUILT!
> >
> > When I worked
> >> > at a grocery store I saw alot of that kind of thing going on, and the
> >> > container or wrapper being left on a shelf, and it just turned me off
> >> > of using anything before paying for it.
> >> > Marie
> >
> > Ridiculous... everyone using a credit card (especially with a running
> > balance), leasing a car, mortgaging a home is using before paying. I
> > very rarely see empty food wrappers left behind where I shop...
> > obviously you live in a ghetto where folks weren't even educated, or
> > they'd know something so very basic as "alot" is not a word. Most folks
> > pay for opened packages at the register. Shopping can take a long
> > time, people need to travel to and from stores, more time, people can't
> > just leave a half filled cart of perishables in the aisle while they
> > take their kids for a pizza break. Food stores encourage snacking for
> > the same reason they now have installed restrooms, anything to lure
> > patrons into the store and to keep them there for as long as possible....
> > many stores now even offer free child care. Businesses want your cash,
> > the free food is of no consequence because anyone who has ever run a
> > business, especially a food business, knows that the food stock is the
> > smallest expense... overhead, both fixed and variables are the vast
> > majority of expenses. Unless food is sold there is no income, and the
> > best way to encourage food sales is to encourage sampling. And large
> > food emporiums don't care if patrons eat till they bust, because they
> > laugh all the way to the bank. Food is cheap but has a huge markup.
> > The reason food stores operate on a small profit margin is attributed to
> > overhead, not food... there is no revenue when food sits and rots.
> >
> >> I see a lot of munching at Whole Foods and wonder what percentage of
> >> folks pay for the pastries etc. ï¿=3F(And these are WHOLE things they are
> >> eating, not samples.)
> >
> > Why does it matter to you, it obviously doesn't offend the store.... if
> > Whole Foods wanted they could very easily and inexpensively put safe
> > gurards in place that would prevent patron's noshing, but they know that
> > even though some percentage are purely schnorring the vast majority make
> > purchases they otherwise wouldn't, just the fact alone that free food
> > keeps folks in the store longer substantially increases Whole Food's
> > bottom line.
> >
> > When electronics stores have like 100+ operating large screen TVs
> > covering an entire wall what makes you think the people watching aren't
> > sampling... that's like $100,000 worth of TVs that are then worth only
> > $50,000 when sold as demos... how many demo pastries do you think have
> > to be sampled that compare to the TVs... and far more folks after
> > sampling will buy a package of pastries than the TV samplers that
> > actually buy a TV. Food store management worries when folks don't
> > sample product... they know that the more food folks eat while shopping
> > the aisles the more money they'll drop at the check out, that's just a
> > fact. Food stores are not in the business of hording food on the
> > shelves until it spoils. Only sales contribute to revenue... marketing
> > professionals know that nothing increases sales and therefore revenue
> > like capitalizing on human nature that has proven in market places
> > throughout all recorded history that patrons sampling substantially
> > increases sales. Even the world's oldest profession knows that
> > encouraging patrons to sample a little titty increases business. There
> > isn't a married woman on this planet who didn't give lotsa free samples
> > so she'd get walked down that aisle.
>
> I'm new to this group but already you've struck me as a singularly
> strange poster, Sheldon.
>

He is a bit strange but sometimes he's absolutely on the money. That's
why I haven't killfiled him yet.

In article >,
says...
> In article >,
> blake murphy > wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:46:12 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Sheldon wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I would think that the trouble with that is that you open yourself to
> > >>> the suspicion that you are not going to pay for it, ?like the many
> > >>> people who help themselves to items in the store and then dump the
> > >>> packaging and don't pay. ?The staff will have to keep an eye on you to
> > >>> make sure that you pay, or assume that you won't. If you really have to
> > >>> have a drink to get you through your shopping the best thing to do is to
> > >>> go through the checkout, pay for it and get the receipt, then go back to
> > >>> do your shopping.
> > >>
> > >> ****Dave "Bundt Miester" Schmidt ****
> > >>
> > >> Yeah, right... she's gonna wait on line for like 40 minutes to pay for
> > >> a gator aid and then feel like shopping... the store loses out because
> > >> by your stalag rulz I'd never return. Dave, you are one sick puppy.
> > >
> > > LOL, but I would suggest that the sock puppy is the one who resorts to
> > > hyperbole like a 40 minute wait in the checkout to get a bottle of
> > > gatorade. Even you should be bright enough to realize that when stores
> > > have to worry about people stealing things they would just as well not
> > > have them as customers., and as I pointed out, walking around drinking
> > > something that has not been paid for presents the probability that they
> > > will assume that the person is not going to pay for it. I suggested
> > > that paying for it and getting the receipt is the safer thing to do.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> It's patently obvious that you were not raised in the US of A.
> > >>
> > >> Gestapo Alert!
> > >
> > > Oh??? I believe this thread started with an incident in the US of A.
> >
> > sheldon is as nutty as a fruitcake minus the fruit and cake.
> >
> > your pal,
> > blake
>
> Sheldon is a bowl of granola...
>
> What ain't fruity or nutty is flakey.
>

Good analogy. I don't know, I've met people from online that had the
same qualities as Sheldon. They turned out to be decent people after
all.

People do tend to adopt a different persona online. I know I was guilty
of that for a few years and then it got boring.

T wrote:
>
> Good analogy. I don't know, I've met people from online that had the
> same qualities as Sheldon. They turned out to be decent people after
> all.

No, they didn't!! You LIAR !!!

> People do tend to adopt a different persona online. I know I was guilty
> of that for a few years and then it got boring.

That's been proven not to happen. Scientifically.

¢¾ Horry ¢¾ wrote:
>
> I'm new to this group but already you've struck me as a singularly
> strange poster, Sheldon.

Well, I'm not a new poster, in fact I've been posting here regularly
steadily 24/7 longer than probably anyone else... so it's everyone
else who is a strange poster, not me. In fact you're the strange one,
you come here like yesterday and already want to be in charge and you
don't even have a legitimate name... there you are a little horry ****
sucking for all your worth on my big old heart shaped hairy testicles.
LOL


Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

On Jan 14, 5:42�pm, "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
> "Jean B." wrote:
> > MarieD wrote:
> > > "Omelet" wrote:
>
> > >> Why not? ?If you take the empty bottle to the cashier and pay for it,
> > >> what is the harm? ?I usually hit the gator aid when I'm not feeling
> > >> well...
>
> > > I guess I would be worried about being accused of theft.
>
> You had a damaged childhood... Marie, probably raised strict Roman
> Cathelic. �GUILT!
> --------------
>
> GM replies:
>
> Marie's "D" stands for "D cups"....


Sister Marie... SHOW ME YOUR TITS:
http://www.filehurricane.com/media/2113

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:51:46 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith
> wrote,
>Omelet wrote:
>> In article >, "MarieD" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I could never grab a drink inside a store and drink it while
>>> shopping without paying first.
>>> Marie
>>
>> Why not? If you take the empty bottle to the cashier and pay for it,
>> what is the harm? I usually hit the gator aid when I'm not feeling
>> well...
>
>I would think that the trouble with that is that you open yourself to
>the suspicion that you are not going to pay for it, like the many
>people who help themselves to items in the store and then dump the
>packaging and don't pay.

Albertson's near me has a sign over the refrigerated soda case near the
door suggesting that you take one to drink in the store and have the
cashier ring up the empty bottle on the way out. I guess you have to
explain everything to some people.