When V and I visited her other grandparents, at their country estate outside the city, they showed me the little paintings by Renoir and Cézanne in their living room and served us stale store-bought cookies.
A lonely grown-ass women in a diaper, I sat on a sturdy oak-framed table where warm oil that smelled of a stale vintage store was poured over the crown of my head.
Department store stales sunk 1.6%, while broader general merchandise stores, which includes mega-retailers like Target, saw sales decrease 0.8%.
It was a worthy fight to join in on, at first, but now it's as stale as that store-bought ravioli we've heard so much about.
Grapes have the ability to absorb odors, and may acquire a strange or stale taste if stored near odorous foods.
She is eloquent when praising it — fresh candy corn is (apparently) a revelation compared with the stale bits on grocery-store shelves — and even more eloquent when excoriating it.
It is an easy creative leap to consider adding other data like house prices from Zillow or public information such as gun ownership (an issue that sparked outrage when a newspaper in Westchester, New York did just that in 2012).Surely the day will arrive soon when the cornucopia of data won't be stored and stale but alive and kicking, continuously updated akin to traffic or weather reports.
Paris's department stores were stale and staid: each high-fashion brand occupied its own small corner of the grand Galerie Lafayette or Printemps.
This wasn't a convenience store throwing out stale doughnuts.
Top executives of $30.8 million (sales) Joshua's Christian Stores were removed last year by its NYSE-traded parent, Tandycrafts, after the 72-store chain's stale inventory led to big writedowns and losses.
Online, Drummond peddles a fantasy for urbanites and suburbanites compelled to spend their waking lives toiling in florescent-lit cubicles, or running errands in the stale air of big-chain retail stores.
