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Bean posted:Goddamnit I used to buy bulk hay and supplements from them. That sucks SO much rear end. I have no idea where to buy from now! Do you not have feed stores in your area?
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Bean posted:Goddamnit I used to buy bulk hay and supplements from them. That sucks SO much rear end. I have no idea where to buy from now! I've had counterfeit cockroach poison shipped to me twice from Amazon! Who the hell is manufacturing counterfeit roach bait??
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This thread just made me realize I have 4 independant hay and feed stores, 2 Tractor Supply Co, and genuinely countless private farms that give away food and hay within easy distance. I can't get to a Target without a massive pain in my rear end, but my rabbits and goats eat like royalty all day. Rural living, best living. Someone please send me some cute clothes, everything I own is flannel and denim.
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fizzymercy posted:This thread just made me realize I have 4 independant hay and feed stores, 2 Tractor Supply Co, and genuinely countless private farms that give away food and hay within easy distance. I can't get to a Target without a massive pain in my rear end, but my rabbits and goats eat like royalty all day. Rural living, best living. I can send you some Carhartt.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:We have tons of Wawa in Virginia as well, but only in the eastern part. Western is Sheetz territory. There's a magical intersection marking the divide just outside of Richmond, with a Wawa on one corner and a Sheetz on the other. I like to imagine the employees just standing outside, arms folded, glaring at each other like North and South Korea. I live in Manassas and we have a 7-11 that's next to another 7-11.
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BigDave posted:All we have in Minneapolis are Holiday stations and independent BPs. We used to have 7-Elevens. Super America took over their locations when they went bankrupt. I guess they're called Speedway now/again. It's...complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperAmerica Also, we have Kwik Trip, so who cares about those other loving gas stations anyways?
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There are 7-11s in Lubbock, but that's an hour and a half drive for the most boring convenience stores ever. But everything in the Texas panhandle is local chains, pretty much nothing national. Allsup's, Stripes, Toot 'n Totum, Pak-a-Sak, Chisum, etc. Occasionally a Cefco. (Toot 'n Totum is the dumbest loving name for a convenience store.)
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MisterOblivious posted:We used to have 7-Elevens. Super America took over their locations when they went bankrupt. I'm not sure if it was a nationwide thing, but in Florida, Speedway took over Hess completely. We did a bunch of service work for Speedway when they first started popping up and boy howdy did they do some dumb poo poo. Anyways, having Wawa on every corner is one thing I do miss about Florida, and I wish they'd come out to Oregon now.
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rndmnmbr posted:There are 7-11s in Lubbock, but that's an hour and a half drive for the most boring convenience stores ever. Do Buccees reach that far up the state? They are the superior gas station chain.
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Atticus_1354 posted:Do Buccees reach that far up the state? They are the superior gas station chain. I wish Buccees made it further out than Texas, like holy poo poo they're the best. QuikTrip, Wawa, and Sheetz are all fine but they are not close.
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Buccees is seriously loving great. And always a welcome sight if you need to poo poo.
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Spikey posted:I live in Manassas and we have a 7-11 that's next to another 7-11. One is for First Manassas, the other is for Second Manassas.
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ReidRansom posted:Buccees is seriously loving great. And always a welcome sight if you need to poo poo. Someone told me that Buccees was a gas station chain, but that didn't prepare me for how loving huge they actually were. Like I lived in towns there took up less space than some Buccees E: VanSandman posted:One is for First Manassas, the other is for Second Manassas. 
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fizzymercy posted:Someone please send me some cute clothes, everything I own is flannel and denim. Speaking of denim, where can you get good denim these days? I got a bunch of Levi jeans as I got into high school and stopped growing and they all lasted until I hit 27 or so. All the new stuff seems to only last 2-3 years of use. Not even hard use, just occasional construction/demolition and warehouse work.
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Atticus_1354 posted:Do Buccees reach that far up the state? They are the superior gas station chain. They do not, and that is a sad state of affairs. The whole concept of supermassive convenience stores is limited to truck stops, and even those seem small and anemic out here. Grand Prize Winner posted:Speaking of denim, where can you get good denim these days? Carhartt and Duluth Trading Co. are the go-to jeans source for the blue-collar laborers I know. Pricey, but worth it. The cheap guys just buy a bunch of $10 jeans from Walmart, and if you gently caress them up, who cares, they're $10. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 03:11 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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rndmnmbr posted:They do not, and that is a sad state of affairs. The whole concept of supermassive convenience stores is limited to truck stops, and even those seem small and anemic out here. We have small buccees also. They are not as awe inspiring as the big ones, but are clean and have good snacks also.
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Buccees is awesome. I stopped at one when I was having to drive between Dallas and Houston at one point and they own Edit- I didn’t even know they had small sized ones
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I've had counterfeit cockroach poison shipped to me twice from Amazon! Who the hell is manufacturing counterfeit roach bait??  Also, how can you tell?
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Beachcomber posted:how can you tell? "BEST USE for to kill pest. DENY LIFE in all intruder" I was at JoAnne's Fabrics looking for cheap lights and the discount tree storage thingies were like "The Storage of Tree and Lights"
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Speaking of denim, where can you get good denim these days? I got a bunch of Levi jeans as I got into high school and stopped growing and they all lasted until I hit 27 or so. All the new stuff seems to only last 2-3 years of use. Not even hard use, just occasional construction/demolition and warehouse work. Seconding Duluth. They are great jeans.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Speaking of denim, where can you get good denim these days? I got a bunch of Levi jeans as I got into high school and stopped growing and they all lasted until I hit 27 or so. All the new stuff seems to only last 2-3 years of use. Not even hard use, just occasional construction/demolition and warehouse work. Dosent it depend entirely on where you're buying Levis?
