Saturday October 03, 2009

grocery trips

shopping cart derby
Trips to the grocery store are a pile of fun. Here you can see we got really lucky and found the shopping cart with the kiddie-car at the front. This cart has the car with 1 steering wheel, and is made for one toddler. There is another cart that has the 2-seater, but we did not find that one, and Wolfe managed to muscle in on his sister to take the helm here. You can see that he really loves steering wheels.


tuna tube
Here is something I thought was a little odd. I go down a canned foods aisle, and see this little screen attached to the shelf with a sign on it that invites me to push the button. Oh dear. So I push the button, and this really bad commercial comes on. I don't think I will even mention the tuna product by name here, because they don't really need coverage on coreman.com, when they have these shelf-mounted TVs in the grocery stores. Like really, is playing a bad commercial for your product in a retail environment going to actually influence a consumer buying decision ? I guess the answer is yes, or they wouldn't have gone through the effort to establish this kind of advertising. Weird.

21:19:00 on Saturday October 03, 2009 by coreman - Category: Consumer

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Sarah Pugh wrote:

I can't see that kind of shopping arrangement being really sustainable. ;-)

Just so you know, you didn't miss a heck of a lot on the Apple Festival front. We spent a total of 6 hours in the ferry lineups - after arriving half an hour early going, and *an hour and a half* coming back. (Staff shortage. They sailed with a half-full boat, the bastards.) It was still a nice day, but I wouldn't necessarily repeat it. The apples were great, I bought a bunch, and came across a roadside wheelbarrow filled with nice little galas and a "Free organic apples" sign on it, so I loaded up. You guys can have some. They're perfect kid-sized apples, and nary a blemish to be seen.

Sunday October 04, 2009 21:54:32

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