When I first went to Walmart, it was by mistake. I needed something quickly so I went to Walmart. I hadn't gone there before because CTA told us not to because Walmart was backing a bill thaf favored private education. I think that Walmart has ceased that endeavor. Perhaps their patrons aren't really the private school clientele.
Well, when I went to Walmart by accident, I saw that their prices were about 1/3 to 1/2 the price that I paid in my usual stores. I guess the lessons of my childhood nudged me, and I was hooked. I've been going ever since. As a coincidence there came to be built there a Winco store very close to it. It has much lower prices than the grocery stores in my city. So I go there, too. It is an employee participation owned store. So the employees are really really nice to the customers. Actually so are the employees at my Walmart. In between the two stores they have built a little bunch of stores of every kind. It includes a B of A, so I don't even have to go out of my way to stop in my city to use the ATM any more.
Isn't it interesting that the rest of you write about your journeys to exotic lands and I write about my journey to Walmart and Winco?
California
California ranks among the ten largest economies in the world, and were it a separate country, it would be 34th among the most populous countries, as well as the world's sixth-largest economy. It is the most populous U.S. state. It is the third-largest U.S. state by land area. The Central Valley is California's agricultural heartland and grows approximately one-third of the nation's food. The state is home to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, as well as the second lowest and hottest place in the Western Hemisphere, Death Valley. ...Wikipedia

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
OPEC sells oil for $128.00 a barrel.
OPEC nations buy U.S. grain at $7.00 a bushel.
Solution: Sell grain for $128.00 a bushel.
Can't buy it? Too bad! Eat your oil!
Then, oil will come down.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HONEYBUGG!!