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[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Reminds me of the cheese section at my local Trader Joe's -- every
> time I go in, the ones I want are in a different place.

That's a ploy used by all merchants. It ensures that customers will
seldom be able to pop right in and then pop right out. The possibility
of the impulse-buy is always inescapable.

Annoys the hell out of me. But, what are you going to do?

"It's not personal. It's business."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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