Local Wine route

After about an hour of driving around sightseeing in the county, we found ourselves spontaneously following the local wine route on Saturday. It was a fun day and I bought some delicious wines from Colio, Pelee Island, Black Bear, Mastronardi and Aleksander wineries. Prior to this day, we had only visited Rush Creek Wines, where I bought almost a dozen fruit wines.

For more information and location, click here

Self Checkout Counters

Self checkout counters, increase the profits to the corporations while reducing their payroll.
Reduced payroll means LESS employees.
Demand more cashiers and say "NO" to the self checkout counters.

Here's how I put my money where my mouth is:
About a month ago, we were shopping at the Tecumseh Road East Canadian Tire store and they had only one cashier working.
The line grew and grew until finally another cashier came up and announced that we could use the self checkout registers. As people slowly moved towards the self checkout, I said, in a voice for all to hear, that we should not cash ourselves out, and should demand they open another cash register.

I continued, "why should we ring our own products through just so the corporations increase their profits and reduce their payroll" . Looking at the cashier, I said, "please tell your managers to open more cash registers because none of us are going to cash ourselves out"

With that, the people who left to check themselves out, returned to stand in our line.
Within minutes, another cashier arrived and opened another register.

One more person had work that day thanks to collective opposition to corporate greed disguised as automation and progress.

Healthy Skin, Local Products

Today I started a new skin care regime using local products from Jamieson Laboratories which I purchased at the local Sears store. Rosie was fabulous and helped me select just the right products for my skin type and took the time to explain to me the correct way to use them. I spent a great deal of time at the cosmetics counter with Rosie and another lady (sorry I didn't catch her name), and really enjoyed the excellent customer service from such friendly people.

I purchased the Jamieson Unique Foaming System Facial Cleanser, Jamieson Purifying Elixir Facial Toner, Jamieson Vitamin A Retinol Vital Day Moisturizer, Jamieson ProVitamina A Retinol Renewal Night Cream and the Jamieson Vitamin E Eye Cream with APKCo10 & Vitamin K.

So far I'm loving how quick and easy the products are to use and the way my skin feels....
Price-wise, it was easy on the pocketbook as well ;)

Reitman's, Made in Canada?

I received an eMail and have obtained permission to post it ( anonymously to protect the writer's identity ).
Here's what I recieved:

This is the reply I received from Rietman`s after sending them an email about, their merchandise"Made in China "It is nearly impossible to find anything at their stores that is Made in Canada but are listed on a website for doing just that here`s the link:
http://www.canadianmade.com/retail_clothing.shtml
Thanks .L. C



So let's start at the beginning with her letter to Reitman's


From: L
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:42 AM
To: Customer Service Reitmans
Subject: Made in Canada



To whom it may concern.

I`m looking to purchase clothing and accessories that are made in Canada , I came upon this website
http://www.canadianmade.com/retail_clothing.shtml
I see your store is listed there but, after going to look at the clothing to my surprise most is 'Made in China "

Thanks for taking the time to read this email hopefully we`ll find Made in Canada clothing at your stores in the near future.

L. C


.... and Reitman's reply to L


We appreciate your concern regarding where a portion of our collection is manufactured. We at Reitmans share your concerns, and are pleased to advise you that we have a code of conduct that is to be strictly followed by all employees who deal with outside suppliers. Reitmans believes that the incorporation of internationally recognized human rights into our business practice results in a higher quality working environment and higher employee morale. Reitmans will only do business with partners whose workers are in all cases working voluntarily, not put at risk or physical harm, fairly compensated, allowed the right of free association and not exploited.

We sincerely appreciate your taking the time to share your views with us and please be assured that they will be heard within our organization.

Feedback from our customers is greatly valued by us and it does significantly influence our future business decisions.



Sincerely,
Tara Satim
Customer Service Representative
Reitmans Division


Cc Nadia Cerantola, Vice-President – Merchandising
Donna Flynn, Vice-President – Merchandising, Sportswear
Robin Kjilaas, Operations Manager - Communications