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Realtalk try Michael's, at least for frozen lasagna, chicken parm, and eggplant parm. Surprisingly decent. This post was brought to you by the frozen fast food consortium, working to decrease the number of cherries in frozen cherry pies and increase the number of fingernails.
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Aug 7, 2019 05:03
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I lost faith in the frozen dinner/pie segment when Stouffer's discontinued their veal parmigiana entree. Nowhere else could you get a veal dinner for less than $3.
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Aug 7, 2019 06:29
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https://twitter.com/jaconi/status/1158639958552395776?s=21
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Aug 7, 2019 09:34
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THE RENT IS TOO...high?
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Aug 7, 2019 11:18
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I’m honestly curious as to what the endgame is with Manhattan real estate when loving Barney’s and Saks and Ralph Lauren can’t pay the rent.
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Aug 7, 2019 11:58
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FlamingLiberal posted:I just found out earlier this year that they had actual restaurants Their frozen meals are good and cheap but the last time I went to one of thwir restaurants I literally laughed at what they charged me when I got the bill. It was like 2-2.5X what I was used to paying for that sort of food. In other words I'm glad they are gonna die. Still butthurt about Fry's tho.
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Aug 7, 2019 12:02
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I’m honestly curious as to what the endgame is with Manhattan real estate when loving Barney’s and Saks and Ralph Lauren can’t pay the rent. An urban wasteland populated by warring tribes of cannibals.
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Aug 7, 2019 13:15
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I lost faith in the frozen dinner/pie segment when Stouffer's discontinued their veal parmigiana entree. Nowhere else could you get a veal dinner for less than $3. That begs the question: Why eat a $3 veal dinner? Veal shouldn't be that cheap.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:04
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Yeah, there's no loving way that was actually veal.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:27
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I’m honestly curious as to what the endgame is with Manhattan real estate when loving Barney’s and Saks and Ralph Lauren can’t pay the rent. UP UP UP That's it. Just up.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:30
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Yeah, there's no loving way that was actually veal. It was probably the worst possible cuts, at like 0.2lb of actual veal and 0.5lb of sauce.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:35
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ToxicSlurpee posted:UP UP UP Yeah  at the idea of “endgame.” No, nowadays the hot strategy is to cover your ears and run out of the room when faced with the idea of profit being finite.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:53
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Endgame is defined as the end of next quarter.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:56
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Endgame is scarfing down $3 veal meals and missing them.
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Aug 7, 2019 15:08
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I'm going to build a skyscraper out of $3 veal.
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Aug 7, 2019 15:10
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I have to imagine big city rents have something to do with securitizing assets. If you can value your property at X then you can borrow against those assets or sell shares in it. The landlords may not find anyone to fill Barney's space, but the fact they're charging nearly 30 million a year means their property is worth that much more. Sort of. And if you're charging 30 million for your space then everyone nearby thinks their property is worth more and everyone raises prices. If the economy is doing really well that hides any supply disparities because there's usually someone with more money than sense who will pay the inflated prices. Lucky for us Trump is doing his damndest to bring NYC rents back down again.
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Aug 7, 2019 15:18
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I’m honestly curious as to what the endgame is with Manhattan real estate when loving Barney’s and Saks and Ralph Lauren can’t pay the rent. Saks actually owns their flagship 5th avenue store's real estate. It looks like Barneys did too until 2001 when they sold it  . As part of the agreement the buyer was restricted from rasing rent until 2019.I think this is the landlord trying to kick them out. There was probably some agreement in the sale saying they couldn't be evicted as long as they made rent, and as soon as there was an option to raise it they took it. If you have a good tenant that is paying you regularly and on time for the last 18 years there's no real incentive to get them out. There has to be something else going on behind the scenes.
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Aug 7, 2019 15:29
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buddhist nudist posted:I imagine even if Best Buy goes into a spiral, it will always be able to survive as long as it's the only dedicated electronics/appliance shop in town (like, say, my town) It was in a spiral, I think we talked about it in this thread a few years back. All of a sudden they're functional and running smoothly again somehow.
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Aug 7, 2019 16:02
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I’m honestly curious as to what the endgame is with Manhattan real estate when loving Barney’s and Saks and Ralph Lauren can’t pay the rent. Office space for startups. Gotta burn that venture capital cash somehow. No, seriously.
