So, I was cashing someone out, when they informed me that human meat tasted like bear meat, and that if I were in a ship wreck , I’d better watch out, because I’d be one of the first people that would be eaten.
Have a crazy (and true) story working with customers? Let me know!
I really need to clean up the GrapeShield Beverage Reviews Laboratory!
Pre-drink - As you may remember from the last beverage review of a grapefruit beverage, I though it was delicious, but expensive. Time to try some cheap crap.
Post-drink – So it tastes all right. Not so much like grapefruit, but orange juice for some reason. More so than the orange-mango I tried earlier. The organic hippy juice I reviewed earlier is much better.
Have a non-alcoholic beverage that you want me to try? LEMME KNOW!
I need a more legit beverage photo point.
Pre-drink - So I saw this beverage sitting near some ‘Vitamin Waters’ and I figured it’d be a perfect way to restart this series. It appears to be a soda for fat people who hate diet soda. No sugar, no fat, no calories. My hopes aren’t too high.
After action – I appear to be correct. It’s super fizzy, but not full of flavor. Kind of flavorless, like when you drink a slushie, and there’s the white ice left over. Like that, but fizzy.
Also, even though it says ‘mango’, there’s actually no mango in it. Just orange juice. On the side is the words ‘PROD OF CANADA’. Didn’t know you could grow oranges up there either!
Summary – Actually pretty good. If you love soda, hate diet soda, and don’t want diabetes, give it a try!
I’m going to start a new segment in the blog where I tell the stories of odd, or interesting customers in retail.
A Hispanic woman walked through the door today, and set off the alarm. She had a bag from the next store over, so odds are they didn’t deactivate the tag. This is a common occurance, so I asked her if it’d be OK to deactivate the tag for her. Here’s how the exchange went:
“Excuse me ma’am, would it be OK if I deactivated your bag, looks like {STORENAME} didn’t do it for you. I just want to make sure it won’t keep beeping on you.”
“OK, would I be able to get it back when I leave the store?”
(after further explanation, I notice a tag sticking out on the jacket, sure enough it was still live, so I deactivated it for her.)
“Whelp, looks like we found the culprit! Sorry about that hassle, just wanted to make sure when you walked through the mall no0ne would give you any problems”
“Do you need to search my purse? I’m so sorry, I’ve never stolen anything!”
What do you think of this segment? Let me know! Also, if you have any stories to tell, contact me! I’ll be happy to share them on here.
One of the great things about the internet is that comparison shopping is a lot faster to perform. You can be almost anywhere in the world, and yet still have access to the worlds retailers. This means lower prices for you!
This also means that there’s a crap ton of retailers. Well, I’ve found a new startup that aims to bring new game to the online shopping sphere. Traverse brings the awesome startup service and the super-low prices of online retail together.
Typically when a retailer first starts up, one wouldn’t expect them to have better solutions than the big guys, but on the several products that I price compared, all three of them were cheaper on Traverse than Amazon.
Along with the low prices, as a startup, you have the advantage of talking to the high level people for your low level concerns. No outsourcing here!
I’d recommend you at least give it a look. They’ve got some pretty nice deals!
I’ll add a bit of a disclaimer here, one of the founders is a good friend of mine, but that doesn’t change any of the content of this post. I was not asked to create this post, nor will I receive any stuff from it. Although, if you are a big business and want to give me free stuff, please let me know!
So I was just looking at my feed on YouTube, and it looks like Google has released a new product. Google Consumer Insights, where you can apparently pay to have consumers fill out surveys.
I’ve linked to the videos below. Soon I’ll also put up a mirror of the videos in case they get taken down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SScoro2xx3s&feature=ytfce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEFnWsUTa8o&feature=ytfce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVtnDlM0V0&feature=ytfce
UPDATE: Phew! Just got this one in time. Looks like they removed the videos. Mirror below.
