In the Boston Globe today, I have a piece about the unhappy consumer experience of having a perfectly good product (e.g. Jack Purcells) "improved" until it's no longer what you wanted in the first place. (Reader reactions: "a collection of cranky rants by someone over the hill and afraid of change in any way"..."wrong and poorly thought out"...."You really need to get a life dude.")
As if in commemoration, when I went to the Giant this morning, I encountered a display stand full of no-boil lasagna noodles, a terrible substitute for real lasagna noodles and one which I thought had crept quietly back to hell after nearly taking over the market. I hope this doesn't mean the fake noodles are rallying.
Then when I went to buy a GE 150-watt light bulb, I discovered that the entire GE light-bulb section had been replaced with the Sylvania CFL Center--the Giant having evidently decided to embrace the dim, off-color, mercury-tainted environmentally pious compact-fluorescent-lit future I wrote about for the Observer a while ago.
