Posted on 04/03/2015 10:38:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
LL Bean’s card allows me to shop a lot more for items much more cheaply.
“I once got a shirt at REI marked down from $80 to $.03.”
Yes, but you missed out on the Membership Dividend. Prices that end in “3” are not eligible. So it wasn’t the deal you thought it was.
“REI has gone from a blue-collar outdoor supply company to a frou-frou, latte-sipping, overpriced hangout for limousine liberals.”
You got that right! As a kid it was the place to buy decent, reasonably priced stuff. Now I go in there only if I have to. I shop the thrift stores for clothing (just picked up an REI double-pocket safari shirt for $4.!) But REI is needed for some things. But I have to laugh at snow/rain jackets at $900. It’s crazy. (I have a Northface rain coat from the thrift store, but that was pricey at $24!)
Um, Yes!
They have been members of the state run propaganda department since AT LEAST the '30's.
Really before with WWI and the Progressive Era.
I do well enough. Jut got 3 kayak helmets for the family with this years dividend
That’s not uncommon at Kohls. IF you have the patience to try and figure out their bewildering maze of discounts plus “Kohl’s Cash”, etc.
I still go to REI for actual hiking/camping gear, but a lot of their clothing is for everyday wear, and is very overpriced.
The press vets Republicans and circles the wagons around Democrats.
>>They’re making an issue out of getting a great deal on a SWEATER?<<
No, they were hoping to make an issue out of his lying about getting the great deal on the sweater. I’m surprised they even published the article, given what they found.
>>In a joint investigation with the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, researchers visited a Kohl’s store in Glendale,
LOL<<
Deserves the LOL all right. “Joint investigation” like it took a team. “Researchers” translates to hungry reporters looking for a story about Walker lying...about a sweater purchase.
Did the Journal Sentinel even bother reporting what their crack team of researchers found in their joint investigation?
Have they now moved on to investigating Hillary’s missing emails perhaps?
they did not say anything when hildabeast “sold” a pair of used drawers of BJ Clinton for $1. I wonder why.
A dust ruffle is also called a bed skirt - it goes from the bed frame down to the floor, hiding the under bed space. The camo adust ruffles I got as a gag for the Missus were likely part of a set of camo pillowcases, bedspread, and dust ruffles. That might be something you could get away with in a hunting lodge, but I labored under no delusions that she’d consent to using them on our bed at home.
REI used to be so funky and fun in the old days, before they turned.
“Investigative journalism” (sic) might just make a rebound now that the marxist Kenyan is a lame duck.
Their first baby steps.
Walker should have done what the government does-pay 10 times what that sweater normally costs.
Then the liberals would be happy.
Now everyone paying attention, even liberal reporters, know that you can buy a sweater for $1 at Kohl’s.
What a wonderful public-relations bonanza Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has created for Kohl Department Stores, whose headquarters are located in Wisconsin and whose former CEO and heir to the Kohl Department Stores fortunes is former Democratic Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl who ‘’served’’ for almost 25 years in the Senate.
As it turns out, former Senator Kohl’s major service to Wisconsin and maybe eventually to the nation, was that his liberal policies were such failures that they gave Wisconsonites little hope of a future unless they started electing Conservative Republicans like Scott Walker to clean up the messes the Democrats had created and balance the State’s budget before it went bankrupt.
So now, after Scott Walker did such an outstanding job as Governor, he’s earned his leadership spot in the 2016 Republican Presidential sweepstakes. If Herb Kohl and his fellow liberals had been even borderline acceptable in running governments, Scott Walker would never have risen to the lofty spot he now occupies. So it’s only fitting that Scott Walker should help Kohl’s Department Stores increase its profits.
Since their CEO joined the 0bama administration (Interior Sec.) REI is off my shopping list.
I can’t picture Walker’s wife flying on separate planes to the same locales as he if she became first lady, as the current First Lady of Mooch does.
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