Weekly Circular • Vol. 57, No. 312 • Prices good through Saturday, July 25, 2026
FREE AT BETTER HOMES THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICTFree hot dogs • Live disc jockey • Balloons retrieved from last opening
Ribbon cutting 9:00 A.M. Ribbon previously cut. Scott has taped it.
Festivities conclude promptly at dusk, per Big Mike.
✓ Parking-lot lamps are on the original timer. Sunset remains 5:14 P.M. until the electrician returns.
✓ Kay’s Kard requires no app, no password and no electricity. Present card. Kay remembers you.
✓ The automatic doors are automatic when approached with sufficient purpose.
✓ Pharmacy gate closes at 6:00 P.M. or when Scott hears the bus, whichever comes first.
FULL CAN • LIMIT 6
Leave two for Mrs. Donnelly. She was here before the freeway.
RETURNABLE BOTTLES IN KAY’S MIND
*Scott measured 1.75L. Kay measured the label.
PRODUCT OF CHILE
“A beautiful, orderly country. We had lunch there in 1983.” — Kay
Current travel advisory removed from copy by management.
ONE DAY OLD ACCORDING TO WALL CALENDAR
Calendar compliments of Union Fidelity, 1997.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN STILL LEGIBLE
The country changed names twice. The label remains valid.
PER CARTON • BEHIND GATE
Kay is 84. Kay considers this medical evidence.
READY THURSDAY
Not necessarily the first Thursday encountered.
OFF EVERY PURCHASE
Give Kay your name, address, birthday and what your father did for a living.
Card will be laminated when the machine warms up.
Any full can of peas. Limit one coupon per household, church directory listing or remembered grievance.
With purchase of imported table wine. Sediment priced separately by Scott.
Anything Kay still remembers costing less. Cashier has final say. Kay has final final say.
The part Kay calls “community service” and Scott calls “the legal exposure.”
Open 24 hours. You aren’t.
Frequent Offender Kard: ten punches, eleventh bail free.
Lucy knows your mother. This may help or hurt.
Grand openings • Closings • The period between them
Big Mike will walk you to your car. Big Mike has already decided.
Walk-ins welcome. Extensions filed while you bronze.
Refund anticipation loans anticipated. Refunds less so.
Past • Present • Future
Present currently unavailable. Please choose Past or Future.
Cash paid. No questions asked.
One question: why are these sticky?
ARTWORK NOT AVAILABLE BEFORE PRESS TIME.
Garden level. Garden not included. Level disputed.
Heat furnished when building has it. Ask behind register for Dennis.
Until Scott’s carefully modeled retirement in Cebu, assuming the pension remains solvent, the exchange rate holds and Store No. 48 does not require another personal loan.
Scott has begun learning conversational Cebuano from a cassette Kay ordered in 1979. He can now ask where the telegraph office is.
INTERNAL MEMO: This figure was 108 months in last week’s circular. Payroll has reviewed the figure and found it motivationally accurate.
See the world as Kay remembers it: gracious hotels, polished railway stations, dependable municipal lighting and gentlemen who still wear hats to dinner.
This month’s films were personally recorded by Kay between 1978 and 1986. Scott has been instructed not to add “updates.”
TUESDAY — LONDON
Fog, tea and a charming hotel near Victoria.
THURSDAY — CAPE TOWN
Gardens, good manners and absolutely no discussion afterward.
SATURDAY — MANILA
Scott has volunteered to lead this one for professional reasons.