Which consumer happenings cheered you recently and which ones made you want to scream or weep?
Here are my best and worst consumer experiences this week:
My best: A visit to the Lowe Art Museum
My daughter took me to visit the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami for a birthday treat. I enjoyed it very much.
I liked these two paintings: Frank Stella's Le Neveu de Rameau, 1974, and Roy Litchtenstein's Modular Painting in Four Panels V, 1969.
The Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts, with a $3.5 million glass collection featuring pieces by Dale Chihuly, Richard Jolley, William Carlson, and others, also was enjoyable.
My worst: A questionable transaction at CVS
I bought two gifts for $21.38 at CVS. The cashier may have short changed me $1.
I didn’t expect the cost to be more than $20. I pulled out the $20 bill then two, maybe three $1 bills. The cashier had my bills in a pile, and she placed one over to the side. I asked her what she was doing, and concluded she was putting the $20 in a separate place.
I was in a hurry and not paying close enough attention. When I thought it through after I left the store, it was too late to go back and try to figure out what she’d done.
Most cashiers these days don’t know how to count out change. They just look at what the machine says the change is and thrust it in your hand.
