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The Moon Monster posted:Wait so did they actually cause/exacerbate those fires or does "wildfire liabilities" have some sort of businessy meaning I'm not familiar with. Line maintenance is too expensive.
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The Moon Monster posted:Wait so did they actually cause/exacerbate those fires or does "wildfire liabilities" have some sort of businessy meaning I'm not familiar with. We could invest in line safety through remote high-risk areas but then our shareholders would get 1% less dividends so....
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fizzymercy posted: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. That's nuts. I knew someone who worked at one and he really liked it and didn't describe it like this at all. I wonder if it has changed or if he was just a true believer.
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Atticus_1354 posted:That's nuts. I knew someone who worked at one and he really liked it and didn't describe it like this at all. I wonder if it has changed or if he was just a true believer. Whoops, yeah I made that sound awful. It's changed a lot, and also I worked about 15 minutes from HQ in one of the original, normal sized Buc-ees. I didn't mean to make it sound terrible, I loved it there. They worked you hard but treated you with ample respect, which is unicorn-levels of rare for a convenience store. The non-smoking, yelling, let us pray was worth it.
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The Camp Fire was caused by equipment failure. Said equipment being a metal hook from the 1920s installed on an equally old transmission tower. Because if it ain't broke why fix it?
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The 2017 Tubbs fire (the one that decimated parts of Santa Rosa) was also caused by PG&E power lines. so that's 2 wildfires in as many years, plus the pipeline leaks and explosions in Richmond
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Jan 15, 2019 15:39
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Moon Slayer posted:They're spreading up the highway 52 corridor from Rochester like the shingles virus, too. I did an infrastructure project for the KT guys not too long ago, their corporate people are some of the nicest clients I've had in a while. They described their growth strategy as pay well, train well, and then do data-gathering and analytics on everything, even down to having people take a company ipad and logging temperatures on hot food racks every hour. It seems to be working. They've moved into just about every area that didn't have someone doing what they're doing and I've never seen one not busy. The home office in La Crosse had their test kitchen pumping out some surprisingly good buffalo chicken pizza. Hopefully they murder dead all the lovely BPs in the area that refuse to not be as filthy as they can make them.
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Biplane posted:if safety was important, the free market would provide it California deserves to burn. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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JB50 posted:California deserves to burn. "my boom booms that make my peep pee hard aren't allowed in commiefornia booohoohoo" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 15, 2019 21:06
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Gymboree is gone now. I always wondered how so many kids clothing places stayed open. I mean, kids outgrow clothes so fast that eventually you get hand me downs or shop Goodwill.
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Jan 15, 2019 23:42
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Cowslips Warren posted:Gymboree is gone now. I spent years of my life thinking Gymboree was youth-oriented gymnastic's training.
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Rick posted:I spent years of my life thinking Gymboree was youth-oriented gymnastic's training. I'm glad I'm not the only one, especially because the one at the mall had big foam things shaped like building blocks in the windows.
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Snapchat's parent company is losing its CFO after less than a year, and the stock is plummetingquote:His exit is the latest of a growing line of Snap execs to jump ship from the company in recent months. Snap has lost about 2/3 of its value since its IPO less than two years ago.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Gymboree is gone now. Really it's probably the big box stores eating into their market,a nd the overall death of malls. Second-hand clothing is great, but it's not reliable and when kids get older they want a say in what they're wearing. We got tubs of handme downs for my niece, and still ran to Target to buy new onsie packets because she grew and there were only two from the tubs that would fit the new size.
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red19fire posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one, especially because the one at the mall had big foam things shaped like building blocks in the windows. They have (had?) a business of structured play sessions, where you bring your kids and they do certain learning oriented play stuff but also just run around as part of that
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Rick posted:I spent years of my life thinking Gymboree was youth-oriented gymnastic's training. I thought so until about 60 seconds ago so I feel extremely dumb
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sweeperbravo posted:I thought so until about 60 seconds ago so I feel extremely dumb No, it definitely started as exactly that, the line of clothes came later. from USA Today: Founded in San Francisco in 1976 as a program devoted to nurturing child learning through playtime with parents, Gymboree started its first store in 1986 and now operates stores worldwide under three brands: Gymboree, upscale chain Janie & Jack and value-focused Crazy 8.
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Doggles posted:Snapchat's parent company is losing its CFO after less than a year, and the stock is plummeting Good. gently caress anything even tangentially related to social media
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AutoArgus posted:even down to having people take a company ipad and logging temperatures on hot food racks every hour. When I worked at Safeway in 2014 they showed me where the temperature gun was kept, and then instructed me to just write down a number that's between the two allowable numbers, and to vary a few tenths of a degree to make it look right.
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Kwik Trip has cotton candy faygo soda so they're my top stop
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I wouldn't have thought I'd like sugar flavored soda as much as I do but that's what cotton candy soda is so...
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It's like cream flavoured gelato. Beautiful in its purity.
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Does it taste anything like Inka Kola? That stuff always reminds me of cotton candy.
