Did you ask him straight up how many copies of a book he keeps in the back before he puts them on the rack? Because that is the part that bugs me. If he is holding back stuff for people who chat him up, that means the guy who runs in on his lunch break and grabs what he can see is getting a worse shot at the same book. I get the regulars thing and all, but where do you draw the line between a perk for nice customers and a two tier system? Also did he say if that Daredevil was priced that way because of the shape or because it was a back room copy with no sticker?

Totally with your uncle on this one. Used to wrap everything in butcher paper at 165 like clockwork and swore by it for years. Then did a no wrap cook on a prime packer last fall, let it ride through a 2.5 hour stall, and the bark was on another level, that dark crusty stuff you can't get when paper traps all the moisture. Timing is the trade off for sure but the flat came out just as moist so I'm not going back.