Have you ever been to a fast food or any restaurant that advertisers some sort of special with a coupon..they most always say” present coupon before ordering “
Now let me ask you have you ever ordered the food item at some eatery and item on sale but or presented it to them as your paying and they give you a bit of an agreement time “hey you were supposed to present the coupon before ordering”
The simple reason is that when you have a coupon for let’s say a sandwich when you present the coupon upon ordering they have a smaller sandwich to give you..So be smart..always give the restaurant the coupon after they serve you when you pay the cashier
How many times have you went to a retail store and purchased only one item and the cashier says to you..”Do you want a bag with your purchase”? This has become a common occurrence to Mr & Mrs shopper . Listen make no mistake about this policy the workers are instructed to do this by their bosses. I think this is a deplorable policy..Do they expect someone to exit the store perhaps located in a strip mall without a bag & walk into another shop? How about if you buy a very personal item such as a box of Sanitary Napkins, Adult Diapers or Condoms and exit the store holding it in clear site that every shmuck and his brother can see it…they don’t care one ioda.
I was in retail business in the 1970’s and I never let the customer bag their own groceries . In those days the Supermarkets trained the public to do it themselves how do like the way the fast food chains trained the public to bus their own tables…or pumping your own Gas. Like I said I never had any of my customers leave without their purchases bagged . Remember when the stores used paper bags it was very costly for them..it was practically the same cost as the store rent.Today plastic bags are very inexpensive . .Please do not make a fool out your customers by letting them exit your store caring an unbagged item like a putz.
Panera Bread is doing a Multi Millian Dollar commercial media blitz a Campaign to Push their”Clean Menu” Well I purchase a bagel which was accompianed with an individual packet of an cream cheese which I photographed and I posted it right here..Well you be the judge..
I remember back in the day circa 1950 -1960’s Every Friday restaurants accommodated those who had to refrain from meat..You could get all the flounder or fried shrimp you can eat at a place such as Grants for 69 cents. When you ordered Shrimp Marinara you didn’t get 4 or 5 shrimp like you get today..It was loaded with shrimp..Same goes Shrimp with Lobster Sauce at Chinese Restaurant
We were told that Shrimp prices would drop with the advent of Fish farming particularly with its main stays such as Shrimp & The Smoked Fish industry consisting mostly of Lox, Sturgeon and such items..Today the Farm raised fish is not any cheaper you’d be lucky if you get 5 shrimp on any shrimp dish in any restaurant . .and Lox the color has to be added after its retrieved from the Fish farm as the Orange color only occurs when they swim upstream.
The sad thing is that they often feed these Farmed Fish Pig Dung (crap)..At least what’s arriving from China and We wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it’s done here in the U.S.A .also.
What is equally as bad that many ocean caught fish are basically the same thing..they cordoned off a spot in the ocean with massive amount of netting and that traps fish in the confines of that netting and feeds them there “which is Paramount to the exact same thing as fish farming.”
China has built a plethora of artificial islands all throughout the Pacific Rim dotting the Pacific Ocean with Thousands of Fish Farms and as well as we already mentioned loaded with nettings of Sustained Ocean Caught Fish.
Legislation is well over do so this is never done here.Just how healthy is farm raised Fish anyway . You be the Judge.
I remember when some brain trust came up with the bright idea to have the shoppers put a quarter in the Coral in order to get a shopping cart & in order to get your Quarter back you have had to return it to the coral..The Shoppers rejected that system and looked for other Supermarkets to do their shopping….it didnt work. I haven’t been to Florida in a while ,but when I was there I used to l used to like to shop at Publix Supermarkets they had a system….Your shopping cart with your groceries went to the left of the cashier & the shopper went to the right on a sort of circular cash out counter . The bagger was on your left bagged your groceries as the cashier rung them up & brought them out to your car (a good deal of the time the bagger was a retired senior citizen) No tipping allowed..if you tipped the bagger bringing it to your car ..they lost their job . .at least thats what I understood that occurred perhaps I was wrong on that but no one ever tipped.Hence no shopping carts and no more dings.
