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Safeway, continued…more on those personalized discounts

July 31st, 2010 · 27 Comments · Food

We’ve been around the track a few times since we first started wrestling with Safeway’s latest promotion, which promises personalized discounts via a computerized system that tracks prior purchases. Safeway calls it “Just for U”. We are still calling it “Not 4 U”. When I last wrote about it, we had finally managed to get [...]

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Tuesday (2)…The aggravated consumer: Companies won’t ship spiral notebooks to Hawaii (go figure!!), and United AIrlines’ fine print

August 18th, 2009 · 9 Comments · General

Here we go again. If you’ve been stopping by for a while, you’ve probably seen one of my rants about Amazon.com’s refusal to ship any food-related products to Hawaii. This includes non-perishable items that could easily be delivered by mail or by UPS Ground, both services that Amazon regularly uses. Doesn’t matter that I’m willing [...]

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