[kwlug-disc] FAANG-free list

[CrankyOldBugger]

I should put in a shout-out (or whatever the young kids call it now...) for
Stemmler's..  They're my cousins!  And it's a great little butcher shop;
top quality meats in there.  Their Black Forest ham is amazing when you
cook it in a slow cooker for the day...  Currently Stemmler's is taking
orders online, then it takes 3-4 days to get the order assembled, then you
basically drive up and they feed you through your car window.

As to cash anywhere else, the Bank of Canada recently reminded merchants
that they are required to take cash.  It's the law.  But to be honest, I am
trying to stick to tap-only debit.

I went to Sobey's off of Fischer-Hallman the other day and they made me
remove the gloves I was wearing before they'd let me in, despite the fact
that I just put them on.  I had a bit of a terse chat with them and
normally I would have just walked out but we needed groceries and all the
other stores were closing for the day.  They said it was 'company policy'.
So guess which company I won't be dealing with again...

One thing about store staff being gloved..  they wear the same gloves for
most of their shift, so any infection that they pick up, they carry around
for the rest of the shift and spread it to everything they touch..




On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 01:16, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Funny, your comments about "cash", my experience in the Current Times with
> cash;
> - Food Basics takes cash, at least the one on Laurelwood Dr. in Waterloo
> - B&T Grocers(Viet/Thai joint) in the heart of Kitchener takes
> cash(prefers actually)
> - LCBO whines and I have to pull the "cash is legal tender and it is
> illegal to deny me the transaction"  Staff and I are gloved. They capitulate
> - Zehrs whines and I have to pull the "cash is legal tender and it is
> illegal to deny me the transaction"  Staff and I are gloved. They capitulate
> - Gas stations don't care much, at least, no one has hassled me when I do
> cash payments
> - Stemmlers in Heidelberg is cool with cash(gloved), and the 3 farmer
> folks that I frequent are more than good with cash, no gloves required(!)
>
> Life is so simple now, food, liquour and gasolene, the essentials:-)
>
> Amazon will have the best and most comprehensive  data on just about
> everyone(we have all upped our purchases on that platform I am sure) and it
> will be interesting how they moentize that data gold in the Post Times.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Singh
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:08 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> Back in the Before Times I initiated a conversation about how to go
>> Google-free. In thinking more about it I decided Google should not be
>> the only target, and furthermore my list was turning into a blog post
>> and not a mailing list entry. So I made it a blog post:
>> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org/2020/faang-free/
>>
>> I am sure you have better suggestions than I do. Also I am almost
>> certainly missing categories (AWS? Ordering from Amazon?). I wrote
>> this response in the Before Times, and boy does it seem quaint now
>> (cash? I wanted to pay for things in cash?) but I point to it here in
>> the spirit of history (and I guess unethical self promotion).
>>
>> - Paul
>>
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