Subj : Re: Solar TV Battery Test II To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Apr 14 2020 17:54:04 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 05-Apr-2020 10:04 <=- NB>>>> I tend to be mostly impervious to advertising.... unless I'm already NB>>>> considering something, and have been already checking it out, their NB>>>> rhetoric doesn't get to me... :) BM>>> But-but-but: it's New _and_ Improved!! NB>>> And.........??? BM>> And?! But it's 'New' and 'Improved'!!' What more could one want?!! NB>> Working, and doing what I need it to do....? Oh, and not costing NB>> excessively, or actually not being any different from the previous NB>> item.... ;) BM> Working better than before is always a nice thing! Even better is BM> when I notice the proclaimed improvement and it actually does BM> something. "Now with more bubbles!" is fine for a bubble bath but not BM> necessarily for a car wash soap! Exactly... it is possible for a product to actually be improved, in a way that is useful.... ;) But often it's only hype... BM>>> I'll tend to glance at the electronics (more computer) advertising, BM>>> sort of to see what's out there, sort of for planning future computer BM>>> builds/expansions. NB>>> That somewhat makes sense... not so much planning on buying as NB>>> keeping abreast on what might be happening... BM>> The 'buck/boost' device idea derived from a 'technical advertisement'. BM>> Will admit it took a few postings of the ad to finally catch. NB>> It finally dawned on you what good it might do YOU... ;) BM> Yup! I had been thinking Zener diode which would 'buck' the high BM> input voltage but would do nothing for the low input. For than I had a BM> digital voltmeter: visually monitoring. Both of those have a bit of a BM> flaw, which is probably why I didn't persue. Having something to handle both ends of the problem without your needing to intervene is indeed a useful thing... :) BM>> That would seem logical. Not a bad idea to have a review every five BM>> or ten years: things change. You might have purchased a ...ummm... BM>> (y'know being relatively easily satisfied has drawbacks when trying to BM>> come up with examples!).... Aw, jacuzzi! Maybe you thought was covered BM>> under homeowners but isn't, or barely is and for a few dollars can get BM>> a decent rider. NB>> Yeah, right.... not too many things we'd even consider as a possible NB>> thing.... Besides, our agent does have us come in every so often to NB>> check our coverage and make sure that we have what we need.... :) BM> Our agent is more of a slackard on that specific but any time there is BM> a question she's available and will fit us in. Ours is also good on the answering questions part, and helping with situations as they come up... :) BM>> Hy-Vee announced last week they were temporarily discontinuing their BM>> print ad because they couldn't guarantee sufficient stock due to BM>> COVID-19 issues. Did have the on-line ad, at least for this week BM>> (effective date March 25), though IMO wasn't much in it; I probably BM>> would have skipped if it wasn't for me being across the street for the BM>> cards, etc., at Dollar General and needing a few things which rarely BM>> go on sale. NB>> Wegmans had discontinued theirs a couple of years ago... long before NB>> anything like this was happening.... We just do our weekly shopping... NB>> I have noticed, though, that some of the sales (noted from the shelf NB>> tags) have quietly ended early.... I guess there's no need to NB>> stimulate sales when one at the same time has to limit how much NB>> shoppers can buy at a time, with stocks diminishing too quickly... ;0 NB>> There haven't been any new digital coupons either... BM> I'm wondering if Hy-Vee (and other grocers and possibly retailers in BM> general) will take this as an opportunity to cut back on their BM> advertising? I'm sort of reluctant to eliminate print ads as I think BM> they serve as a reminder ("remember us!") but I don't think short-term BM> sales are necessary. Actually I find them rather annoying: so if I go BM> Friday instead of Thursday I could save, but Fridays are inconvenient. BM> ...Suppose not much different than it's on sale this week but not next. Wegmans has very few short-term (even just a week long) sales anymore... they went to longer term price reductions on things, like a couple of months or so.... the idea being that one doesn't have to binge-buy on something when it finally goes on sale, but can stock up gradually over the course of weeks... ;) That's been the case for maybe even a decade now... :) BM> As for the lack of digital coupons, Clorox and the like don't need to BM> advertise much less give money off; DiGiorno probably would still like BM> to tempt customers away from Tony's. And redeemed coupons add several BM> cents to the store's bottom line. I was thinking more of the store's own digital coupons... I've not been getting the digital manufacturer's coupons... only the paper ones when they happen to show up for things I buy anyway... :) BM>> Will be interesting to see what next week's electronic ad offers. NB>> Indeed. :) BM> I was telling someone last week's Hy-Vee digital ad had over 1,000 BM> items while this week's had a little over 400. And their 99› orange BM> juice (limit two) was sold out. (But I did get the last roll of Angel BM> Soft toilet paper, plus I had a dollar off digital coupon!!) Win some, lose some... ;) ttyl neb .... Multigrain cereals: boxes full of small cookies with oat bran added. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .