On Sat, 18 May 2019 03:11:06 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:
>On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 4:14:25 PM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 May 2019 10:56:01 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 1:47:27 PM UTC-4, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 17 May 2019 03:38:01 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 12:55:04 AM UTC-4, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> >> >> On Thu, 16 May 2019 20:34:53 -0500, Sqwertz >
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> snip
>> >> >> >Nobody had Corned Beef on sale here for St Patricks Day. It used to
>> >> >> >be $.99/$1.29 10 for St Pats 10 years ago. I think we're (Central
>> >> >> >Texas) being punished for sucking up all the beef brisket from the
>> >> >> >U.S. other times of the year. Smoked and trimmed brisket packer
>> >> >> >brisket here comes with a 1000%-1200% markup from BBQ trailers and
>> >> >> >restaurants ($2/lb raw retail, $24/lb smoked).
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >-sw
>> >> >> Back in those days you could buy a whole brisket for $.89/pound.
>> >> >> Prices just aren't what they used to be.
>> >> >> Janet US
>> >> >
>> >> >And wages are higher, too. Food costs in general are quite low,
>> >> >even if meat prices have increased a lot in the past few years.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >Cindy Hamilton
>> >>
>> >> wages are higher for some people
>> >
>> >Wages are higher for everybody. Not as much at the bottom end
>> >as the top, of course.
>> >
>> >Do you have an example of someone making less money for the
>> >same work now compared to 10 years ago?
>> >
>> >Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> Most of the highly paid skilled trades jobs no longer exist in the
>> US... most jobs in the US are now low paid desk driving jobs - answer
>> the phone and know nothing faker jobs.
>
>Sheldon, you are completely out of touch. Most companies don't
>have anyone answering the phone; it's done by a computer.
>
>Cindy Hamilton
You're in LaLaLand... I call for customer service often and *always* a
person answers... however rarely are they competent enough to answer
my question or even understand my question. Last week I phoned Lowes
to ask about a particular storm door... "what's a storm door"... is
all I got from a young female. This morning we drove to Lowes and a
middle aged man understood perfectly and so we placed an order for two
storm doors which our carpenter will pick up in a couple of weeks and
will install them; a 36" for the front door and a 32" for the side
door. Strange thing is that Lowe's computers are still using DOS, my
wife had to show the gentleman how it works with all the F keys. He
was sending us up to the service desk but then was very grateful that
he got a mini lesson in DOS. An excellent storm door at what the
gentleman said is an axcellent price... he knew doors, not so much
about computers.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/LARSON-Vill...75-in/50374560