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red19fire posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one, especially because the one at the mall had big foam things shaped like building blocks in the windows. Same. I can't decide if that helped or hurt them. On one hand I was always confused about it, but that was also before I had kids. I guess if I were walking around with kids and saw a store that looked fun for them but I could also buy their clothes at the same time, that might be appealing.
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Sears lives on for now https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1085540433479041024?s=21
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FlamingLiberal posted:Sears lives on for now
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I like this part from the Wall Street Journal article on it:quote:The deal releases Mr. Lampert and others from liability over future lawsuits related to a series of spinoffs that creditors say might have siphoned valuable assets away from the company, the people said. Mr. Lampert has repeatedly denied those accusations. The classic "burning my own cash to own the people I owe money to" strategy.
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Except for it’s debt load, Sears I think is getting close to breaking even. The problem is it won’t grow. It might cut its way to a small glimmer of profitability, but they’ve got all the same long term problems of JC Penney and other department stores with none of the advantages.
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I mean, there is a market for general retailers that don't sell the absolute lowest quality goods imaginable; it loving sucks my town has literally nothing but Walmarts and closeout stores a la TJ Maxx/Big Lots. They just have to not be managed by libertarian sociopaths.
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My parents who are 60 and 64 don't know anyone other than Sears for large appliances. If their washer broke, for instance, and there was no Sears, I legitimately don't know what they'd do. People of a certain age and income.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My parents who are 60 and 64 don't know anyone other than Sears for large appliances. If their washer broke, for instance, and there was no Sears, I legitimately don't know what they'd do. People of a certain age and income. Tell them to go outside the house or pick up a yellow pages or something. How could they possibly be ignorant of other stores?
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But saying people of a certain age only shop at Sears does nothing for Sears’ future prospects unless everyone who hits that age is now predisposed to shop there. Like Sears is a condition of aging similar to high waisted pants and baby aspirin. Sears could try and finally combine their stores with Kmarts and have a Walmartesque environment with appliances, better clothing, and superior tool selections. But that would cost capital that they just don’t have.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My parents who are 60 and 64 don't know anyone other than Sears for large appliances. If their washer broke, for instance, and there was no Sears, I legitimately don't know what they'd do. People of a certain age and income. Sears has been around since 1886. Before the internet, you just bought everything at Sears, or from the Sears catalog, it's the only thing old people know.
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Krispy Wafer posted:But saying people of a certain age only shop at Sears does nothing for Sears’ future prospects unless everyone who hits that age is now predisposed to shop there. Like Sears is a condition of aging similar to high waisted pants and baby aspirin. Lets not forget they've already spun-off the brands they used to be known for. Craftsman hasn't been superior for a while, and now either Lowe's or Home Depot owns the brand.
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Tell them to go outside the house or pick up a yellow pages or something. I would imagine it's akin to how once you get enough apps on your phone, you can't be assed to install this hip new trendy one that does this new thing, how can you be so stuck in the past? For instance, I tried snapchat when it first came out. I didn't really get it, none of the buttons were labelled, and frankly it seemed like a time waster to 30 year old me, so I uninstalled it. Same for instagram, same for twitter. Now uber and lyft and all that are a thing, I don't care about them. Amazon is this huge thing, I wish I could just drive to the warehouse and get the stuff myself instead of waiting a week for amazon. I also don't want to pay for prime, so I just don't shop with amazon. I think grocery shopping services are for the super lazy. Frankly most of the 'sharing economy' stuff seems like a solution in search of a problem. Shoot, I wanted to split a bill with some friends and they wanted me to install this venmo thing. I just went to an ATM and got them some cash because screw having to remember yet another password even though I already have a paypal account, but no that's not good enough, this hip new thing bla bla bla. In other words, I'm not a luddite, I just find a lot of the new 'tech' industry to be a lot of marketing hype and not a lot of substance, and I want very little part of it.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My parents who are 60 and 64 don't know anyone other than Sears for large appliances. If their washer broke, for instance, and there was no Sears, I legitimately don't know what they'd do. People of a certain age and income. Hell, I'm 30 and moving house and I"m getting pissed off cause every time I think "Oh i'll go get a new muffin pan" or "Hey I really need a new dishwasher" my dumb brain is like "GO TO SEARS". Except I'm in Canada and welp they're all gone here. I blame the PTSD from working there for two and a half years. 
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My parents who are 60 and 64 don't know anyone other than Sears for large appliances. If their washer broke, for instance, and there was no Sears, I legitimately don't know what they'd do. People of a certain age and income. Really? My mom and dad are retired and in their early 70s, and they're legit smart about that stuff.
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Iron Crowned posted:Lets not forget they've already spun-off the brands they used to be known for. Craftsman hasn't been superior for a while, and now either Lowe's or Home Depot owns the brand. Black & Decker bought the brand. The last indignation.
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BloodBag posted:I would imagine it's akin to how once you get enough apps on your phone, you can't be assed to install this hip new trendy one that does this new thing, how can you be so stuck in the past? Same. If it works I don't want to "fix" it because nowadays that just means changing the marketing style while making it worse.
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