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BMan posted:comes out of the loving ground! you cannot lose!
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PokeJoe posted:My dad is an IRL machinst. What's it called when I call him and ask him how to machine a part and then I do it informal ad hoc apprenticeship is that buzzy enough
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Achmed Jones posted:we've always gotten along, but this hurts target purchased the canadian chain "zellers" for some ungodly sum so that they had this huge nationwide presence, then hosed up their supply chain so badly that there was literally nothing on the shelves for like nine months, then they shut them all down and now there aren't any targets in canada
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Truman Peyote posted:target purchased the canadian chain "zellers" for some ungodly sum so that they had this huge nationwide presence, then hosed up their supply chain so badly that there was literally nothing on the shelves for like nine months, then they shut them all down and now there aren't any targets in canada god remember zellers restaurants? friggin' want a hot chicken sandwich now
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As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart
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Jan 14, 2022 09:37
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Spice World War II posted:As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart same in hellworld UK and once a year I get an email saying "congrats, you are the number 1 purchaser of X at your local superstore!" which is pretty funny. apparently my most frequent purchase is spring onions which I can only assume is because it doesn't have a generic item for "booze"
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Spice World War II posted:As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart in canuckistan we have to do the individual scanning of items at the self checkout like freedomlanders but we've also had tap and before that chip and pin and tap for credit and debit cards for about as long as europe has because we already had a national interbank/point of sale system that was pretty easy to update in one big go when those technologies showed up. I haven't been to a shop that hasn't supported tap in probably eight or nine years, and swipe bank cards for using direct debit at point of sale haven't existed since 2012 we haven't quite managed europe levels of shopping convenience but we're at least capable of doing point of sale stuff right
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:and once a year I get an email saying "congrats, you are the number 1 purchaser of X at your local superstore!" which is pretty funny. oh i like that idea "congrats, you are the number one purchaser of [PETITE PECKER BRAND XX-SMALL CONDOMS] in the entire country! you have now been made mayor of [PETITE PECKER BRAND XX-SMALL CONDOMS] and will show up as the official brand ambassador on our website!"
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Truman Peyote posted:target purchased the canadian chain "zellers" for some ungodly sum so that they had this huge nationwide presence, then hosed up their supply chain so badly that there was literally nothing on the shelves for like nine months, then they shut them all down and now there aren't any targets in canada it was astoundingly bad, and southern ontarians were excited about target coming in. it should have been a slam dunk but instead businesses like canadian tire persist and walmart has further taken over :/ (walmart here is, while still an awful shopping experience in a lot of ways, better on average than walmarts in the usa though)
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Shame Boy posted:oh i like that idea the big data insights we deserve
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Cold on a Cob posted:it was astoundingly bad, and southern ontarians were excited about target coming in. it should have been a slam dunk but instead businesses like canadian tire persist and walmart has further taken over :/ If I remember right, wasn't Zellers also seen as a less desirable brand and Target taking all those spots inherited some of that feeling even before the logistics gently caress ups?
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zellers was always a "discount" department store, but afaik no worse than target is in the states. the issue was the top to bottom failure to launch, no inventory in massive stores, and higher prices than cross-border consumers were used to seeing in american target stores they were selling similar items for higher prices than walmart, in stores that were often at most a kilometre or two from a walmart. they were more expensive for common items that zellers themselves had carried in those same stores months earlier.
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Spice World War II posted:As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart meijer stores have that and it rules. nothing like having everyone give you the side eye when you slide up to the 12 items or less self scan with a full cart
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Kazinsal posted:god remember zellers restaurants? friggin' want a hot chicken sandwich now
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MononcQc posted:as a Canadian, lol target
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Spice World War II posted:As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart walmart has this but you have to subscribe to walmart plus to get it
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Spice World War II posted:As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart these user stories are getting out of hand
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Jan 14, 2022 15:28
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my local grocery store has that, but you use a hand scanner. i don't think you can use your phone but idk. it also makes buying produce annoying since you have to weigh and print out a label rather than just doing it at the register. idk whatever
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weighing and printing out the label is fun! maybe thats just me. like to me "printing" means black and white on letter paper so anything fancier, like thermal printers and label printers, is magical and full of wonder
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Jan 14, 2022 15:49
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Spice World War II posted:As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart instacart shoppers check out this way in regular grocery stores in the US too. they probably don’t let individuals do it because makes theft a little easier.
