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Sep. 28th, 2006 07:18 pmI finally got the hair cut I needed to get several weeks ago. I hate it when it starts getting weird little curls, when I start looking like I'm slowly turning into a poodle.
Yesterday's Baltimore Sun had some interesting stuff in the Business section - not a section many of my friends read; despite my being a CPA by training, I don't seem to hang out with people who are business/management oriented. So, Many of you may not know that Giant supermarkets are owned by Royal Ahold, the same Dutch company that owns Stop'n'Shop. Anyway, one column reports that RA NV is considering merging with the Belgian company, Delhaize, which owns the Food Lion chain. There are Food Lions here in Maryland; I didn't include them in my review of Baltimore area supermarkets because they are so forgettable. When we lived in Columbia last summer, a Food Lion was our closest supermarket, and we therefore shopped at it, when it was open; the minute we moved away, I pretty much forgot its existence. Very small, mostly store brands, not something I'd ever bother to shop at if it weren't the closest thing available. Anyway, the article points out the differences in philosophy between the two chains, and that it is likely that such a merger can only mean trouble. For one thing, Ahold's chains are all unionized, while Food Lion is strongly anti-union. I didn't know that about Food Lion, and if I didn't already expect never to bother to shop there again, that would do it anyway. There's more, so you supermarket fans can go look at it in the Sun's archives, or, I imagine, there's probably something in the WSJ.
The Taste section, the Wednesday food dealie, has a column on what the Galloping Gourmet is up to these days. Many of you are not old enough to remember Graham Kerr's original show, which slightly overlapped ST:TOS. He was a hoot, and perhaps drank a little more than was entirely safe, but it made his show even funnier. Nowadays, he and his wife Treena live in an RV and travel from KOA to KOA, giving lectures to the RV crowds about food, lifestyle, and religion. He cooks with alcohol-free wine these days. His lifestyle schtick, sold under the name "Lifestyle #9," advocates, among other things, eating 9 fruits and vegetables and performing 9 compassionate acts each day.
One finds the oddest things if one reads the small sections of the newspaper and the junk-mail flyers in the mail!
Yesterday's Baltimore Sun had some interesting stuff in the Business section - not a section many of my friends read; despite my being a CPA by training, I don't seem to hang out with people who are business/management oriented. So, Many of you may not know that Giant supermarkets are owned by Royal Ahold, the same Dutch company that owns Stop'n'Shop. Anyway, one column reports that RA NV is considering merging with the Belgian company, Delhaize, which owns the Food Lion chain. There are Food Lions here in Maryland; I didn't include them in my review of Baltimore area supermarkets because they are so forgettable. When we lived in Columbia last summer, a Food Lion was our closest supermarket, and we therefore shopped at it, when it was open; the minute we moved away, I pretty much forgot its existence. Very small, mostly store brands, not something I'd ever bother to shop at if it weren't the closest thing available. Anyway, the article points out the differences in philosophy between the two chains, and that it is likely that such a merger can only mean trouble. For one thing, Ahold's chains are all unionized, while Food Lion is strongly anti-union. I didn't know that about Food Lion, and if I didn't already expect never to bother to shop there again, that would do it anyway. There's more, so you supermarket fans can go look at it in the Sun's archives, or, I imagine, there's probably something in the WSJ.
The Taste section, the Wednesday food dealie, has a column on what the Galloping Gourmet is up to these days. Many of you are not old enough to remember Graham Kerr's original show, which slightly overlapped ST:TOS. He was a hoot, and perhaps drank a little more than was entirely safe, but it made his show even funnier. Nowadays, he and his wife Treena live in an RV and travel from KOA to KOA, giving lectures to the RV crowds about food, lifestyle, and religion. He cooks with alcohol-free wine these days. His lifestyle schtick, sold under the name "Lifestyle #9," advocates, among other things, eating 9 fruits and vegetables and performing 9 compassionate acts each day.
One finds the oddest things if one reads the small sections of the newspaper and the junk-mail flyers in the mail!