Mirror:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwReeYUkKFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVfJz0Mww_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBwkJ8v9W_U
I just reuploaded the videos to YouTube. Hopefully they don’t get taken down. If so, below is a zip of the full files.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1743038/Public.zip
Regis: “Pam, you’re up to $500,000 with one lifeline left: phone a friend. If you get it right, the next question is worth one million dollars If you get it wrong, you drop back to $32,000. Are you ready?”
Pam: “Yes.”
Regis: “Which of the following birds does not build its own nest? Is it A) robin, B) sparrow, C) cuckoo, or D) thrush.”
Pam: “I’d like to phone a friend. I’d like to call Carol.”
Carol (also a blonde) answers the phone: “Hello?”
Regis: “Hello Carol, it’s Regis Philbin from Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I have your friend Pam here who needs your help to answer the one million dollar question. The next voice you hear will be Pam’s…”
Pam: “Carol, which of the following birds does not build it’s own nest? Is it A) robin, B) sparrow, C) cuckoo, or D) thrush.”
Carol: “Oh geez, Pam. That’s simple. It’s a cuckoo.”
Pam: “Are you sure?”
Carol: “I’m sure.”
Regis: “Pam, you heard Carol. Do you keep the $500,000 or play for the million?”
Pam: “I want to play; I’ll go with C) cuckoo.”
Regis: “Is that your final answer?”
Pam: “Yes.”
Regis: “Are you confident?”
Pam: “Yes; I think Carol’s pretty smart.”
Regis: “You said C) cuckoo, and you’re right! Congratulations, you have just won one million dollars!”
To celebrate, Pam flies Carol to New York. That night they go out on the town. As they’re sipping champagne, Pam looks at Carol and asks her, “Tell me, how did you know that it was the cuckoo that does not build its own nest?”
“That’s easy, everybody knows they live in clocks.”
Received from Keith Higgo.
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So today I am reviewing some ‘Pina’ soda that I found at Wally World for $0.89. It was a two-liter bottle.
The good: Price. Dirt cheap. Tastes all right (see taste below). It’s two liters and isn’t masked behind Walmart’s generic Great Value brand.
The bad: It looks like some Walmart hobo peed in it. Maybe they did. Also, it’s covered in mexican words. It’s sketchy to say the least.
The Smell: Pineapple flavored cough syrup.
The Taste: Like a lifesavers almost. Not sure if good. Although when I mixed it with the Sierra Mist it was acceptable.
The overview: It’s cheap and different. Worth a shot.
I saw something awesome. A milkshake. I think this one cost me between $1.50 and $2. Now, when I first saw it, I was amazed to find that it had almost as many calories as a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. I had to try it.
Now, a normal milkshake is composed of ice cream and milk. I think. And cookies. This one uses some sort of thickener to simulate the frozen-ness of ice cream. It isn’t even remotely healthy for you. And, like all things not good for you, it’s delicious. Just like a milkshake, not as cold. Also, not very much. It’s only like 1/3 the size of a McDonalds milkshake. 1/2 the price. Better tasting though. After drinking two of these (the Vanilla one was almost as delicious), you actually feel full. In a non-good way. Like you just ate an entire box of little-debbies (yes I know what that feels like).
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Everyone knows that guy. It’s snowing out heavily, it’s raining hard. Visibility is reduced. It’s generally crappy out. The driving conditions are already bad. This guy thinks he can do one more thing to make himself likely to get in an accident. Not have his lights on. This same guy probably isn’t wearing a seat belt, and doesn’t use their blinkers. They also have a snow mohawk (pictured left) on the top of their car.
They don’t realize how much of a danger they are to other drivers. They don’t know how much more visible they are when they have their lights on. Especially if they are a white car. As a driver of a car without automatic lights, I understand that sometimes you forget to turn on your lights, I’ve done that before even at night! But, when there is a blizzard going on, and I’m flashing my lights at you because yours aren’t on, please turn yours on. For both of our sakes. When you’re on the side of the road 2 miles ahead because you were going 50 in a 30, and your lights are still off, guess who’s driving right past you? THIS GUY. I may even flash my lights at you as I drive by.