26 July 2006
Market Forces
For the the last year or so, I've been eating a soy yogurt every day on my break at work . Fred Meyers charged 99¢, as did QFC and PCC. I did most of my shopping at Fred Meyers, so I usually bought my yogurts there. A while back they raised their price to $1.10. I wasn't willing to pay the extra 10¢ five days a week, so I started making regular trips to PCC. I happily discovered that PCC gives a "case discount" of 10% if you buy more than 12 yogurts. Today I was in Fred Meyers and lo and behold! They dropped their price back to 99¢. Apparently I'm not the only one who found a different place to buy my yogurts! Ah, market forces. It's nice when capitialism works!
On a linguistic tangent, I had no idea how to punctuate "lo and behold". I'm assuming that's because it's an archaic phrase that stuck around into modern English. We say it as one word, so no wonder I didn't know how to punctuate it!
On a linguistic tangent, I had no idea how to punctuate "lo and behold". I'm assuming that's because it's an archaic phrase that stuck around into modern English. We say it as one word, so no wonder I didn't know how to punctuate it!
# posted by mamurd @ 4:20 PM 
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Yay, capitalism!
As for the linguistic ponder, I'd've written it, "Today I was in Fred Meyer and, lo and behold, they dropped their price back to 99¢."
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As for the linguistic ponder, I'd've written it, "Today I was in Fred Meyer and, lo and behold, they dropped their price back to 99¢."
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