Go Home Already: You Shall Not Pass

"The drawer's contents are limited to the long, skinny, poop-unfriendly plastic bags that carry the daily newspaper to my door."

Huh?

You do realize that you are supposed to use them to pick up poop that has already been deposited on the ground. By the dog. Right?

Agree that self-checkout has made CVS bearable, and that it is great with less then 10 items (nonalcoholic).

I sincerely doubt that removing self checkout has anything to do with what customers want.  In my totally unsubstantiated opinion, they take more time of management/supervisors and hence cost more than standard checkers and the theft component.  Why pay for organic tomotaoes when you can pay for the cheap ones? 

Jim Graham: you are not as slick as Willie.  We do know what the definition of is is.  Lying bastid.

Self-checkout is convinient maybe when you have 5-10 items, but any more and it becomes something of a hassle.

Nothing like somebody bitching about paying 5 cents for a bag.  I'm sure there are more important things to complain about...

bitching about people bitching isn't one of those.

I  always used to use the shopping plastic bags that I got weekly as garbage bags after I've brought my items home, but now that I hardly have any (because I WON'T pay the bag tax, I'm oddly cheap that way) I sometimes go to the market while I'm in VA or MD and get a free bag just to have some small garbage bags for my bathroom trash holder. It's incredibly silly and inefficient, but I hate paying for something that used to be free and so I take advantage when it is.

I guess the tax worked. Sadly the Anacostia still is a rank body of water. 

bodies floating in the anacostia sometimes have bags in their pockets. they won't be needing them anymore.

Niggly correction: Giant's giving away chickens to people who spot registers that are closed *without* being broken.

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

"I am not a crook."

"You can't say Dallas doesn't love you, Mr. President."

"She said she was 21."

"The track's not on fire. It's arcing."

"It never entered my mind that I would do or had done anything on behalf of the person who provided the funds."

"team-building exercises with a leadership coach" = how to make a human centipede using only jumper cables, bailing wire, and blasting caps

“It’s just more interactive,” Wearne said during a recent shopping trip at Manchester’s Big Y Foods. “You get someone who says hello; you get a person to talk to if there’s a problem.”

BREAKING: Sad, lonely shut-in luddites desperately yearn for any human contact while buying their Campbell's Cream of Failure Soup-for-One, single sticks of butter with pennies, and waiting to die. 

[DC] also has had some problems when it comes to getting enough sleep, falling from first in 2009 to 18th this year.

I alone am responsible for this decline. Sorry, guys. I'll drink more. Or less, can't remember which. Cheers.

I'm glad they're getting rid of the self-checkout machines. They're usually not much faster than going to a cashier, they break down all the time, and you have to bag things yourself. For buying a bottle of soda it's pretty good but for anything else I prefer the human interaction.

As long as they keep self-checkout at CVS. That place has improved so much since interaction with the staff has fallen. I don't even mind having to pay more when I don't have someone scan the faux counter card for me.

Hit the "courtesy card" button!

I always figured it would not work. It is CVS. Thanks!

Aaron: We must know who is Disqus #1 around here?

His name is Robert Paulson.

There is no pledge #1 because you're ALL pledge #1.

The fire in Union Station last night was actually something called "arcing," which "produces sparks and plenty of smoke and happened due to some water infiltration," but no flames.

I can't tell if this is news or a finicky M4M ad.

Both.