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Doggles posted:Papa John's founder, John Schnatter, is reaching out to private equity firms as he eyes buying back his company I'm pretty sure I read that the other shareholders have already introduced a poison pill to prevent exactly this from happening.
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Sep 26, 2018 18:42
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He also publicly blamed their slowing pizza sales on the NFL not taking care of the whole BLM/kneeling thing when it first started. And said that the ACA would directly lead to an increase in costs for the consumer.
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Sep 26, 2018 20:19
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Raldikuk posted:The board of directors instituted it but ya basically in the event of a hostile takeover the board will issue a bunch of shares to the other holders to make it substantially more expensive for him to takeover. I don't remember exact figures but it can easily double the cost to do a takeover. Excuse me, I meant the board did it to protect the other shareholders, my apologies.
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Sep 26, 2018 20:54
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And now I’m really disappointed.
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Sep 26, 2018 23:44
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CNN Money - Sears is Now a Penny Stock Quite a milestone.
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Sep 29, 2018 18:54
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It also may have to do with being dragged by your parents as a kid and having nothing to do, so you just fell asleep in the middle of one of those clothing racks until someone called the police.
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Nov 6, 2018 20:07
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When I was working at U-Haul about fifteen years ago, they would let whoever was closing do the bank deposits at the end of the day. Even if it was the nineteen year old dude who ended up being caught stealing from the vending machines because the owner (of the machines) put razor blades in the chute.
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Nov 16, 2018 16:51
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I work for an international non-profit charity, so I'm privy to the contact information for a lot of people. Trust me when I say that plenty of people over the age of 50 still use AOL email addresses. poo poo, I've even seen a few Hotmails.
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Dec 11, 2018 23:21
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bobjr posted:There was the time Pepsi offered a plane if you got a ridiculous amount of codes, so one guy actually did and they told him to suck it, he’s not getting a plane. No, it was dismissed, and Pepsi took the hint that they better include some more fine print, especially if they're making a joke like that.
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Dec 12, 2018 22:59
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Where do German midget porn enthusiasts stand on the whole dubs versus subs debate?
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Dec 17, 2018 15:36
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FlamingLiberal posted:Now there is reporting that a deal may have been reached at the last minute to stop a liquidation CNN - Sears reaches 11th hour deal to stay in business
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Jan 8, 2019 20:43
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MarcusSA posted:Wriggly field. I'm giggling my tits off at this, help
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Jan 11, 2019 18:59
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Municipalize PG&E yesterday. they've caused too many fires, leaks, explosions and other catastrophes (because money was piped to shareholders and CEOs rather than maintenance) to be allowed to continue as a private company. That they want to raise our rates again is adding insult to injury. They took over operations on Long Island AFTER Hurricane Sandy, so I'm sure that's going to be lovely.
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Jan 14, 2019 21:03
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Yeah, sorry about that, I got the two confused. To be fair, Long Island's electric and gas utilities have changed hands something like five times in the last thirty-five years.
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Jan 14, 2019 22:13
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Randaconda posted:That Lasership company Amazon has been using is some bullshit. Sure, leave my package on the steps, in the rain, without even knocking, that's cool. A metric buttload of people at my job (I work in Lower Manhattan) have their packages from Amazon shipped to the mailroom, and most have them have specifically mentioned Lasership as the reason.
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Jan 22, 2019 18:43
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Krispy Wafer posted:Go back another few years and you've got that same issue with music. The media industry in general was incredibly anti-consumer in how it distributed content. A friend of mine works for Microsoft and take a wild guess what kind of laptops they insist on using.
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Jan 23, 2019 15:40
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Krispy Wafer posted:If they care about hardware failure rates, it's not Surface Pro's. My point was that, similar to the Zune thing, plenty of employees at Microsoft use Macbooks and other Apple laptops almost exclusively.
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Jan 23, 2019 15:59
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TheKennedys posted:Better that than taking the GameStop option of leaving all the Babbages and EB Games open for years and just changing the branding, ensuring there were two GameStops in every mall and at least one more right outside The one outside was always a former Funcoland in my experience.
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Mar 7, 2019 17:56
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Apparently it is, but in a much different form than what I remember. My father used to drink that poo poo all the time once he gave himself diabetes.
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Mar 21, 2019 18:42
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McDonald's screwed themselves by fighting so hard against the $15 minimum wage even though places like NYC just enacted it and other blue states have it going into effect by 2022. They finally stopped opposing it once their hiring issues became bad enough.
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Apr 3, 2019 16:54
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It’s telling that, with all the recent derails in this thread, including the soft drink one, a couple people felt discussing Chick-fil-a funding LGBTQ conversion therapy is way too off-topic and boring.
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Apr 3, 2019 19:47
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Guys, I'm so tired of reading about the fact that my favorite chicken place did some bad things to people I don't care about. Can't I just eat in peace?
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Apr 3, 2019 20:13
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I don't know why you guys have to be such assholes and make me think about the gays while I eat this delicious chicken.
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Apr 3, 2019 20:38
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Donald Trump and Vince McMahon have been friends for over thirty years, Linda McMahon was named head of the Small Business Administration until she resigned this past week to take charge of a Trump 2020 SuperPAC. There has been plenty of talk that one of the reasons Trump went so hard after the NFL, aside from the obvious racism and jingoistic bullshit, is to set up for "an alternative to the NFL" via Vince's XFL.
