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I don't remember how I did the math. But my options for having health coverage and a job are either only work part time for minimum wage, or get a very good paying job with affordable insurance. There's no middle ground.
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RandomPauI posted:I don't remember how I did the math. But my options for having health coverage and a job are either only work part time for minimum wage, or get a very good paying job with affordable insurance. There's no middle ground. That's actually been a serious problem in America for decades. It isn't just medical care either. Often stuff like food assistance goes away if you get basically any job. There's a very real possibility that getting a minimum wage job can turn off benefits entirely and make it cost prohibitive to eat and pay rent.
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During the first year of school when I wasn't full time for the whole year I made just enough the year before to have to pay $400 for poo poo insurance privately, as I didn't qualify for obamacare. The year after I didn't make enough and couldn't do obamacare because I qualified for medicaid but Illinois took TWO ENTIRE YEARS to get back to me to say "sorry you don't qualify, try for obamacare", so I had to pay $580 for an even shittier plan than the $400 plan, which didn't cover the $2,000 in medical tests I had to take for clinicals. For 3 months this year I was able to get decent coverage under obamacare because of some creative number crunching for income until I got a job with benefits and hopefully never have to deal with that garbage again. American health care insurance sucks, but state run insurance is even worse.
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Here, you have to work at least 20 hours a week to get food assistance. But if you make more than $350/week gross, you don't qualify for it. So if you work full time, or even 35 hours/week, you have to make less than $10/hour.
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Haifisch posted:Also good loving luck finding a remotely decent job there. There's a reason the COL is so low.
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Holy poo poo this thread is garbage now.
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This thread laid off all the good posters and is trying to wring the same amount of content out of the disgruntled minimum wage posters that remain. Lowtax will get one hell of a bonus this year!
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JB50 posted:Holy poo poo this thread is garbage now. The threads fine, why are you being whiny.
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Krispy Wafer posted:We had a Bruno's in Atlanta. It was the nicest grocery store I'd ever been into up until that point. I have no idea what other locations were like, but here they were going for the upscale market that Publix would devour a couple of years later when it entered the market. Publix not only nailed the whole upscale supermarket theme to a tee, but they also made it uniform throughout the entire chain. I have yet to see a Publix that was as run down as some of the Kroger stores I've been to. Kroger seems to be a crapshoot as far as quality goes. Brunos: I remember my family occasionally going a good 20-25 miles out of their way just to shop at the Bruno's in Hoover because of how nice it was. Even the Winn-Dixie Marketplace that opened closer to home wasn't as nice.
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Publix not only nailed the whole upscale supermarket theme to a tee, but they also made it uniform throughout the entire chain. I have yet to see a Publix that was as run down as some of the Kroger stores I've been to. Kroger seems to be a crapshoot as far as quality goes. Publices get scummy if they don't have much/any competition to keep them on their toes. Still probably not as bad as the worst Krogers I've ever been in, but those are a dying breed.
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I know this is the companies circling the drain thread and not the companies that are punching well above their weight thread, but Freakonomics had a great podcast about how Trader Joe's, despite doing pretty much the opposite of what grocers in the US are supposed to do (no advertising, store brands only, paying high wages) and not only succeeding but being the most profitable US grocer per square foot by a long shot.
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uli2000 posted:I know this is the companies circling the drain thread and not the companies that are punching well above their weight thread, but Freakonomics had a great podcast about how Trader Joe's, despite doing pretty much the opposite of what grocers in the US are supposed to do (no advertising, store brands only, paying high wages) and not only succeeding but being the most profitable US grocer per square foot by a long shot. Its because TJ's is awesome. Everyone that I've been to is always busy and they have good quality stuff.
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All despite somehow managing to place every one of their stores in the worst parking lot location possible.
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I love TJ’s, but they have the highest irritating-customer-per-square-foot number I’ve ever seen. Between the whining Boomers and preening hipsters, I’m in permanent teeth-grit mode the entire time I’m in one.
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hawowanlawow posted:are they actually whining and preening or do you just look at them and seethe like an insane person? They do not know where to put their carts. People at Walmart have more spatial sense and I didn’t think that was possible. Also if TJ’s ran the country our primary export would be pumpkin and cheap wine.
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Laterite posted:All despite somehow managing to place every one of their stores in the worst parking lot location possible. Goddamn, this. The biggest factor in me not shopping more often at Trader Joes here is that I don't want to deal with the clusterfuck of traffic and parking at that location. 
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Kroger absolutely dominates my city, with some Food Lions peppering the area. And of course the Wal-Marts. My Wegmans now that I've moved into Syracuse proper is one of the pre-big remodel stores. Except it just got remodeled to the last design like five years ago. It's tiny and the layout is exactly what I remember from being a kid and I love it They can absolutely shove one of those into a food lion spot and imo they should. Spread the good word of Wegmans.
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hawowanlawow posted:are they actually whining and preening or do you just look at them and seethe like an insane person? He definitely seethes like an insane person and I thoroughly enjoy when a goon let loose their social insanities thinking that they are 100% in the right. *A 33 year old woman pauses to get something.* Goon: "hrggh loving millennial!!! Preening bitch..." *A 68-year old man asks someone where the olive oil is.* Goon: "Idiot entitled Boomer...gah..die already."
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:My Wegmans now that I've moved into Syracuse proper is one of the pre-big remodel stores. Except it just got remodeled to the last design like five years ago. It's tiny and the layout is exactly what I remember from being a kid and I love it Eastwood or western lights?
