As a person about to be married, it is incumbent upon me to find a place to register so people don’t end up buying us a primary-coloured fruit bowl made by a gypsy from refuse found behind McDonald’s. There are several ways to do this, but the simplest and easiest way should be the internet, right?

Wrong.

Apparently though shops have put their entire inventories online, with SKUs, pictures and everything, they still haven’t found a sensible way of creating a registry. But it’s not rocket science, it really isn’t.

Guess who had the best wedding registry on the entire internet (at least what we’ve ventured to use)?

Canadian Tire. That’s right. The place you get your oil changed in a pinch, the place where you buy screwdrivers and hockey equipment, the place that gives out Canadian Tire ‘Money’ in denominations as low as five cents. Yes, that Canadian Tire.

Sears, on the other hand, has the worst. It’s an absolute mess. I cannot overstate this in any way. Sears cannot possibly have made it more difficult to navigate, choose, and otherwise just use the website.

That’s not even mentioning Home Outfitters and The Bay who don’t even grace the internet with a gift registry: you actually have to go into a brick and mortar store to register with them. Insanity.

In a modern marriage, leveraging the power of the internet is the only sensible thing to do. And we have leveraged it. We co-ordinate via Google Docs, we communicate with email, we invite people over Facebook, we get advice from our forum friends, we research, we look up prices, we find apartments, blah blah blah over the internet.

I don’t know how to finish this post, but let me say this. In the words of Laura, “Sears sucks. The end.”

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