Canadian Dollars Blog

In our area, grocery store sales begin on fridays and end on the following thursdays. A bag of flyers is sent out in the mail usually around thursday highlighting what is for sale. When the flyers come, we go through them very carefully to figure out what is for sale in the upcoming week. What we used to do is just make a mental note of which store had the most sales and just get most of our groceries from that place. Unfortunately we found that this was a real time waster because having to remember grocery lists was never a good idea. We'd get most of the items we wanted to buy, but in doing so we also bought a lot of extra junk that we didn't need. So we needed a better way. We know use an electronic list. I just open up my favorite text editor and input all the items that we want to buy. Once that is done, I just send the list to my phone and we're off shopping. By making a set list, I am able to visualize where I need to go and get in and out of a grocery st...

There is now a program available in the USA only called Clear which allows users to make an online account that gives them clearance at an enrollment location, where attendants verify their identity via government issued id, photographs, fingerprinting and eye imaging. How it works is when the member gets to the airport it allows them to identify themselves quick via finerprint or iris scan and clear card. Those that using this program only have to pass through metal detectors and x-rays without any further inspections. Currently 65,000 people have already joined this program which charges an annual fee of $99.95. Currently it's only available in handful of cities in the USA. Among those that are included include New York JFK, San Francisco, Little Rock, Jacksonville... This is clearly aimed at the frequent business flyer. I'm not sure if ordinary citizens are interested in this. With air flights costing more these days because of the high air fuel taxes, tacking on anoth...