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Casu Marzu posted:Goddamn, this. The biggest factor in me not shopping more often at Trader Joes here is that I don't want to deal with the clusterfuck of traffic and parking at that location. My city doesn't have a Trader Joe's. 
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Laterite posted:All despite
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:My Wegmans now that I've moved into Syracuse proper is one of the pre-big remodel stores. Except it just got remodeled to the last design like five years ago. It's tiny and the layout is exactly what I remember from being a kid and I love it Oh, I spread the gospel any time I can. I chatted with one of their reps on FB a couple months back when I had to settle a bet with my boss, and clamored for getting one here. Back when my mom was dying of cancer and I had to go back to Liverpool several times to watch her waste away, when I was crying and in need of comfort, I loved having that big rear end Wegmans on Rte 57, less than a mile from her house, ready to feed me at any hour. And make me crack up over the train set they had running over the bulk candy section. Also, my husband worked for Trader Joes for 8 years, and they treat their employees incredibly well. Support them with a clear conscience and confidence if you have one nearby.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:So, I'm sure a long while back, there was discussion about dead Malls across America. And then there's the contrast up in Canada, where a lot of indoor shopping manages to thrive (mainly attributed to the long winters making them an ideal way to get out of the house). Queen Combat posted:Here, you have to work at least 20 hours a week to get food assistance. But if you make more than $350/week gross, you don't qualify for it. So if you work full time, or even 35 hours/week, you have to make less than $10/hour. JacquelineDempsey posted:Oh, I spread the gospel any time I can. I chatted with one of their reps on FB a couple months back when I had to settle a bet with my boss, and clamored for getting one here. Back when my mom was dying of cancer and I had to go back to Liverpool several times to watch her waste away, when I was crying and in need of comfort, I loved having that big rear end Wegmans on Rte 57, less than a mile from her house, ready to feed me at any hour. And make me crack up over the train set they had running over the bulk candy section. 
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GWBBQ posted:T Yes! So, either you have to work a very, very narrow set of hours, or take a tipped service job. Food assistance here is extremely regressive.
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Queen Combat posted:
Fixed. I've worked food service for far too much of my life, and in both high end and low end restaurants it's loving rear end. The only upside was I got food occasionally.
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Don Gato posted:Fixed. I've worked food service for far too much of my life, and in both high end and low end restaurants it's loving rear end. The only upside was I got food occasionally. Food assistance, as in assistance from the government to buy food. Not food service.
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Casu Marzu posted:Goddamn, this. The biggest factor in me not shopping more often at Trader Joes here is that I don't want to deal with the clusterfuck of traffic and parking at that location. Why aren't you riding your waterford fixie to buy two buck chuck? Driving is for breeders.
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Fumaofthelake posted:Probably Pittsford Wegmans. It's the second most expensive (next to the one at Cornell). They have an attached restaurant at that one as well. That place is wild on sample day. I'm from Canandaigua, where wegmans is from. Everyone knows someone that got through college with wegmans scholarships and everyone has a good opinion of the chain. Also Danny is a pretty chill guy.
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InediblePenguin posted:Food assistance, as in assistance from the government to buy food. Not food service. That's what I get for posting after being awake for 40 hours
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celewign posted:I'm from Canandaigua, where wegmans is from. Everyone knows someone that got through college with wegmans scholarships and everyone has a good opinion of the chain. For the record, I was talking about the Pittsford Wegmans.
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Wegmans is the closest grocery store we have to my new place and I've never had a bad experience there. I feel good about shopping there because the employees always seem like they're having a decent day, even if they're doing one of the shittier jobs there's usually at least 2 of them together talking and helping each other get it done faster. Just seems like a really positive atmosphere and not in a superficial fake type way.
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Their distro centers aren’t great to work in but they’re at least union I will say someone at Wegmans helped us out 100000% big time by letting my wife’s insurance coverage go on longer than it should have when my wife got hurt and couldn’t work. Covered our daughter’s birth when I was between jobs.
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https://twitter.com/MasterOtenko/status/1069646631874764801 tumblr gonna become the major social media platform that killed itself over "female-identified nipples"
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Catboy Autonomist posted:https://twitter.com/MasterOtenko/status/1069646631874764801 I mean... two points isn't a huge deal. They got removed from the Apple app store last month, which is a killer that would slowly strangle the site if they didn't correct it, and they probably figure their only path back into Apple's good graces is to stop hosting porn. It sucks for the users but it might be the only reasonable business decision.
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Pakled posted:I mean... two points isn't a huge deal. They got removed from the Apple app store last month, which is a killer that would slowly strangle the site if they didn't correct it, and they probably figure their only path back into Apple's good graces is to stop hosting porn. I am 100% sure there is a middle ground between letting child pornography (the reason it got killed from the app store) run rampant and deleting every blog that an algorithm tagged as NSFW.
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Ariong posted:I am 100% sure there is a middle ground between letting child pornography (the reason it got killed from the app store) run rampant and deleting every blog that an algorithm tagged as NSFW. did apple actually give a reason for it getting removed from the store?
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Pakled posted:I mean... two points isn't a huge deal. They got removed from the Apple app store last month, which is a killer that would slowly strangle the site if they didn't correct it, and they probably figure their only path back into Apple's good graces is to stop hosting porn. i think you seriously underestimate how many people are using tumblr solely for porn at this point Also, the place has become notorious for how many issues (including the bots that caused this in the first place) have been allowed to run rampant over the years at the ahnds of a really inept moderation team
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