After some five odd months working for the guy, they’re beginning to decipher some of Todd’s behavior. Which isn’t to say that this makes it any less weird. One of his first orders of business, right around the time of the kitchen construction, was to tell the once-a-week cleaning lady…

In what he’s come to think of as an inverted version of his Office Basics 101 class from a year ago, they are gathered in a similar number, in the same location. A couple of the same faces, even. The only difference this time around is that, if given the…

“Does anyone want to write a letter to the president?” the girl in the window asks. “Uh…,” says Denise, while Jeremy just chuckles and smirks. “Sure!” Emily enthuses, however, and ventures a few steps closer. “Always eager to please,” Denise mutters to Jeremy, out the side of her mouth. Jeremy…

This particular arrangement will not hold for long, however — not for Edgar’s office, and certainly not much else at Wholesome Shopper Market, either. When Dale gets the idea that he wants to put together some metal shelving to hold his boxes upon boxes of literature and free samples for…

It seems a direct result, then, that shortly after this initial inventory with Todd, he decides to bring his old buddy Fred Baldwin aboard. That’s the general perception, and while probably a factor, these points aren’t 100% correlated. Based upon that phone call he overheard, Edgar would say Todd’s been…

The inaugural and, as it turns out, only, WSM fantasy football season concludes with Will and Brian making the playoffs from the East, Jack and a surging dark horse Sharon from the West. Edgar was assuming he would have to win out in order to stand a chance, and this…

The meeting to hash out their loyalty card program kicks off at 10am on a Wednesday. Gathered around the conference table at Central HQ are all three store managers, assistant managers, anyone else who is considered to be a “key” front end figure — such as Shelly up in Palmyra…

The first time Edgar ever meets Todd Cashner, he’s working in the frozen section at Palmyra. Edgar, that is, during an otherwise normal, even unusually bland afternoon. So yeah, in HSM parlance what this means is: doing his part retagging a long string of doors, in the wake of yet…

Sometimes Kay resents the relationship Emily has with her parents. Well, not resent, exactly, more like it fills her with profound sadness, and leads to bouts of fantasy when contemplating the situation over here. She often wonders how different her experiencing having a child might be, for example, if switching…