The modern world is too modern for me, Pumpkins. First it's the ink cartridge. Dreadful contraption. Then it's saline. What’s wrong with a nice cup of silicone? It's firm yet jiggly. Withstands up to 100 pounds of pressure per square male. And makes a girl quite buoyant.
Now I’m expected to forfeit my copper penny. When you ask a sulky teenager to cough up their thoughts for one, the standard "Duh huh?" response will now be reduced to a blank stare. (Although personally I wouldn't consider coughing, much less swallowing, for less than $99.99).
Which is also a problem. The retail sector is being forced to cross the abyss from $99.99 pricing to $100. It’s never been done. Consumers are not ready to make that leap. It's uncompetitive.
As if that isn’t worrisome enough, all this comes right on the heels of a CTC study released yesterday proving Canada’s tourism sector is already uncompetitive. The Conference Board research stacks touristy things against trapping and fishing and mining and such, and the charts show it’s lagging. Or at least it was - in 2011. Those poor dears at the CTC must have been so flummoxed by the results it took them 1½ years to gather up the nerve to release the study. Or, they just needed time to recover. God knows I’ve been there. One time, it took me 6 months to get over a bad hair dye.
Sometimes it takes a few years for the penny to drop.
