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What part of "Do Not Call" is confusing?
Agree! I have never understood why people seem unable to resist answer a ringing phone at home. And people carry phones around with them and do the same thing! I don't even understand why anyone needs to feel connected to everyone in the world every second of the day.— July 23, 2015 3:30 p.m.
What part of "Do Not Call" is confusing?
Despite being on the Do Not Call Registry, I get a steady stream of marketing calls that I don't answer. The attempts to talk to me are aborted by my answering machine, which also picks up the background of other marketers in the call center and multiple voices and phone dialing sounds. It's irritating; because no one can ever reach me, the calls are repeated over and over, usually at the same time of day, every day. I checked the Registry, and I am on it. Isn't it a bit odd, though, that the supposed date I registered, June 28, 2003, is only one day from your supposed registry date? I don't remember registering and I certainly don't think it has ever made any difference in the number of attempts made to market something to me.— July 22, 2015 9:56 a.m.
Supermarket slump?
Unlike previously, Haggen's mailer for the coming week looks great! It has many items, and a few things at prices that are competitive and will get me into the store. Someone in management/marketing decided to stop sending out mailers that didn't inform, and it's much better now. Good job, Haggen's. Unfortunately for Haggen's, today's LA Times had a story about a lawsuit that Albertson's just filed against Haggen's, a dispute over $46 million. It's going to be expensive to fight this.— July 20, 2015 4:49 p.m.
A meatball sub in the Barrio
This place has fantastic food! I don't say that about many eateries, being a pretty good cook myself. But these people know what they are doing with regard to flavor and texture. The bread for the sandwiches, as you mentioned, is perfect: thick, hard to chew bread around a sandwich is absurd, and the Strozzi bread is neither. It is sturdy and supportive of repeated handling, yet thin and esy to bite through, and replete with sesame seeds on both sides of the buns. I want to buy some of these rolls. The sausage is meaty and rich. The torpedo is perfect, with layers of thin meats and cheese, shredded lettuce, and tomatoes. The Italian sweet pepperoncini add just the right vinegary spice. I'm going to eat my way through the entire menu.— July 18, 2015 11:49 a.m.
Supermarket slump?
I think that they failed to create good paper mailer ads. Up until the past week or so, their paper ad flyers that arrive in the mail every week, along with those from Albertson's, Von's, Smart & Final, and other, smaller stores, have been too artsy and don't have enough product info. They simply lacked content. Almost the entire front page of the Haggen ads has been devoted to the slogan, "**Hello *Haggen*, Goodby Hassle**," layered on a color photo of a cornfield or some other graphic. Ads during the first months of their opening here advertised only maybe 15 or 20 items, though there were as many ad pages as used by the other grocery advertisers, where maybe >100 items/prices were included. I just kept meaning to go over to the old University Albertson's to see what was in the Haggen store, but never saw any items in the ads that drew me there. They are probably equal/better in some ways to Von's or Albertson's, but it nothing in the ads got me to go to their store. Hello and Goodby Haggen, I guess.— July 16, 2015 10:57 a.m.
Mayor wins big in spin and dollar wars
CUTE (Communities United for Tomorrow’s Economy)? You have to be kidding. No wonder they haven't used the acronym in any of their press releases.— July 6, 2015 6:43 p.m.
Don’t take this personal, Joe
Joe Cordileone writes "*he never once contacted me ahead of time to learn my version of any story*." Hey Joe, *your* version? I'm reminded of what Dan Scanlon, who wrote and directed the film Monster's University, said. The name of the movie and what Scanlon said seem to work pretty well as a metaphor for the kind of law your boss practices and demands from his deputies: "At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it."— June 19, 2015 4:31 p.m.
Hip-ocrisy or versatility?
Gala owners did not pay employees well, did not give them any help after closing the store. Gala owners part of the Neighborhood Market Assn, a right-wing Republican anti-min-wage group. Ever notice the re-elect Ron Roberts banners over the dirty doorway? Target is a much better employer that will adhere to fair labor practices, provide insurance, and pay decent wages.— May 23, 2015 7:35 p.m.
Trouble ahead? Trouble behind!
"Jablonski said the transit agency was not told the names of the [new New York shareholders]" Unbelievable.— January 28, 2015 5:38 p.m.
Less Briggs, more potholes, says Goldsmith
Thanks for mentioning the tree-injury lawsuit. It was very under-reported by the UT at the time the injury/lawsuit occurred, because it was the outcome of privatization and assessment districts, the precious ideology of the City. It was NOT caused by a cutback in services, but by a reappointment of services to a profit-making company, paid directly by property owners on specific streets, within specific boundaries. The tree that injured the Mission Hills man in fact was not untended. Rather, it was "maintained" by West Coast Arborists, under contract with the City and the nonprofit board of the Maintenance Assessment District imposed within the area. WCA was the co-defendant in the lawsuit. Of course, like all MADs, the work was "overseen" by the City (joke). Property owners in the injured man's area paid an assessment tax to (theoretically, aka propagandistically) provide services "over and above that already provided by the City." Such MADs have now been ruled illegal, but in an existing illegal MAD, if property owners do not sue, the City just keeps on imposing the assessments and the money collected just keeps going, mostly as a partial kickback, as a percentage of the take, to Development Services (to "oversee") and to the nonprofit board. Privatization is a FAIL. City workers/departments usually do a great job, but City staffers who "oversee" private contractors are inept.— January 18, 2015 6:16 p.m.