Fun times at the store

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We have a display freezer out on the floor that has our frozen foods -- pizzas, meats, juice, etc... We also have a slightly smaller freezer in our backstock area for storage. As we sell things from the display freezer, we restock from the backstock freezer. That units compressor died last evening. Over $1K of food was thawing this morning when we opened up... A lot of very happy Maple Falls residents went home with their groceries plus a bunch of free pizzas, deserts, cans of juice concentrate, tater tots, cool whip, frozen vegetables, etc. etc. etc. A replacement compressor for this unit is $3K. The freezer itself is 45 years old and replacement parts are no longer made. A new freezer is about $10K Tomorrow, I am heading into the local Sears store and seeing what kinds of upright freezers are available. They may not be as well constructed as a unit that managed to last 45 years but they will see us through to next summer when we are making money again (the business is very seasonal). Fun times being a small business owner -- maybe I can get some stimulus money...

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Put your two lead items together: the US manufacturing base is evaporating thanks to our trade and foreign policies, such as they are. Since WW2 we have helped raise the capacities of nation after nation, sometimes exporting whole factories out of a combination of altruism and expectations of friendly responses. Those Sansui TVs and riceburner cars are either outright throwaways or expensive to repair. US jobs have disappeared while we train generations of paper pushers. That's if our kids can be trained at all. Stand by for our next stop - the Second World.

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