Archive for April 9th, 2013

Uno’s 9-grain pizza crust … bet you can’t name the 9 grains!

April 9, 2013

Having spent 3 tours of duty in Chicago, I’m a deep dish pizza aficionado … and loyal to Uno’s — the best!

Well, last trip in, the server directed our attention to a new twist on the menu:

Nearly 70 years after inventing deep dish pizza, last year Uno’s introduced a new deep dish crust in honor of National Pizza Month.

Uno’s invented deep dish pizza in 1943 and this is another industry first: the nine-grain deep dish crust – which likely cannot be found anywhere else in the world..

Being a curious kinda guy, I asked the server to name the 9-grains.

She named 2 and took off to get the manager.

He named 2 more, but we were still 5 short.

We were talking about the incident at a fam get together this weekend.

The real-time iPhone-Google searches came up short.

But, a friend (and loyal Homa Files reader) dogged for the facts.

Best she could find: Some dude named Bob throws 10 grains in his whole grain hot cereal.

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Now, all we have to figure out is which grain didn’t make Uno’s cut.

Anybody know?

Thanks to MET for feeding the lead.

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Nums: More re: labor force participation rates …

April 9, 2013

Since las t Friday’s jobs report and the flood of misdirection coming out of Washington, I’ve been trolling the BLS numbers.

Here are a couple that caught my eye …

Since 1950, the labor force participation rate (LFPR) among adult males has fallen from almost 90% to below 70% today.

Wow.  Almost 1 of 5 men have opted out.

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During the same period – 1950 to today – adult women’s LFPR has increased from about 33% to about 60%.

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Best hypotheses I can conjure are that

(1) working women  has freed some men to stay-at-me to either be Mr. Mom ,,, or just slack off

(2) more capable women have squeezed men out of jobs?

Any alternative explanations out there?

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Fair & square … and outta there … JCP cans CEO.

April 9, 2013

Ron Johnson had a dream: turn JC Penney stores into Apple Store clones.

You know, cool and trendy … and, of course, no image-destroying sales.

Oops

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Not surprisingly, JCP’s sales, profits and share price fell, and fell, and fell.

Today, the JCP board axed Johnson … and, to add insult to injury, replaced him with the guy who had the job before he came.

Lessons leaned: (1) it’s a lot easier to sell iPhones than commodity rags, and (2) ask your customers and employees what they think

So what?

You can bet that he’s leaving with a pile of gold.

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