Not his bag.
Look Sam, I know it's “your” club and all, and I know you didn't get to be a gazillionaire by being spendy and everything, and I appreciate your efforts to sell me twenty-pound buckets of pretzels and fifty-gallon drums of Skippy at low, low discount prices, and I really appreciate the lifetime supply of severe cold formula pills I purchased today for $2.87, and I really, really appreciate the convenience of purchasing all my liquor, toilet paper, radial tires and a 36-inch plasma televisions at the same store, but is there any reason I can't get a goddam bag to carry it out the door? Why don't we put a stack of them next to the semi-literate Troglodyte you hired at $6 bucks an hour to put the little highlighter X on my receipt after eyeballing my cart? Helluva security system you have there. I’ll even bag my own crap after Thag makes sure I’m not sneaking a gallon of mayo out under my shirt. Look, if you can sell me a box of 500 bags for six bucks, it can't be adding all that much to the overhead. Tell you what, just add the cost of that bag to the price of my bourbon and let's call it even.
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Was the burbon in a barrel?
Posted by: Noggie | January 15, 2004 07:24 AM
I don't shop at Sam's Club. They're owned by the same people who run Wal-Mart, and they have icky labor practices.
Posted by: April | January 15, 2004 09:16 AM
A penny saved is a penny earned. ;)
Posted by: Angela | January 15, 2004 09:56 AM
Sam's has the unsettling of effect of making me think, "I could buy that and not need to buy pickles EVER again."
Then reality grips me as I remember that I don't buy pickles anyway, so the problem is already solved.
Posted by: Ed | January 15, 2004 09:59 AM
Bring your own woven hemp bags that you can reuse over and over. You indulged wasteful peice of crap...and valued consumer.
Posted by: Sam Walton | January 15, 2004 11:04 AM
Wow...Sam speaks from the grave. And on the internet no less. ;)
Posted by: beth | January 15, 2004 11:19 AM
that really doesn't sound like the walton way.
Posted by: the mighty jimbo | January 15, 2004 12:18 PM
yup. i used to bring my own bags too. back when i lived in california and they sold canvas ones at safeway. now in the valley of the sun they CHARGE you if you want paper bags instead of plastic so you can recycle them. oh, and guess what, they don't accept the plastic bags in the recycling bins anymore either.
go to costco, either way i doubt a normal grocery bag would suffice for those big bottles of bourbon and the tubs of mayo. they'd just break. they're saving you frustration. quit your bitching. :P~
Posted by: tassy | January 15, 2004 05:07 PM
Oh, Jimbo! Don't shop at Sam's club. Like April says, it's a disgusting, blackhearted, misanthropic corporation that mistreats its workers and basically screws every town it descends upon. There's plenty of evidence, the most recent of which is this:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/01/13/financial0759EST0022.DTL
I use Costco instead, when I need to restock my year's supply of adult diapers.
Posted by: peter | January 16, 2004 09:31 AM
i like costco better too, but costco is too damn far away even for buying liquor and condoms in bulk.
Posted by: the mighty jimbo | January 16, 2004 09:45 AM
I've never been inside a Sam's Club... what do they do with your stuff? Do they give you a box or SOMETHING to carry your junk in?
It's like Ikea... the cashier people don't bag your merchandise. They just stand there and glare at you, until you say 'oops, am I supposed to do this myself?' - and then, under your breath, 'fuck tard'
Posted by: mia | January 16, 2004 04:39 PM