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Give Me a Utility Company!

May 22, 2019 Comments Off on Give Me a Utility Company!

I decided I’d like to own a utility company. I’ve started, owned, and operated other businesses. But now I realize that public utility companies have a huge financial advantage I never had in my other businesses (or any others that I’m aware of). That is, they can be fined by the government, make repairs that have to be done to keep the business going, and make improvements to make the business more profitable–and make consumers pay for it all! It doesn’t matter that other (especially small) businesses have to pay for all this themselves or that many consumers have trouble paying higher rates for something that’s a necessity of life, often having to give up some other necessity of life.

Yes, I want to own a utility company. To Hell with my soul!

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END ROBO CALLS!

March 31, 2015 Comments Off on END ROBO CALLS!

I’m up to my ears in the &%$#!!! things now, and it’s only going to get worse, with election season about to start.  I’m sure you’re as irritated as I am with those phone calls from people who don’t know us and are often, in fact, not people but recordings.  They come at all hours, interrupt our lives, pitch scams at us, and make us mad.  Nobody likes those automatic, sequentially dialed robo calls!

Finally, an organization is gathering force to do something about it.  Watch this short video about the efforts of Consumers Union (the advocacy part of Consumer reports) at http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Consumers-Union-Pushes-for-End-to-Robocalls-297727451.html.

Then get on board to stop robo-calls–sign the Consumers Union petition at https://consumersunion.org/end-robocalls.

 

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Walmart’s Not-So-Super Market

March 31, 2014 Comments Off on Walmart’s Not-So-Super Market

If you think that Walmart has good deals, you haven’t visited their supermarket or read the results of the Consumer Reports survey of their subscribers.  Those surveyed complained that items are often out of stock and that there are too few check-outs.  The produce and meat are of low quality, as well.  As for those supposedly low prices, think again; survey respondents found that prices are just as low or even lower at other supermarket chains.  Yes, they, like many others, do a product match.  However, if you’ve ever tried to cash in on that at any store you knows that the product must be published in the other store’s current ad and be the exact size, type, and brand for the price-match to be honored, and that happens rarely.

Overall, although Walmart is the largest grocer, those surveyed rated them at the very bottom of all of the grocers.  I can’t help thinking that if these complaints are true of the grocery department, what does that say about the policies and workings of all their other departments?

I admit that I dislike Walmart—I don’t approve of their mistreatment of workers and their hiring/firing practices, among other human rights issues.  Now I have one more reason to avoid the place.

 

 

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