46 Replies to “May 23, 2023: Reader Tips”

  3. Sears was the Analog Amazon!
    Everything could be ordered through the catalog, even a house (building package), guns made by CIL or Cooey, ammo, fishing boats and motors…

    Christmas wish book was the best catalogue ever, as a kid. Grandma kept all the old catalogues in the basement, the ones that managed to escape outhouse duty anyways. One could go back through the years like a time machine, see the old fashions and products being offered..

    The tool section was my favourite, the Sears in university mall in Seattle was 3 FLOORS, The entire 3rd floor was just tools, they had a separate catalogue just for tools. In the USA, their Craftsman catalogue was like snap-on up here.. Everything in the tool catalogue was stocked in that store..

    The Sears by SAIT in Calgary was also well stocked. There was a very knowledgeable lady that ran the tool department in Medicine Hat, she would see you coming with a broken tool in your hand and had the replacement for it by the time you made it to the counter. Never asked for a receipt, or cared that the tool was abused, excellent service!
    Many fond memories of Sears!

    1. Zon,
      It was my go to store. We got anything there from baby’s clothes to tools. Many of my ancestors had Sears as their main “trading centre”. They may have wondered to the wrong side of the cabal’s path…

    2. Zon,
      Those were the days when the customer was always right and customer service was what got you repeat business. That reminded me of a typical situation when it comes to what is called customer service today. Do enjoy the story.

      LET QDM TELL YOU A STORY
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz8Ba_WDGFY

    3. It always amazed me that Sears, with all the necessary structure in place, did not become like Amazon. They dropped the ball.

      1. Not possible. The catalogue business was destroyed by the cost of printing and mailing of the catalogues. This was a time long before internet and email.

        1. OK, I will say wrong. They did not take advantage of the computer advancements. They did not move from the old to the new even though they had the complete physical set up to do so. They overlapped what you are saying destroyed their business.

  5. In 2003, I commissioned Sears to redo the roof of our newly bought house. One of the reasons we went with Sears was the myth of “too big too fail”. Oh boy…

    1. The Eaton’s Christmas catalogue was our favourite. My sisters and I would circle our favourite toys hoping Santa would bring at least one of them.

      Several years ago we were in a used book store in Parry Sound. My SIL found and bought an old Eaton’s catalogue and brought it back to the cottage. Oh, the fun and laughs we all had flipping through those pages.

      1. AK, agreed. Old catalogues for sale on Ebay range from $30 to over $200 each. What’s also interesting is that looking through the old catalogues, the products for sale were of better quality than what’s on offer today. Outsourcing everything to China has resulted in the cheapening of everything – toys, clothing, household goods.

      2. You guys are such liers! You KNOW you waited all year to check out the lingerie spread… 😉

  7. Here Harrison Ford defends the use of de-ageing CGI technology to make him look younger in the new Disney film Indians Jones 5:
    https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/harrison-ford-de-age-indiana-jones-5-b2343187.html

    Mr. Ford received $25-million for starring in the film. With the hugely expensive reshoots after November, 2022 (to make the film less politically correct), observers expect that Disney will lose lots-of-dough on the movie.

  8. From Israel Ministry of Health. Number of people under 50 with no comorbidities dying of C19? Zero.
    No healthy people under 50 died from C19.

  10. Back up in the bush in NW Ontario after hunting turkeys in SWO. I got a Boone and Crockett 25 lb’r.

    My hunting spot at St Thomas is now the site of the VW battery plant. They have cleared the bush and it looks like a table top (over 1000 acres). This is good farm land typically produces corn at 250 bu. Now it will produce batteries for EV’s.

    Wonder if any of the betting sites have odds on when the white elephant battery plant will become profitable?

    I had to move over to Simcoe to get a turkey – few birds in St Thomas.

    It’s float plane time now for the next month.

    LG

  11. What’s the over/under on the special rapporteur’s doings?
    Is he going to call for a public inquiry or go with the nothing burger?

    What a sham.

  12. The case against Sucharit Bhakdi in Germany represents another travesty of justice. I was hopeful that post- pandemic people would become more aware of the damage done by government mandates. No such luck, and the ongoing corruption of governments covering their wrong doing and the compromised courts are among the reasons. The quiet- spoken, honest and admirable Dr. Bhakdi is a victim in this upside down world:
    https://doctors4covidethics.org/timeline-of-the-events/

    1. Nazism was a natural state for Germans. They were autocratic before and autocratic after. Under the Nazis they just perfected their natural state. Always have jailed people for their opinions, always will. Hail victory!

    1. So they’re going back to the original operation. Before the BS pandemic there were separate lines.
      Now everyone goes through the same portal from different lines, NEXUS & Priority, business class and then the rest. All into the same security portal where they continue to clean my laptop on just about every trip requiring waiting while the understaffed security takes forever on the not “pre-cleared” or intelligent enough to read signs or pack properly.

      This gov’t couldn’t run a lemonade stand.

  23. I voted today in Alberta. What effing moron by the name of Danielle Smith thought vote counting machines were a good idea. How fkcuing stupid are these Conservatives?

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