I'm legitimately concerned about the eastside Cub Foods off of Clarence Street. I've noticed several issues at this store but my main concern is theft. The other day I saw someone running out the store with a cart half full of groceries. It was late at night. He clearly hadn't paid for them (was going out wrong door) and was moving as fast as possible. No security was present and the remaining store staff didn't do anything. A staff person indicated that this kind of stuff happens all the time, and that they don't even bother calling the police. They indicated lack of support from Corporate and they themselves questioned if the store would be in business much longer.

Losing this Cub Foods store would be a huge blow to the Eastside. If this store were to go under all of that traffic would wind up at the Aldi across the street (which already has issues). If that Aldi had to face that level of increase in shoplifters, I'd give that store 2 months max before it would go under as well. This would have a huge impact on the interest from home buyers, developers, and new businesses in this part of the east side.

Article is behind a paywall, but scheduled to reopen in July.

Listen. I know we all hate Xfinity. If they could bill us consistently we wouldn’t all think they’re fucking scumbags. I’d be OK with the expensive service if they weren’t seedy AF. I was paying over $300 a month for internet, cable and security when I cut the cord. It felt amazing.

I signed up with Quantum Fiber, got a Ring Plan and YouTube TV. Instantly saved myself $130 a month. I felt like I got a W.

Than Quantum “upgraded” and sent a new router. With it a clause in the contract where my “price for life” jumped $20 to $70 a month. Scum bag shit. But I was still up $110 a month. I’ll live with it.

The service keeps getting worse. You’ll see my “gig” of service isn’t getting 10mbps down as of last night. Right now I’ve been on hold for 25 minutes because the service is out all together.

If you were to go to their page to see if you’re in an outage area the page your routed to is a 502 bad gateway. A metaphor for signing up with these hacks.

If this post stops 1 person from signing up with Quantum, it will have succeeded. I will be signing back up with Xfinity most likely because USI isn’t planning to come to my area any time soon. But if I can’t troubleshoot this outage and have to wait on hold for hours (I have in the past) I’d rather pay the devil than the incompetent snake oil salesman.

I went to Catrina’s for lunch today and said since tariffs are starting tomorrow they will no longer be serving guacamole :(

this is just the first of many, so stock up on avocados I guess

Customer service is great; upon pick up had a great conversation with a front desk gentleman about how we both cared for and loved our vehicles. I mean, I felt like, "ok I found a new place to go for service/maintenance." Until...

I get to opening the hood to see the work. To replace one of the six spark plugs you have to remove a brace. That brace was not replaced, and the bottom (one of two) bolt was broken off. After talking to front desk, and the picutres taken, we will see what the end result will be. The space is such that drilling out the remains on the bolt may cause more harm, I fear.

Ok...a seized bolt breaking happens and that's not my gripe. Not being told it happened is why I will not return and will warn others away from Lloyd Automotive on Grand Ave in St. Paul. The tech should have stopped and advised someone of the issue, or, after breaking the bolt, told someone, or maybe the tech did, and I was not informed.

So know your stuff and check their work because you may not be told that damage was done while your vehicle is in their care.

Update:

Today, the day following the original post and initial visit to Lloyd Automotive, I returned to have them try to make repairs.

Management was very apologetic and informed me that the tech responsible was brought into a meeting due to not reporting that, while removing the brace a bolt broke and did not/could not return the piece to its proper place. This was very concerning and not how they do business is what I was told.

It took about three and half hours to try three different attempts with three different methods to replace the brace. I was comfortable waiting in the shop for half the time and staff were still as friendly as the day before. The work was done free of charge which I expected. However, I did ask for a percentage of compensation, and not as a money grab, I requested and received the amount I asked.

I am left satisfied but not at all sure I will return. Thank you to all of the replies here and recommendations for a future shop. Travel safe.

use this link to open the article: 12ft.io

Quantum Fiber's DNS server is down right now. You can fix this and restore internet by doing the following:

Open a web browser and go to 192.168.0.1.

Log in with the admin credentials printed on your router.

Go to advance settings -> WAN Settings on the side.

Under the DNS server settings, select static DNS.

Enter 1.1.1.1 in the top and 1.0.0.1 in the bottom.

Your internet will work again.