commented out the redirect from /stores to root, and uncommented the caching in stores index
seeds are messed up, only store1 and store3 show up on homepage and store3's index has some of store1's products.  added conditional to _guest_checkout partial so that the link won't show up when you access login from the root_path(but only localy, will break in production)
removed -checkout as guest- option from login form becuase I decided it made no sense.  if someone clicks login, they want to access their account or to make one, if they want to avoid that process all together, they won't click it.
deleted guest checkout partial, now that feature is only accessible from checkouts#new.  might be able to delete the form for customer#new...will investigate
started refactoring signup process, writing specs, and set default platform_admin value in Users table to false and deleted method which set it previously
tested User.email() and User.exists? methods
fixed User.email() so that it doesn't blow up if there isn't a Customer associated with the given email
wrote another feature spec for signup process
Signup#initialize method is now 5 lines, about to start working on form validations and flash messages
validations and error messages implemented and tested
cleaning up
fixed merge conflicts