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It's great to have you here with us on the Clark Howard Show. You know our mission is to

serve you, to empower you. So you make better financial decisions in your life. In this

episode, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite subjects, food. First, have you experienced

something that I have several times now? And there's stories written about this. When

you sit down, you're given a time limit on how long you can occupy the table. And later,

Amazon has really had trouble getting out of the gate and groceries. But there's a new

Amazon playbook coming forward that should make it easier for you if you're an Amazon

loyalist and Amazon prime member to use them for groceries. And I'm going to tell you

how that's going to work. So this is a thing. There are now published reports about it.

I read a USA Today's story just recently and I'm like, wow, this is not just a freak show

that this has happened to me three different times in the last couple of months. You go to

a sit down restaurant and you're told you can occupy the table to X time because of later

reservations. I mean, it's funny because there are situations where the restaurant may

be short staffed and it's taking a while to be able to order and you're not lolligagging

at the table. And then the host hostess comes over and says, you know, it's time for you

to go in the USA Today's story. There was a person that kicked out of a table when the restaurant

was slow and they hadn't even been served their entree yet. And they were told they had

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