I went to our local Stop & Shop yesterday to pick up some meat that
was on sale. I noticed they are changing the labels from yellow and
while to green and white. OK, no big deal.

What I thought was rather dumb though, was the printing of the
contents. They reduced the font size to about half what it used to
be. In a world with an aging population, it was a real gnat brained
idiot that came up with that idea. He/she should be fired, along with
the manager that approved the label.

I have good eyesight (wearing glasses) and standing at normal height,
I could not read the product description of the meat in the display
case.

I did not see the manager when I was there, but just sent a message to
Customer Service.

On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:05:54 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>
> What I thought was rather dumb though, was the printing of the
> contents. They reduced the font size to about half what it used to
> be. In a world with an aging population, it was a real gnat brained
> idiot that came up with that idea. He/she should be fired, along with
> the manager that approved the label.
>
> I have good eyesight (wearing glasses) and standing at normal height,
> I could not read the product description of the meat in the display
> case.
>
> I did not see the manager when I was there, but just sent a message to
> Customer Service.

You don't think that was calculated? I bet they are laughing at the
people who need a magnifying glass to read the print. They've
satisfied legal requirements and made sure a lot of people can't read
it.

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In article >,
Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> What I thought was rather dumb though, was the printing of the
> contents. They reduced the font size to about half what it used to
> be.

Maybe they've added something they don't want you to see, Ed.
--
Barb,
http://web.me.com/barbschaller September 5, 2011

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:37:03 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> What I thought was rather dumb though, was the printing of the
>> contents. They reduced the font size to about half what it used to
>> be.
>
>Maybe they've added something they don't want you to see, Ed.


Yeah, like what looks like a pork chop is really molded Spam.

Some things are obvious, I can tell a chicken wing from a pork chop,
but I want to know if the ground beef is 80% or 90%.

On 11/5/2011 11:05 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> I went to our local Stop& Shop yesterday to pick up some meat that
> was on sale. I noticed they are changing the labels from yellow and
> while to green and white. OK, no big deal.
>
> What I thought was rather dumb though, was the printing of the
> contents. They reduced the font size to about half what it used to
> be. In a world with an aging population, it was a real gnat brained
> idiot that came up with that idea. He/she should be fired, along with
> the manager that approved the label.
>
Maybe they changed to the walmart style embalmed "fresh" meat and wanted
to make sure they "complied" with labeling?


> I have good eyesight (wearing glasses) and standing at normal height,
> I could not read the product description of the meat in the display
> case.
>
> I did not see the manager when I was there, but just sent a message to
> Customer Service.

In article >,
Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:37:03 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
> >
> >> What I thought was rather dumb though, was the printing of the
> >> contents. They reduced the font size to about half what it used to
> >> be.
> >
> >Maybe they've added something they don't want you to see, Ed.
>
>
> Yeah, like what looks like a pork chop is really molded Spam.

Now, now. . . . we had dinner with June Oshiro and hubby Matt (and the
three little girls) a month ago and June served an awesome appetizer
made from SPAM -- it involved sushi rice and kelp, I think. You know,
one o'them there wrapped-up things.
>
> Some things are obvious, I can tell a chicken wing from a pork chop,
> but I want to know if the ground beef is 80% or 90%.

Holy crap! THAT'S the kind of info they're hiding? Whoa! Around here
that's easy to read -- it's a selling point, fercryin'outloud.
--
Barb,
http://web.me.com/barbschaller September 5, 2011

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:57:55 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

> we had dinner with June Oshiro and hubby Matt (and the
> three little girls) a month ago

I ran across one of her recipes in my computer today and thought of
her.

--
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

"sf" wrote in message news
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:05:54 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>
> What I thought was rather dumb though, was the printing of the
> contents. They reduced the font size to about half what it used to
> be. In a world with an aging population, it was a real gnat brained
> idiot that came up with that idea. He/she should be fired, along with
> the manager that approved the label.
>
> I have good eyesight (wearing glasses) and standing at normal height,
> I could not read the product description of the meat in the display
> case.
>
> I did not see the manager when I was there, but just sent a message to
> Customer Service.

You don't think that was calculated? I bet they are laughing at the
people who need a magnifying glass to read the print. They've
satisfied legal requirements and made sure a lot of people can't read
it.

--
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

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I think you're right...but one way to stop their laughter would be to inform
the manager that you are changing your shopping habits and will now
patronize one of the stores that uses *readable* labels. And then do it.

