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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Corned Beef Brisket (and a mild rant)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:41:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-15, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2025-03-14, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> On 3/14/2025 5:25 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> Don't you understand freedom?  The store is free to conduct its
>>>> business in (almost) whatever way it wishes.  The law requires them
>>>> to apply the same terms to everybody -- regardless of race, color,
>>>> or creed.  "Not liking affinity cards" is not a protected class.
>>>
>>> This has nothing to do with freedom.  It's about greed.
>>
>> It's their freedom to conduct business as they wish.  It's your
>> freedom to shop elsewhere.  It's other people's freedom to take
>> advantage of the savings that loyalty cards afford.
>
>   except in some cases you find other places selling similar
> items for a lower price and they don't have any loyalty
> gimmicks.
>
>   we do shop at one club store place and they often have 
> reasonably good prices on some things and not so good
> prices on other things.  we go someplace else and usually
> know which items are better to get at the other places.
>
>   we rarely even go to any places that do the loyalty
> stuff because we find that their prices are usually more
> expensive.

Meijer.  IIRC you don't have one near you.  I shop there because
the one near me has the best produce.  The fact that they have
low prices is just a bonus.  I use their loyalty program (sparingly)
and they occasionally send me coupons for stuff like $10 off a $30
purchase.  Their online coupons are mostly for stuff I don't buy,
so I don't even bother checking.

There's stuff I can't find there, so I shop Whole Foods, Plum Market,
or Busch's.  Sometimes I'll pick something up at Kroger if I'm already
there picking up a prescription for my husband.  I hate shopping at
Costco and -- except for beef (which we eat fairly rarely) -- they
never have anything I want.

I don't look for stuff on sale.  If something I already want/need
is on sale and isn't perishable, I might buy an extra.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton