Posted on 11/01/2025 6:42:05 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
John, you’re back! Tears of joy! Most sincerely! Hope all is well!
Die-a-beat-us.
I try to live my economic life by two maxims. One, “”The house a always wins.” Why do businesses always do promos and have apps? Because it gets you in the door and people are dumb enough to install their advertising on their personal services. The second maxim is, “Ad-copy should be ignored.” People trying to sell you stuff are salesmen, and salesmen will say whatever they have to in order to separate you from your money.
I have several grocery store discount cards, but none in my own name. Also, even if you don’t have the app lots of stores will let you have the digital discounts anyway.
Our little town, and seems everywhere now, is saturated with food carts. Small portions with $20 burritos or rice bowls. Ridiculous prices. AND they still want a tip. I have the money but am too cheap to patronize any of them. Maybe that’s why I have the money.
As for apps? I only use subway because I save the one specific sammich I ord weekly. I don’t eat any other fast food. But I still get coupons for fast food joints in the monthly tourist guide and the usual junk mailings that show up.
We have what I call Food Gypsies here too. Roach Coaches on every corner!.........all run by ‘Mexicans’..........Tacos, Asian and nationality oriented foods, Honduras, Guatemala, etc.........
I know what I’m getting when I stopped by Whole Foods to pick out the cafeteria food. $14-not bad. It was 3pm. Then proceeded to check into the motel. Today I’ll splurge on the $28 crab sandwich at the wharf. Tomorrow I’ll go back to Whole Foods. Brought my own bottle of red(1.5 Liter) and saved a few bucks. Not knowing how good or bad the expensive stuff will be is not worth the gamble.
I turned sales on its head years ago as a salesman with a technique I called "The No Sales Sale." What I did wasn't really selling (although that's what it was) and I never had to worry about sales since I had customers who basically begged to buy stuff from me. In fact, I never worried about selling and my main concern was supply.
The funny thing is that even though I haven't done all that in years, I still get phone calls from people who still want to buy more stuff from me. I once demonstrated to my wife how I did it by driving with her to an industrial park. I honked my horn, parked my car, got out and just yelled "YO!". Right away my customers showed up and I opened up my trunk and back seat as the customers swarmed around and pulled out the product and handed me money as I bagged it up for them. The whole time I said not a word (although I usually was quite talkative) because I wanted to prove a point to my wife.
Oh, and the product was not some sort of illegal drug. A perfectly legal product. (In this case it was body wash but it could have been a whole host of products that I used to sell).
A few years earlier I traveled around the country selling sunglasses using similar methods to tailgaters at car races or other sporting events. I often achieved sales rates of over 100 pairs per hour sold. One time I couldn't sell even a single pair in an hour. Why? Because my ATTITUDE was shot due to having a bad night's sleep the night before. The quick solution was me making a beeline to a nearby liquor store and buying three of those small minibottles of whiskey which I downed one after another. My attitude immediately changed for the better and was back to my sales rate of over a hundred pairs per hour. The way I achieved that rate is a whole other story.
Your problem is that you recently returned from a country that makes excellent food and now your body is revolted by what you’d gotten used to eating here.
This happened to me concerning beer after spending two years in Germany. Budweiser was suddenly Butt-wiper and Schlitz tasted of what it rhymes with.
“LOL! I also have the (useless) Culver app. Anyway, when I just now checked my email they sent me their latest “deal.” No, no discounts on their incredibly overpriced food. All I got was their November forecasts as to the flavor of the days on their frozen custard.”
Culver’s is expensive but it’s because it’s delicious and served by smiling people who at least go out of their way to pretend they’re happy about having a job. Culver’s has the Chick-fil-A model. Food and experience is typically worth the price
I hate LED lights. Especially on headlights.
Can’t help you. I don’t use apps on my iPhone, and even if I did, there is nothing really here, except fast food places, an Applebee’s, and a Moe’s. The rest are local pizza places, chinese restaurants, and Mexican places. Restaurants like Red Robin, Chili’s, Outback Steak House, etc., are an hour away. Needless to say, I cook meals at home.
Since I don’t know what eating places are available near you or all the apps you have, all I can do is mention the ones I have:
Denny’s
Freddy’s Steakburgers
Hungry Howie’s
Quik Trip
Savvy Sliders
Bon appetit.
AdPages.com is the site that gives restaurant coupons to print out.
Walmart + members get 25% discount everyday at BK.
The apps are great. Wendy’s usually has good deals but is sucking lately.
Chevron I get $.50 gal off every other fillip
Just demonstrating, got it.
I honked my horn, parked my car, got out and just yelled "YO!". Right away my customers showed up
Whose customers?
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