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The grocery is not a destination I choose willingly. I'd rather go to the dentist for a root canal. The dentist offers lidocaine, but there is nothing to numb the pain of grocery shopping. Now, though, online shopping is coming to a grocery near me. Will I use it? I don't know. There are passwords and IDs involved. I've pooh-poohed most modern day techno-advancements - dial telephones, electric typewriters, computers, cell phones, programmable appliances, smart phones& ...

A couple of years ago I started a new tradition. It's called the Black Friday Flyer Weigh-In. I find it funny - in that "Are you kidding me?" way and not so much in a ha-ha way - that we get not one, but two newspapers that we're not even subscribed to on Thanksgiving Day, both stuffed with advertisements from some of the most, and least, interesting places. I became curious over the amount of paper wasted, trees ripped out of the ground, and ink splayed over the surface of this printed w ...