When sugar prices spiked in the early 1970s my  mother stopped adding sugar to the tea she made for the family.  We drank unsweetened Iced Tea forever after that.  As an adult I can’t stand sweet tea at all.  Also no lemon in mine, thanks.

Not funny, especially to the families of his victims. The hype over the Netflix series is disgusting.

Always appreciated the less sweetened/unsweetened flavors Honest Tea offered at a time when that was pretty uncommon. Hated stocking the stuff on shelves though, dense cases and brittle bottles. Throwing up a metro rack of this was asking for explosive outcomes.

I started out washing dishes at a local spot when I was 15. Man i couldn’t believe it the first time I got a paycheck - 400$ as a 15 year old... i felt like a oligarch.  

The labor shortage is a driving force behind the expansion of these machines. A traditional grocery shopping setup requires one cashier (and possibly a bagger) per every checkout lane, while only one employee is needed to oversee as many as 10 self-checkout kiosks. Even as stores like Wegmans and Amazon Fresh rethink…

It’s good for a few items. It’s horrible for a cart-full. It’s still quicker when you have a cashier in either case.

The self-check areas I’ve seen are also too small to handle carts - it ends up partly in front of another station and the always temperamental baggage area isn’t big enough for a cart’s worth of bags.

You seem to think that I’m saying I prefer to use cashier lines myself, that I’m not comfortable with using self-check. It’s exactly the opposite. I’ve figured out how to self-check (at the few places I shop that have it). I know where the bar codes are, I make sure that any produce has the code available, and I save…

But most cashiers are horrible with multiples. Instead of scanning 1 & just punching in how many, they insist on scanning each & every individual item.

I was under the impression that these companies new that self-checkout would lead to a certain amount of loss compared to having a human being operate the checkout (both intentional shoplifting and honest “I hit the button for the cheaper kind of apples by accident and didn’t have the ability to fix it” stuff) but…

it is the milk that is inconvenient bub.

I think they real issue is companies are seemingly incapable of figuring out how to price their stuff consistently. take Wendy’s for example. for about a year you could get their croissant breakfast sandwiches about 40 cents cheaper by ordering a sausage biscuit and adding the toppings to it with a bun sub to…

Counting calories does help with weight lost. I’ve lost 17 pounds in the last few weeks just by watching my caloric intake and realizing I don’t need to eat a ton of food to feel full.

Just like any emergency, while it may be a rare occurrence you also don’t want to be responsible for causing a situation which may cause more people to get hurt/killed.

Shrinkage, aka theft, is peanuts compared to wastage (damaged an unsaleable goods), but that doesn’t get people all fired up and ranting, so it doesn’t make good cover for stupid policies. Here is a dirty, yet open, secret, stores actually like a bit of petty theft. It functions almost like product testing and…

I know you’ve had ED issues, Marnie. I have, too. I get it.

Calorie counting might not be 100% accurate but it sure as hell beats trying to blindly navigate our current food environment. At the end of the day, having more information over the caloric content of food is better than having none. The concept of intuitive eating is something I keep on hearing about, and honestly,…

I think these last two points are the most significant. While calorie counting isn’t 100% accurate, or THE answer for weight loss, simply keeping track of the basic caloric value of the foods you eat can be a major revelation.

I disagree strongly with this. You are mostly picking at edge cases or revealing flaws in the model without suggesting a better one. The old saying that “All models are wrong, but some are useful” definitely applies here.

Bullshit. A little bit of ketchup on a burger, i taste the burger just fine.