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Sonic and Dollar General are the only things keeping people in the boonies from actually starving to death
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Apr 6, 2024 14:58
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Biplane posted:Shrinkage COVID-19
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Apr 6, 2024 15:18
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SilentChaz posted:COVID-19 My billions in profi- I mean, no one wants to work anymore
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Apr 6, 2024 15:42
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As the ship slipped beneath the water, the captain muttered “Regulations! beneath his breath as he motored away in his personal life boat, as the crew cried out for help from the frigid waters
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Apr 6, 2024 15:45
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Professor Shark posted:As the ship slipped beneath the water, the captain muttered “Regulations! beneath his breath Pretty much what happened to a small bunch of restaurants around here that were owned by one guy. Most of them suddenly mysteriously closed overnight, with the rest following soon after. There's a small local museum which has a newspaper from the time because it has an article about the museum on the front page, but it shares space with an article about it where this guy is bitching that it was "regulations!" and "minimum wage!" that "forced" him under, which is how I found out he had made these claims. This was his second time getting caught for tax evasion and the restaurants got metaphorically burned down to save his rear end.
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Apr 6, 2024 16:59
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disposablewords posted:Pretty much what happened to a small bunch of restaurants around here that were owned by one guy. Most of them suddenly mysteriously closed overnight, with the rest following soon after. There's a small local museum which has a newspaper from the time because it has an article about the museum on the front page, but it shares space with an article about it where this guy is bitching that it was "regulations!" and "minimum wage!" that "forced" him under, which is how I found out he had made these claims. Sounds like he was too lazy to actually burn down his restaurants for the insurance money. Typical business owner, never wants to put in any effort!!
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Apr 6, 2024 21:08
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There used to be a dollar store near me with giant letters out front saying "EVERY ITEM 99 CENTS AND UP" and I'm still loving pissed off about how meaningless a price FLOOR is in that context. I can go to loving shoprite and find some random poo poo for like a nickel, so should they put up a sign saying "EVERY ITEM 5 CENTS AND UP"? I've probably posted about this on SA before because I am legitimately loving wound up about this.
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Apr 6, 2024 23:23
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As soon as someone screams "regulations," I think "protections, right?"
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Apr 6, 2024 23:28
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If you switch to our product, you can save up to 40% or more per year!
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Apr 7, 2024 01:21
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Sentient Data posted:If you switch to our product, you can save up to 40% or more per year! UP TO 40% OFF!!! selected items (there are three of these (and we cannot move them so any that aren't sold go in the dumpster), everything else is normal price (or marked up and then given a  discount) ) )
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Apr 7, 2024 02:04
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Verus posted:There used to be a dollar store near me with giant letters out front saying "EVERY ITEM 99 CENTS AND UP" and I'm still loving pissed off about how meaningless a price FLOOR is in that context. I can go to loving shoprite and find some random poo poo for like a nickel, so should they put up a sign saying "EVERY ITEM 5 CENTS AND UP"? That reminds me of the time when I worked in a grocery store in high school and had a lady throw a screaming tantrum over two 5 cent cans of potted meat (think off-brand spam, but worse.) See, she couldn't find them in her bags when she went out to her car, and blamed the bagger at the time, who was certain that she had bagged the potted meat and that the customer must have dropped them or just missed them in her bags (they were pretty small!) The punchline of this whole story is that, while I was the scheduled bagger for the day, I was out collecting carts in the parking lot when this happened. The person who bagged the order was the manager on duty. I actually got to witness the "I want to speak with your manager!" "You are." moment as I came back into the store after finishing up. The customer did not get the requested refund.
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Apr 7, 2024 03:58
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Volmarias posted:(or marked up and then given a Harbor Freight and some other retailers caught federal poo poo for that a while back.
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Apr 7, 2024 06:22
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Log082 posted:That reminds me of the time when I worked in a grocery store in high school and had a lady throw a screaming tantrum over two 5 cent cans of potted meat (think off-brand spam, but worse.) one of the few slam dunks when i worked gift shop at a zoo, that was owned by one dude (no not Tiger King), was that he would go around and be the stand-in for people's lunches, or his assistant would be. so one busy day he's in the gift shop/entry covering, and i had just rang out a lady for tickets, and told her she could not bring her food into the zoo; there were huge signs all over about this. baby food, fine. but family size bags of Doritos, no. Bags of McDonalds, no. An entire loving KFC Family Pack with kids already tossing bits of rolls to the ducks in the front ponds? No. Policy was you eat outside, but if you've already paid, we stamp your hand to get you back in. food always ended up being given to the animals, so it was a firm no outside food policy. The lady started with the usual BS about it being for her baby/the kids need it and then went fast to screaming for my manager. I brought her over, manager said the same thing. She demands to speak to her manager now! The owner comes over and gets the story, and calmly tells the woman no outside food, it's on every window, she can come back in after they've eaten. Customer naturally reaches for what always works: "I want to talk to YOUR manager!" My manager says, "Mam, this man owns the zoo." This made the lady go silent for maybe 10 seconds before she started screaming she would call the local news about this. To which the owner reached into his pocket, and gave her the business cards for several of the local news stations so she wouldn't need to look them up, and told her to go ahead, the news people loved coming out to the zoo for free. Lady stormed off. I don't remember if she ever got a refund.
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Apr 7, 2024 06:57
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hawowanlawow posted:Sonic and Dollar General are the only things keeping people in the boonies from actually starving to death So Knuckles and Tails aren't doing poo poo?
