Amanda asked that I help her point out to Sobeys that if they overpack their groceries while competing companies like Westfair Foods start handing out incentives for customers to reduce disposable bag use, then they will lose business. Customers groan about over-packaging. There are some ninnies concerned that their frozen peas don’t touch their powdered gravy box, I suppose. It’s time to stop pandering to those sorts, because they are covering us in a sea of garbage.
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Speaking of over packaging, check out this Pronto Condom. It probably isn’t over packaged, it’s just packaged differently.
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I was in Swift Current today. The weather was very hot, and it didn’t rain. I stopped at Moose Jaw for A&W, with a traveler who was injured at Calgary airport lugging boxes for his job. Mike said he learned a lot about Saskatchewan while talking with me, and I checked that I hadn’t talked his ear off, and he said I hadn’t. I don’t think he was just being polite, so that was a nice compliment.
On the way I listened to Gormley talking about an effort in Ontario to get the provincial government to override any bylaws that prohibit clotheslines. He couldn’t get a single caller to say they were anti-clotheslines. Saskatchewan people are smart, because clotheslines are awesome.
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BlueBerry Pick'n | 31-Jul-07 at 11:25 pm | Permalink
now THAT’s a condom!
Now if they’d just assure me that it’s as protective as a ‘regular’ condom…
they’d FLY off shelves!
Spread Love…
… but wear the Glove!
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Saskboy | 31-Jul-07 at 11:28 pm | Permalink
So simple, even a highschooler could do it.
JimBobby | 01-Aug-07 at 6:54 am | Permalink
Whooee! One o’ the worstest examples of overpackagin’ I seen fer a while is the blister packs they use fer compact fluoresent lightbulbs. Fer a “green” product, the irony is almost painful. I reckon the supermarkets share some blame but the real villains in the overpackagin’ depatment is the manufacturers. Buy a bag o’ Christies Chips Ahoy and you’ll get a dumbass inner tray made outta plastic inside a laminated plastic-coated outer bag. Go across the border an’ buy a bag of Nabisco Chips Ahoy an’ there’s no inner tray — just a bag with cookies inside. Mr. Christie, you make too much garbage.
That clothesline thing has been too stoopid fer words since it first got started a few years ago by some Trawna snooty-toots who can’t bear the thought of seein’ their nextdoor neighbour’s undies hangin’ out fer a few hours a week. One o’ the biggest users of energy in the home is the automatic dryer. I reckon them who don’t like clotheslines is anti-Earthers.
JB
Rosie | 01-Aug-07 at 8:00 am | Permalink
So Gormely was trying to get people to complain about the clotheslines? Yikes. Sounds silly to me. My building doesn’t allow clotheslines. I am thinking of writing them a letter about how they can save money and help the environment because they don’t have low-flow shower heads in the apts either. The kicker is that Des and I can’t even take the one in there off to install one. Heat and hot water is included in rent. Think of all the money they would save (and we wouldn’t run out of hot water in the winter) if they put those things on…..I swear the water pressure is ridiculously enormous. Plus, they’d save electricity by not running dryers all the time. Back to clotheslines….sorry, ranting….i put one up anyway. If I can save a dollar and electricity I will. If they have a problem with it I don’t give a flying crap. We have to bring clotheslines back in style people!!!!
Jaybird | 01-Aug-07 at 6:54 pm | Permalink
I haven’t had too much of a problem with Sobeys over packing…. well they weren’t any worse than Safeway or Co-op but this last weekend was crazy. It was almost like every item had it’s own bag. I have had the same amount of groceries before and half the amount of plastic bags…. I figured it was a new guy that was packing groceries but maybe that is how they are telling him to pack the groceries.
I think if people are really concerned about the amount of plastic bags used should just buy the reusable bags they sell. That way you don’t have to worry about reducing the waste because there is no waste.
BlueBerry Pick'n | 01-Aug-07 at 7:26 pm | Permalink
ah, JimBobby…
…a “blister pack” is *exactly* what they hope to avoid by making guys less self-conscious…
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Saskboy | 01-Aug-07 at 11:41 pm | Permalink
Gormley was hoping some would go against clotheslines just because it would be more interesting if there was some yuppy idiot who phoned in to complain about them. He did say he couldn’t picture some neighbourhoods with them, and that’s the problem. Some people just have to start to become more aware of their surroundings, and live like they exist on earth instead of in an SUV/sub-urban bubble.
Amanda | 03-Aug-07 at 11:31 am | Permalink
Jaybird, I could buy the reuseable bags, but would store policy still indicate that the packers wrap all items in brown paper bags first? This is what’s disheartening.