Thank you Ed. Always the "voice of reason" when someone gets "nasty"
intentionally or not!!
Karen Everhart MEd Co-founder and Executive Director Rainbow Meadows
Rescue and Retirement, Inc. Serving the equine companions who have so loyally
served us... www.rainbowmeadowsranch.com 620-725-3402
Owner/Operator Horse Calls - Equine Management Solutions Centered Riding
Instructor Distance Horse Conditioning and Training www.horsecalls.com 316-648-5082
"...vendors/etc and track internet traffic etc, is
informative and helpful..."
We tend to think that in our "modern" life,
computers and the internet invades our privacy etc. I'm not saying that
this is good or bad, I just want to comment that in "the good ole' days",
merchants knew a lot about us. It is only in the latter half of the 20th
century that most folk became used to being pretty anonymous in their every
day lives.
People living in cities, and paying in cash
realized that the impersonal merchants, who were part of large chains, did not
know who they were, and could not track their purchases. When I was a
child in the '50's folk would lament that the merchants did not know them or
value their patronage.
Previously, most Americans traded in small
towns, and even in big cities patronized local merchants. The local
merchant, who in many cases extended credit knew exactly who they were, who
their kids were, where they lived etc. They could offer personal service
and stock and suggest the purchase of items they were known to like. My
mother bought all of her meat at a butcher shop. The butcher, who
actually cut animals up, would suggest when she came in that he had a nice cut
of meat or chicken that she was sure to like. When we moved and she
started purchasing meat at a super market, it was a shock. They neither
knew or cared about the exact cuts of meat she liked.
Now essentially the same information can be
collected by computers. Some think that this is an invasion of privacy
and is spying on them. Maybe yes, maybe no. I don't
know.
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower
Road Victor, MT 59875
