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I think "ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch"

me too! lol

Heh every time someone mentions contra dancing this: pops into my head, and how much of a great game that was, then I think man, if someones dancing is related to this, how friggin awesome would that be??? *sob* I miss my genesis. Well it is a Kiosk: If anyones got a Sega Genesis collecting dust, theres one interested buyer

hey a shot with the weatherball is there!

Oh I didn't think so, but I thought it was funny that I see someone snapping photos everytime im downtown. It was kind of funny to see him try to take phots with what looked like a bunch of school kids on field trip were crossing Ionia

Hmmmm Select Bank eh? I saw someone snapping photos at Ionia and Monroe Center earlier today, it was pretty busy there around 1 PM.

I dont doubt its funniness, but the only way I can describe is is an attack man, you just dont see that often. Although I know in rugby theres been worse:

If some guy came up to you and did that would the first reaction be to laugh?

I found this thread interesting: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.ph...22entry417822 I'm guessing most people here know who Chris Kaman is, even if they don't watch basketball. was ATTACKED in the game against the Nuggets (lol irony)

you might have missed something in your journalism classes the numbers one-ten are to be written out like one, two, three, four, five, etc. although 571-thousand is improper, $571,000 is more appropriate. and "point oh eight" should be point zero-eight percent.

Walmart doesnt buy companies.... Walmart DESTROYS companies. You will never see Walmart buy Meijer. Now a company like Tesco makes a whole lotta sense.

Agreed, why do you think Fred is helping with the funding all these hospital projects?

I smell a broo-ha-ha coming up.

That would actually look really good as the children's hospital, although I think Spectrum wants to have it look more like the Heart Center so they can keep some continuity.

But the next question is, was D&W setting itself up for a takeover? I think the answer is yes, and thats what we are seeing Meijer do. I think anyone who has worked there in the last 5 years for at least 6 months gets the idea that Meijer waiting for Fred to kick the bucket, and then the sons will sell to the highest bidder. My guess is that it will still be Tesco. (Be on the look out for either Snotty british folks, or inquisitive Japanese business men at your local Meijer with notepads) And if this does happen, it will be sad for a few months, but when Tesco announces they are building their 35 story office tower HQ in the heart of downtown; Meijer will be almost forgotten.

thats all fine and good, but when you're throwing away 3 year old fixtures, when other stores are clunking along with 20 year old fixtures it gets some of the employees at the older stores a little disgruntled.

the "ghetto" feeling of the Alpine and Kzoo stores (refered as Store 11 and store 20 from here on out) Is not a matter ofd the people shopping there (there are still just as many white old dutch people at 20 as there is at the new Standale Meijer) What is disturbing isn't so much that the stores don't try to stay clean (believe me, they do, and the employees that work there have to work twice as hard to make the store look clean) Its the little things that could make a huge difference. When I talked to a manager there the one thing he complained about was the store shelves (this was at 20) and he told me a sotry of how the cascade meijer was remodeled every 5-7 years or so, and how they would throw away large quantities of gondolas and shelves, instead of reusing those at the older stores. The reason corporate told him they wouldnt reuse them is that it would cost more to ship them to old stores then it would to just throw them away. If anyone has seen any store in GR built before Knapps corner (which was the first major meijer opening in a long time in the area) You would notice that the shelves are downright disgusting. Many of them are rusted out, and since most are painted over and over to conceal this the paints they use collect gunk from product packaging because they arent protected from such elements so they turn from an ugly beige to a dingy black color. Also the shelves themselves range between 15-25 years old. many are warped, and peeling their paint. One thing they did do which helped a little bit was change the lights in 20, which made the store just a hair whiter. before they used more efficient yellower lights in the store and it didnt help the dingy feeling. Another big problem is apathetic upper management, which trickles down to the employees who also become apathetic. Then you get a guy from upper management who has no clue about the situation the store is in, and thinks it can be fixed with "more paint" and has a slugging match with the upper management, which then gets translated down the chain again.

the problem is, its not thought of that way, its more a place to keep problem employees on close watch

I still live about a 10 minute drive from there, and it was a great store, until very recently.

Working at Alpine I take it? how are things there, I havent been there in a while.

no fair, now I want a banana house I think we need to petition the company to consider opening a store in Grand Rapids

Well you just have to make sure you lock the doors when you're changing after getting out

get a jacuzzi then if you go over 86 Maybe its me being adjusted to the lake, but a pool in the low 70s is just right.

not at 86! when I swim in my pool, I dont want to feel like a lobster being sacrificed for a prom date's dinner

so its an estimated $85 million to build the school, and another $600 million to maintain studies there over 10 years, is that a good way to look at it?