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Iron Crowned posted:
The local trouble maker church (called this because they protest everything and often stand of street corners preaching end of world type poo poo) once had some of their people protesting my cousin's video store because of porn. Except that his store didn't, and hadn't rented it for several years. He eliminated that section when he bought the place. The police made them leave when they threw a rock at the front window. stevewm has a new favorite as of 15:04 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Oct 18, 2019 13:16
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about 5 years ago there was a big hullabaloo because some pearl clutchers discovered that Family Video had been renting porn this whole time
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Family Video has a policy of owning their buildings, so they never have to worry about rent. There were two in my <40K town, one closed but the other is still open because they have several store fronts in their plot they rent out.InediblePenguin posted:don't they rent Christian edits for small-town fundies
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Oct 18, 2019 14:58
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In Melbourne we had two major chains, Blockbuster and Video Ezy, and an assortment of independent stores. The independent stores mostly died out by the end of the 90s, Blockbuster closing most of their stores around 2010. Video Ezy still hangs on somehow with rental kiosks.
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Oct 18, 2019 15:27
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The town and county my cousin's little video store is in recently got access to gigabit fiber. It has actually hurt his business quite a bit. He used to have $1,000 weekends ($1k in sales a day is a FANTASTIC amount for a small video store!) to where he is lucky if he gets $400 a day. He has been questioning if its going to last much longer.
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Oct 18, 2019 16:43
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Silly Newbie posted:On a related note, anyone know how Family Video is still alive and apparently thriving?
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Oct 18, 2019 17:10
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CommissarMega posted:wtf this is a real place The owner hurt his back like a decade ago, and yoga and Pilates is what really brought him back after therapy, and Pilates in particular is what did the most good and allowed him to lose weight and feel better so he just sort of kept going with it. Also, we had a Family Video I had been going to semi-regular lately, only to find that it closed like a month and half ago and is now going to be another loving Auto Zone or some such.
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Oct 18, 2019 18:17
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In the 90's, the grocery stores in my town had mini video rental places either off to the side, or even in the middle somewhere, like their own walled off little shop. They also sold some videogames.
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Oct 19, 2019 00:11
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Video games in grocery stores used to be pretty common over here - the selection was always really crappy, though. And they also had regular software.
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Oct 19, 2019 00:17
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God I miss arcades right now. There are "barcades" but they're almost always the same 10 lovely games that are cheap to maintain/repair/replace.
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Oct 19, 2019 00:21
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mind the walrus posted:God I miss arcades right now. There are "barcades" but they're almost always the same 10 lovely games that are cheap to maintain/repair/replace. Not to mention the screens are covered in beer because they never get cleaned. I want to like the only local barcade because they have good beer but the place is tiny and the selection of games is stale.
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Oct 19, 2019 00:48
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mind the walrus posted:God I miss arcades right now. There are "barcades" but they're almost always the same 10 lovely games that are cheap to maintain/repair/replace. Check to see if there is (or will be) a Round 1 Entertainment Center near you. Japanese arcade chain loaded with games and purikura (Fancy rear end photobooth) machines
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Oct 19, 2019 01:01
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Looks like there's one an hour away. I'll have to call to see what games they have, but that's really promising thank you.
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Oct 19, 2019 01:20
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what was the place that rented Christian edits then? or was it a netflix clone
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Oct 19, 2019 02:13
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I think you're thinking of Cleanflix, which sold edited dvds. Watch the documentary if you haven't BTW, it has one hell of a twist.
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Oct 19, 2019 02:20
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This is as good an excuse as any to link the song Video Bargainville. https://youtu.be/6vkJrXVwnAo
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Oct 19, 2019 03:28
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WeBrokequote:WeWork could run out of cash as early as next month without new financing, sources have said, after the company pulled plans in September for an initial public offering (IPO). It abandoned the IPO when investors questioned its large losses, the sustainability of its business model and the way WeWork was being run by its co-founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, who now serves as board chairman.
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Lambert posted:Video games in grocery stores used to be pretty common over here - the selection was always really crappy, though. And they also had regular software. I got Star Ocean II at a Kroger, and it became one of my favorite video games.  Edit: I also got Gex Gecko and Spyro there, so they’re hit and miss, I guess. Space Robot has a new favorite as of 02:01 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Oct 20, 2019 01:57
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:It abandoned the IPO when investors questioned its large losses, the sustainability of its business model and the way WeWork was being run by its co-founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, who now serves as board chairman. It's almost as if they should have questioned those things before investing billions of dollars. 
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Oct 20, 2019 03:48
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There’s a good chance it’ll still survive because it’s become Too Big To Fail for SoftBank. The question now is whether JPMorgan or SoftBank gets to be the next one to pour billions into it.
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Oct 20, 2019 15:34
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They’ve got a couple of billion in VC funding and still have a valuation of 10 to 20 billion. Unless the whole thing is a scam (possible) it’s not going down. It just means any additional funding is going to buy a larger stake which means somebody else’s share just got smaller. Kind of like that scene in The Social Network where Andrew Garfield’s share gets diminished.
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Oct 20, 2019 19:56
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Krispy Wafer posted:They’ve got a couple of billion in VC funding and still have a valuation of 10 to 20 billion. Unless the whole thing is a scam (possible) it’s not going down. It just means any additional funding is going to buy a larger stake which means somebody else’s share just got smaller. Heh, that was a pretty fun scene. “Hey man just sign this paper about your ownership shares.” “Ok. I won’t read this.”
