Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 24, 2018

You don’t need to be in the living room to tell if a house is on fire.

Smaller is more flexible.

I’m guessing this is a plug for Small Business Saturday.

Miss Plainwell speaks the ugly truth

mega cheap?—-what, like Walmart and Target?

I prefer to buy stuff from real stores, if only so I can go home with it rather than waiting for shipping. But if I can’t find what I’m after in a real store I’ll order from Amazon.

Assuming they have what you’re looking for small stores have an advantage over online. Big chains don’t.

Big chains also operate in suburban environments, which means you have to drive to them, park, and then walk a mile around a 90,000-square-foot store to find what you want. A thoroughly aggravating experience.

It’s not good enough to fell superior to everyone else just by exercising. While you’re doing it, you also have to feel superior to everyone else about the businesses where they shop, too.

Dollar stores are better for small items, since it wouldn’t make sense to pay shipping on a roll of toilet paper or bottle of salad dressing, but online prices on larger stuff can’t be beat by stores, even including shipping, it you shop around on line. The problem is that online, you can’t actually feel the item. You don’t know how heavy it is, what the texture of the fabric is, how big it is etc. There aren’t too many things that you pay real money for that you don’t want to know that sort of thing about before investing in it.

I guess Miss Plainwell thinks that Frazz doesn’t readany of the financial news

My limited experience as someone who does a reasonable amount of shopping at Walmart is that they can’t be doing too bad.

So Frazz, a school janitor, is also a snobbish elitist?