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kdrudy posted:If I remember right, wasn't Zellers also seen as a less desirable brand and Target taking all those spots inherited some of that feeling even before the logistics gently caress ups? the thing i remember is more affluent people actually getting excited about target coming because they viewed it as "discount but not trashy" unlike walmart, zellers, etc
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Cold on a Cob posted:the thing i remember is more affluent people actually getting excited about target coming because they viewed it as "discount but not trashy" unlike walmart, zellers, etc yeah my mom is one of those types and she loving haaaaates walmart but just purely for 'they're so trashy' terriblereasons
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah my mom is one of those types and she loving haaaaates walmart but just purely for 'they're so trashy' terriblereasons trashy isn't really the right word, they're just so understaffed that nothing gets stocked and you have to dodge pallets in the middle of the floor. also, they have weird walmart only versions of a lot of major brands so you can't actually trust anything purchased from them to be any good. target at least has the "real" products.
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No, she actually hates going to walmart because 'poor people are ugly and fat' and she doesn't want to be around their customers
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welp bad news about targets too, but maybe thats just because i live where targets are more common than grocery stores
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target is basically the slightly upscale walmart. they treat their employees about 5% better than walmart (so, still terribly) and the merch is about 5% better quality than walmart. the big thing is that they spend a little bit of money on branding and making the stores look nice so people can shop there and feel "at least im not shopping at loving walmart"
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Spice World War II posted:As a German, I just scan all the EAN codes on the items I grab in the store with my phone and then scan the "checkout code" at the self-checkout and throw cash into/hold my credit/debit card or phone next to the automated register and leave. The American empire truly is falling apart my parents do that but im not installing a grocery app on my phone. they will never get my email address!
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Jonny 290 posted:No, she actually hates going to walmart because 'poor people are ugly and fat' and she doesn't want to be around their customers wow sounds like you need to buy her a working monitor
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FMguru posted:target is basically the slightly upscale walmart. they treat their employees about 5% better than walmart (so, still terribly) and the merch is about 5% better quality than walmart. the big thing is that they spend a little bit of money on branding and making the stores look nice so people can shop there and feel "at least im not shopping at loving walmart" it dawned on me the only material difference is in how target refuses to pile poo poo on skids in the middle of the aisles
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ive had pretty good luck with target brand clothes. i had some mossimo shirts that were good. also had good luck with kohls brands. walmart brands werent near as good this information is way out of date though, idk if it's still that way
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kitten smoothie posted:it dawned on me the only material difference is in how target refuses to pile poo poo on skids in the middle of the aisles nah, if you go buy say a 24" screen from target it'll be the normal xyz24 instead of the walmart exclusive xyz24a which is 720p
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we went to a macy's in a mall san jose when we lived there. it was the single worst store ive ever been in. the bottom floor was completely empty of humans other than us and one woman who was kinda poking around. clothes were on racks just kind of haphazardly shoved together in huge rows. some of them were knocked over. everything was dirty, lights were flickering, and there were boxes laying around. it was fuckin weird. orders of magnitude worse than any walmart ive been to.
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hobbesmaster posted:nah, if you go buy say a 24" screen from target it'll be the normal xyz24 instead of the walmart exclusive xyz24a which is 720p it’s this
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Jonny 290 posted:No, she actually hates going to walmart because 'poor people are ugly and fat' and she doesn't want to be around their customers I'm wondering where she shops that people aren't fat and ugly.
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Achmed Jones posted:we went to a macy's in a mall san jose when we lived there. it was the single worst store ive ever been in. the bottom floor was completely empty of humans other than us and one woman who was kinda poking around. clothes were on racks just kind of haphazardly shoved together in huge rows. some of them were knocked over. everything was dirty, lights were flickering, and there were boxes laying around. it was fuckin weird. orders of magnitude worse than any walmart ive been to. There was a local department store, Kaufmann's, that had an eight story flagship building with everything under the sun from furniture to furs. Macy's bought them and just utterly destroyed that building within five years. By the time they closed the location only two floors were open and the rest of the building was cordoned off and slowly rotting. Supposedly they did that with Wannamakers in Philadelphia too.
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macys whole business model is anything that's not their store brand is managed and staffed by the brands themselves so a macys store is actually dozens of microstores with the same point of sale system and someone who works for calvin klein has no interest in picking up a bunch of adidas crap someone dropped in the aisle
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i thought the core issue with walmart was the whole thing where they turn small towns into walmart company towns, suck all the resources out of the place, then close the store, not "its so trashy"
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rotor posted:i thought the core issue with walmart was the whole thing where they turn small towns into walmart company towns, suck all the resources out of the place, then close the store, not "its so trashy" that and making suppliers offers they can't refuse until they're entirely dependent on selling exclusively to walmart
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rotor posted:i thought the core issue with walmart was the whole thing where they turn small towns into walmart company towns, suck all the resources out of the place, then close the store, not "its so trashy" both things can be true And yeah they closed all those loving neighborhood markets because they did their job, which was to murder the corner stores and make people drive over to the Supercenter
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