 NJRoot22.com here with a retail rant. I don't know what you want to call it. They don't do things like they used, I'm not sure what the title of this series, but I think it's gonna be called retail rant. It's about Eastern Mountain Sports, EMS. We like what they sell. They have cool sneakers and they have pretty decent outdoor gear and clothing and so on. And that is where the sort of love affair ends. We're talking specifically about their coupons. They have coupons all the time that say save 40% on any one item or save 20% on any one item. Now keep in mind this is what the coupon looks like and it says any one. Now I understand there's exclusions on some things but the list of exclusions at EMS. Again we like the store and that's pretty much the coupon problem is just the beginning of this. Let me read you some of the exclusions here. Can you guess how many there are? At the end of this you'll see. So first of all they'll start off with their exclusions with the basics and we can understand this. Limit one coupon per customer. Offer valid on in-stock items only. Coupon may not be combined with other coupons. Two for one deals, daily deals, power deals, doorbusters, whatever that means. By the way doorbusters get me cracked up because it's a bad thing when customers are lined up and they smash your door down to get some stupid flat-panel TV that'll be obsolete or something stupid. But now they've turned it into a positive how? Doorbusters? No, no doorbusters. Flash sales and clearance which means prices that end in eight. Now that's sort of I understand those nine exclusions. That makes sense. But let's just read the brands and other items that they don't allow you to use the coupon for. Ready? Adidas, Ahnu, Arcterix, A6, Big Agnes, Birkenstock, Black Diamond, Brooks, Carhartt, Carolina, Chaco, Dansco, Fajal, Fajal, Jalraven, whatever that is, Gold Zero, Hoka 11, Hydro Flask, Icebreaker, Innoate. How clever is that? Keen, Coca-Tact, Coca-Tact. I don't even know what that is. Cute, Leatherman, Levi's, Marmot, Merrill, my favorite sneakers, Native, Nemo, New Balance, Oakley, Obermeyer, Obos, Alukai, Uphus, Osprey, Outdoor Research. We also like that brand. Prana, Rainbow, Reef, Royal Robbins, Solomon, Sanook, Scarpa, Smith, Sorrel, Sperry, Spikeball, SunCloud, Superfeet, Suntow, Teba, The North Face, Tully, Timberland Pro, Tom's, Under Armour, Vionic, Werner Paddles, Western Mountaineering, Yeti, and, okay, all GPS-enabled devices, action cameras, car rack systems and accessories, cargo boxes, fitness trackers and monitors, boats, bikes, stand-up paddleboards, skis, bindings, boots, poles, and then, of course, I shouldn't include this, but taxes, shipping and handling, gift cards, you can't return your item and get the discount, rentals, and EMS schools. So that makes 87 exclusions to their coupon. I mean, I can understand a dozen of them, but they've exceeded that by like, it's like seven dozen items that they have exclusions on. At that point, how can they even say any one item? It should be 20% or 40% of the only one item in the store that's not restricted by these stupid exclusions. And I know Bed Bath and Beyond has a similar long list and Macy's and all these people, but they should be prohibited by some, by either public consensus for us not to shop there anymore or by law. They say, hey, you know, you can't say any one item and put an asterisk and put this fine print, you need a freaking electron microscope to read the number of exclusions. There are, it's ridiculous. And by the way, EMS, we don't, I've had such negative shopping experiences there and I'm not saying all EMS employees about, but they all seem to be lazy. They seem to be anal retentive, unhelpful, and just lack of days ago in general about, about their, their work ethic and they just, I don't know how the store stays clean. Maybe, maybe some cleaning crew comes in and does it after, after the close the store closes or maybe just no one shops there anymore. Because EMS seems to be some sort of money laundering operation. I don't know. They're owned by the same company, some venture, they've sold, they've traded hands like five times in the last 10 years. Some venture capitalist group now owns them and they filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and Bob Stores is also the same company as, it's under the same ownership as Eastern Mountain Sports. But it's something very strange about this, this operation. Anyway, that's my retail rant for today. We went a little long, seven minutes, but hopefully I can get more of these under my belt because I don't like, I don't like exclusions and it's really annoying. Every time I've tried to use the coupon, I walked out of there and I screwed this place. All right, have a nice week ahead.