A More Personal Look at Corporations
Standing in the 20-or less aisle today in WallyWorld, I unloaded my Bayer and chocolate bars onto the small check-out counter. These were in the cart Our not-so-guilty pleasures were on sale in this awkward size. Ever one for saving a dollar, I heaved them into the basket fairly easily. Gravity was a big help. When it came to having their bar codes scanned, I realized that the creator of this packaging had never actually paid for one in a grocery store. How, you wonder, did I come to this conclusion? Read on, grasshopper. There are no clearly marked numerical prices on anything except books and greeting cards anymore. Everything has a bar code and the checker must scan it. I include this information for those people who, like the apocryphal story told about our first Bush president (I know, I wanted it to be true, too) have no idea what a bar code looks like. This obviously includes the designer of this packaging, who was...