If you need customer service, why are you going to a discounter?  Of course the customer service will be horrible.

KMart already tried both the convenience store (their "Pantry" format) and the full grocery store (Super K) formats.  The full grocery store was an epic fail, KMart management and staff isn't accustomed to working at the speed required in the grocery business.  I still see Pantry format stores around, though.  They're ...more

They got rid of the blue lights when they went to 8 foot shelving, you couldn't see the blue light from the other aisles.

The two signs you are at a Kmart: Hundreds of feet of shelving with no merchandise on it Half the products in the store display with no prices

I agree with the restaurants.  Nonprofessionally photographed food looks horrible, who would want those images circulating?

The government already uses "substitutions" when calculating CPI, I guess that isn't enough manipulation to produce a number as low as what they want.

Yeah, there's a definite preparation problem at nearly all of the restaurants mentioned in this article.  The menu seems fine, and the food seems conceptually OK for what it is, but what comes out of the kitchen is really really poor.  I find Applebees and Chilis to be the worst offenders there.

Yeah, that's it.  Particularly Olive Garden, it sits right at the same price point as Carrabas and Maneros but the quality doesn't match.

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