What Gives...

I was waiting for all of my followers to beg me relentlessly to blog again but then I remembered...I don't have any followers and I'm not even sure anybody reads this stuff anyway so....there you have it.

Now onto my topic... I have had it up to here with local commerce. I used to LOVE Burlington. I thought it was a great place to live and raise a family. While that still may be true, there are just a few things that erk me beyond belief.

Gooseberries. An amazing fresh market following the trend of the local K-Mart in the late 90's. (Most of the time when you need just ONE thing...they don't have it) Be it Goat Cheese or the Margarita Pizza. New Rule: don't create a masterpiece of a pizza and then only make two of them every other week.

Kwik Trip. Top Tier Gasoline. Cheapest Milk in town. And if you haven't tried either their orange juice or milk in a bag...delicious. Seriously, their chocolate milk in a bag beats any other chocolate milk. I'd say go try a bag but 9 times out of 10 they're sold out because they oddly enough only seem to order one crate per week. I have made special trips across town JUST for chocolate milk on their truck days only to be sadly disappointed. Suggestion: if you want to shorten a product life cycle quickly; once people are hooked on your amazing product, only offer it sporadically until people get over it and move on to the next best thing.

Store Hours. Every store in town has hours for the unemployed. Whether you want to purchase a bike from the local peddler or some Burts Bee's Bubble Bath...unless you take a day off from work, they're closed by five. There's a reason the malls and major retailers are open till at least 9p during the week. News Flash: Unless you want to join the 10 empty retail buildings that plague our desolate downtown, you can either stay open one extra hour a day or hang up the "store closing" sign.

No Joe. NEVER live in a city without a coffee shop. Whether it be a local shop or a chain, I see only perks with either one.

In closing, if you find yourself driving into other towns more than once a week to purchase things either not offered or not made available to you because of store hours...ditch the city you live in and reward the ones that are actually trying.

Now since picking up and moving isn't as easy as we'd all wish...just create a blog and complain about it!!