Bob McCarty Writes

I experienced a “CINNAMON ROLLS FAIL” this morning and offer details below so as to prevent any of my loyal readers from having to endure the same:
The “incident” began with my middle-school boys missing their bus and requiring me to drive them to school early this morning — before I had had my breakfast, I [...]

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Being a middle-aged man, I think about end-of-life things more often than I once did and it shows up in this blog. Last week, I stumbled upon a way to realize funeral cost savings of $900 by purchasing simple wooden caskets. Today, I stumbled upon a BRANDWEEK article highlighting how some people — including [...]

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Though I shop at Wal-Mart at least once a week, I must admit I am disappointed with the world’s largest retailer after reading an article at Debbie Schlussel’s blog today.
Will it stop me from shopping at the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer’s outlet nearest me? Probably not — at least, not yet. But it [...]

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Three days ago, I wrote a post, I’m Ready to Blog for Wal-Mart, in which I highlighted the apparent staffing largesse that exists within the Wal-Mart corporate infrastructure in the form of the retailer’s newly-relaunched blog, Check Out.

Today, I learned my observations, which appear as an article at NowPublic.com, seemed to spark interest in visitors [...]

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This morning, I stumbled upon Wal-Mart’s new blog, Check Out, which went live seven days ago. After a quick look around, I decided, for several good reasons, that I’m ready to drop everything and go to work as a Wal-Mart blogger.
The first thing that sold me on the idea was the message contained in [...]

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