23 February, 2009

Serious Waste of Paper

 
This is by far the longest receipt I have ever seen,  measuring in at 37 and 1/2 inches.  Last Friday, Sierra and I stopped by Fry's Supermarket to grab a few snacks and left with this monster.  The top 7 inches actually pertain to our purchases and the rest is a lengthy list of peanut butter product recalls.  30.5 inches of receipt paper devoted to notifying a single person of recalls.  There are longer receipts in existence, however this is probably one of the most wasteful.  I sincerely hope that Fry's is not printing one of these for every customer and only targeting "value card" users that have purchased a recalled product in the past.  Even then, it would be more responsible to post a list of recalls near the exit and have the cashier remind targeted customers to take a look at the list before they leave.

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14 February, 2009

Stock Photography

I've decided to invest a little time into selling a few of the thousands of images I've made over the past few years. The easiest way to start out is stock photography and it doesn't require a lot of setup on my part. I have found it difficult to find images that are commercially interesting among the photographs I've already taken, so i might have to make an effort to start taking "stock" style images in the future. I've signed up with Fotolia.com and I'll be expanding to a few other services if everything goes well. I'm excited to see what happens.

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