Wednesday, April 26, 2017

OLDER AND LESS IS ALWAYS BETTER

WITH PROGRESS COMES CHANGES IN ALL THINGS. BUT NOT ALL PROGRESS IS GOOD. HERE ARE THREE POINTS TO THAT FACT:

MA BELL


 WITH JUST LANDLINE PHONES AND RATES FOR LOCAL AND FOREIGN CALLS WAS JUST FINE. THAT WAS UNTIL AT & T TOOK IT OVER

AND RATES INCREASED AND THEN CAMES CELL PHONES

AND THE INTERNET WITH LOTS OF TAKEOVERS AND MERGERS WITH MORE SERVICES LIKE CABLE   BUT QUALITY WENT DOWN. AND NOT ALL THE BUNDLES, GIFT CARDS



 AND FREE APPS COULD BRING THAT BACK. ROADRUNNER

 BECAME BRIGHTHOUSE

AND NOW IS SPECTRUM.

GTE

BECAME VERIZON

AND IS NOW FRONTIER.

A SKUNK IS SKUNK NO MATTER THE SMELL. AND LESS IS MORE.



HOSTESS CAKES

WAS GOING OUT OF BUSINES BUT DOLLY MADISON TOOK IT OVER. BUT THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT TOOK A NOSE DIVE IN MANY AREAS INVOLVING A FEW PRODUCTS. THE FIRST BEING THE CARDBOARD BASE THAT KEPT THE ITEM FROM STICKING THAT PREVENTED  FOOD  FROM BEING THROWN AWAY  THAT IS NOT THERE. I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS THE CARDBOARD OR MAKE THE FATTY CUPCAKE THAT MADE IT PEEL AWAY  EASY FROM THE BASE BUT  THE NEW ONES CREATE WASTE. THEY ALSO PUT MORE CREAM IN THE CUPCAKE BUT  THE CAKES ARE SMALLER. THE FROSTING ISN'T  AS THICK EITHER.






WHAT IS BETTER IS THEY HAVE  EXPANDED THE LINE WITH 3 NEW REGULARS AND SOME HOLIDAY THEMES CUPCAKE FLAVORS. PEANUT BUTTER HO HOS,



 M& M BROWNIES,

AND MILKY WAY BROWNIES. THE BROWNIES ARE DRY AND NOT CHOCOLATE ENOUGH. BUT THE PB HO HOS ARE GREAT, I ALSO LIKE THE NEW CELLOPHANE CLEAR WRAPPER EVEN THOUGH THE HO HOS LOOK SMALLER AND THE COATING IS ALSO THINNER TO ME.
THE SNO BALLS ALSO WENT DOWN IN QUALITY WITH LESS CREAM AND LESS MARSHMALLOW COVERING.



DEPARTMENT STORES ARE BECOMING EXTINCT NO MATTER HOW THEY TRY TO STAY ALIVE.
LANDS END

 WITH THEIR WONDERFUL CLOTHING LIKE RUGBY SHIRTS

STARTED  IN A CATALOG, THEN ONLINE AND THEN INTO SEARS  BUT NOW SEARS IS CLOSING STORES.
SEARS

 ITSELF STARTED AS A CATALOG

 AS WELL THEN INTO PHYSICAL STORE FRONTS

 AND THEN FRANCHISED BUT NOW IS IN DOWNSIZING MODE. AS A KID I REMEMBER THEIR WONDERFUL CANDY AND NUT DEPARTMENT


 AND THEIR ONE ONLY PET THEY HAD (SALLY THE TALKING MINOR BIRD).

THEY ALSO ABSORBED KMART

WHO IS NOW ALSO CLOSING STORES. KMART TRIED TO REVIVE BY ADDING AN APPLIANCE SECTION

AND ADDING SUPERMARKET SECTION

AND EVEN A MINI RESTAURANT ( MY STORE) BUT THEY WILL BE CLOSING SOON.

ALL GOT BEAT OUT BY TARGET AND WALMART.


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