Kroger (grocery store) is doing the same thing this week. They’re doing a 20% off “holiday bonus” discount on a one per-customer basis (20% off your entire order). The catch? Every item in the store is at least 20% more expensive than it was last week.

I do love when the musical number wraps back around to the main plot. lol

Because I couldn’t not hear the song in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF63MLEApE4

But what about the sleaze and the depravity?

It was a very convincing song, Marge.

I’ve just started blocking. This community is about as dry as a bone right now, but the regular memes really stand out when they do come through.

Yeah, lol, nobody looks good in them but there are varying degrees of bad you can have control of.

Ours are about 1.5 inches, square, and decent resolution with (intentionally?) terrible lighting.

My state doesn’t list how they handle that, but it’d be my luck they would and I’d be out the replacement fee lol.

I’m thinking that would actually be the case since you can fully renew it online and they mail you your new one. Until this moment, I didn’t know you could do that online (other than having all the paperwork verified ahead of time).

That’s always been my go-to, and the scab usually sticks around longer than the pimple lol. I’ve gotten pretty good lately at just leaving them be.

Someone: Ugh, the recipe is in grams, and I need it in ounces.

Me: Just divide by 28

Them: How’d you know that?

Me: …👀

I’m assuming an envelope of yeast is in no way close to a packet of yeast? lol because that would be too easy.

Ours would deliberately omit things.

The old secret ingredient. I don’t think we had to contend with that, thankfully.

It’s like translating grandma’s units of measurements from her old recipes.

“A smidge of this, three sprinkles of that, and a can full of something that does not come in a can” (The can was her ‘measuring can’ that was some kind of weird size that doesn’t exist anymore)

Edit: After she passed, we threw the can away because we didn’t realize it was the can and load-bearing to most of her recipes. After some best guesses + trial and error, we concluded the can was approximately 7 ounces / just under a cup.

There’s still probably someone out there who’s like “Finally! I’ve been waiting for that to go on sale”

Happy he’s dead? Sure, whatever. Gallows humor has it’s place, and that’s one thing.

Cheering the killer, frothing at the mouth for more, making excuses to commit murder, calling for copy cats, hoping it’s a trend, calling it a “good start”, screeching “guillotines!” or “9mm are the new guillotine”, etc are all beyond the pale and completely inexcusable.

Alternate take:

#PippinDidNothingWrong #IdiotsArePeopleTwo

Thank you for understanding the difference.

The former is understandable, if a bit morbid. The latter is just sick in the head.

I do have all of those in my cabinet, but wasn’t aware they would help with falling/staying asleep. Def agree about not becoming dependent on melatonin supplements; I try not to over-do it, but sometimes when I have important stuff to do first thing in the morning, I don’t want risk being a zombie from poor/no sleep.

Story of my life lol.

I’ve been taking melatonin gummies before bed, and those seem to be helping.

Lol, yeah, they definitely don’t have to suck. When they first put those in, they were actually pretty fantastic. But Kroger Corporate said “not on my watch” and cranked up the security to obscene levels and made them horrible. There’s just not another decent grocery story close to me, so I’m stuck. Yay food deserts 🫠

It absolutely is. Almost like it was designed to be as frustrating as possible for some kind of social experiment.

Because the bagging area is like 9 feet away at the end of the conveyor.

They’re basically reversed from what the cashiers use where you load your items onto the conveyor to be scanned. On these, the scanning platform is a little, tiny table on one end where you scan your items and then you put it on the conveyor that takes it to the bagging area.

When the belt gets a little less than half full, the machine makes you go bag some stuff.

All the while, my groceries are melting lol.

Edit: Like this

The other style where you can bag as you go (pictured below) also make you wait 2-3 seconds, but if you’re scanning a lot of little items (seasoning packets, yeast, those little water flavor enhancer things, etc), they don’t trigger the scale and you have to wait for it to realize you’re not stealing or something. Either way, they’re not suitable to scan a whole cart of groceries. Like, if you fill up the carousel and try to set some bags down until you can put them in your cart, it’ll call for backup and you have to wait for the single cashier that’s attending to 12-15 of these abominations to come and verify you’re not trying to steal.