Feeling Crabby?
These pinch. But they're delicious. They're one of the many fresh seafood choices you'll be tempted with when you visit Pike Place Market in Seattle.
Stop Beating Around the Bush
Everything at Costco is giant, and these tropical plants are no exception. They were only $19.98, but buyer beware to think first if you can even fit it in your car to get it home before you buy. Looking at the shopping cart contents, one can certainly buy a schmozzle of things at Costco, can't they? An industrial size box of corn dogs, dish soap, 2 jugs of some sort of tomato sauce, a 10kg bag of sugar and a jungle-sized plant all in one trip. And this shopper didn't even hit the clothing, electronics or household furnishings aisles!
Freezing Farmers’ Market
There was much anticipation to attend the first Farmers' Market of the season in Kelowna. The winter jackets and hoods worn by attendees depict the cold temperatures that Saturday so you can imagine how slow the traffic was at the lemonade stand. The picture on the right shows a guy who seemed to highly covet his purchase of a bag of locally milled flour.
Freedom From Hangovers
A fundamental in retailing is to shelve related categories of products together. Some shopper brought this package of hangover-avoidance pills over from the pharmacy and left them on these cases of beer in the refrigerated section of the supermarket. I'm guessing they were planning ahead, then figured they'd just take their chances.
Because Everyday Is Some Kind of National Holiday
It's National Corn Dog Day! Make sure you celebrate accordingly. For those of you unfamiliar with what a corn dog is, it's a hot dog encased in a cornmeal batter and deep fried. A match made in heaven:
Dude, Where’s The Snow?
Snow isn't too common here in the Vancouver City area over the winter months, but we usually get a little bit of it. I can only recall one day so far this winter that we've received snowfall, and it's been the mildest winter on record. My local bike shop, Velocity Cycles, had the cheeky advertising going on above. Advertising works, as proved my newly acquired bicycle below:
Refueling the Catering Truck
I'm not sure why this strikes me as funny, but it's an owner replenishing the stocks of her catering truck at the local grocery store. In a way it's ironic. And I love irony. I guess she has to get her food from somewhere, but seeing this behind-the-scenes takes away some of the cachet of the service.
What’s In a Name
I found these products on the shelves of the Ethnic section in my local Superstore (a Loblaw grocery retailer). If I were a buyer for Loblaws Grocery I would ask that all products with this branding be renamed to the option shown on left. Sometimes things don't sound so good when they're translated.
I guess he must spill a lot.Tags
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