Trader Joe’s.
Those two words conjure up all sorts of feelings from those who frequent any of the Trader Joe’s specialty grocery stores around the country. Inexpensive (do not call it cheap) wines, candies, and prepared frozen foods from around the world, brought to you by pleasant, happy, Hawaiian-shirt wearing, bell-ringing employees.
Shouldn’t every company be like Trader Joe’s?
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It’s June, which means that every young woman’s heart turns to marriage. And more importantly, weddings.
There’s nothing more special than a June bride (says everyone who has been a June bride). That walk down the aisle, when the entire wedding party turns to look at you in your radiant white dress. The music swells, the tissues come out…
All that pomp and circumstance for what? Just to be able to wear one dress for one time, and then to put it away in a dress bag to hang in the back of your closet until you finally decide to throw that thing out.
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By now you’ve probably heard about that NPR intern who claims to have over 11,000 songs in her music library, but only paid for 15 CDs in her life.
Remember CRACKER? What a great opportunity for someone in the music industry to write an open letter to that intern, right?
That’s exactly what DAVID LOWERY did.
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When was the last time you got your hair cut?
So you went to the salon of your choice (or local barbershop, or Hair Cuttery, Great Clips, Supercuts, Fantastic Sam’s, or even the neighbor down the street who happens to have the only working Flowbee in the surrounding 100 miles). You sit down in the chair and settle in for your haircut.
And no matter what you pay, whether it be free, $9, $14, $45, or $150 — you all experience the same thing as you watch your Hair Professional pick up their trusty pair of scissors off their counter and approach your head with their fingers of steel…
“Did they sterilize those scissors after their last customer?”
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Web Watch is a fan of supporting our local grocery stores and their prepared food sections.
Whether it be picking up a hot rotesserie chicken from Sam’s Club, Costco, or the local grocery store; a rack of ribs, freshly smoked; a dinner plate made to order right at the meat counter; or even the fish department steaming your purchase while you shop — grocery stores have discovered that providing ready-to-eat food is a great way to supplement their bottom line.
Why? Because Web Watch likes to eat, but doesn’t always have time to cook.
Sure, we know it’s more expensive to buy a chicken that’s already seasoned and heated for us over going through that process ourselves, but for now we’re okay with that.
To paraphrase Cookie Monster, “prepared, ready-to-eat foods are a sometimes meal”.
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Everybody loves a good sandwich.
Just take two pieces of bread and slap some meat and a few condiments inside, and hoo-boy, you just know that’s good eatin’.
And as you travel around the country like Web Watch has, you’ll know that everywhere has a regional specialty that just defines it perfectly.
We recall one trip we took to Dallas where we found ourselves at a small cafeteria looking for lunch. On the menu, it said “steak sandwich”, which we thought sounded delightful.
To our chagrin, we received the local favorite “chicken-fried steak” sandwich, which is definitely not what we were expecting or had in mind.
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Environmentalists are always looking for ways to save the planet.
Did you know that one of the biggest offenders for this earth’s destruction is our over-reliance on toilet paper?
Chances are, you’re not a “can you spare a square” kind of person. You’re more of a “let’s wrap our hand up a few layers, and then add a few more layers on for protection” sort. We know you. You’re the one who can go through one of those Ultra-Large rolls in three days, just because you can.
And then you have the gall to continually complain about the lack of flushing power in your toilet tank.
And don’t get us started on whether you use your hand to wipe or not when we’ve seen THIS hanging around your bathroom.
Hey buddy – it’s not the toilet that’s the problem. You’re throwing too much crap into the crapper.
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All women seem to have this exact same problem. It’s universal:
HOW TO FIND A BRA THAT FITS?
Smart women will pay big bucks to the old ladies at the lingerie store (or bra department at the local department store) to get properly measured. Hey, every woman is different – not all bras are made to fit every boob that’s squished into that lace.
But not every manufacturer adheres to the same measurement scale and sizing guidelines.
Oh, sure – they pretend to do so. But women know that’s not really the case.
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