11.29.2008

ShopRite (surprise) Out of $19 DVD Players

A thumb of the nose to the folks who run the ShopRite store at Brookdale in Bloomfield, N.J.

While shopping in the Broad Street store, over the public address system was the ad for the Classic DVD player for only $19 with your ShopRite Price Plus Club card.

Heck, the promotion is also in the flier announcing sales that start tomorrow.

Sale begins Nov. 30 at Shop Rite

Aunt Tonoose had earlier told me about the DVD player at that great price that she heard on the TV earlier. We've got a lot of DVDs but right now have been playing them on the laptop - which is hardly the in-theatre-experience you really want. So, in these lean and uncertain financial times, finding a brand new DVD player for about the price of a two sale DVDs seemed too good to be true.

Close up of the Shop Rite ad for a sale starting tomorrow

When we got to the aisle where the DVD players were on display, all we could find was a $39.99 HDMI DVD player by Venturer. Oddly enough, there were none of the $24.99 classic DVD players that qualified for a $5 off for loyal Shop Rite customers with a ShopRite Price Plus Club card.

A few feet away, we approached the podium where the sign says ASK ME - I'M HERE TO HELP and asked the employee there if this DVD player was the one they keep advertising over the store public address system as being $19.99?

Before she could answer, other shoppers came up and poked at the pile of $39.99 DVD players also waiting for them to magically change into $19.99 DVD players that the shopping chain kept announcing over the public address.

She looked at the box, and pointed to the little yellow sticker $39.99 and said quite indignantly, "the price is right on the box."

I took one of the $39.99 DVD players to the Service Counter .... and to make a long story short, they put out the $24.99 DVD players yesterday and they are all gone. Sorry, no rain checks.

And, no, she had no way to change the ad in the public address that kept repeating the great price on the DVD player for loyal Shop Rite customers.

Was it worth letting our ice cream melt to wait to go over this advetising fiasco with a manager?

Fine print in TOMORROW'S Shop-Rite ad circular

Well, if you find yourself at a Shop Rite store this week, listen for the ad on the public address system, between the Christmas music, and then try to find the $24.99 DVD player that they say is $5 off for shoppers with a ShopRigt Price Plus Club card.

The limit you can buy is four. It might as well be 100 if they don't have any.

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11.22.2008

Forty-five years already

Nov. 22, 1963

I was in fourth grade at Holy Family School in Nutley. I vaguely remember an announcement and looking at the clock - about 2:40. Then it was a long weekend and everything was closed and there was nothing on TV except the assassination news on all seven TV channels.

I remember thinking the reason the casket was closed was so they wouldn't show the blood. My older sister's friend's kid brother said the same thing as me.

11.21.2008

TOLL HIKE - in case you forgot - GSP NJ Turnpike

New rates begin Dec. 1


Toll hikes approved for Parkway, Turnpike, A.C. Expressway


The Expressway increase raises the Egg Harbor Plaza toll from its $2 to $3. Tolls at most ramps along the Expressway will rise from 50 cents to 75 cents.

Under the plan the Turnpike Authority approved, a driver now paying $1.20 for the average 23-mile trip on the turnpike would pay $1.70, starting in December, and $2.60 in 2012. The increase is 10 cents less than the authority's earlier proposal for each toll increase.

Parkway tolls would increase from 35 cents to 50 cents in December, and to 75 cents in 2012. Another 10-cent increase in 2023 was eliminated.

The plan continues the current 25 percent discount during off-peak hours for cars with E-ZPass and provides a new 10 percent discount during off-peak hours for E-ZPass drivers who are at least 65 years old and an extra 10 percent discount for drivers of fuel-efficient vehicles...
(Star Ledger)
http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/2008_GSP_tollrates-revised-101008-dec.pdf


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Parkway tokens pave path to hell

Boy Scouts built traditional New Jersey icon

The Parkway - like a deer in the headlight

Parkway references on this blog

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11.12.2008

east rutherford rugrats

"... The Patriots are the league's only team named for a region, giving the league an opportunity to try to stoke New Englanders' frustrations with their cable companies. ..."

Media & Marketing: NFL Seeks Balance in Cable Fray --- In Patriots' Country, Many Fans Will Have to Scramble to Watch Showdown With Jets ----
By Matthew Futterman
The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 12, 2008


Funny, every time we moan about the NY Giants and the NY Jets playing all their football games at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J., we are told the New York on their helmet is for the metropolitan New York area, not the city or the state.

I suggest we change the names of those regional teams that play NFL football in New Jersey to the East Rutherford Rugrats and the Teterboro Twinkletoes.

What would you call a professional football team that played all its home games in New Jersey?

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11.11.2008

Veterans are different from you and me

"For those who have fought for it freedom has a taste the protected will never know"
Engraved on a Vietnam War era Zippo lighter.


When I sat with them, it took me a long time to find a place to sit. I am not a veteran.

These guys were nearly my age, mostly a tad older, Vietnam War vets. I couldn't figure what it was that kept telling me not to sit at this table, or at this table, or even at this table, as I walked the circle of tables set up around the theater in the center of the Vietnam Era Educational Center in Holmdel, N.J.

Korea was called the forgotten war. Vietnam was the let's forget it war. But that's not it for these guys. They seek their own. Who else would understand? No movie can bring justice to the reality.

But here we are with a small piece of war trivia, a simple Zippo lighter, a borrowed collection of them here, in a fitting place, outside the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial.



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11.08.2008

too many people on facebook

Attention all Facebook members.

Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,

There have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow.

Record shows that the reason is that there are too many nonactive Facebook members

And on the other side too many new Facebook members.

We will be sending this messages around to see if the Members are active or not,

If you're active please send to 15 other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active

Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks,

The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space,

If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send this message to show me that your active and not deleted.

Founder of Facebook

Mark Zuckerber

11.05.2008

Medusa's Got Her Arms 'round Me

New Jersey poet Anthony Buccino is featured in Medusa's Kitchen on Tuesday, Nov. 4 in FISHING.

His poems pbj, What's It Like To Be, Happy Poems, Irony of Science and Fisherman are in the issue.

Medusa's Kitchen features daily news from the Snakepit of Rattlesnake Press and the cauldron that contains the rich poetry stew that is Sacramento and its Northern California environs. Brew us up some other snacks! — poetry, news of poetry events, and other poet-phernalia and tasty tidbits. The snakes of Medusa need constant feeding...

Buccino was poet of the day in Medusa's Kitchen in July. His poems HANDCAR, JIGGER, KALAMAZOO, LA POSE (Artist/Paul Delvaux) and THESE POEMS were featured.

His most recent chapbooks are VOICES ON THE BUS and ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY, published in 2008 by Cherry Blossom Press, N.J., and are available online.

For more information, visit Anthony Buccino.