retail
Avis: Permission Granted
Having recently joined the fortunate ranks of those not burdened with urban car ownership, I am now among the ranks of those who on occasion have the need to rent a car.
One such occasion occurred last week, when I had to go to Syracuse on business.
Now, Syracuse is not the easiest place to get to [...]
Let us give props to Best Buy and the Geek Squad
A week ago Saturday, tired of keeping my HP laptop going by holding the overheating and poorly working power jack in at just the right angle, and worrying about whether the whole thing was going to turn into a not so towering inferno, I decided to get a new laptop.
Off to Best Buy I took [...]
A note to the toy companies
I was going to say “toy makers” but, alas, most of the toy makers aren’t here, they’re in China, where a goodly number of them are apparently using lead paint, the date rape drug, and a lot of other nasty things to produce toys for our little ones.
(As Christmas approaches, toyland is certainly an Opinionated [...]
Church bulletin marketing
The other day, I had lunch with my friend Peter. He lives on Boston’s North Shore, and I went up his way. We went to a very nice little Greek restaurant in Peabody that was just about empty.
Peter has been there a couple of times and told me that, while it’s not usually this empty, [...]
Trick or Treat
I’ve always loved Halloween.
When you’re a kid, what’s not to like about dressing up, roaming around after dark, and eating candy? As parochial school kids, we had even more reason than most to love the day: we got November 1st off. (They don’t call it Halloween for nothing. The name means ’The Eve of All Hallows’, another name [...]
Saturday Mishmash
A few things from the ever-growing “blog about that!” list.
Blog search becomes useless: This item from Blog Business Summit matches what I’ve observed: blog search tools like Technorati and Google Blog Search are becoming pointless, because all you find is blog spam. I’ve about given up on them, and I wish someone would create a [...]
Macy’s Brand Killing Spree
Since Boston’s latest home grown department store, Filene’s, closed down - a depressing and protracted affair - I’ve been doing my share of sniffily, nostalgic be-pissing and be-moaning. Oh, everything is becoming that same everywhere you look. Of course, the fact that there was nothing particularly unique about Filene’s other than its name, logo, and [...]
