Corner bloggers occasionally use their privileges to vent against some chain store or other that has sold them stinking fish. I may even have done this myself — I don’t precisely recall.

Anyway, fair’s fair: I’d like to record a happy shopping experience. I went to the local Staples (in Huntington, LI, corner of rtes. 25 & 110) to get a $7 display board for my son’s science project. I came out of the store $127 lighter. New office chair; printer cartridges; display board. And it didn’t hurt a bit. Everyone was friendly, well-informed, and attentive — this, on a Saturday! They always are — I always like going to Staples. Whoever thought up their employee relations scheme, definitely got it right.