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Apr 7, 2024 07:54
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Agents are GO! posted:So Knuckles and Tails aren't doing poo poo? Tails is a Social Darwinist
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Apr 7, 2024 08:41
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Cowslips Warren posted:Almost a few days after Dollar tree announced they were going to raise prices and start selling items at $10 or so, and probably have nothing left at a dollar or under, the $0.99. only store is totally closing down all stores. Over 300 stores. And of course they site covid and raising of the minimum wage is why, and not the fact that 90% of their merchandise can be found at Walmart for cheaper. So no one goes to the $0.99/ dollar store expecting to pay grocery store prices. I'm sure I'm not the typical consumer but I liked 99c Stores not because they were cheap necessarily but because you could often find strange/discontinued/imported stuff that's simply not available anywhere else. I guess Grocery Outlet will have to fill that void for now...
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Apr 7, 2024 13:24
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amaguri posted:I'm sure I'm not the typical consumer but I liked 99c Stores not because they were cheap necessarily but because you could often find strange/discontinued/imported stuff that's simply not available anywhere else. I guess Grocery Outlet will have to fill that void for now... Well you aren’t alone https://lamag.com/news/investor-group-looks-to-save-the-99-cents-only-stores-in-southern-california quote:
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Apr 7, 2024 14:23
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I remember Pic and Save as a kid, and it was rebranded as McFrugals or something stupid? I remember working in a copy center, and every month there was an item we were pushed to sell at the register. Most times it was something stupid, like a $20 flash drive. I tried to explain to my boss that no one is making a loving impulse purchase of a 5GB flash drive for that kind of money. He retorted that studies show people will buy anything if presented right. Maybe so, but if someone is paying $4 for a loving fax, they aren't dropping $20 on a flash drive you can get cheaper anywhere else!
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Apr 7, 2024 14:33
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I think it says a lot about the mindset of "I want to speak to the manager" people that they can't fathom anyone with authority stooping to doing menial work.
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Apr 7, 2024 19:11
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I have definitely pulled the “you would like to speak to the manager? Ok, I’ll go get him”, gone in the back for thirty seconds, then walked back out all “hello, what can I do for you?” (Yes, I was actually the manager in every situation)
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Apr 7, 2024 20:47
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Wowwee you’re so cool.
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Apr 7, 2024 20:55
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Not as cool as someone who makes one-line zinger shitposts. 
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Apr 7, 2024 22:56
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Harbor Freight and some other retailers caught federal poo poo for that a while back. ... Isn't this Kohl's entire business model? E: just looked at a synopsis. I'm amazed, the case was that they provided a "compare to' price that was an inflated value, so they got in trouble because they implied that competitors were expensive, not for marking up and discounting.
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Apr 7, 2024 23:18
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Volmarias posted:... Isn't this Kohl's entire business model? Kohl's business model is to have cheap poo poo on the shelves with high prices, then "discount" half the store every week and hope they can trick you into buying one or two non-discount items so they can make a ton of money in one shot. Their discounts bring products to less than MSRP, but only just, so they still make good money on it. Oh and they also have "Kohl's Cash" which is basically a gatcha game except in real life. Sometimes you get more Kohl's Cash for shopping on certain days or buying certain items, and Kohl's Cash is worth more on certain days (not the same days, mind). It's an elaborate game to keep them top-of-mind and get people who are addicted to the game into the store much more frequently than they otherwise would. It amazes me, my mom and several of my exes are Kohl's devotees, and while they do save a little bit over online shopping they also tend to spend a ton of money at Kohl's to play the game, and they don't recognize that they're in a trap.
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Apr 8, 2024 00:06
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... So, yes.
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Apr 8, 2024 07:47
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Kohl's business model is to have cheap poo poo on the shelves with high prices, then "discount" half the store every week and hope they can trick you into buying one or two non-discount items so they can make a ton of money in one shot. Their discounts bring products to less than MSRP, but only just, so they still make good money on it. Hazard Frought tools did something similar, but legally different, they had a Carpenter's Dreidel whose actual price was $10, and if you go into the store it's always $10. Except on the monthly sale flyer, wherein it was lisr price of $20, discounted to $9.99, what a bargain! Turns out, that's illegal!
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Apr 8, 2024 11:43
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https://twitter.com/Factschaser/status/1782247551896269052 No proof yet but if this pans out it's going to be a bad time at Tesla.
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Apr 23, 2024 04:40
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/Factschaser/status/1782247551896269052 Doesn't some agency get really pissed at anyone messing with odometers?
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Apr 23, 2024 05:41
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It’s me posting the tweets by the guy named Fact Chaser whose profile warns you about his “controversial” tweets
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Apr 23, 2024 05:59
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That's musk's key demographic, if he's losing them it's a bad sign
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Apr 23, 2024 06:24
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Embracer just dumped nearly a billion in debt onto Asmodee and spun it off to die and take all the debt with it. Anyone want to buy the IP to a whole bunch of old board games?
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Apr 23, 2024 06:28
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Comstar posted:Embracer just dumped nearly a billion in debt onto Asmodee and spun it off to die and take all the debt with it. Cool. According to one guy on bgg: quote:For those who haven't been keeping track of this inside baseball: Same ol' story of just acquisition and financial creativity, then sorta just shrugging before the looting starts. Forgot what they called it on The Sopranos. doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 07:26 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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Apr 23, 2024 07:24
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Comstar posted:Embracer just dumped nearly a billion in debt onto Asmodee and spun it off to die and take all the debt with it. Not just board games. All tabletop Star Wars games (Shatterpoint, Legion, X-Wing, Armada) plus Marvel’s Crisis Protocol, plus Settlers of Catan, plus a ton of other board games.
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Apr 23, 2024 09:38
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doctorfrog posted:Cool. According to one guy on bgg: A bust out.
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Apr 23, 2024 12:55
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https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1782823975644709064
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doctorfrog posted:Cool. According to one guy on bgg: Of course that man is still employed
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