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Skriven 2012-03-28 07:19:00 av DAVE DRUM (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av JIM WELLER
Ärende: corporate demise
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-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 ML> If corporate was so hard up that it couldn't afford to
 ML> keep up the lease on one outlet, that's pretty frightening.

 DD> It wasn't just this one store - they closed a bunch of them. This one
 DD> just got caught up in the stampede.

 JW> That happens a lot.

 JW> When the discount Saan clothing and dept. store went under after
 JW> Wal-Mart came to Canada, the Yellowknife branch was still profitable
 JW> to the last day. So was our Hollywood video outlet. But they both
 JW> disappeared.

Wally-World is going to have a lot to answer for in any next life that may be.
 
 JW> More recently Hudson Bay, having it divested itself itself of its
 JW> Northern stores years ago and Zellers more recently, decided to
 JW> close down their 146 Fields stores. The two northern ones are quite
 JW> profitable. But they may stay open. A newly formed group of
 
Someone does something right ... WOW!!!
 
 JW> investors and store managers are trying to arrange financing to take
 JW> over the name and 22 of the leases. (Saan, Zellers and Fields are
 JW> all low end dept stores that thrived before Wal-Mart entered our
 JW> market. Most of the Zellers leases were snapped up by Target who is
 JW> coming to Canada.)

Makes sense that they'd come to Canada. Target is a Minnesota-based company,
right across the border. We have a Target here, at which I *used* to shop
fairly often. They had decent quality merch at decent prices. They still have
the decent merch and the nice prices.

But, they've gone all "BIG BOX" on me. There used to be two
entrances/exits/checkouts at opposite ends of the building. Now there is just
one bank of checkouts and a single access/egress portal. Of course the stuff I
want is almost always as far away from that remaining access port as it can get
and still be in the same building. Now they are adding fresh meat and produce
(competing w/Super China-Mart?) and there is a good chance that any meat will
spoil and/or lettuce will wilt by the time one makes the trudge back to the
check-outs. SCROOM. 

The nice part is that on name brand stuff - I can carry their ad to a more
shopper-friendly venue and get the stuff price-matched.  Bv)=

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Bulls Eye Cheesecake
 Categories: Chocolate, Desserts, Cheese, Dairy
      Yield: 12 Servings
 
     32 oz Cream cheese; room temp
    1/4 c  Sour cream
      1 ts Vanilla
    1/4 ts Almond extract
    1/4 ts Salt
      4 lg Eggs
    2/3 c  Sugar
    2/3 c  Dark brown sugar
      1 ts Powdered instant coffee;
           - (not granulated)
      2 ts Unsweetened cocoa powder
    1/4 c  Graham cracker crumbs
 
  Adjust rack 1/3 up from bottom of oven & preheat to
  350øF/175øC

  Carefully butter 8" x 3" cheesecake pan all the way up to
  the rim & including inside rim itself or cake will stick
  to rim as it rises & will therefore not rise evenly. 

  You will also need a large pan (for hot water) to place
  cake pan in while baking; the larger pan must not be as
  deep as the cheesecake pan, & it must be wide enough so it
  will not touch the sides of cake pan. Set aside. 

  In large bowl of electric mixer beat cheese until soft &
  smooth, frequently scraping sides of bowl with rubber
  spatula & beaters themselves with finger to be sure cheese
  is uniformly smooth. Beat in sour cream, then vanilla &
  almond extracts, salt & then eggs, one at a time, scraping
  bowl occasionally & beating after each addition until
  incorporated. Remove bowl from mixer. 

  You will have 6 cups of mixture. Place half (3 cups) in
  another bowl that is large enough to allow you to stir in
  it. Add sugar to one bowl & brown sugar to the other. With
  rubber spatula for each bowl stir ingredients for 1
  minute until sugar has dissolved & mixtures have thinned
  out.
  
  To dark mixture, add instant coffee & through a fine
  strainer, the cocoa. Stir until coffee & cocoa have
  dissolved & there are no visible specks of either. Now to
  form design. You have a scant 4 cups of each mixture. The
  two will be placed alternately in pan. Each segment will
  be scant 1 cup of mixture. 

  Use two 1 cup glass measuring cups, one for the dark & one
  for the light. It does not matter which color you use
  first. Pour either directly into middle of the prepared
  pan. It will spread out by itself to cover bottom of pan.
  Then pour same of the other mixture directly into middle
  of the first. This will spread out by itself also. Then
  use first color again, right in the middle. Continue until
  you have used all of both batters or four additions of
  each mixture. 

  Now, handle pan very carefully in order not to disturb
  design. Place cake pan in larger pan & pour hot water into
  larger pan about 1 1/2" deep. If the larger pan is
  aluminum add about 1 tsp. cream of tartar to hot water to
  keep pan for discoloring. Carefully transfer to oven &
  bake 1 1/2 hours. Then remove cake pan from hot water &
  set aside to cool. 

  During baking the top of the cake will darken to a rich
  honey color & will rise up to & sometimes above the top of
  the pan; during cooling it will sink down to its original
  level. When bottom of cake has reached room temperature
  the cake is ready to be un-molded. Dip bottom of pan in
  wide fry pan of boiling water for 10-15 seconds before
  un-molding. After dipping bottom of pan in water, dry pan,
  cover it with flat plate or board, carefully hold cake pan
  & board firmly together & turn them over. If cake doesn't
  slip out of pan easily, bang pan & platter or board
  against work surface. Remove pan. Sprinkle crumbs over
  cake ( this will become bottom & crumbs will keep it from
  sticking to plate) cover with serving plate, turn it all
  over again, leaving cake right side up. Refrigerate.

  Will slice best if you dip a knife into a deep pitcher of
  very hot water before making each cut. The hotter the
  water, the better.
  
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MMMMM


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