On a related note (and this isn't anything that an individual pharmacy can
control), one of my pet peeves is the way some over-the-counter
pharmaceuticals have (1) reduced the size of print so that it is now
basically unreadable and (2) sometimes have labels where the
dosage--including maximum use--can only be read by peeling back the label
and reading underneath. That is inconvenient and can even be dangerous. Of
course, there are also those stores that paste the price tag on top of the
instructions!

MaryL

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:41:31 -0600, "MaryL"
> wrote:

>
> I think you're right...but one way to stop their laughter would be to inform
> the manager that you are changing your shopping habits and will now
> patronize one of the stores that uses *readable* labels. And then do it.
>
> On a related note (and this isn't anything that an individual pharmacy can
> control), one of my pet peeves is the way some over-the-counter
> pharmaceuticals have (1) reduced the size of print so that it is now
> basically unreadable and (2) sometimes have labels where the
> dosage--including maximum use--can only be read by peeling back the label
> and reading underneath. That is inconvenient and can even be dangerous. Of
> course, there are also those stores that paste the price tag on top of the
> instructions!
>

I never blame people at the store level for that sort of thing, it's
always corporate and they only care about the bottom line. They'll
fire people or move them around for losing customers but they won't
blame their wrong headed policies.

======================

Mary, if you're not going to use a real news reader then at least
learn to cut properly configured sig lines because they will make
everything below the delineator disappear when someone using a real a
real news reader tries to reply to you.


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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

"sf" wrote in message ...

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:41:31 -0600, "MaryL"
> wrote:

>
> I think you're right...but one way to stop their laughter would be to
> inform
> the manager that you are changing your shopping habits and will now
> patronize one of the stores that uses *readable* labels. And then do it.
>
> On a related note (and this isn't anything that an individual pharmacy can
> control), one of my pet peeves is the way some over-the-counter
> pharmaceuticals have (1) reduced the size of print so that it is now
> basically unreadable and (2) sometimes have labels where the
> dosage--including maximum use--can only be read by peeling back the label
> and reading underneath. That is inconvenient and can even be dangerous.
> Of
> course, there are also those stores that paste the price tag on top of the
> instructions!
>

I never blame people at the store level for that sort of thing, it's
always corporate and they only care about the bottom line. They'll
fire people or move them around for losing customers but they won't
blame their wrong headed policies.

======================

Mary, if you're not going to use a real news reader then at least
learn to cut properly configured sig lines because they will make
everything below the delineator disappear when someone using a real a
real news reader tries to reply to you.

- - - - - - - - - - - -

You're right about the news reader (although I must admit that I don't
understand what you mean by everything below the delineator disappearing--I
haven't noticed any changes in my replies). I know I need to look into
various news readers but have been procrastinating. Even Outlook and
Outlook Express were acceptable to me because I could set the basic
configuration I wanted, and they automatically used "greater than" markers
for previous messages. Then I got a computer with Win 7. Outlook was no
longer available. Instead, it shipped with Windows Live Mail. The only
good thing I can say about it is that it's free. I'll try to make a change
fairly soon. I'm open to suggestions--something I said some time ago and
then never got around to doing any research.

--
MaryL



--
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:57:55 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> > Now, now. . . . we had dinner with June Oshiro and hubby Matt (and the
> > three little girls) a month ago and June served an awesome appetizer
> > made from SPAM -- it involved sushi rice and kelp, I think. You know,
> > one o'them there wrapped-up things.
>
> SPAM Misubi
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi
>
> -sw

I think so, though June's was, IIRC, the SPAM sandwiched between the
rice, all wrapped with the nori. Dang, it was good!
--
Barb,
http://web.me.com/barbschaller September 5, 2011

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:57:55 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>
>> > Now, now. . . . we had dinner with June Oshiro and hubby Matt (and the
>> > three little girls) a month ago and June served an awesome appetizer
>> > made from SPAM -- it involved sushi rice and kelp, I think. You know,
>> > one o'them there wrapped-up things.
>>
>> SPAM Misubi
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi
>>
>> -sw
>
> I think so, though June's was, IIRC, the SPAM sandwiched between the
> rice, all wrapped with the nori. Dang, it was good!


Imagine how good it would be with braised pork belly, instead of spam.

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:40:36 -0600, "MaryL"
> wrote:

>
> You're right about the news reader (although I must admit that I don't
> understand what you mean by everything below the delineator disappearing--I
> haven't noticed any changes in my replies).

That's okay... eliminating it makes a difference in mine, thanks.

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.