Consumer Reports - Is It Worth It

Do you get as frustrated as I do with food manufacturers pumping everything they make full of hydrogenated oils and corn syrup?
I was debating whether I wanted to write about how aggravated I was at the supermarket the other day. Then I decided that it’s my blog and I’ll rant if I want to!
It […]

Maintaining Dollar Store Profits & Margins

As I have pointed out a number of times, consumers have to be aware of the latest method that manufacturers are using to either increase or maintain profit margins in an economy with the cost of the raw materials are increasing. Consumers complain or buy less when they see […]

Price Of Bird Seed

I’ve written before about the disturbing trend in the consumer arena of prices going up while sizes of containers keep going down. (See the entries on the smaller ice cream containers and the tricky ice cream advertising.)

Since that time, I’ve noticed that this unfortunate trend has been continuing, sometimes in the […]

Longtime readers might remember my (too long neglected) Is It Worth It category in which I do consumer reviews on items and companies. Two very popular entries in that series were reviews of the Dunkin Donuts Flatbread Sandwiches and their lower calorie cousins, the DD Smart Flatbread Sandwiches. As detailed in the original […]

The other day I wrote an entry about milk price increases. That brought back memories of an entry I wrote a long time ago about how ice cream manufacturers have joined the ranks of so many other food suppliers in using smaller containers, but keeping prices the same or even raising them. See […]

What is it with price of milk lately? Have you noticed ridiculous surges in retail milk prices in your area too?
(I suppose know you’re getting old when every time you go to the grocery store, you feel compelled to remark how much more things cost than when you were a kid, but that should […]

It was just a about a month ago when I posted my last entry about wanting to order eyeglasses online from the discount (extremely so) eyeglass website ZenniOptical.com.
I said I would give an update on the site as soon as I had more information. Finally, after a month I am ready to place the […]

I just came across this typing information about a speech to text product called Dragon Naturally Speaking. One of the features on the website is a typing challenge to see how fast you can type manually versus how fast the computer can type for you by processing your speech and turning it into text. […]