That's a misconception. Prices are not the same across stores.
I live in Los Angeles. Many times I've shopped at the TJ's in Silver Lake and one of the TJ's in Pasadena on the same day. Most prices are the same, but on many items the Silver Lake store is consistently 5-10% higher.
I've also shopped in midwestern TJ's and noted that the prices were generally lower than LA.
Products differ significantly, too. Items with the exact same name and packaging can be totally different regionally. For example, "Sonoma Chicken Salad" used to be a favorite of mine here in California. The Iowa version was disgusting, with roughly twice the mayonnaise, fewer nuts and grapes, and 3x the sugar.
I've noticed a similar thing with Trader Joes in PNW vs California. The produce selection was different, the pre-made foods (like the salads, wraps..etc) were somewhat different, meat selection and quality was also different.
Part of it is that TJ's used to be much more about the 'one-off buy of a weird but tasty product'. They would find a product they could sell, buy as much of it as was possible, and sell through it, never to order and sell it again. Over time though, it grew to be the store where people went for basic staples, and so the way they sourced products probably changed to a more traditional model that grocery stores use, where many of the more perishable products are regionally sourced.
So what you experienced with the Sonoma Chicken Salad (which, I commend your appreciation, that used to be a favourite of mine to get for lunch) is likely a result of them just being completely different products made in different places by different companies.
Trader Joes in the 90's and early 2000's was a cool quirky grocery store to pick up some fun stuff and good wine to round out the weekly grocery shopping. TJ's in 2024 feels like Kroger standing on Whole Foods shoulders wearing a trench coat.
They list prices on their website even without a local store selected. And then picking a local store in different locations, I can't find any prices that change.
I mean, obviously there might be exceptions. And I assume local produce varies, the same way it varies in every supermarket not just by the season but by the week. Most fresh produce isn't even listed on their site, and things like fresh salads are going to be based on local produce prices. (E.g. this daily price tracker doesn't have any entries for apples of any kind, for instance.)
But I can't find any evidence of any Trader Joe's products (whether frozen or snacks or jarred or bakery) having different prices between stores. Which is what I meant -- the stuff on their website. But it's good to clarify the difference between that and fresh produce.
(I could always be wrong, but you can find it repeated all over forums that Trader Joe's prices are the same everywhere, and they are in my experience as well -- it seems to be "common knowledge".)
I regularly use a 10.4 Tiger machine for music and graphic projects and it is a breath of fresh air compared to where MacOS is today. My daily drivers are Mavericks/Mojave/Mojave but recently got an M1 iMac with Monterey. Nothing about Mojave-->Monterey feels like an improvement.
Aside from high-DPI, I'd be pressed to think of a single Mac interface convention or element that is better today than 2005. Many are a lot worse.
I'm extremely careful with my Macbook magsafe charging cables. But in ten years I've had three fray into uselessness.
My current cable has black electrical tape at both the charger block and connector ends. No matter how carefully one loops these things before putting them in a bag, the rubbery material eventually abrades and cracks.
In contrast, I used Powerbooks for 15+ years and never had a single cable go bad.
J.K. Rowling has stated her love of transpeople and her wish to see them be fully accepted members of society. She has differences of opinion about the best political approach to achieving equality.
Because she makes a rational, temperate argument that you do not like, you "wouldn't waste spit on her in hell."
So doesn't it stand to reason that the poor should have a greater say in the operation of our government than the rich do, given that vast outnumbering?
I find it really surreal that this format is named "high efficiency image file format" when it makes no guarantees, no claims, and harbors no aspirations about efficiency. It's an encoding-agnostic container format!
You're correct, I shouldn't have said their own unique format.
Still, what matters is the reality of the situation. They could have easily made it so that uploading or transferring images, especially to websites, uses a standard format that 99.9% of websites support, instead of one that virtually noone supports (yet).
And at the same time that Apple rushes to support this new standard without providing a good backwards compatible experience, they've been dragging their feet for YEARS on Safari support for progressive web app features that would let devs build truly feature-comparable web apps without being beholden to the App Store walled garden.
> They could have easily made it so that uploading or transferring images, especially to websites, uses a standard format that 99.9% of websites support
You might find it useful to read articles before indulging your urge to sarcasm: one of the novels discussed is by Joanna Russ (female). Another is by Samuel Delaney (African-American).
Oh, the name of the two-volume series is "American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s". Maybe the specifics of criteria -- "America," "1960s" -- influenced the choices?
The article isn't misleading at all. She is a company executive.
Female executives getting fired for pregnancy is not unusual in the entertainment industry. It's disgusting, but not unusual. And HR is always eager to help the scumbag boss cover it up.
When I read it I thought of this definition of executive:
A person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization. Suitable or appropriate for a senior business executive[0]
The actual content was a bit of a surprise/different than my expectations based on the title but may not have been intentionally misleading. Consider this article title:
Top Manager fired from Facebook, alleges pregnancy discrimination
With the content being something like:
Alice, a top project manager in charge of development for an upcoming internal tool for Spanish speaking Facebook employees, alleges her termination was due to discrimination.
Again, pregnancy discrimination is dumb from a legal standpoint, a cultural/employee motivation standpoint, a PR standpoint and generally just bad practice all around. I am simply discussing how the article title seems to frame this as a higher level Netflix internal problem when it seems likely this is just one bad actor who had autonomy over a project and abused his authority.
I live in Los Angeles. Many times I've shopped at the TJ's in Silver Lake and one of the TJ's in Pasadena on the same day. Most prices are the same, but on many items the Silver Lake store is consistently 5-10% higher.
I've also shopped in midwestern TJ's and noted that the prices were generally lower than LA.
Products differ significantly, too. Items with the exact same name and packaging can be totally different regionally. For example, "Sonoma Chicken Salad" used to be a favorite of mine here in California. The Iowa version was disgusting, with roughly twice the mayonnaise, fewer nuts and grapes, and 3x the sugar.