Final 4......Houston --we have a problem

[KenoshaWarrior]

I really only care about UK fans...well one UK fan, Ashley Judd, ...as per the original thread post(below), Since Sunday I have been getting all these pics with her excited emails...so I'll attach and share some of them here


...."My only consolation is Dario Franchitti called, and asked that I show Ashley Judd a good time this week, while she is in Clutch City...but my wife, Ms. Nochitti,... has some objections.

Maybe I'll get to take them BOTH out, as I hope to see a wildcat fight.....Meeeeeoooooooowwwww!!!!

UPDATE: Ashley, I showed the wife this post, and she said its fine for you to come on into Htown, as long as Dario comes too, wooohooo

...and she said that i should call her "Ms. Imaychitti" , because "you and Ashley  enjoy basketball, but I really like Grand Prix" ...ouch....."

Someone needs to chop of her hands 

[HouWarrior]

Trust me.   I have gotten over that bitterness and realized that time of my life was a gift.

I heard that when Pick N Save first came about they made people right the price of the item with a Crayon on a piece of paper or something like that??????  But than they scanned tag anyways so the crayon was redundant.

Pick N Save, didnt come into town. It was formed by a hundred plus year old warehouser/distributor named Roundy's, mainly to increase volume through the warehouse, to let Roundy's better compete with  Kohl's large volume of product purchasing/pricing advantage in certain areas.

Pick N Save was the second grocery chain in the USA to have 100% checkouts using a new fangled technology called scanners....that read those weird bars on the labels (remember this was in the 70s). We eliminated purple ink stampers, and labor intensive price marking on every can. Customers only saw labels on the shelves with prices, but they greatly mistrusted the scanners---as they couldnt SEE the price on the product. We offered crayons to let you mark the price yourself, and double check the scanners accuracy--at your option.

Here is an interesting side note, VIZ the current Wisc news on Unions. Pick N Save opened as non union. Its labor costs for stockers was phenonomally low-- by no price marking, a stocker could shelve 16 tons per shift, 3 to 4 times more than a Kohls stocker(who was paid more per hour, as a union worker). The Teamsters, UCFW, and Kohls all saw Pick N save as a big threat to them.

Believe it or not, with their influence, they got the Milw City council to consider an ordinance banning scanners in Milwaukee. Heavy lobbying ensued, by both sides, and The Milwaukee scanner ban  lost, but just by one vote, and Pick N Save survived.

Later, two very big scary guys from Chicago appeared at the store I managed, explaining to me that they were "Union organizers with the Teamsters", looking to visit with our employees. At the same time, they hit all the other stores, for the same. That day, Pick N Save contacted UCFW(then called Grocery workers union, I think), and we voluntarily signed up with UCFW, to unionize. The unions didnt close Pick N Save, but they got in to unionize it.

Of course, as it played out, Kohls lost its dominance in grocery, Pick N Save became number 1, and scanners have never been outlawed. lol