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I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Both come from the Latin "burgus", meaning castle or fortified town. A burglar being someone who bypassed the security of fortifications.

Meanwhile burger comes via Hamburg, the burg of Hamma.

Day 979: 🐢 & 🏵️

1. This reply is two words and they managed to misspell both of then

Hello everyone. For those who don't know me, I'm Jess, AKA Frog. My mom and I have been homeless and living in hotels since the spring of 2023. I'm queer, nonbinary, and autistic; my mom is physically disabled and chronically ill; we're both suffering from anxiety, depression, and CPTSD. We also had to put our dog and cat in foster care until we get some real housing. I lost my job because of the instability of our situation, and I'm having trouble getting a new one. Mom gets Social Security, and we have SNAP, but living in a hotel is not cheap. We're barely keeping our heads above water.

When we can't quite scrape by, which is often, I will use this post to ask for help. If you don't want to see it, ask and I'll create a tag for you to blacklist. I don't want to bother anyone. I'm just doing what I have to do for my family. One day, I'll be able to delete this post, and I will pay forward every bit of kindness.

PP: emeraldpleiades16

CA: $paradoxicalfrog

So, we have been informed that we're required to pay an additional $60 deposit because we've been here longer than three days. We still really do not want to end up outside, because they're pretty strict here and there's nowhere we can go that's off the property. Making matters worse, it's going to be hot (highs of 88°F), and it will probably rain in the evening. And when it's hot like that, my mom has trouble breathing.

I'm sorry about this, but please help us so we can stay safely inside!

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and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it

he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??

eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh

"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"

"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"