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Apr 3, 2019 21:06
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Don't talk about my loving candles
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Apr 18, 2019 14:09
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a dingus posted:People have been talking about him doing this for years... why are they only litigating now? That's exactly what I was going to ask. They waited until after Sears is basically an empty walking corpse before taking any legal action?
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Apr 18, 2019 20:39
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Waiter, there's a beak in my rear end
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Apr 19, 2019 19:00
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Yeah, you're supposed to stab it with a crazy straw.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:15
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Not sure if they are circling the drain exactly, but Party City announced they are closing almost a 100 stores. From what I read, the helium shortage is a big reason why. Pre-filled helium balloons is just about the only thing you can't order online.
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May 10, 2019 19:42
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Five and Dimes still sold things that cost more than a nickel or a dime. Or even fifteen cents!
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May 31, 2019 18:25
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GrandpaPants posted:The thing about Gamestop that always bothered me was that even for "new" games, they wouldn't be in shrink and they would pull a random disc or something from a drawer and my definition of new apparently did not match with theirs. How have they gotten away with this for so long? I can’t think of another company that immediately removes all new product from the manufacturer’s packaging, then stores said packaging in one place and the product in another, and then there’s no guarantee the product hasn’t been used or there’s no missing documentation (or anything else) upon purchasing.
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Jun 6, 2019 11:34
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fartknocker posted:What? Were these actual brand new games, or ‘new’ releases that someone had already traded back in? I’d bought a ton of brand new games from GameStop over the years and they were always shrink wrapped and perfect in the packaging, same as they would be in any other store. Of course, they always tried to upsell the extra few dollars worth of insurance, “in case you got a bad disc” which I always turned down. GameStop will actually open brand new games, put the cases in one drawer, the discs in another, and sometimes even remove any literature that was enclosed. They got a bunch of poo poo a few years ago because they were removing the DLC codes from games that were advertised right on the case.
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Jun 6, 2019 14:20
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food court bailiff posted:The confusion probably arises because they don't do it to every copy of a game, just the display copy - but they'll happily sell you the display copy, beat to poo poo from a million people handling it, almost certainly missing any inserts it once had - as new when it's the only copy left in the store. It's not just with display copies. I would hand them a display copy, which they put on the counter. Then they would go into one drawer to get a case, and then another drawer to get the disc in a clear plastic envelope. They'd take the disc out of the envelope, put it in the case, and then put it in the bag. The three or four times I remember this happening, it was a brand new game and I was not the only one in line that experienced it.
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Jun 6, 2019 14:54
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Krispy Wafer posted:I thought they separated the discs from the cases for theft reasons. It’s super easy to slice open a jewel box and extract the CD. That’s not as big a deal for a $15 music or movie disc, but games are $60+ these days. This makes sense for used games in which you're not expecting the case to be factory sealed. For new games, they're sent empty display copies for the theft purpose. Just a few dozen empty cases that are put on the shelf and then taken to the counter by a customer to exchange for, presumably, a brand new copy of the game that hasn't been hosed with.
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Jun 6, 2019 16:54
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fartknocker posted:Yeah, that was my experience. If I was going in for a brand new game, most often a preorder, I would go the counter and say I want Call of Madden 2K69 for Xbox Blah, and they’d unlock a drawer full of brand new, sealed copies of the game just like you would find at any other retailer. This may differ by region or store. The "pre-opening" nonsense is what made me simply order games on Amazon if I want a physical copy or just download them.
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Jun 6, 2019 17:40
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Alaois posted:its people buying the display copy and getting mad that its the display copy So you're just ignoring the several people that have explained that it is not the display copy we're complaining about and that it's actually common practice at certain locations? I even said "It may vary by region or even store" because I can literally give you the addresses of GameStops near me that continue to do what we're talking about. You pick up an empty display case from the shelf, it even says "DISPLAY ONLY" on it. You hand it to the employee who then puts it down on the counter. They then open one drawer to grab an actual brand new empty case, and then another drawer to grab a disc that's in a clear plastic envelope. They then take the disc from the one drawer and put it in the case from the other, complete the purchase, and then put it in a bag for you to take away, all while the DISPLAY ONLY case is still sitting on the counter. I don't care if it's the display copy if that's all that's left. I do care that it's being done for seemingly no reason, unless it's to still pull the same poo poo that they got in trouble for years ago by removing DLC codes and other literature.
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Jun 7, 2019 14:57
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2 Big 2 Box
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Jul 12, 2019 16:45
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BloodBag posted:I remember back in the '90s, working in Radio Shack, how my manager would tell us to stack the RC cars up in the middle of the store so people would run into them. His theory is that people would buy them. I hated that job. What store started this bullshit we've been dealing with over the last twenty years where the policy seems to be "gently caress aisles"? I remember Toys 'R Us being particularly terrible after they redesigned all their stores.
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FilthyImp posted:There was this weird blip in fast food where poo poo like Chipotle was on the rise and MickeyD's was old hat. Subway closed over a thousand stores last year.
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Jul 15, 2019 12:14
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