Retail Roundup

Straight out of San Francisco -- home of, appropriately enough, the

San Francisco treat -- comes Sacred Silks, a company that will save you

some traveling time.

That is, instead of flying the world over to check out beautiful

spiritual sites such as the Washington National Cathedral, St. Patrick’s

Cathedral in New York City, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and St.

Paul’s Cathedral in London, you need go no further than your computer.

At https://www.sacredsilks.com, you can buy scarves and ties that

feature, among others, the likeness of the imaginative stained-glass

windows of Notre Dame or those crazy, planet Krypton spires of the nearby

Crystal Cathedral. Of course, expect to pay a steep $95 for a silk scarf

of the latter.

Carl’s Jr. burger doesn’t refill the soda

Carl Karcher Enterprises Inc., just won’t stop promoting that

so-called “Six Dollar Burger” at Carl’s Jr. But they’re doing a pretty

good job at it, even if it proves annoying.

The company boasts that it’s the “first restaurant-style burger

without the restaurant.” As if that’s necessarily a good thing.

After all, what’s great about going out to a sit-down restaurant is

the service. When you get parched, the server drops by and fills up your

beverage or coffee. You don’t need to get up, fill up the carbonated

drink (hoping not to overfill it and get sticky), search around for a lid

that actually fits, find a straw and then find a table.

At a sit-down restaurant, you walk in, a host seats you down, somebody

brings you water, and you order a few things, which should arrive

momentarily. Plus, despite the happy birthday songs, it tends to be more

quiet.

You can’t expect quiet conditions at Carl’s Jr. So, in other words,

that burger better “be a really tasty burger,” like the one at Big Kahuna

Burgers in “Pulp Fiction” or, of course, the In-N-Out burgers they

discuss in “The Big Lebowski.”