This is ironic

The irony in your pages is not lost on me, and I hope your readers appreciate it. For example, on last week’s Courier “Business News” page, you juxtaposed notice of a business seminar titled “Who Killed the Customer?” with news that Grand Union in Milford is going out of business (for the fourth or fifth time). Now if anyone killed the customer, it is certainly Grand Union; and it killed itself in the process, several times. I hope the leaders of that seminar have the sense to use Grand Union as a case study in how not to operate a business. It’s not like buying food is an option. When a food store with a near-monopoly in a relatively wealthy community goes into bankruptcy over and over again ... well, you know the rest. Advice to the new operators: try selling actual, edible, non-poisonous food at reasonable prices. In other ironic news, long-time School Board member Jack Fisher is quoted as calling “despicable” administration plans to save money by cutting educational programs while maintaining their own salaries and benefits. Doesn’t Jack Fisher realized that he and his chums on the School Board hired those administrators, gave them raises and bonuses, then renewed their contracts? Jack, Pam, Sue and the others are ultimately responsible for everything that happens in the Delaware Valley School system. Thanks for the laugh and the pain, folks. Tony Splendora Milford