Subj : Re: Minced Garlic To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Feb 27 2020 02:24:24 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 22-Feb-2020 09:34 <=- BM> Hmm: wonder where the minced garlic in a jar will end up after the BM> remodel is done at the grocery store? Might go for making my own; BM> didn't see garlic cloves but wasn't looking either. First guess would be in produce, somewhere... both the garlic heads and the various forms of prepared garlic... :) BM> Last Thursday's shopping trip was 'messy' as they had started moving BM> the 'center' of the store -- more or less the 'left third'. Temporary BM> shelving to accompany the removal and replacement. I haven't figured BM> out what is going in where the liquor store portion was (it got moved BM> over into the next storefront section). The construction crew has BM> been doing something major in the old liquor store section. They were BM> also tearing apart some of the back and side portions (in the store BM> proper) near the old Liquor area but I don't think is being moved into BM> there. Stay tuned!! The project continues... Speaking of projects, the road project is pretty well completed... and seems to have made a substantial difference in the traffic congestion that area has had... worth the hassles of the construction over the last few years... :) BM>>>> do recall shopping and being charged for a bag at other stores. NB>>>> We've not had that at Wegmans, but a natural foods store we shop at NB>>>> (Lori's) will take off 25› per order if you bring your own bag(s)... BM>>> That 25› seems to be a good psychological price: Hy-Vee's nickle per BM>>> bag adds up but five cents is almost nothing to a lot of people: "not BM>>> worth bending down for" if they dropped. (I picked up a lot of change BM>>> over the years and deposited quite a few dollars: became a free BM>>> something!) NB>>> Yup... I'll pick up the pennies, nickles, dimes, etc off the ground... NB>>> generally just toss them into the wallet, and use as needed, so didn't NB>>> really ever have them noticeably add up to dollars... but well could NB>>> have.... ;) BM>> I semi-sort of avoided keeping change with me: slowed down the vending BM>> machine purchases in the Break Room. NB>> Ah... I didn't have that temptation... and it was always nice to have NB>> a little change to keep from getting a huge pocket-full of change back NB>> from a purchase... ;) BM> Yes, getting 75› back in nickles and dimes for a $1.25 purchase is a BM> hare annoying. Or even getting 94 cents back in quarters plus the dime nickle and 4 pennies... having 6 cents to hand over to get a dollar back is much better... ;) NB>>> Still possibly would rather do myself... maybe the truck got them all NB>>> properly shredded, but it was just an assumption that the noise meant NB>>> that it was being totally shredded, so not necessarily the case... ;) BM>> I had thought that might be your answer! Yes, I agree there is no BM>> easy proof the papers are being sufficiently shredded. At least BM>> shredding at home one can see a bucket of confetti. The items we BM>> brought for commercial shredding were mostly because "too much": box or BM>> two of old documents which needed to be kept x-number of years BM>> following death, old banking items (checkbooks, registers, statements), BM>> some of which would have needed to been disassembled to be home BM>> shredded. Nothing of which could not have been shredded at home, just BM>> a heck of a lot easier to have someone do. NB>> I can sorta see that line of reasoning.... ;) Just would probably NB>> still rather see it done myself... :) BM> Agree. Most of the stuff using the public shredding was of items BM> 'immediately no longer active': closed bank accounts (deceased BM> relative), though some was old bank statements of active accounts. So BM> far no problems we could attribute to shredding 'leaks'. It probably was safe enough... :) I'm just extra careful on things like that... ;) BM> ... Curiosity? What's that? Yup. ;) ttyl neb .... Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .