I keep hoping they’ll lay off the “liquid smoke” flavoring. I’ll happily munch on their B&G all day just because it’s about the only thing that they don’t use that nasty stuff in.

 so undervalues his own employees that he wants to replace them with robots

Weird. Growing up in the Chicago area the only time you hear that is if someone is referring to the memorial name of the road.

We got fed a lot of Grant Cardone and one other guy that owned a Toyota dealership in Florida. I couldn’t understand why they spent all that money. People that walked on to a Toyota lot in the late 90s were all there to buy. The cars were literally already sold. It was just a matter of agreement on price and trade in.

Salesmen turned Motivational Speaker are typically high strung egomaniacs. The Toyota store I worked oat would send us to see them any time they came to town. Go to YouTube and check it out. There are tons of them.

Alternately..

“completely startling crash”

We haven’t hit rock bottom yet. Hell, we’ve barely scratched the surface.

I do get where you’re coming from. We could benefit by going to a function over form ideology.

Russia. They seem to be doing Subways right.

They scaled back but the cost remained the same.

Wow. You would have loved pre-1990 East Germany!

DD hasn’t been good in a loooooong time. When they stopped making the donuts on site it all went downhill.

I’ve found myself preferring Coke Zero to regular Coke too.

“I thought—incorrectly—that this anise-flavored liqueur had faded into obscurity in the post-Jersey Shore era”

Whenever I see comment’s about “Bro truck” and “compensating” I tend to think the person is single minded and insecure. Basically someone who is incapable of accepting that people just like different things.

I can honestly see that happening in a few years.

I’m not alone!!! WOO!!!

I don’t think it’s necessarily a Minnesota thing. I married into a Swedish family in the Chicago area and there were two things that were a constant at Christmas time.

Damn! Buick is really stretching that Avenir branding!