Local is hot.
First Frity-Lay uses its “Lay’s Local” ad campaign to make us think its potato chips — produced at a rate of 10,000 bags per hour — are local. Now Starbucks®, the maker of bitter and burnt coffee, is unbranding itself by opening “Stealth Starbucks.”
What’s a “Stealth Starbucks”? It’s a Starbucks coffee shop that passes itself off as a local, independent coffee shop… Continue reading | 1 Comment
In an earlier post, I explained why I threw out my Gillette shaving cream. I also mentioned that I’ve been making my own bay rum aftershave for the past several years. So I thought you might like to know how to make bay rum aftershave. After all, you can’t get any more local than making your own shave lotion!
Making your own aftershave is really economical. For the… Continue reading | 15 Comments
While living unchained in America, Lisa and I have been reading a lot of books about consumerism, chain stores, food, and other related subjects. We’ve been learning a lot from the books and thought you might be interested in reading them too. But we wanted to give you the opportunity to buy them from independent booksellers at independent bookstores — not from chain bookstores. So we became IndieBound affiliates… Continue reading