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AFewBricksShy posted:Seconding Duluth. They are great jeans. I haven't tried their jeans, but their t-shirts and underwear are great. It's pretty expensive though, so it's best to wait for a 20% off sale. Also the one time I waited for a sale and ordered 5 shirts in the wrong size they were very helpful over the phone with their mid-western accents.
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I went to Buccees when I went on vacation in Texas. It was more out of curiosity than anything. I've been in warehouses that were smaller than that place. And they sold just about any convenience thing you could think of too. Sheetz also has French toast sticks which makes the miles better than any other fast food breakfast place.
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Jan 14, 2019 14:53
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Basticle posted:Dosent it depend entirely on where you're buying Levis? Yep. Walmart has paper thin garbage called Levi Strauss Signature. You can tell when they're sitting on the rack at a thrift store next to other brands and they feel like a light denim shirt instead of like a normal pair of jeans. I go with Dickies myself, poo poo is like cast iron. Just gotta remember to buy two inches larger on the waist though.
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I worked at a Buc-ees in high school just down the road from corporate. You were required to be a non-smoker, you were only allowed "break moments" that couldn't be more than 5 minutes long, and you were yelled at extensively if any customer complained about anything. I had to go to corporate for service classes where they trained you on every single tiny bit of customer service minutiae that you can possibly imagine. The employee handbook was 182 pages long. I never, ever, had to guess at how to handle a situation with a customer because they had a Rule For That and you were fired if you hosed it up. We prayed before every shift as a requirement. They also paid $11.22 an hour in 1999 to a 17 year old gently caress up that was super weird and extremely tiresome, so yeah. They're loving rad. Please help keep the bathrooms nice, they're amazingly hard to clean.
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BigDave posted:All we have in Minneapolis are Holiday stations and independent BPs. Good lord you should come visit Mankato sometime. We have I think 14 Kwik Trips now, and I noticed a creep of them into the TC area
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Speaking of denim, where can you get good denim these days? I got a bunch of Levi jeans as I got into high school and stopped growing and they all lasted until I hit 27 or so. All the new stuff seems to only last 2-3 years of use. Not even hard use, just occasional construction/demolition and warehouse work. Speak as a white collar fat guy, I really like US Polo Assn. for their carpenter jeans. They are super comfy and it took four years of consistent wear for them to start showing age Unfortunately with the death of Sears and Bonton stores I have nowhere in town to find these besides online.
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How Rude posted:Good lord you should come visit Mankato sometime. We have I think 14 Kwik Trips now, and I noticed a creep of them into the TC area They're spreading up the highway 52 corridor from Rochester like the shingles virus, too.
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Moon Slayer posted:They're spreading up the highway 52 corridor from Rochester like the shingles virus, too. There was a goon that worked at the corporate offices of a gas station chain. He described it like it was gang warfare, "Can't move in there, that's Quick Trip territory."
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Pacific Gas & Electric, the largest utility in the U.S. by number of customers served, is facing bankruptcy from its liability for several CA wildfires, which total so much damage it could drive the utility out of business. CA's state legislature and public utilities commission are debating how to step in, but in the interim the CEO has stepped down, and the utility is considering selling off its ENTIRE natural gas business to pay for just existing wildfire liability, never-mind what's going to happen in the future. This is essentially selling off half the company to pay just for the other half's legal issues. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/pge-ceo-steps-down-amid-reports-of-impending-bankruptcy PG&E was trading for about $70 a share in 2017, as investor owned utilities are often considered "safe" stocks because they are basically too big to fail and can pass on costs to customers. It's now trading for $9.10.
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Tom Tucker posted:Pacific Gas & Electric Municipalize PG&E yesterday. they've caused too many fires, leaks, explosions and other catastrophes (because money was piped to shareholders and CEOs rather than maintenance) to be allowed to continue as a private company. That they want to raise our rates again is adding insult to injury.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Municipalize PG&E yesterday. they've caused too many fires, leaks, explosions and other catastrophes (because money was piped to shareholders and CEOs rather than maintenance) to be allowed to continue as a private company. That they want to raise our rates again is adding insult to injury. They took over operations on Long Island AFTER Hurricane Sandy, so I'm sure that's going to be lovely.
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How Rude posted:Good lord you should come visit Mankato sometime. We have I think 14 Kwik Trips now, and I noticed a creep of them into the TC area I don't count Kwik Trips as convince stores, they're basically mini-truck stops.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They took over operations on Long Island AFTER Hurricane Sandy, so I'm sure that's going to be lovely. Is PG&E the same utility as PSEG? I wouldn't think a California utility would have anything to do with New York. PG&E were the bad guys in the Erin Brockovich movie. They've been bad guys for a long time.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Is PG&E the same utility as PSEG? I wouldn't think a California utility would have anything to do with New York. PSEG took over Long Island. I remember seeing that and being confused since to me PSEG was always New Jersey to me.
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Yeah, sorry about that, I got the two confused. To be fair, Long Island's electric and gas utilities have changed hands something like five times in the last thirty-five years.
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Wait so did they actually cause/exacerbate those fires or does "wildfire liabilities" have some sort of businessy meaning I'm not familiar with.
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