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[lanforod]

Soup is salty? I guess it depends how it's made. I put very little salt in soup making it from scratch.

As for beer, I grew up thinking the lite part meant it was like diet coke, less or no calories 🤪

[LJ]

Reducing alcohol content is how they reduce the calories, or so I thought.

[Mattjvd]

Reducing alcohol content is how they reduce the calories, or so I thought.

It usually is. Ethyl alcohol is about 7 calories per gram.

Edited by Mattjvd, 26 January 2019 - 09:21 PM.

[Matt R.]

Having seen lots of chicken eggs fresh from the bird, I can tell you that they surely do wash eggs in Europe, at least in France.

Matt.

[Brantastic]

cancer class?!???!

My guess is it's a biology class in oncology? "Cancer class" is a funny way to put it though. 

[lanforod]

Having seen lots of chicken eggs fresh from the bird, I can tell you that they surely do wash eggs in Europe, at least in France.

Matt.

I've picked eggs at chicken farms. Most eggs do not need to be washed, in my experience. A few will have some **** or blood, but its probably >5%.

[Victoria Watcher]

fat choy at 1395 hillside is now damascus food market.  run by a syrian immigrant family.

 

https://www.facebook...455345168541990

[Victoria Watcher]

Grocery wars intensify anew as Whole Foods to cut prices on hundreds of items by 20% starting tomorrow

Amazon bought high-end grocery chain in 2017 and is starting to make some changes

https://www.cbc.ca/n...mazon-1.5081265

[UDeMan]

_{Costco just installed 6 self checkouts on Monday this week.}

 

_{I was wondering when this would happen.   Perfect for when you pop in to buy just a few items.}

[sdwright.vic]

Did they take tills out to do it?

[seymour201]

Did they take tills out to do it?

 Ya they took out one of the tills at the end by the pharmacy.

[m3m]

_{Costco just installed 6 self checkouts on Monday this week.}

 

_{I was wondering when this would happen.   Perfect for when you pop in to buy just a few items.}

 

Also perfect for people who borrow their friend's membership card from time to time...

[AllseeingEye]

_{Costco just installed 6 self checkouts on Monday this week.}

 

_{I was wondering when this would happen.   Perfect for when you pop in to buy just a few items.}

Yeah I used to get suckered in by this line too, as in "come on honey we'll stop in quickly for just a few items". And without fail it seems we drop $200 minimum, usually more, each time we/I get pulled into that black retail vortex. Never fails. Every. Single. Time.

[LJ]

^Yeah, it's great isn't it?

[Torrontes]

We called it the "$100 store" when we first got a membership years ago. Then it became the "$200 store". Now it's the "$300 store". It's inflation, I guess.

 

You go in ostensibly to buy some cheese and milk, and come out with a pressure-washer, 10 kg. of ju-jubes and a set of new tires. You forget the cheese and eggs, but the lineup is too long to go back.

[Mike K.]

Lol. A canister recently told me their average transaction is about $300 now.

[Nparker]

...A canister recently told me their average transaction is about $300 now.

Talking canisters? I know I haven't been to Costco in a while, but they've really made some changes.

[Mike K.]

At the self serve checkout.

[Cats4Hire]

I never got the appeal of self-checkout. Why should I do a cashier's job for free while the company fires them and keeps the money they would have been paid? I don't run into the garage at Canadian Tire and change my own oil and replace the washer fluid then go pay them for what I used.

[Mike K.]

But you pump your own gas and cook your own meals. Isn’t that taking away work from gas jockeys and cooks at restaurants?