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Wal-mart and costco are 'soulless expressions of consumerisum', sure, but they are cheap, and they are places where a small amount of money buys a lot more food than at a more local socially concious place. Everything may be cheap, lower quality, and not use socially aware manufacturing, but saving money and buying in bulk is why people shop there for food and everyday clothes perishables. At Wal-mart, getting the stuff needed for basic hygene, nutrition, and clothing is accomplished easily and cheaply, and so money can be saved for stuff that is more artisinal and less 'consumerist' Food, Clothing, and Hygene are things that every human needs, and Wal-Marts and similar places make it easy to get those things with less resources spent. Sustainability and other things are not issues for a person looking to stretch a paytheck further via getting low-priced food and soap.
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This thread has gone from 'are big retail stores good or bad' to 'which stores will survive the ongoing apocalypse occurring in US retail'.
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paragon1 posted:I know of at least one big box store that went out of business, then the local county government bought it on the cheap, redid the interior a bit, and moved every last one of their offices in there (except the courthouse obviously). So they had a cost effective one stop shop for government offices rather than having them spread out over a dozen buildings all over the place. It was pretty nice inside too. Huh, that actually makes sense for government offices, and there is plenty of room for parking already. Where is this converted government building?
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got any sevens posted:Rip They probably can barely even BE automated for those reasons, especially with all the packaging sizes for food and drink that exist
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incoherent posted:Eddie Lampert is a methodical, long term performance art piece. It will be called "Death of a salesman."
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May 12, 2017 04:05
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With how big Amazon has become, I wonder when tbe Amazon corporation/Wonder woman crossover marketing campaign is going to occour.
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Can anyone tell more horror stories of ancient franken-tech in retail? Sounds fascinating.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I worked for a place that designated roles in the approval chain by specific people's names, not their titles. So The Process wasn't "Have the VP of Purchasing sign off in step 3" but "Have Joe Smith sign off." If Joe knew he was going to be unavailable, he could enact a multi-day process to designate a delegate to do his approvals for him, but for no more than 30 days and renewing the delegate took another whole approval process. And only Joe himself could initiate the process, so if, as frequently happened, Joe got fired and marched out the door before setting up a delegate, that approval chain was a dead end. Permanently. Even if you got some advance warning, you had to continually renew the delegation settings for former employees, because once someone was built into the approval chain there was literally no way to remove them. That place sounds like a nightmare to work at. Did no one try to fix or replace the system or approval chain?
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So what happens when someone gets demoted using that system? Is it possible for the janitor or such to be the person who signs off on purchases because they were shuffled around in the company from their old position?
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So apparently Amazon announced this thursday that the prices of everything at whole foods will be cut. And the stocks of traditional grocers went into a tailspin at the news.
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