Article View: misc.consumers
Article #5553Re: HEB Trying To Phase Out Purina's Tidy Cat Litter
From: BudGan
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:27
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:27
26 lines
2653 bytes
2653 bytes
Scott en Aztl�n wrote: > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:57:30 -0700, Mike Z. Helm <mhelm@not.known> > wrote: > > >>On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:24:38 -0600, BudGan <BudGan@yahooSPAM.com> >> >> >>>I shop at HEB but buy pet stuff at Petsmart. Cheaper with Pet Perks >>>card anyway. >> >>Those cards suck - it's getting to the point where I'm carrying a card >>for nearly every store I shop at. > > > The key to those stores is to never buy any of the items that are > discounted by the card, because the "discounted" price is actually the > REGULAR price, and the "non-card" price has been artificially jacked > up to make you think you're getting discount. It's pretty obvious > what's gloing on when the "regular" price of a bag of animal cookies > is $4.99, but the "card club" price is $2.50. > Yeah, but the "jacked-up" price is still cheaper than the regular supermarkets, which charge .35 to .50 a can for Friskies prime fillets, while Petsmart is never over .32 even without the discount (and with it, it's sometimes down to .23)
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<cpamvc$7f6@library2.airnews.net>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!usenetReferences:
<c89705a4.0412040833.648a0707@posting.google.com> <nrkar0lqkga845jeoomkhm7o0eelddu3l7@4ax.com> <cp768q$2h5@library1.airnews.net> <gntfr01po2ujj7uv01s82buckkaaoabp0l@4ax.com> <a74hr0lvjajn6arrn1jb3mad17gm65ddvh@4ax.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 107518,3add52a72b006c96 X-Google-Thread: 1062c1,3add52a72b006c96 X-Google-Thread: 104842,3add52a72b006c96 X-Google-Thread: 108aa9,3add52a72b006c96 X-Google-Thread: 115c52,3add52a72b006c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,gid1062c1,gid104842,gid108aa9,gid115c52,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!usenet From: BudGan <BudGan@yahooSPAM.com> Newsgroups: misc.consumers,aus.pets,alt.cats,rec.pets.cats.health+behav,rec.pets.cats.anecdotes Subject: Re: HEB Trying To Phase Out Purina's Tidy Cat Litter Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:27:48 -0600 Organization: Airnews.net! Lines: 28 Message-ID: <cpamvc$7f6@library2.airnews.net> References: <c89705a4.0412040833.648a0707@posting.google.com> <nrkar0lqkga845jeoomkhm7o0eelddu3l7@4ax.com> <cp768q$2h5@library1.airnews.net> <gntfr01po2ujj7uv01s82buckkaaoabp0l@4ax.com> <a74hr0lvjajn6arrn1jb3mad17gm65ddvh@4ax.com> Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airnews.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library2.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:26:36 -0600 (CST) NNTP-Posting-Host: !ZgDK1k-W_h3*".,=Nk:@po$2 (Encoded at Airnews!) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <a74hr0lvjajn6arrn1jb3mad17gm65ddvh@4ax.com>