Re: Target stores unit pricing on paper goods.

In article <g423pe$b8i$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jack Bauer wrote:
>Seerialmom wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 1:19 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>
>>>> the zak <don.sak...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>> Target unit pricing shelf labels for paper goods like paper
>>>>> towels and toilet tissue list the unit price per 100 sheets
>>>>> instead of per 100 square feet as do other stores.
>>>>> It's inaccurate. Sheet sizes vary. Converting unit pricing
>>>>> from per 100 sheets to per 100 square feet is difficult
>>>>> to do in the aisle of the Target store.
>>>> Not if you have a pocket calculator.
>>> Or any decent cellphone.
>> 
>> My cell phone (Motorola V551) must not be decent...it doesn't have a
>> calculator :(
>
>I bet it does, just very hard to find and use.  Even my cheapo Nokia $30 
>cell phone has a calculator. Of course, no camera or bluetooth.

  I have a Nokia phone, model that I can't remember, with a calculator.
I find that cellphone calculator worse than not having one!

  It appeaers to me that there shoule be major consumer demand for 
cellphones to have really easy calculator functions!

  I am not one of the consumers shopping for cellphones much on that 
basis, since I have a fairly good calculator that I built on my own within

my cranium!  I am the proud owner of the Don Klipstein "Brainiac" 
calculator, good enough for me to design gapped magnetic electronic 
components and tuned ****t loudspeaker cabinets in my head.

  However, many other people would do well to have something that they 
normally carry all the time serving well as a quick and proficient 
calculator.  It appears to me that watches that are made to also be 
calculators are too slow to use due to buttons/keys that are very small 
and closely spaced.

  If my "Brainiac" did not work so well, I would carry along a 
true and decent calculator into supermarkets just as surely as I now do 
most of my grocery hauling by bicycle to tell OPEC and Nigeria and Exxon 
that I don't have to spend $4.15 per gallon to haul groceries home.  I
just wish that more of my fellow Americans would spend a couple bucks to 
get calculators, so that they and their fellow American consumers can 
conspire to vote against this supermarket BS with their wallets and 
pocketbooks!
  If Americans when faced with such lowly BS can fight it without 
resorting to government and lawyers, I think it's so much better!
America has been a country of "freedom loving outlaws"!  I appears to me 
that unit pricing  BS/"horse puckey"/"cow-cookies"  are better to be 
fought by Americans to the extent that they can turn the tide against
BS-ing shopkeepers without needing government assistance to do so any more

than Americans needed Prohibition or the 55 MPH national speed limit!

  Not that I think that BS-ing shopkeepers do not deserve heavy-handed 
government regulation!
  It's just that I find that an aware and able populace that America 
*should have* is more effective than most of the elected officials that 
all-too-many Americans are all-too-willing to sell their votes to; bought 
by the all-too-many American voters who want ****k, cutting of ****k except 
for that in their district, or get sold on tax cuts without matching 
spending cuts on basis of being told something more optimistic than having

to pay it later *plus interest*.

 - Don Klipstein (don@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)