That Susan Lucci one reminded me of being in the ‘90s, pumping gas just standing around waiting when I hear a clatter, look up and see a half-full Diet Coke hit the curb with a trajectory coming from a stopped BMW with the passenger window down that has a driver particularly unhappy to see themselves get busted. Yes,…

Ugh, just let these kids be kids, stop trying to make money off of their efforts to enrich their personal lives and screwing them out of their hobby. I’ve been grateful to see the Girl Scouts in front of my supermarket regularly and doing good business, even hawking their last boxes with 10 minutes before they folded…

I was pretty sour on Burger King about this until I read they were trying to pull out, especially as McDonalds already had. I suppose I can give Subway the same benefit of the doubt, they probably all are contractually obligated, but it’s worth exploring the idea of breaking contract in a country that’s not going to…

I never thought I’d see the Will Smith-starring I, Robot cited anywhere, great job!

I remember seeing these sorts of retro ‘30s cars coming out when I was a kid and they looked so trashy in person. They wanted to have the style of the ‘30s but with the cheap quality of the malaise era, and it doesn’t work at all.

This story turned my stomach because when I was a teen, I had a family member who let his 8-year-old sit on his lap and drive the car on a rural highway at night, kid swerved to avoid a small animal and rolled the car, killing him, leaving his dad emotionally ruined ever since. I never before thought about how lucky…

Attempting to turn off body or dash cams during official activity should be automatic dismissal for cops. Too many bad apples have made their kind’s word worthless, and the Supreme Court has ruled that police do not actually have a duty to protect and serve the public, so the idea of honor is out the window; that…

That’s only about them owning the land most times, right? I see that, but not refuting the other part about the majority of stores being corporate, not franchise.

You know how to get free stuff in situations? Have consistently good content that grows a strong reach and let them come to you. You don’t have to be the biggest or the most popular, your content doesn’t need to be the best, but you have to do your job first and then let them decide if it’s worth it to get your…

You’re mistaken, there are 2800 CFA stores and over 1800 of them are franchises.

I’m not sure if that’s correct, I am pretty sure the CFAs around here are on rented land that’s not owned by corporate and you’re thinking of McDonalds that does the land snatch thing, that’s what made their corporation so powerful. As for CFA franchisees, it’s cheap because CFA builds the business and the franchisees …

I’ve never had a single reusable bag fail catastrophically, but I don’t buy the 50c junk bags. The worst that’s happened is my bags (lest you think I’m buying fancy, these were $1.50 at Target, folding bags, they hold 25lbs each) get used so much the stitching on their seams starts to unravel at the top, and my…

Two whales were destroyed that day.

HA crap. I’m not ignorant, I’m tired today. Good catch though. You could make a GMG editor. 

Thanks. I grew up in a lot of places and at different income levels, so I got to know folks and areas.

Those prices aren’t especially high though, doesn’t get it to the top 50 in the county just because there’s a housing bubble driving up the nicest places around Disney Studio Square and the hills around it. There’s pricey houses in Echo Park too, you know that doesn’t make it Bel-Air.

Sorry to hear Los Feliz treated you bad, but I am not terribly surprised either, it’s always been trying to be something it ain’t, you’d think people don’t remember the hooker who’d walk around in just a shirt and no underthings at Vermont and Franklin with impunity for months in the early ‘00s! Just because it’s got…

I’ve been to that one in National City about a decade ago, it was busy but no moreso than the one by LAX and a few really insane ones that just made huge parking lot queues, I don’t remember lines being nuts but it was Comic-Con so lines were the norm anyway. Yet the one in Fashion Valley is what, 8 miles north? And I…

Clearly it is the job of the business to ensure their customers aren’t causing issues to traffic and access to their neighboring businesses, as the city is now making it their job to do something to alleviate the issue. If this was intermittent or unpredictable to the CFA location, then it might not be their…

I saw a video of someone encountering these in Chicago and the tech that’s supposed to let consumers know when a product is sold out spectacularly failed, with 3 racks fully empty showing full. His video didn’t see any ads, but did spy several bottles on each door doing a little wiggle acting as eye-catchers.