Granted, the $20 ice was one place. The $60 fruit tray is the ACTUALY NON-CRISIS price Co-op grocery stores charge every day. Don't shop at Co-op.
Where as a Canadian fruit tray is all crab apples and some unidentified tundra berries so $20 seems a bit much.
Should have read, "Stanley's gonna have a hell of a hard time getting that water out with just his cup"
Ah, the 5 cups defense - the argument of a team stuck in perpetual mediocrity and drafting in the top ten for nearly a decade by now. Edmontonians will be using the "5 cups" argument till 2050 and beyond.
Hey, has anyone heard from Azure? He's mentioned he travels a lot for work, but isn't his family in southern alberta?
Having lived in Alberta (albeit about 20 years ago) I can say with some authority that even a flood-ravaged Calgary is 1,000x better than Edmonton. I've been to municipal landfills that were cleaner, better-smelling and more fun than Edmonton.
14th Doc was born in Edmonton around 20 or so years ago. Just sayin'. Calgary would need to be under an additional 9 feet of water to be a less livable city than Edmonton.
Regina is the armpit of Canada. Edmonton is its hairy, damp ass crack. Hamilton is the cancerous mole next to the taint that joins the asshole to the nut sac.
Duncan on Vancouver Island is the worst, most miserable shithole in the Western Hemisphere. The one place in Canada that I'd nuke from orbit.
"Whaaaa, price-gouging. " Fuck you. Be better prepared. It's their shit and they don't have to sell it at all if they don't wanna.
^ I just cringe at the thought of price gouging, but Slate did an article awhile ago that made me re-think if controls to price gouging really do more harm than good. http://www.slate.com/articles/busin...ouging_laws_make_natural_disasters_worse.html Though 24 pack bottles of water being sold for $100 would piss off every customer, if I were a store owner, I'd be equally pissed if one person came in and bought out the entire inventory and left the rest of the customers without during a time of crisis. While people may never be able to stomach legal price gouging, I hope the government is sensible enough that they won't punish store owners who say "Limit 1 or 2 per customer" or "First 2, regular price, over limit, triple price." Profits above and beyond what is normal also gives an incentive for say, Edmonton store owners to bring their supplies down here where they are needed where price controls make it more appealing to stay home and do nothing.
Vancouver is the ruby red lips of Canada. Too bad they are the lips of a tranny who usually prefer sucking on other male's peins.
Perhaps, but it's pretty fucking appalling to not just profit from, but to massively exploit the situation there. As for customer limits, they have them all the time on sale items, I can't see a basis to charge someone during a shortage for enforcing one. If there really were only a weeks supply of stock, even at a Wal Mart, it'd likely only take a day to sell out of necessity items. The cops would likely already have a few officers in the store anyways to keep things calm. Me? If I were running a big box out there, I'd have locked it up and packed all those necessity items into relief boxes. (After contacting whoever ultimately ws in charge to authorize it). Contact the army to distribute them where needed. Not profiteering in a crisis will maintain your local goodwill. Being charitable and helping will buy you international publicity for the next year.
Yup. Montreal is the only city in Canada where you don't ever wake up contemplating the need to chew your arm off
The one problem with Montreal is that it's in Quebec, which is a seriously fucked-up province. But it's an awesome city and the only metropolis in Canada that doesn't have a giant pole stuck up its ass. I'd estimate that Vancouver's pole is slightly bigger than Toronto's pole, but not by much. (Vancouverites will likely disagree but they're wrong.)
As for the need to incentivize Edmontonians to send aid... as for merchants If your neighbor's house is on fire, you don't haggle over the price of your garden hose. Franklin Roosevelt
Hey $corp, just got this on FB. Pass it along to those who may need it... Of course, Uncle Alberta (heh-irony) would be charging people 20 times the regular rate... Fuck you Twink-letits! Compassion and humanity FTMFW!
I'm fine. My family is fine. Flooding took out a feedlot we own, but that is about it. My company sent some high capacity pumps out to help at no charge, but alas I'm stuck on the other side of the country otherwise I'd be there helping.
^ Yo buddy, I was just gonna come here and post that your last post on CalgaryPuck was yesterday! Glad you are OK.
If he did that, everyone would hate him (surprise, surprise) and no one would buy from him during the non-crisis times. Then it becomes a question of, is a law really necessary? Sometimes it's more poetic justice to have these people show their asses so people know who NOT to do business with in the future.
Nope, a law was never necessary. Just a spectral strawman to defend gouging from. OTOH, I think that limits per customer should be the SOP in this sort of situation.
