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muscles like this! posted:Years ago I was browsing the videogame section of Best Buy and they had something similar with fake game slipcases you would put over the real game. I, uh, want this.
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And when there was only one set of footprints? That was when I had to drop a deuce.
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Hate yourself, and enjoy being disgusted? Want to watch a skilled bartender make the three worst cocktails ever invented? Have I got the video for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtxfPJZJtK0
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dialhforhero posted:I, uh, want this. https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Tauntaun-Full-Sleeping/dp/B00A2URI7G/ $250 on Amazon
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Shaddak posted:Hate yourself, and enjoy being disgusted? Want to watch a skilled bartender make the three worst cocktails ever invented? Have I got the video for you! The first two are definitely gross, but that last one made me feel slightly ill just watching him. Dude is brave.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:The first two are definitely gross, but that last one made me feel slightly ill just watching him. Dude is brave. Yeah, same. For the first two, my reaction was basically just "Yeah, that looks bad but, whatever." Number three made me want to gag.
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We made up a "gay russian" once, vodka with just enough pepto bismol to give it color. Not good.
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Inceltown posted:That's the smartest way to do your product market testing ever. It reminds me of what happened with Adult Swim and Toonami. About eight or nine years ago Adult Swim brought Toonami back for their annual April Fools Day prank, rerunning the old shows it aired in like 2001. It proved so popular that within a few months it was brought back as their late night Saturday programming block and has remained since.
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muscles like this! posted:A nerd toy website did a thing where for April Fool's Day they mocked up this: This has happened several times to ThinkGeek's April Fools day items over the years.
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I'm the president of a company, who doesn't understand uhh whatever the gently caress sisäänheittotuote is in English. E: a "loss leader"? Uhh OK.
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After googling that word, yes loss leader would be the appropriate translation. An item sold at low or even possibly a loss in order to get people in so they'll buy other products that have much better margins.
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A weird loss leader though because if the price hasn't changed in 35 years then at $1.50 it would have originally been a regular price. It didn't start as a loss leader.
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Does it apply here though? I imagine the customers' thought process is more "Well, I'm at Costco and hungry, might as well have a hot dog" rather than "I'll go to Costco for a hot dog and maybe pick up a TV while I'm there." edit: good point in post above mine too.
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Lobok posted:A weird loss leader though because if the price hasn't changed in 35 years then at $1.50 it would have originally been a regular price. It didn't start as a loss leader. Wait, wait, wait... are you telling me their business strategy on breaded man-snausages may have changed at some point in the last 35 years?! Man, this cappy-lissem, or whatever it's called, is a fickle mistress.
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Trabant posted:Does it apply here though? I imagine the customers' thought process is more "Well, I'm at Costco and hungry, might as well have a hot dog" rather than "I'll go to Costco for a hot dog and maybe pick up a TV while I'm there." Marketing works in mysterious ways. My only contact with Costco is goons talking about the cheap hot dogs every time grocery shopping is mentioned.
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I'd say it has more to do with branding than being a loss leader. I.E. a "Costco $1.50 hot dog" is a thing, and a thing that makes customers think fondly of Costco. To raise the price kills all of that good will. Also, Costco is a big enough company that they can take the financial hit. And the CEO is probably just nostalgic for his $1.50 hot dogs and doesn't need the ivory backscratchers that a price raise would give him. I could be very wrong on both of those points though.
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Would rather splurge on this 2 dollah dawg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN4B-s4xKME
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Trabant posted:Does it apply here though? I imagine the customers' thought process is more "Well, I'm at Costco and hungry, might as well have a hot dog" rather than "I'll go to Costco for a hot dog and maybe pick up a TV while I'm there." I see someone has never encountered the Bunnings Sausage.
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Baron von Eevl posted:We made up a "gay russian" once, vodka with just enough pepto bismol to give it color. Not good.  If you've not tried it, it's frigging awesome, and can be subbed for Baileys for whatever use you want. I needed to find something as an alternative for the caramel schnapps, so I plugged "Liqueur Caramel Overtones" into google as a search-string. Pages and pages of caramel schnapps, but the first result for my cocktail called the Brokeback Mountain that wasn't schnapps was....  Mount Gay Rum 
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In all honesty as well Costco can probably write off the loss on the dogs against taxes anyway since they probably somehow class them as a marketing expense or something.
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Mount Gay is pretty good (for rhum) and one of the oldest brands.
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A top tier disgusting drink is the Sewage Pipe: A green-brown frothy sludge, tastes pretty good though
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Sams Club used to have great Nathan's Hot dogs, then changed over to another brand, which was still pretty good. Then another brand that was.....acceptable, now it's loving garbage. Well, I say " now". The food area at Sams hasnt been open in 6 months.
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Cable Guy posted:
it was named after this dude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Alleyne,_1st_Baronet and it's pretty good rum
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Johnny Aztec posted:Sams Club used to have great Nathan's Hot dogs, then changed over to another brand, which was still pretty good. edit: blatman posted:it was named after this dude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Alleyne,_1st_Baronet and it's pretty good rum
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Must be why he started saying "beam me up, Scotty" Scotty: what's "up" Kirk?
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There's also Mount Gay Extra Old which for some reason they felt the need to abbreviate as Mount Gay XO
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Like literally every other alcohol producer? Shocking.
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Cable Guy posted:I worked on a bar some years ago... they had a cocktail competition and I decided I wanted to do a variation on the 'Cowboy Cocksucker' which I'd call the Brokeback Mountain. I wanted to use Amarula as a substitute for Baileys.... Yeah, that's a thing. I can't say if it's any good or not because I'm only familiar with it because Josh Thurlow won't shut up about it.
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hot dog talk: we had something similar in Poland with 1zł (about 0.3$) hot dog in ikea, the price was like that for years until earlier this year when it rose to 2zł which was a big deal for lots of people, thanks for reading random polish trivia
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RustyKnight posted:hot dog talk: we had something similar in Poland with 1zł (about 0.3$) hot dog in ikea, the price was like that for years until earlier this year when it rose to 2zł which was a big deal for lots of people, thanks for reading random polish trivia It's a thing in US Ikeas also 
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BrigadierSensible posted:I'd say it has more to do with branding than being a loss leader. Also there's the thing where you have to pick where you're getting the tv from, the hotdog place or the not hotdog place.
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The "not actual size" disclaimer is priceless, however
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Splicer posted:I wonder if it keeps you in the store longer. You go in for a tv, get your hotdog, well you can't carry the TV out with this hotdog, oh hey look a blender. Not quite a loss leader but I'd assume there's a term for it. I think with places like CostCo hotdogs and Bunning's snags it starts out that way but gets to a point that not doing it would be marketing suicide because literally everyone expects them.
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Who What Now posted:When you nut in space it push you back When you nut on Earth, it pushes you back. 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I think with places like CostCo hotdogs and Bunning's snags it starts out that way but gets to a point that not doing it would be marketing suicide because literally everyone expects them. I always thought that Bunnings don't do the sausage sizzle themselves. It is always fundraising for a local scout troop, or footy club, or fire fighters, or the CWA in rural areas etc. Bunnings just let them use the outside of their store because it's good for business for everyone concerned.
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Speaking of Amarula, here's animals getting drink on the fruit, Marula. https://youtu.be/AIDJ-sTuoO8
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RustyKnight posted:hot dog talk: we had something similar in Poland with 1zł (about 0.3$) hot dog in ikea, the price was like that for years until earlier this year when it rose to 2zł which was a big deal for lots of people, thanks for reading random polish trivia Australian IKEA put the dogs up from $1 to $2 and it must have gone so badly for them that they put them back down to $1.
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