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Oct 20, 2019 20:56
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MoviePass is apparently still charging some people's cards with the monthly fee. I am sure some people wouldn't have ever noticed, billed foreverily and loving it
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Oct 20, 2019 21:15
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So, two companies that look like they are circling the drain are Aurora Cannabis and Canopy Growth, two pot companies that have come to dominate Canada's market on it. One's lost 50% of market value in the year, the other has lost a little bit more than that. Both are stocks that all the stock picker websites are trumpeting, saying they will be enormous business in 15-20 years. I just don't get how, if they're doing so poorly stockwise, are they going to survive that long?
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Oct 20, 2019 22:43
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Why the sharp drop in value? Isn't cannabis on an upswing up North?
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Oct 20, 2019 22:55
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rotinaj posted:So, two companies that look like they are circling the drain are Aurora Cannabis and Canopy Growth, two pot companies that have come to dominate Canada's market on it. One's lost 50% of market value in the year, the other has lost a little bit more than that. Both are stocks that all the stock picker websites are trumpeting, saying they will be enormous business in 15-20 years. I just don't get how, if they're doing so poorly stockwise, are they going to survive that long? mind the walrus posted:Why the sharp drop in value? Isn't cannabis on an upswing up North? I haven't been following too closely but from what I gather investors started piling in a couple years ago on the expectation that full legalization in Canada would be a money fountain and full legalization in the U.S. was just around the corner. All those investors buying in created a speculative bubble that drove the stock price way above what the underlying business was worth. But the super young Canadian market was a lot rougher than expected and U.S. legalization continues to be elusive, so instead of just printing free money the Canadian cannabis companies have just been quietly trucking along making about as money as before. So the speculators that were pushing the price up started bailing and the price has deflated to previous levels.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:41
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Canopy Growth also fired their CEO because he wanted to invest for long term growth instead of short term profits so now they don't really have a direction except get weed money now somehow. https://www.thestar.com/business/op...story-here.html quote:By April, Constellation had earned a $1.7-billion profit on its 38 per cent stake in Canopy.
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Oct 21, 2019 01:03
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Not surprising. Most people view pot as a quick n' easy flash in the pan, no one actually wants to stick around and cater to stoners long-term.
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Oct 21, 2019 01:15
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There's also the fact that long-term investment is basically seeking to make pot as acceptable and normalized as tobacco or alcohol... and with that brings a bunch of questions about dosage, standardization, and an overall change in culture that might not be worth it.
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Oct 21, 2019 01:25
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Also add in what happened to WA when they legalized, poo poo started out at like $25/g because it was following black market pricing+tax, and is now less than $7/g because the market stabilized.
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Oct 21, 2019 04:24
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Dannywilson posted:Also add in what happened to WA when they legalized, poo poo started out at like $25/g because it was following black market pricing+tax, and is now less than $7/g because the market stabilized. Anyone that wasn't expecting that, being one of the main selling points of legalization, would be foolish.
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Volmarias posted:Anyone that wasn't expecting that, being one of the main selling points of legalization, would be foolish. It’s called being a capitalist
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Oct 21, 2019 04:55
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I needed a new keyboard so I stopped by the local Fry's. They had one open box keyboard for over $125. I checked out a few other parts of the store. No mice, three spindles of blu-rays, one security camera kit, almost no porn. And lots of generic non-elecronic crap that nobody ever buys.
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Oct 21, 2019 08:25
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Seems like they're really working on preventing choice paralysis - a bold new direction, obviously the company is doing great! Guess we'll soon know whether that video guy was right and the company will be wound down after black friday.
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Oct 21, 2019 08:40
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fry's is definitely dead as a doornail
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Oct 21, 2019 09:31
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I've seen hospice patients with more life than that photo
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Oct 21, 2019 10:02
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Xenoletum posted:Check to see if there is (or will be) a Round 1 Entertainment Center near you. Japanese arcade chain loaded with games and purikura (Fancy rear end photobooth) machines We have one opening soon (or they may in fact be soft opened already) . . . .but looking at the prices for bowling, man all the run down Arizona places that have been getting away with charging almost $20 a game for 2 games of bowling gotta be shook. I kind of like those old places if I'm being real, but they basically tripled the price to bowl since I moved here and they're honestly pretty bad to be in so I guess I won't be too sad to see them circle the drain.
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Oct 21, 2019 10:32
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If Fry’s follows the m.o. of other electronic store closings they’ll hire a third party to run the liquidation who invariably brings in their own cheap inventory to sell at 20% off MSRP. The upside being Fry’s may actually have something to sell.
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Oct 21, 2019 10:41
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Dannywilson posted:Also add in what happened to WA when they legalized, poo poo started out at like $25/g because it was following black market pricing+tax, and is now less than $7/g because the market stabilized. lol NY and Massachusetts are discussing legislating price minimums "to prevent availability leading to increased use" aka "to prevent any future loss of tax money" (e: the former is a legit concept but lol if i believe it's the government's true motivation)
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InediblePenguin posted:lol NY and Massachusetts are discussing legislating price minimums "to prevent availability leading to increased use" aka "to prevent any future loss of tax money" (e: the former is a legit concept but lol if i believe it's the government's true motivation)
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I mean a sin tax is one thing but this is "20% tax AND ALSO btw we're going to tell you how much to sell for so we can be sure that 20% is a big enough dollar amount"
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