Year-end wish list

These wishes, each contributed by multiple panelists, are presented in order of intensity as determined by exclamation points, capitalization, underscores, and creative highlighting.

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* Easier-to-open packages!!!

* Coupons for single items

* Service desks that don't sell lottery tickets

* More products made in the USA!

* Products that don't disappear shelves!

* Laundry soap without added smells

* Products that don't shrink! We pay the same price for less product

* Less salt!

* More toll free access numbers on company Web sites

* Check out errors in my favor (not the stores)

* Clerks I can understand

* Easier to read expiration dates

* Less antibacterial products?

* More privacy, less cookies!!

* Less bottled water?

* Less corn syrup

* Healthful foods I can afford to buy!

* Not everybody likes spicy foods

* Fewer and less abrasive feminine hygiene ads! They are really too detailed!

* Cleaning products that are bio/eco friendly

* Hormone-free meats, please!

* Bandages that stay on

* Fine point pens

* More hybrid cars

* Thicker (sturdier) plastic shopping bags

* Advertisements that show me the product and tell me what it does

* Plastic wrap I can tear

* Less profanity and nudity

* Stop Wal-Mart!

* Enough money to shop at stores other than Wal-Mart

Happy Holidays, Mona Doyle

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