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Yes, after a week's rental experience this past summer in a Malibu, that was my take-away as well. With the current pricing/buyer's advantage on this particular model, I think it's a pretty good deal if the styling/design/functionality is what one finds desirable.
Overall, for size and styling, I still like the '12 better.
Honda did a similar "promotion" years ago. They gave away a pair of walkie talkies for people who brought that mailer in.
Never have I seen so many "non serious" shoppers...being nice here!
When people walked in with that yellow card in their hands, the salespeople would head for the door or make a make believe phone call.
I don't recall one sale being made over that promo.
A lot of times we would bget lucky when the customers told us they had no intension of buying a new car and could we just sign off his mailer.
Although DUI's carry hefty fines and hence, hefty profits, I have a feeling our officer's would rather just simply issue a speeding ticket as that's easier and lazier to enforce.
Even when a DUI accident causes a death in the area (as it did this last weekend), they concentrate on the fact the driver was "speeding!" OH MY GOD THEY were going 70 in a 65 (What an egregious speeder) and less focus was placed on the fact they were drunk driving, driving on the wrong side of the road (and hence, wrong lane), and then rammed a vehicle head-on, killing the occupant in the innocent vehicle.
To the common sense person, you would think the drunken driving, the being in the wrong lane, wrong side of the road, and failure to yield the right of way would be the cause of that accident, but no, the media and the CHP seem fixated on the fact they were speeding! I'm sure speed was the factor. LOL! What a joke!
Also, the Miho Gourmet Food Truck. Two best burgers I've had in the county of San Diego.
I imagine they use "American" grown ingredients.
Overall, for size and styling, I still like the '12 better.
You're probably right, but I would still think the '13 would be a good buy for anyone looking for reliable, affordable transportation.
Yes, true, but a DUI arrest actually serves and protects, while a speeding ticket generally aggravates, angers, and increases both road range and disrespect of the courts and law enforcement from both real and perceived lack of fairness in traffic court.
I say the same thing about red light cameras being useless. A red light runner is free to run another red light 5 minutes later and kill someone, while if they are pulled over by a real cop, they won't be running any red lights for at least 15 minutes, minimum, and likely longer.
Hmmm, now who is testy? I have bought new vehicles from all 3 domestics and several of the foreign makers. So my opinions are based on experience. If you have only driven GM and never even test driven the competing vehicles how do you know you are getting the most bang for your dollars?
A "Five Guys" just opened here recently. I've yet to try it as they're always packed.
I've eaten there a few times. Food is good, and fresh, but kinda greasy. It is a bit pricey, but man, those Five Guys will fill you up!
Yes but it also generates revenue for localities. Which is what it's actually designed to do.
Good tasting food, but you can almost feel your cholesterol rising 50 points as you enter the place.
I also like Elevation Burger.
Having said that, there are too many franchises that are similar and some will fail. BGR is overpriced so I doubt they last.
There's one by campus in Columbus OH, but my son says BurgerWorks, a burger intensive store by Red Robin, is better. I've not been to either.
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Not being critical, but that's an over-simplification of the issue. We live in an electronic age, and there are numerous products not made anywhere in the USA anymore. Many required a high-polluting manufacturing process, which drove manufacturing off shore. In addition, you can find domestic clothing made here, but at nowhere the price clothing sels for at Walmart. Many simply can't afford to buy more expensive clothing AND put food on the table.
Another thing is you can still find many products made in America. The chain stores buy cheap goods made from overseas to maintain healthy profits.
Quite true, but many people don't need a professional grade of a product, and the cheap product will do. I use the example of owning an inexpensive air ratchet I paid $35-40 for, knowing its not industrial quality (since I only use it 2-3 times a year to rotate tires, anything more is senseless for me to own and would cost far more if it was made here).
If you don't mind waiting a few days, you can find plenty of sites online for made in America goods and services.
That's often true. However, we have been conditioned by the very domestic companies that have had a monopoly on the American market to accept planned obsolescence in the items we buy, and one often has a different outlook on buying a product that he only expects to have for a specific time before replacing it with a later and greater product. That factor along creates a huge force driving down prices.
The really good mechanics I've known over the years most certainly understand quality, and they spend the $$$ to get the high quality tools they expect to keep for life.
