Soon to be a hardware store
It’s great seeing new businesses open on Kitsap Way in Bremerton. Last week I read in the Kitsap Sun that Ace Hardware will be building a store next to Arnold’s Furniture. As the photo shows, despite wet drizzly weather, construction is underway.
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What matters is what’s inside.
Today’s question isn’t why credit cards expire. It’s how much work the card holder is saddled with when they do run out. In my case, the expiration date on my VISA is 01/14, and updating the autopays in my online life has already started.
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A great place to sell pot?
There’s more than great landscaping going for this place.
The Mud Bay Blog doesn’t often rave about a product you can buy in the grocery store. Safeway’s baked potato soup with bacon, available in its Signature Café, is worth an exception. The soup is that good.
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Just sprucing up the exterior
The retail space in the photo is in the same building as the QFC. It was occupied by Rite-Aid until about five years ago, when Rite-Aid moved to its own building a few hundred yards east of there. It’s not the only empty space in the Oyster Bay Plaza. Blockbuster left a big space to fill when it closed last fall. I just hope that new tenants are found in time to bring in additional customers to help keep the QFC open. Their sales seem to have gone off a cliff since Win Foods opened last year.
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In a post last December, I joked that because I bought a customer-owned modem I was “Married to Comcast.” I should have called it a pre-nuptial agreement. The real wedding took place today. We just tied the knot for at least two years.
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Is this the end of a sweet ride?
I don’t know whether to blame labor or management (or both) for the Bakers Union strike that caused the company to announce that it is shutting down its operations and selling its brands. So I’m not going to take sides. Hopefully, sooner than later, some enterprising investor will figure out a way to start making Twinkies, CupCakes (my personal favorite), and the rest of the sinful Hostess treats again. Then maybe the Twinkies van, with a new logo, can get back on the road.
In case you haven’t spent enough already…
Bank of America benefits of course. First they probably charge the vendor to post the message. Second the offer is only good if you use a BOA credit or debit card. You learn this if you click the offer to get the details. In fairness to the banking giant, you can opt out of learning about additional ways to spend money by clicking the “Hide Deals” link. But I wonder which way the screen was set by default. I’m not sure how long these “helpful” messages have been there. The Orvis/Sports Authority deal is the first one I have noticed.
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