{"id":1176,"date":"2015-08-23T13:05:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2015-08-23T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T20:05:50","slug":"sunday-soapbox-wishy-washy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Soapbox:  Wishy Washy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Ralphs the other day and their express lane signs said &#8220;About 15 Items Or Less.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0Now granted, if someone comes through with 16 or 17 items I don&#8217;t think anyone is going to complain (well, there are some customers I&#8217;ve had that would&#8230;) but are they trying to avoid any arguments or do they think that most people can&#8217;t count up to 15? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Next time I&#8217;m going to tell them my bill was $54.97 but I&#8217;m going to pay them &#8220;about $50.00&#8221; and see how that goes over. \u00a0 C&#8217;mon Ralphs, man up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>And this sign was from a Walmart somewhere:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sanitaryum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/15-is-this-many.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I guess I was right, they don&#8217;t think most people can count that high. \u00a0Civilization is doomed. \u00a0\u00a0That is all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Ralphs the other day and their express lane signs said &#8220;About 15 Items Or Less.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0Now granted, if someone comes through with 16 or 17 items I don&#8217;t think anyone is going to complain (well, there are some customers I&#8217;ve had that would&#8230;) but are they trying to avoid any arguments <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1176\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-humor","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}