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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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25 February 2002 - 6:28 pm
Twelve years ago I lived in Effingham, IL and was in Mrs. Schmidt's fourth grade class at Eastside Elementary School. Mrs Schmidt's husband was one of the departmental mangers at the local grocery store, Martin's IGA. I remember him because in the spring of that school year I we took a field trip to the supermarket and met Mr. Schmidt. I remember that the managers for each of the departments did the buying for their departments, because the person giving us the tour thought the produce manager had a tougher job than Mr. Schmidt (he purchased non-perishables) because if the produce guy made a mistake in ordering, food would rot, but if Mr. Schmidt bought too mush, it would just sit on the shelves for a while.
Fast forward to last night, and I found myself reading an article about Pepsi's merger with Quaker Oats in the March 4, 2002 edition of BusinessWeek. About a full page into that article, in the seventh paragraph, I came across the following two sentences:
And Bill Schmidt, a buyer for Martin's IGA Plus, an Effingham (Ill.) grocery store, says he hasn't heard from his Gatorade rep since last summer. "I kind of think they're in limbo," he says.
What a small world. (And what a weird place to read about Mr. Schmidt and Martin's IGA.)
Posted by on 25 February 2002 at 6:28 PM
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