Sutori - Stories Tagged With 'pc'

world's best meatless burger, nowhere to be found.

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:23:04 -0700

I'm a meat eater, but spend most of my time cooking and consuming veggie alternatives as a result of my immediate family. I have no issues with it, but feel their pain when it comes to finding decent vegetarian options.

I did manage to find a veggie burger, that is close enough to a meat burger that I wasn't thinking of meat when I ate it. Presidents Choice (of all people) have created the worlds best meatless burger in my opinion (even better than licks) and have named it so, however they left all those advertising and research and development bucks back at HQ because it's next to impossible to find a store that carries them.

When I think PC, I think Loblaws, so I immediately go there looking for these beef beating burgers and can NEVER find them. They have all kinds of other sub-par leafy rasin burgers, but never seem to have any of the PC brand. Though, they carry about 10 different kinds of PC meat burgers. This drives me insane, especially considering the demographic in the area I live in - many veggie and alternative eaters.

Now, when I do see them, I buy 4 boxes and toss them in the freezer. Never quite knowing whether they will ever return.

I had the exact same experience with Loblaws and PC's Frozen Butter Chicken Dinner. Pretty decent frozen butter chicken, but they are ALWAYS out of stock. Is it that difficult to stock this stuff?

So, I'm not sure if this is a beef with Loblaws for not ordering enough product, or PC for not supplying properly. Either way, I shop less at Loblaws as a result. It seems harsh, but why go there if I can't find the products I'm looking for?

That totally grinds my gears.

It Pays to Save

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:08:03 -0700

I never thought I would say this but I became an advocate for PC Financial. After many years with Bank of Montreal, I became frustrated with their transaction fees. I get charged $5 per month for transaction fees like Interac, which is my preferred method of payment. On top of that, I only get pennies worth of interest for putting money into the bank in which BOM is using to make more money for themselves. So with the advice of my sister, I opened up an account in PC Financial. My sister was raving about how she gets more interest from PC than other banks and that she doesn’t have to pay for service charges. Initially I had my doubts because why would a supermarket venture out into finance? It didn’t make sense to me but I tried it anyways because I wasn’t getting any good service from BOM. After I signed up, it was the best thing that happened to me financially. I see the interest rolling in. I didn’t have to pay for any transaction fees at all. It was convenient because I didn't have to go to Superstore for the ATM machine. I could use CIBC's ATM machines as well. I was actually rewarded for putting money into the bank! Because I was so satisfied, I got a MasterCard from PC financial as well. Now I collect points and every $2000 I use on my credit card, I get $20 worth of groceries. Sweet! So, from then on, I’ve been telling my friends to open an account at PC. They were amazed when I tell them how much interest they can make. They couldn’t believe it. I guess WOM marketing does work because I opened it on the advice of my sister and I've been telling my friends about it. So companies, start treating us better!

Keyboard Logitech G15

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:59:07 -0800

I can not live without it!

This keyboard is the best so far after the long lasting Keytronic series on my desk.

Why get the G15 :
-Lit up Keys
-LCD display
-Easy and fast Macros

Good Service vs. Poor Product Quality

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:59:02 -0700

Okay, time to get this off my chest. In June of 2005, I purchased a Dell home computer. This was my first Dell product and my wife's second. The ordering and shipping of the product was a good experience, fast and efficient. The setup was even smooth, up and running in less than an hour. Joy, Happiness. I’m thinking that I probably won’t need that 1 year warranty that I paid for.

Think again. The operating system started to do some funny things right off the bat, so the call went out to support. A very pleasant and competent person walked me through the re-install. I tell ya, Dell can do some wonderful things with the F12 key. All good, heck it was probably the fault of the operating system developer( take a guess ). Temporary happiness.

2 months later, the CD reader/burner was the next to go. Call to service, check this, check that. Yup, you need a new one. They ship it out. I replace it(yes, me – it was pretty easy) and ship the broken one back. System back up to speed.

Another 3 months down the road, the monitor blanks out. Call to service. Check this, check that. Yup, it’s broke, a new ones on the way. Get it and send the broken one back. I’m in business once again.

A year or so passes with mostly no issues, until last weekend(roughly 26 months since original purchase) when I’m greeted by the Blue screen of Death. Aka full failure of the main hard drive. Call out to service and yup, it’s failed. As I’m out of the warranty period, they check to ensure that I had all the disc’s I need to re-install, which I don’t, so they ship them out, then recommend that I call sales for a new drive. Well, I figure I can do this quicker on my own, so run to the local Best Buy and get a deal on a hard drive. Go home and tear the PC apart, only to realize that Dell has replaced the standard hard drive connector with it’s own proprietary one. Great!!! Now I have to order one from them, and return the other.

So here I sit waiting for the new drive to arrive from Dell, and am pondering whether the great service that I have received from them balances out against the poor quality of the product that they have sold me. Sadly, when I weigh the good versus the bad of owning a Dell, the bad is definitely the heavier of the two.