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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2004-04-25

"The first U.S. warehouse clubs opened in the late '70s, pioneered in San Diego by Price Club founder Sol Price. In a 1989 interview with the obscure Weekly Home Furnishings Newspaper, he was asked how it felt to be the father of the membership warehouse industry. He replied: 'I should have used a contraceptive.'" -- "Thinking inside the box" in the Toronto Star, 2003-11-05, by Susan Sampson, Food Editor/Writer.

(From the Quotation of the Day mailing list, 2003-11-11. Submitted to that list by Ted Coady.)

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posted by [identity profile] thespian.livejournal.com at 08:22am on 2004-04-25
Oddly, i had no idea that 'Price Club' was named after a person, not the supposed savings....
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 06:02am on 2004-04-26
Oddly, I had known that before and somehow managed to forget again (at least twice now).
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posted by [identity profile] lilkender.livejournal.com at 07:43pm on 2004-04-25
How sad is it that when I read "warehouse clubs" I first thought of raves?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 06:03am on 2004-04-26
Sad for you, or sad for the people who shop at those places?
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posted by [identity profile] lilkender.livejournal.com at 07:11am on 2004-04-26
Sad for me .. I go clubbing more than I go shopping.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:24pm on 2004-04-30
Yeah but,

a) which of those activities is more rewarding?

b) which of those activities is more fun?

c) which of those activities do you feel has more bearing on how you feel about your life?
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posted by [identity profile] old-hedwig.livejournal.com at 10:35am on 2004-04-28
One of my very favorite things about (finally) having a decent household income is being able to stay outa the boxes. If I need vacuum cleaner bags, I can go buy them from the strange guy who owns the vacuum cleaner store. I no longer have to CARE that apples cost twice as much at the farmer's market - I can vote for the kind of community I want with my spending power.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:38pm on 2004-04-30
(I still need a sound effect for "you just landed in my QotD queue".)

That reminds me that I really need to a) buy produce from an Arabber (http://www.baltimoremd.com/arabber/) sometime when I see one and am not in a big hurry to get someplace else, and b) try to get to the tiny grocery stores a couple of blocks away sometime when they're open.

Unfortunately I usually see Arabbers a lot further up Fulton or over on North Ave. when I'm on my way to or from Charles Village and usually when there's no convenient place to pull over and park, and the tiny neighbourhood grocery stores close up around 17:00 while the big chain stores stay open until 22:00 or so, but I'm going to have to find time to give some of my business to such institutions if I'm going to have my voice count when I complain about their disappearance.
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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 05:25am on 2004-09-28
NPR reported yesterday that Baltimore may ban the singing salesmen...
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