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Aug 7, 2019 17:11
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Business Insider has the story of Moviepass, and Matt Levine at Bloomberg summarises it wonderfully:Matt Levine posted:For instance, under founder Stacy Spikes, MoviePass charged $50 a month for its service, but couldn’t get enough subscribers to break even. Then it was acquired by Helios & Matheson Analytics, whose chief executive officer, Ted Farnsworth, came up with the idea of charging much less: anyone in this thread should definitely read both
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Aug 7, 2019 18:08
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ryonguy posted:It was in a spiral, I think we talked about it in this thread a few years back. All of a sudden they're functional and running smoothly again somehow. They got a new CEO who wasn't looking to pad his golden parachute. Also fixed their inventory system so people could actually tell what was in stock, and started price-matching Amazon for showrooming customers to capture the sale.
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Aug 7, 2019 18:14
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With how lovely the forums are running today, is it too early to say Something Awful is circling the drain?
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Aug 7, 2019 18:19
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Iron Crowned posted:With how lovely the forums are running today, is it too early to say Something Awful is circling the drain? It's never to late to blame radium.
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Aug 7, 2019 18:46
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divabot posted:Business Insider has the story of Moviepass, My friend worked customer/technical support doing calls and tickets for MoviePass right after the Helios takover and their huge subscriber burst. If you ever called support you might have talked to him. (all of their support staff where contractors working from home by the way) It was a shitshow internally from day one. Policies where changing regularly and the customer support people where the last ones to be told. Sometimes customers knew of policy changes before support did. It got MUCH worse near the end when they started restricting what movies where available, the show times, introduced the "demand" charges, etc.. He stayed on the project until they ended phone support entirely and went with "Chats" only. (FYI, starting a Chat just opened a ticket up in their ticket system, from what I could see they didn't get treated any differently, this is why it would sometimes take a day or more for a agent to answer a "chat".) One of their biggest burst of subscribers came from the Costco promotion.
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Aug 7, 2019 19:56
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Iron Crowned posted:With how lovely the forums are running today, is it too early to say Something Awful is circling the drain? Please, these dead forums are so dead that being someone who lives outside US timezones I have to go to Reddit just to see what the next new meme or funny picture will be since it will be posted here within the next coming week. Or if I want to get more than two replies per day to any ongoing discussion.
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Aug 7, 2019 22:35
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To bring back Subway chat from a few pages ago, I just saw they now have milkshakes which sounds like just the worst.
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Aug 7, 2019 23:50
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Just dip your foot long in your milkshake and eat it that way if you're a disgusting enough piece of poo poo to eat at Subway in the first place.
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Aug 8, 2019 00:18
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Basticle posted:To bring back Subway chat from a few pages ago, I just saw they now have milkshakes which sounds like just the worst. What if we replace our rubber meat? Nah put in a milkshake machine. That’ll fix it. Come for the rubber meat, stay for the beetus. But Subway has the best drat chocolate chip cookies in the fast food industry.
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Aug 8, 2019 00:32
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Basticle posted:To bring back Subway chat from a few pages ago, I just saw they now have milkshakes which sounds like just the worst. It's not too weird to me because a lot of the Subways near me are half ice cream store anyway, but google says Goodrich is only in like half a dozen states so I guess it's a weird mix to most people.
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Aug 8, 2019 00:46
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Late on Microcenter/Fry's chat, but in the Chicago area, Microcenter is the way and the life if you need computer poo poo, and Fry's tried to ape them but had a bad habit of re-shrinkwrapping stuff returned as defective. If I need computer stuff, it's microcenter, appliances is Costco or home Depot, and I'm not sure how Fry's or best buy are still alive.
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Aug 8, 2019 02:58
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You people are making me jealous. I just looked up Microcenter, and I either have to go to NYC or Boston to go to one, none are in CT.