OTOH, I would guess a large percentage of TV buyers don't expect to have their current TV for life, unless they're in a retirement home.
Certainly that has been the trend, but I've recently read several articles about domestic companies moving some operations back to the US after they realized the business model didn't adequately compensate for all factors, such as language differences, currency differentials, etc.
I'll see if I can find a couple of examples.
Edit: Here is one...
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/29/return-of-american-manufacturing/
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Someone mentioned 'Red Robin'. I had forgotten about them. I've always had excellent burgers there, but haven't been in one in two or three years. They have one burger that's covered with garlic-butter-drenched mushrooms. Oooh yeah!
I think they're a Canadian company, but my stomach doesn't mind. I last ate at one at Hershey. We drove a golf cart from motorhome parking over there. What a scene--we were on whatever that busy street that intersects with the Hershey 'loop' is, praying that nobody would rear-end us!
They have great fries and the seasoning at the table goes great with the fries.
I had sold my GM stock to buy it, so I lucked out there, as GM took a dive soon after I sold it.
I guess Amazon.com does put the pressure on a lot of brick-and-mortar retailers. But, it helps keep the postal service in business, I guess!
There is a Red Robin here near a large shopping mall. I've eaten there once, and would do so again if the traffic wasn't so congested. There are too many other great places to eat around here that are far easier to get in and out of... Seems a lot of these "specialty-type" burger joints like to locate in heavily traffic-infested areas...
I was in a conversation in another chat room with a person who feels much the same way I do. The rich in this country must also play their part in keeping America financially stable and viable. They must understand that a little less profit in the short run will bring gains in the long run. Making it here in the U.S. may cost a bit more, profits may not be as large, but you will still make profit. Keeping America economically stable is beneficial for all Americans, rich or poor or middle class.
So the UPS trucks are powered by non polluting unicorn farts??
It's too late at this point. We are a much weaker nation and we have let this happen to us.
Oddly though, I had to return a pair of jeans that were defective (one pocket sewn too short), and the instructions were to send them back via UPS. But, the replacement jeans came thanks to the mailman.
do the 40+ Amazon distribution centers and who knows how many server farms have giant hamster wheels out back???
My point was that saying shopping online is green is a bit of a stretch.
Now I'm not saying that I don't shop online. My bigger issue is with people that showroom at brick and mortar stores then shopping online.
I'm sure one truck delivering to a neighborhood is better than every house driving to the local mall and back.
And the restrictive union work rules and exorbitant benefits have cause a large part of that to occur.
Shopping online is probably "greener" than every single person taking a trip in a car to buy every single item. I don't save a fortune most of the time when I shop via the computer, but I don't have to deal with going to the store.
IMHO it is. All car dealers have a similar overhead percentage wise. Not so with brick and mortar stores vis a vis online retailers.
The way I look at it is one has the time to go showroom at a brick and mortar store and take up time from a salesperson, why not give them a shot at the sale.
In my industry, there is a lot of design and product knowledge involved so it's not like buying a $100 printer. But so many consumers think it's ok to get the showroom person to spend half a day with them designing a kitchen or bath and then go and shop each item on the internet.
Yeah that, I have a problem with. When I buy something online, it's something that I don't really need to test out first. For instance, I don't need a salesman to explain to me how to work "Smokey and the Bandit" on blu-ray. And I know what size I take in Under Armour, what waist/length Levis I wear, what size Adidas I wear, etc.
I guess I can deal with the "give them a shot" if they are working under quotas or commissions. But if I am going to buy crap from a chain store in my backyard or a couple hours away, or from the internet, it doesn't matter so much, esp if the stuff is from China anyway. Most people don't shop around, so one sale doesn't matter.
I also will buy car parts online, rather than from the dealer - huge overhead there that I don't deal with, and maybe shouldn't have to.
I see it as a partnership in crime. The unions were greedy and wanted more. The execs took the short term easy solution by granting the union wishes at the expense of the health of the long term business. The unions held a gun to the heads of GM in the 90's, for example. And of course the execs are responsible for the decisions leading to the lousy vehicles over all those years. So nobody's hands were clean.
I don't disagree about criminal exec behavior, but I'd stop at capital punishment for that.