Supermarkets and all other malls that have shopping carts will post a sign stating “not responsible for shopping cart damaged to your car…Not necessarily so. Did you ever go to a hat & coat at a check at a restaurant or hotel that displayed a sign saying not responsible for lost of damage clothing checked..simple not true..it was already proven in court.
If a supermarket leaves their shopping carts in an unsafe fashion then they are then 100% responsible. Ever go to a supermarket or a Wal-Mart before opening and all the carts all over the place..because the management either doesn’t want to give to workers overtime at closing time or simply just don’t care.
What we at the Lerman Report .Com suggest you do is document it..Take pictures with your cell phone and send it to corporate Headquarters . .Once its documented guess what?… Then their liable it’s as simple as that . Also every locality has a stipulation that each parking lot marked stale must conform to certain widths you should document that too..
Why should we as customers have to put up with that situation and risk damage to our cars.What irks us is that the workers who round-up the shopping carts are not high-priced employees..their lucky if they earn $12 an hour.You mean to tell me that an outfit such as Wal-Mart which is a Multi Billion Dollar Concern can’t have just one cart handler stay for an extra 1/2 hour overtime in order to round-up the carts at a measly cost of $6.00
Some food items sold today are not what brought them to the legendary fame of yesteryear. Lets start with Pizza…year’s ago you stopped by your local Pizza Parlour for a slice..in my time it cost only 15 cents..Today I had a slice although I ‘ll admit it had a topping & a small Fountain Soda the tariff… $6.50. Today you order a Pie with a topping it runs you close to $25.00..WhenI was growing up there wasn’t a man who could left $25.00 worth of Pizza .Plus they open up & commence to make a dozen pies with different toppings at 10am .by lunch time the slices are cold & dried out & have to be reheated ..not to tasty anymore.Plus all these franchise pizza places,sad to say that’s the future of Pizza stores down the line so get used to it..Between cost of product & rent the Mom and Pop Pizza stores will soon go to the wayside.
Second Chinese food..at one time all you had been Cantonese..It was never authentic Ethic Chinese Cuisine but the concoction of the great Chinese American chefs who operated a central culinary school .No matter what neighborhood in the N.Y.Metro area that you at every restaurants had identical recipes ..Today with the Schezwan & Hunan It’s just not the same not only that but every place has a dissimilar recipes and it couldn’t light a candle to the old Cantonese style of years ago.
The list is extensive but for a quick read on this site I will just mention the others briefly so here goes…. gyros…knishes.. Diners .I’ll say this if they started introducing those items today the with the mediocre taste & high today’s high costs like a thousand pound glider would never get off the ground.
Who ever bought one of those fancy box of chocolates knows this to be the truth..There are several different gift style boxed chocloares on the market. Anyone whoever bought a box knows that most of the candies on the box are not worth the wasted calories to consume them. There are about 5 major brands but whatever brand box that is opened you’ll soon agree that there are only 3 chocolates worthy to have per Box the rest is just junk.. We all have said it all along. You would be 100% better off buying a box of of Turtles or a Pecan clusteres any day of the year, but they come in a non-fancy style box not exactly what you would never think to present that to someone on a memorial occasion. Like we mentioned earlier Its all about presentation nothing more. The chocolate company selling that fancy box chocolates fools you everytime.
Panera Bread is doing a Multi Millian Dollar commercial media blitz a Campaign to Push their”Clean Menu” Well I purchase a bagel which was accompianed with an individual packet of an cream cheese which I photographed and I posted it right here..Well you be the judge.. 
Some food items sold today are not what brought them to the legendary fame of yesteryear. Lets start with Pizza…year’s ago you stopped by your local Pizza Parlour for a slice..in my time it cost only 15 cents..Today I had a slice although I ‘ll admit it had a topping & a small Fountain Soda the tariff… $6.50. Today you order a Pie with a topping it runs you close to $25.00..WhenI was growing up there wasn’t a man who could left $25.00 worth of Pizza .Plus they open up & commence to make a dozen pies with different toppings at 10am .by lunch time the slices are cold & dried out & have to be reheated ..not to tasty anymore.Plus all these franchise pizza places,sad to say that’s the future of Pizza stores down the line so get used to it..Between cost of product & rent the Mom and Pop Pizza stores will soon go to the wayside.
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