Shopping Frank-

Naomi and I live in a small town Royal Oak Michigan-both of us have time and every day we go out at least for coffee-If i don’t take a laptop we usually got to McDonalds and since we both have Kindles we sit and read-the place is usually busy with kids as well as retired folks !  They still serve one of the best cups of coffee anywhere and they have three chocolate chip cookies for a

dollar-and the product is good-fast food in known for serving a percentage but McDonalds  is cost conscious and always maintains a quality level above other food outlets-we get our local television from Detroit Stations and I have been watching the National Advertisments diminish and being replaced with infomercials-all the newpapers in Michigan have cut down delivery days and are losing readership- I don’t really care since we both get our news Online and there are Online Magazines Like Zimbio which have ton’s of content-The other Local coffee shops and most restuarants are as dead as Custer-We buy the a lot of food items at small middle eastern and oriental grocery stores where expecially vegetables are always fresh and priced right-Chicken and Meat in Middle Eastern Grocery stores is dressed according to dietary laws and they all sell Amish Chicken the best available.If we want deserts we buy the at a middle eastern bakery  that  ships world wide-http://www.shatila.com/

and is a short drive-One of the few stores alway busy is Trader Joes they are marketing a brand of wine Charles Shaw and I see people buying it in cases, we have bought it is a  good brand-and they seem to sell a lot of well processed frozen items-I have noticed a lot of Trendy Brands are being replaced with private label- Wallmart are experts at quality control in store brand foods-and sell more television sets than any store we buy at-I noticed they had great pricing on a Netbook-  I have A G-4 and a Macbook but will be buying a netbooks soon Walmart only has one brand and I am leaning toward’s the Asus so I will probably get it from Amazon-Mr Eliason’s shopping trips are a great read-

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customer service anymore !   One problem on the street is lack of product knowledge ! Now when online , many firms have the voice mail jail approach !  I will wait but after pushing button’s I would like and answer not a newbie reading me the answer from a screen especially in the world of Geekry ! I buy all my books from Amazon since their web site is informative and navigable, going to a bookstore is a rough ! I recently had to call Comcast regarding the switch to Digital TV it was a pleasant experience ! I think with the launching of Comcast Cares-Customer Service at Comcast is now becoming Digitally Correct ! I don’t call AT&T any more I go to one of their Franchise Stores, since their Customer Service is like shaking hands with an empty glove ! Recently Naomi and I both both got the New LG View Cell Phone excellent piece of Tech store gave us a nice walk through ! I am a user of Adaptive Blue’s Product Glue !  Alex and Frazer are great and this firm is going to eventually rule the word of Browser Add Ons  http://www.adaptiveblue.com/

Now let’s watch Walmart a Savvy firm that has one of the most sophisticated computerized supply chains in the world they will cover the world with I Phones in a Digitally Correct Manner !

Article below is a gem From Frank Eliason @  Comcast Cares !

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My friend and colleague, Steve Rubel and I had a discussion two weeks ago about adapting our work product to a world in which search is the primary port of entry. An increasing number of journalists and other people access their web-based e-mail and news readers via search applications. We agreed we must make the content easier to find, with natural language queries (which are high ranked terms on Google) that search optimize all materials– including e-mails, press releases, fact sheets, media rooms—thereby helping journalists and bloggers to find relevant facts when they are doing an article. This is a pull model as opposed to our present exclusive reliance on a push model of pitching story ideas. We agreed that we need to create high quality content that is regularly discussed, remixed and linked to, using a human tone and aiming to add value to conversations taking place anyway.  Richard Edelman

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