Yesterday while removing my address from Direct Mail America’s database, I was presented with this crap:
Important: You have selected to eliminate all mailings from organizations participating in the DMA Mail Preference Service.
Are you sure you want to proceed?
The average household can save $1422 dollars per year from marketing offers. By eliminating all mail offers not only will you miss out on these savings, but you’ll miss out on at least 80% of all commercial offers and discounts!
And you will miss the environmental benefits of shopping at home rather than driving to the mall!
By replacing just two shopping trips to the mall each year with shopping by catalogs or direct mail, DMA estimates that Americans could:
- Reduce the amount we drive by 3.3 billion miles.
- Reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 3 billion pounds.
- Save more than $490 million on gas costs.
$1,422 per year? Really?
Tonight while at CVS I intended to pick up some shower gel. However, they had the shower gel LOCKED IN A CABINET! Right next to the $30 tins of pomade and the expensive hair color kits that were sitting on an open shelf. I wasn’t about to hunt down an overworked retail employee who likely was not even carrying the key on them. Â I’ll pick it up when I go to Giant tomorrow.
I have never purchased a pharmaceutical drug with a MySpace page before last night.  I’m trying to get sick just so I can see if it actually works.
This evening I was at Urban Outfitters, when I overheard a father tell his five-year-old daughter, “no dear, that book is for adults,” in reference to the book Penis Pokey which she had picked up. I am sure it looked appealing because it reminded her of that book for children that you stick your fingers through the finger holes to add dancing legs to the characters drawn on the thick card board.  Only with Penis Pokey, there is just one larger hole.  A few moments later when I looked over, the daughter was waiting by the stairs while her father was looking through the book.
So yesterday I ventured to CompUSA to see if I could get some good deals, since the entire chain is liquidating. Seeing all the signs everywhere for 10% to 30% off, I thought for sure I’d come out a winner. Armed with my trusty cell phone and amazon.com, I did some price comparison. CompUSA, as it turns out, was so overpriced that even their liquidation prices are no match for internet retailers. The entire time I was in the store, I never saw people walking around with merchandise they had selected to purchase even though the store was full. It was just full of people looking at prices, talking about how their stuff is still expensive.
No wonder their business went the way of Nobody Beats The Wiz. I’m just surprised it had lasted 23 years. I refuse to believe they survived solely on people who needed a serial PCI card the same day.
Today I purchased a $54 one-pound bag of pure Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. Review to follow once I get some tomorrow morning. I received a steep discount which required me to pay in cash, not look at any cameras, and perform a handstand.At an estimated 50 cups per pound, That will run $1.08 per cup for home brewed coffee. Folgers at $8 for 2.5 pounds comes to about 6.4 cents per cup. Am I crazy? Yes.
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