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Star Wars Is Struggling to Win Over the Next Generation of Kids https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/star-wars-is-struggling-to-win-over-the-marvel-generation "Walt Disney Co.’s underwhelming theme-park attendance last quarter was the latest sign that the intergalactic saga isn’t resonating for younger generations raised on Iron Man and Fortnite. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger was so sure fans would be blasting through the door that he had instituted a reservation system for visitors to enter Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the new attraction at Disneyland. It turned out not to be necessary. Star Wars toy sales popped with 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” the start of a trilogy that united Han, Luke and Leia with a new band of heroes, but have slumped since. “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” last year’s spinoff featuring the backstory of beloved characters, utterly bombed. “The Last Jedi,” the second in the new trilogy, was profitable but fell shy of its predecessor’s performance. The next installment, “The Rise of Skywalker,” will have the very future of the franchise riding on it when it debuts in December." "'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' toy sales boosted sales in 2015, and the company had hoped for continuing success. The film saw beloved characters Chewbacca, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, reunited alongside new heroes Rey and Poe Dameron. It was the fastest film to reach a billion dollars after 12 days but later would surpassed by Avengers: Infinity War, according to Box Office Mojo. Overall the total worldwide income from the film brought in $2.06 billion, but the sequels would struggle to reach those same heights. But 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' earned $1.33 billion in 2017, making it profitable but not as successful. And 2018 spin-off 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' earned just $392 million, according to the Mojo. Disney hopes upcoming film 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' will be a big hit upon its release in December. " "Toys for 'The Last Jedi' also struggled to make the cut, with manufacturers Hasbro Inc. claiming that they made a mistake, according to Bloomberg. Their Chief Executive Brian Goldner admitted they should not have started marketing the toys months ahead of the film's December 2017 release. Goldner added that then, during the lead-up to Christmas, other toys described as a 'an array of entertainment initiatives' came onto the market. Despite troubling signs, Igner believes the 'Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge' attractions will be a success." I was never a huge fan of star wars but I did enjoy the originals for what they were, but once Disney bought the franchise, it was inevitable that it was going to be pimped out as hardcore as they could for every last cent from the dedicated fan base. But how much can they rely on those older fans continuously if newer generations just don't give much of a gently caress about Star Wars unlike the new hotness of Marvel movies? I mean, to make your 'own lightsaber' at the Edge of the Galaxy attraction costs $200 and break super easily. People were expecting to see characters roaming around but apparently its more like random droids. Disney is just shooting itself in the foot churning out too much too fast, but maybe its too late to stop people just not giving a gently caress anymore.
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Aug 8, 2019 14:57
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I am looking forward to when Disney gets really desperate in like 2026 and releases Star Wars: The Beep that Booped a movie that features only Ewoks and a bunch of BB-8s that ends on a cliffhanger where all the main characters need somebody to buy them to help them escape certain death.
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Aug 8, 2019 15:05
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"Massively successful film slightly less successful than predecessor. Is the franchise failing???" Ok.
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Aug 8, 2019 15:06
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Moon Slayer posted:"Massively successful film slightly less successful than predecessor. Is the franchise failing???" Yeah thats totally what the post was about, spot on, chum!
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There's absolutely nothing in that article to back up the assertion that it's "struggling to win over the next generation of kids." Toy sales slightly down because Hasbro made a mistake and theme park attendance lower than expected doesn't circling the drain make. Even Solo was a profitable movie. Star Wars is doing fine.
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Aug 8, 2019 15:55
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The shareholders demand blood.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I am looking forward to when Disney gets really desperate in like 2026 and releases Star Wars: The Beep that Booped a movie that features only Ewoks and a bunch of BB-8s that ends on a cliffhanger where all the main characters need somebody to buy them to help them escape certain death. Movie theaters of the future are going to be audience participation, where every seat will have vote buttons and a credit card reader. You have to buy credit and throughout the movie you'll get to vote on how the story goes and you'll even be able to buy toys/merch as soon as you see it on the screen. If you're a superfan of BB-8 now you can invest live into your Star Wars movie-watching experience and have him appear in random scenes in the movie even though he doesn't need to be there. Microtransactions for ideal enjoyment.
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Moon Slayer posted:There's absolutely nothing in that article to back up the assertion that it's "struggling to win over the next generation of kids." Toy sales slightly down because Hasbro made a mistake and theme park attendance lower than expected doesn't circling the drain make. Even Solo was a profitable movie. Star Wars is doing fine. I do think that some of the SW alarmism is a bit much, but as far as toy sales being lower, isn’t that also because more kids just have tablets and stuff? I see that all the time now.
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