Labels.

Sometimes product price labels are funnier than I ever would have imagined. Take, for instance:

FU Blanket
Fun Pack Ass

or, my personal favorite:

STD Pillow.

Planogram.

From my work on the planogram team, where we re-set merchandise, and change the backgrounds, shelves, and hooks on the aisles, I am certain that somewhere near corporate headquarters there must exist a pristine Target store; unshopped and untrafficked by customers, its aisles remain clean and clear (and under control). All of the merchandise is on the shelves, in its proper places. A man with a red button down collared shirt, dress slacks, and a solid white tie with the Target logo embroidered at the bottom walks this store's lanes, looking and pointing, calling out changes that would make shopping more efficient, and more economical for the "guests". A harried assistant writes down the changes on a yellow-sheet legal pad, scampering alongside the man with the white tie, jotting down abbreviations, locations, and exclamations inbetween pushes of his half-metal-rimmed glasses back up onto his nose: "Move Glad bags to other side of Ziploc," "Shelves in 21, 46, and 57," "Heavy duty garbage bags switch with drawstings," "Change C3 from clearance to Home Decor". Naturally, this store would have its own planogram team, ready to make the white tie's wildest dreams come true.

Moves.

I saw four movies so far this week. Batman Begins (for which I wrote an FSReview), The Grifters (with John Cusack, which I've owned for close to a year and just saw for the first time), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and A Place in the Sun (checked out from the library simply because it was mentioned in The Clash's "The Right Profile").

Everything was good. Some (BB) were more good than others (Grift), but I would recommend all to never-before-seeners. There were three references from the Simpsons that came from ...Cuckoo's that I now fully understand and appreciate. And the three that were not Batman Begins were based on novels. Makes me want to read them. But I started re-reading The Great Gatsby.

Then there's this guy that has come in to Target no less than 3 times looking to exchange a case, a case, of puffs tissues (24 72-count boxes) for Puffs plus lotion, which is what his wife really needed.

"We opened this case up, it was like the third one we had, and found these in it. I tried to exchange them for the four-pack 64-count puffs plus lotion you had here, but they wouldn't let me exchange them, and you're out of the individual boxes. When will you be getting a truck in?"