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Lousy customer treatment after years of customer loyalty at PALERMO'S 95th FINE ITALIAN CUISINE and BANQUETS in Oak Lawn, Illinois - Pizza

Dear Mr. Goldschmidt,




We are sorry to hear about your experience here on Wednesday night. As a loyal customer you realize it is not our intention to make ordering from us difficult. Our resent Monday and Wednesday promotion is priced on the premise of purchasing a pizza on the weekend at full price. The coupons are only attached to the pizza on those subsequent days, therefore we request that the coupon is presented to validate that the requirements have been met. The telephone operators are instructed to remind the customer to bring the coupon in for validation and it is clearly stated on the coupon itself. As with any business promotion there are requirements to be met by the consumer, such as bring the coupon in, to receive the correct discount. I have attached a copy of the coupon to verify this consumer agreement. We regret that you will no longer be dinning with us and hope that you understand our position.

Sincerely,

James Heniff
Director of Operations
Palermo's 95th
4849 W 95th St
Oak Lawn Il 60453
(708)425-6262

I have literally bought hundreds of Pizzas at PALERMO'S over the years and with this attitude..I say BOYCOTT a place that does little to put the customer first and does little to do anything to correct the situation.  Notice that the flyer I was given makes no mention of anything James says it did.  In fact, I know they changed their policy and offer midstream without notifying the customer and still hold the customer responsible?

MAKE MINE MARVEL!

from Ron Murphy

Flowers growing outside my home...

CORGI

from Ron Murphy

DICK BEALS

    Dick Beals and I became quite good friends over the years.  We had very long conversations about his work and even discovered that he was the singing voice for RANKIN/BASS' THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (1968) Aaron.  His book THINK BIG, was a very detailed account of his life BUT he forgot about working on THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY.  He was so proud of the fact that he did SPEEDY's voice for so many years.  I grew up hearing Dick's voice in THE FUNNY COMPANY.  He loved to talk about that and do the voices for me as well.

    Dick was hired to do the PEANUTS voices until Charles Schulz found out that he wasn't a real kid.  Dick did Supervise the 4th or 5th special and received screen credit.  He loved working for Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.  He was the voice of Buzz Conroy in FRANKENSTEIN JR. AND THE IMPOSSIBLES and many of the kids featured in THE JETSONS, THE FLINTSTONES, etc.  In fact, he played one of the elves in the Christmas episode of THE FLINSTONES (I think it was Winky).

     To me, he was one of the greater voice actors in animation.  You could always tell it was his voice and he really brought life to the characters he voiced.

DICK BEALS R.I.P.

My friend Patrick Owsley told me DICK BEALS passed away at age 85.  Dick was always a helpful friend and he will be missed!

RUSH have a new one coming out in a few weeks!

WALT DISNEY'S SONG OF THE SOUTH

more of Josh's collection...

Some of my JERRY LEWIS collection

HANNA-BARBERA

THE MAN OF STEEL

We all love SUPERMAN....except for that putrid looking thing that they filmed in Illinois recently.  Instead of Hollywood getting better with each film they make...they progressively get worse!

BOZO Tuesday!

from RON MURPHY

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY Weekend!

c. 2001 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES
from my second book THE MAKING OF THE RANKIN/BASS HOLIDAY CLASSIC:  RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
Visit http://www.miserbros.com/ and join our mailing list!  A few surprises coming this year!

Available on ITUNES

part of Josh's SONG OF THE SOUTH collection..

HUCKLEBERRY HOUND

Local and National Groups Seek Action from Illinois Attorney General


Illinois' Cable and Video Competition Law of 2007 protects the public's channels, known as public, educational and government (PEG) access channels. But AT&T continues to thumb its nose at the law, preventing viewers from easily finding and using the channels and excluding the public's programming from its program guides. Local governments and PEG centers are seeking enforcement to protect the only channels devoted entirely to local community use.

Elk Grove Village Mayor, Craig Johnson speaks out in a new video, calling for AT&T to meet its obligation to provide local residents with the "best quality, best availability, and best product possible for local access TV."


Alliance for Community Media Executive Director Sylvia Strobel and Alliance for Communications Democracy President Rob Brading recently requested a meeting with AG Lisa Madigan to discuss AT&T U Verse treatment of PEG channels. In a recent letter, they said:


"ACM and ACD leaders come from communities that are directly affected by AT&T. As AT&T continues to roll out a system that we consider to be sub par and discriminatory toward the public's channels, we want to discuss with you what Illinois' enforcement plans are in light of what we view to be the strongest state law regarding PEG carriage and support."


Chicago Access Network Television and Illinois NATOA have also requested meetings with Attorney General Madigan.

DR. SUESS ZOO

DISNEYLAND

GREENWAY SLOT CARS

More MEGOS

MEGOS

Some of Josh's MEGO Collection..

THE FUNNY COMPANY

Come to order....come to order...

Here's Johnny!

Watched AMERICAN MASTERS over the weekend on PBS and learned quite a bit about Johnny!  Did not know the unusual relationship he had with his mother.

I would rather see MAGILLA GORILLA or YOGI BEAR as President!

RANKIN/BASS stuff!

MEL CRAWFORD

My favorite MEL CRAWFORD art from the Giant TELL-A_TALE book for HEY, THERE- IT'S YOGI BEAR!

...and a Partridge in a pear tree...

My GOWDY THE DOWDY GRACKLE!