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Yesterday I wrote about Giant Eagle Ending It's Double Coupon Program. In todays News-Herald it was announced that Giant Eagle will extend it's double coupon plan until Sept. 30. Well isn't that nice of them. Give us an extra 22 days. But what then? This is a clear cut case of another corporation cutting incentives to save themselves money and line the pockets of their executives.
Well you can't take away Clevelanders Double Coupons without a fight. Check out Bring Back Doubles.com. This very cool website is a grass roots effort to try and get Giant Eagle to realize that they are in fact hurting the American Family by canceling double coupons. The site tells the whole story about Double Coupons being canceled and encourages people to Contact Giant Eagle. I for one am on my way over there right now with my letter. I love the double coupon program and am very upset to see it go.
So what's next? With the cost of food rising the American consumer is finding it more difficult to find grocery bargains. I am a avid coupon clipper and am very disappointed that Giant Eagle decided to end its Double Coupon Program. It's bad enough that our Sunday paper only gives out about 10 decent coupons a week. However if you are savvy like me you can buy coupons on ebay and save a lot of money on your grocery bill. One of the reasons that I believe that Giant Eagle has stopped this program is because the other local grocery store Topps closed its doors last year. So much for competitive shopping. My advice? Try other local stores like Marc's and family owned stores. Some of these places still offer double coupons. Supposedly Giant Eagle is going to offer in-store incentives that replace the double coupon savings. I certainly hope so. This is a depressing turn for the American family.
Well this is ironic. On the heels of my "Owen Wilson Dissed My Bronco" post about the media using tag lines to draw attention I get slammed in the face by this very tactic from my local newspaper.
This morning I went outside and picked up my copy of our local hometown rag. After opening the plastic baggy and removing the paper I was smacked in the face with a nifty sticker of a scantily clad woman saying "Made You Look" (see photo to left). Hello! Are they kidding? This is a small suburban family paper who usually reports on the conservative side. Now I am in no way a prude but I certainly know that there is a time and place for this type of advertising ploy. If this ad had run in the personals section, fine. If it was in Sports Illustrated, fine. But on the front page of our local paper right next to the headline "Remembering A Hero" for a local slain Soldier is completely offensive and tasteless.
Now at first I thought maybe it was a 3rd party advertiser that got "accidentally" misplaced so I did a little investigating. I called the phone number (which I so kindly blocked out) and found out that Mark is in fact the Advertising Director of this fine newspaper, and I use that term loosely. Well Mark congratulations. You got my attention and I did look. What I saw was a cheap media ploy, and I mean cheap. Shame on you Mark for initiating this campaign and shame on the editor for letting you get away with it. Well the people of this community are not stupid and this little stunt will backfire as I am sure that I am not the only person that was offended.
As a courtesy I am e-mailing this blog entry to both Mark and the editor of this paper. I can only hope that it does not fall on deaf ears. I expect an apology to the community and the family of the soldier whose face appeared next to this sticker. Unbelievable that these people even have jobs. I seriously considered canceling my subscription but then who would guard the hen house? The Rooster?
This morning on Yahoo! a bunch of Yahoo's are touting a Diaper Free Baby Movement. Well for anyone that is a parent like me I am assuming that you are scratching your head in disbelief. Potty Trained from birth? Oh what a wonderful concept. To arrive home bleary eyed from the hospital and have your beautiful newborn baby use the toilet. What a help that is going to be for all the new mothers out there. But don't get too excited...you new baby still needs fed every 2 hours and rocked to sleep and burped...but hey you won't have to change a diaper.
According to the article "Isis Arnesen, 33, of Boston, has a 14-week-old daughter, Lucia, who is diaper-free. She said it can be awkward to explain the process to people, such as when she helped Lucia relieve herself in a sink at a public restroom." HELLO! I think I would rather just change the diaper. After all the diaper actually contains the pee in the diaper until I can get to a suitable changing area. I am not all that thrilled about the idea of hoisting my 14-week old baby over the sink to pee.
Once again we are trying to rush our children into performing at a young age. Billy can pee in a sink and he's only 14-weeks-old. I think I'll let my child be a child for awhile and pee in a diaper. However if you are interested in learning how to be diaper free you can visit DiapeFreeBaby.org of course their site is currently down now because they exceeded their bandwidth. Maybe little Billy can fix that, after all he'll be 15-weeks old in a day or too!
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Over 1 million Fisher-Price toys from Mattel are being recalled because of excess lead levels. These toys were Made in China. As a result I have compiled a list of sites to help educate the consumer about how to find toys that are Made in the USA and what that means. Click Here to view my lens.
OK this just makes me so mad, here's the story on CNN. Can we not produce toys for our children that are safe and lead free? Come on Fisher-Price/Mattel is one of the top producers of toys. It's bad enough that we are sending all of our manufacturing overseas but even worse is that now these products are poisoning our kids. This is completely unacceptable and our government needs to put a stop to this practice. How many other toys out there contain lead that we don't know about? Lead paint has been banned in this country since 1978 except for use in industry and the military. How on earth did we allow it to get into kids toys? If this is what we can expect from China we need to ban imports from this country period. It's up to you Washington, what are you going to do? Poison our children or ban imports?
Well I got my tickets today for the YMCA Dream House. Every year the Lake County YMCA raffles off a House. This year the house is in Willoughby, OH in Melrose Farms off of Lost Nation Rd. Here's hoping I win this year!
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