Selling on Walmart.com as a third party is like selling on Amazon as a third party. You can't look at how Walmart treats their B&M store suppliers and think it applies to everyone who offers something for sale via the website.

FWIW when the Marty at my local Giant sees a spill you hear an announcement on the store's PA system saying "Cleanup required on aisle (#)." Meanwhile Marty has wandered off in search of other spills.

I expect the name "Marty" comes from another of Ahold NV's US grocery store chains, Martins. The robot at my Giant (yet another Ahold brand) is also called Marty.

The Three has LTE Band 12. If that ends up working well with T-Mobile I might be convinced to upgrade from my One in the next year.

Yes, that's where it get its data. There's a link that is supposed to let you opt out: http://www.truecaller.com/unli...

It wasn't operating that day.

The solution is outlined in TFA. Load your books onto the SD card. Use the file manager to copy a title into device internal storage. Repeat for each book that you want to simultaneously save your place in. The review author says this is too much work.

It says may not. As in you might or might not. Probably some card issuers will do it properly and some won't - assuming that GW is transmitting the appropriate Merchant Category Code for transactions passing through to your card issuer. They already pass through a tweaked version of the merchant name so a purchase at McDonalds shows upon my statement as GOOGNFC*MCDONALDS so I expect the MCC is also passed thru. With the right MCC you'll get bonus points for restaurants or grocery stores or whatever your card provides.

I can only conclude that you've never paid via NFC. There's no waiting. Phone over the sensor, BLING, done.

And my card details are never provided to the merchant with Google Wallet.

With Google Wallet you need a connection to periodically (15 minutes, 24 hours, infinity) enter the PIN but other than that you don't need a connection to make a purchase. I have my PIN timeout set to 24 hours and I just make sure it's unlocked before I go somewhere where I might use it.

With a connection I get an alert when the transaction goes through (as soon as I get a connection if I don't have one at the time) and a later email verification of the payment.

Without a smartphone, it seems that you'd get by with a single credit card, a driver's license; and about $20 in cash.

You misunderstood me. Just open the breaker. You'll still have a customer charge of $18/month or so but it seems to me that the trouble starts when you tell the electric company that you don't want to be a customer. Unless you're trying to tell me that there's a legal consequence to having zero consumption on your power bill.

It may be illegal to be off-grid but there's no law against opening the main house breaker.

I don't know where you buy your electric power but here (PA) the choices I can make for electric supply have a wide price range. I can choose cheap, in which case my electricity is likely to come from coal-powered plants, or I can choose green (wind/solar/biomass) in which case I pay a higher rate. Specifically, my power choices range from 6.91 cents/kwh to 13 cents/kwh on fixed-price contracts. http://www.papowerswitch.com/s...

I'm also not "forced" to select - if I don't choose I end up buying from Met-Ed, the distributing utility.

In other words, the Pope is a Deist.