RE: no personal checks, please

[Ry Jones <rjones@moscow.com>]

At 10:19 AM 9/1/99 , Robert Anton-Erik wrote:
>I only shop one place that doesn't take cards--3rd Street Market--and Mark 
>will always take a check.

Amen! The 3rd street market rocks.

>And as for local restaurants and Applebee's... I haven't been to
>Applebee's, and I don't plan on going. I agree that we should support
>local restaurants.

Help me out here... who works in these places? Martians? The people who get 
paid to work there are from here. Or at least from this area. The lady at 
the parts counter at Schuck's commutes from Lewiston, and I ran into a 
respiratory therapist in the hospital in Lewiston who lives here in Moscow. 
Beyond outliers like these, the people who work there and who get the tips 
are local.

>And this all reminds me of Papa John's Pizza. How do other people feel
>about the advertising techniques they use--namely having 16 & 17 year old
>high school girls stand on a street corner with a Papa John's sign. It
>bugs me to no end.

It's very annoying, and it makes it hard to see around those corners. 
Totally breaks up the sight prism.
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