I went back in the archives to see what I had actually written last night (2 posts) and the whole thing was gone. What? Better to leave the posts there for fun poking later or for immediate dissection. Burning the evidence is insane!
From the link in one of the right hand threads (thanks DCJensen!) about Trader Joes:
The privately held company's sales last year were roughly $8 billion, the same size as Whole Foods' (WFMI, Fortune 500) and bigger than those of Bed Bath & Beyond, No. 314 on the Fortune 500 list. Unlike those massive shopping emporiums, Trader Joe's has a deliberately scaled-down strategy: It is opening just five more locations this year. The company selects relatively small stores with a carefully curated selection of items. (Typical grocery stores can carry 50,000 stock-keeping units, or SKUs; Trader Joe's sells about 4,000 SKUs, and about 80% of the stock bears the Trader Joe's brand.) The result: Its stores sell an estimated $1,750 in merchandise per square foot, more than double Whole Foods'. The company has no debt and funds all growth from its own coffers.
Whoa. I knew they made bank, but more than Whole Foods per square foot. That's wild!
I actually quite quite quite adore the way most of you write and speak. The "quite honest" thing is just because, as Hec pointed out, I'm super aware of it.
I have to point out that I probably talk a lot like you guys write, and people (my non-Buffista) friends have remarked on my somewhat changed vocabulary/tics. I had to laugh when I said "frakking" and someone gave me the sly eye like "heyyyyy, fellow sci-fi fan!" and I meekly said, "um, Jess taught me that?" Or TWoP. 'cause I aint never seen BSG.
And, one of my very earliest feelings here of "mah people!" was when either Liese or Jesse or Sarameg responded to something I posted with "Right?!" And I felt right at home.
I use Buffista speak in emails at work all the time, and the peeps in my office seem to like it. I know I say great, amazing and awesome waaaaaay too much. I was worried they were going to edit together every time I said great on the TV show and make me look like a complete dope.
(flops on couch, sips more of the cucumber soda & Pinky vodka concoction.)
Facebook is good for marketing. Facebook is good for marketing. I need to keep reminding myself of that. (Guess who just went through the backlog of friends requests?)
Oy Jilli. Can I have sip by the way? That drink sound delish.
Kat, that is just wonky overreacting on their part. I would so be tempted to go start a discussion thread inquiring into the site's protocol for deleting threads. Except then I'd remember the grand drama that marked our shift from consensus to voting and would then have to go delete my new thread.
Oy Jilli. Can I have sip by the way? That drink sound delish.
Is very tasty. I wish Pinky vodka was available in WA.
I hate the term chick lit almost as much as I hate the term literary fiction.
So does Linda Holmes. Which is what made the post interesting. I even read the comments (glutton that I am) and she gets all shirty with someone which makes me laugh.
I read the piece and have to agree with her, about chick lit anyway, not necessarily about Franzen.
