Just for the hell of it tell the cashier that you forgot your card at home. They will most likely scan a generic card and give you the same price. The only thing you'll lose is any rebates which are based on cumulative spending and those are usually very small anyway. There's no reason for them to charge you double the price for a package of chicken just because you aren't a card-carrying "member".

I always get a chuckle out of people who have a dozen "discount" tags on their key rings. They might as well wear a shirt that says "fuck me, I'm stupid."

"minimum advertised price"

That, in itself, was once illegal and is still sleazy as hell. Let's say a retailer is overstocked on an item that is becoming obsolete/outdated and he just wants to move the inventory, even at a loss. There's no legitimate reason he shouldn't be allowed to do that. Actually, he can and should do it even if it means that the distributor shuts off his future supply.

That's what I did until I decided that I just wasn't going to carry around a stack of those stupid cards. At that point I just started tell cashiers that I have the card but it's at home. They ALMOST always just use a "store card". One time though, the cashier refused and insisted on charging me $140 instead of $100. I left all my groceries on the belt, walked out and started using a different market.

I didn't go back for several years until one day when I needed just a few items and it was the most convenient place to get them. They had since dropped their hardass policy about the cards. They lost more than $25k in sales on me. I smile now when I read stories about Shaw's Supermarkets being on the verge of bankruptcy. Assholes.

What on Earth can hundreds of millions of gun toting Americans possibly do to protect themselves from a corrupt government?

While they are claiming 10% it's often more than that. It's enough to ruin many fuel systems. The customer gets their tanks filled with crap that doesn't burn well, resulting in poor mileage and big repair bills. We need independent testing and reporting of what comes out of the pumps. These bogus distributors are increasing their obscene profits by poisoning our engines. I know of fleet managers who have learned this the hard way.

The fact of the matter is that most of the cars on the road should not burn any ethanol. They managed to get 10% allowed as an acceptable amount of contamination. They are already sabotaging our cars. We'd be better off it they kept their damned ethanol and replaced it with air.

God forbid they find that bottle of Clorox I have stashed in the rafters.

I'm noticing lately that authorities are displaying traits of fascism. We need to blow up all the police stations and the offices of educators who are attempting to train a new generation of bad guys.

Nip it in the bud, I say. In the bud.

Dig into the details and most of the apparent advantages of flying disappear. You still need to take road transportation to and from the airports. A large percentage of car accidents happen during short trips in congested areas when the driver's guard is down. Your lost/stolen luggage will cost money and time. You'll might have to rent a car at your destination and deal with all those hassles.

Airline delays happen all the time. I once drove home from Florida, 1200 miles, with snow in the northern stretch and still beat a friend who got shuffled around by the airlines. Those of us in the car, a small motorhome actually, ate well, drank when appropriate, had a million laughs, slept soundly and arrived relaxed and rested. The poor bastard who flew was completely frazzled.

If god had meant for man to fly then he wouldn't have created the assholes in the TSA, the thieving baggage handlers, bogus chinese airplane parts and overbooking. I have no desire to ever travel more than 1000 miles from home and I can drive that far in a day. To hell with air travel. I hope they all crash and burn in desolate areas.

God made these scientists with his own two fins so that we would recognize the potential of our water-breathing brothers. Fish have always been seen as low forms of life but now it's time to balance the scales.

Yay, god!!!

The answer is that there is no answer. You can't just go around trying to identify people you think *might* *someday* do something like this and forcing "treatment" on them. You're apt to make more problems than you solve and then, in the final analysis, you would be the crazy murderer.

I don't see any reason why a female immigrant should be treated any differently. Attitudes like yours are the reason they think they can get away with shit like this.

She had a chance to make a good honest life for herself but instead she decided to be a criminal and act like some poor oppressed victim of society. It's probably how she can afford to live in the very affluent town of Newton. It's time to deport her to Beijing where she wouldn't dare pull this kind of crap.

They should both be writing billions of hundred dollar checks to pay back all the money they have stolen from consumers.

Are you kidding me? She's using her Chinese origin as a strategy for breaking the laws in a US community. I don't believe for one second that she didn't know what she was being told. Go break some laws in China and see what kind of treatment you get. Chances are that she was going to break more laws by selling these phones to China. I hope they convict her of a felony and deport her.

They did her a favor by using the taser. She was violently resisting arrest and could have easily ended up with a broken arm or worse.

People like her are why some Americans are starting to resent all foreigners. They think it's a game to come here and take advantage of us. Let's get rid of the bad apples and give the good ones a chance to live the life they came here for.

They can run their own networks. Few Americans could care less if the foreigners opted out of the Internet.