Price Rollback WTF
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Why is there no 20¢ coin?
I have absolutely no idea
Because there's a 25¢ coin, and it'd be silly to have both. In days of my childhood, the main places you used coins were parking meters, pay phones, and jukeboxes. A dime would get you two hours of parking or a phone call, so anything larger was absurd there, but at the jukebox 10¢ would play one song, and if you were in a music-making mood, you could get three for a quarter (which may have been my first introduction to the concept of a "volume discount").
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100€? We go all the way to 500€!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/EUR_500_obverse_(2002_issue).jpg/800px-EUR_500_obverse_(2002_issue).jpg
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The Scots also have a £100 note:
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jukebox ... "volume discount"
Hmm, I think there's a joke in there somewhere, but probably not a good one.
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Because there's a 25¢ coin, and it'd be silly to have both. In days of my childhood, the main places you used coins were parking meters, pay phones, and jukeboxes. A dime would get you two hours of parking or a phone call, so anything larger was absurd there, but at the jukebox 10¢ would play one song, and if you were in a music-making mood, you could get three for a quarter (which may have been my first introduction to the concept of a "volume discount").
Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...FTFY
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Are you sure you're not just going to Aldi or something?
IME Aldi bags are better quality than the other supermarkets standard bags. But then I usually just grab a box to store my Aldi purchases so I don't have to pay any extra money at all.
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Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...Nothing happened or existed before I reached puberty.
FTFTFYFY
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Aldi bags are better quality than the other supermarkets standard bags
QFTBut then they do charge for them
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But then they do charge for them
Aldi also charges 0.5% (iirc) surcharge on credit card, didn't mean I pay it.
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Having said that, plastic bags nowadays biodegrade. It takes a year or two, but they disappear eventually.
My local supermarket hands out bags that biodegrade before you get home with your groceries.
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We used to get really shitty bags where I'm from but a while ago they instituted the bag tax and every supermarket started giving out these incredibly tough and resistant bags, which are awesome.
The bag tax sucks balls but I'd rather pay a couple of cents for a far better experience carrying shit home. I had more than one instance of bags breaking down the bottom with as much as one 2 liter plastic bottle or a big beer bottle.
