Why isn't table salt (NaCl) in five pound bags?

Yup. And androids are still dreaming of electric sheep.

I bought some cheese today, Wensleydale with blueberries. I've had it before and liked it. It was $8 for 7 ounces. No, as you were. It was $7.99. Pennies, which I don't even bother scraping out of the change return, could be eliminated if merchants dropped that time honored scam.

This summer I was at a stop and rob and bought a can of Rockstar. The sign on the cooler said 2 for $3 iirc. When she rang up $1.99 for one can she pointed out it said TWO for $3. I don't think I've run into that approach before.

Grocery stores aren't in the business of catering to people who make their own weed killer. Their target market is making their own baked goods, or sprinkling some on their food.

Is de-icing salt or water-softener salt unavailable where you live?

Cindy Hamilton

It seems to be a mix here. I see a fair amount of Kirkland stuff in businesses.

Cindy Hamilton

They will sell you 80 pound bags of salt for water softeners but 40 are more popular. In either case that is plenty of mediocre weed killer.

Often I will go to the drug store and they will have something like vitamins, two for the price of one, and there is only one left.

I take it to the counter and say that all that was left was the free one.

True, but they can reopen under another "name" and go out of business for another 3 months.

Just leave the Going Out Of Business sign up, right next to the "Under New Management" sign.

No mix here -- there is no Sam's Club.

We don't even _have_ sam's club in the state. Plenty of costco (and former price club) stores. Costco is the prime supplier for small, medium and even large businesses around here.

Nope. At the least, they'd have to find a new owner.

But you also can't bring in new merchandise during a going out of business sale, so you either don't sell much or you run out of things to sell.

Is '§ 20-318 Resumption of business' the "50's or 60's law" that you mentioned earlier? (Just wondering if you are quoting something more recent than what you were talking about earlier.)

In any case, there are speed limits laws too. Are they always followed? I think not. There are hiring laws. Are they always followed? I think not. There are thousands upon thousands of laws. Are they all followed all the time? I think not.

I grew up in NYC. You spent some time there too.

In your actual experience, do you feel that the spirit of § 20-318 was followed back in the

Up here there are wholesale grocers" that serve the small buisiness (and larger business) community. I imagine there are some small restaurants that use Costco/Kirkland as a supplier of some of their products/supplies but it does not appear to be wide-spread.

By businesses, i was referring to companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Marvell, and the thousands of smaller non-restaurant companies and startups.

Restaurants get their supplies from various industry suppliers (e.g. Sysco).

It's hard to drive anywhere without seeing one of these trucks :

Do you only eat at Olive Garden, or do you go to small restaurants that operate on a shoestring? Very small restaurants might buy some things at Kroger.

Cindy Hamilton

Both my favorite Chinese restaurant and my favorite Taqueria use small industy suppliers (each specializing in chinese and mexican foodstuffs).

Here even most of the company cafeterias buy (mostly) from the wholesalers. Many of them are bigger than a lot of restaurants

WE have some top notch smaller restaurants that buy a lot from the local farmers' markets and produce auctions. Several local grocers also buy a lot from the local produce auctions in season (and year round for greenhouse produce)