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Seriously malls. I can't think of anything that you can buy in a mall that isn't cheaper and more easily accessible somewhere else except maybe designer clothes and Brookstone wastes of money.
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Professor Shark posted:Lena Dunham molested her sister in her own book and freaked out at people for saying it was molestation, I wish really badly that Lena Dunham was circling the drain, dammit HBO You shut the gently caress up, Shark. T mobile
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I doubt Blockbuster would have knocked out Netflix, but after reading that article I can definitely imagine a world where we have Netflix alongside BlockBuster on Demand, or a re-branded version of the same company. Family Video is still doing pretty well in my area, and they are essentially doing what Blockbuster tried to do. A lot of in stock movies, you can buy them, and a nice little area for free kids movies, merchandise, and so on. Its always busy and I've even used them myself. The problem is it seemed that the management on Blockbuster was just searching for their golden parachute and the company crumbled as a result.
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Jun 27, 2016 07:24
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This was interesting to me when i worked at best buy. It used to be the salesmen would get seminars on stuff, the big name reps would come in with some swag and training and it was a Big Deal to work there. I came in on the tail end of that and you could eee the vesitges of the old system there. Intel offered like 80% off their new i7 series processors and youd only get it if you took their training courses. Thats a huge deal, right? Their training was actually on point and made you feel knowledgeable about the product. The thing was you had to do it all on your own for any of these training programs. The store wanted you to sell more stuff and warranties and cards. The employee had to be passionate on their own to actually become good sales people. I dont think they even offer that kind of thing for their employees anymore and they wonder why people hate going in there.
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Jun 29, 2016 23:25
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nigga crab pollock posted:its like walking into a used car lot staffed by rear end in a top hat 19 year olds Yeah Best Buy used to own but now its just as you describe it, teenagers and disinterested people trying to please their management. Thing is, I'd still shop there, but not because of their employees. It'd be a little bit nostalgia but also because their prices really aren't that bad anymore. Because of the online thing a lot of stores aren't really super high priced. Do your own research, go in, grab your item, boom done. Just don't touch any of the crap like warranties or whatever. I do find some of the company plans are decent though. CVS is pretty decent. Same with Petsmart. THey are free and for the privilege of them sending stuff to my spam email I get $6 off a $19 bag of cat food. I'll take it.
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Jun 30, 2016 18:48
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What is the official reason that they don't allow Loss Prevention to tackle or stop people who are stealing? I get not having an untrained person do it, but isnt' that legit hte one position they could legally have stop a customer?
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Jul 26, 2016 05:43
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But if the guy is legit stealing, isn't that still a win for the store? Aren't you allowed to use physical (not lethal) force to prevent a theft?
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Jul 26, 2016 06:06
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Cliff Racer posted:And if the employee gets injured while doing it the store might end up paying thousands of dollars. To do what? Stop the guy stealing twenty dollar pants? Fair enough.
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Jul 26, 2016 06:11
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Just heard thr This American Life bit about. L Bean and their forever return policy. They are doing fine but its pretty crazy you can return 15 year old merch.
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Aug 1, 2016 07:10
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Fasdar posted:I mean for gently caress's sake the problem isn't capitalism, it's this fantasy football version of reality that venture capitalists and shareholders live in. Capitalism is great for moving money and goods around with minimal ritualism and institutionalization, and a fantastic game for encouraging novel approaches to old problems. But when you get shareholders involved it strips every shred of humanity from the system, negates truly creative impulses, and reduces everything to some min/maxed version of a once useful system. LOL if you don't think violence is required to fix this.
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Aug 2, 2016 04:31
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Professor Shark posted:Walmart employees don't invest or save because they're poor as gently caress and slowly drowning Its this. Its not that people don't want to invest its that the extra $50 this month is gas in the tank, and they need that gas in the tank more than they need the ~$13000 in 30 years (lol if they work at the same job that long to actually cash that amount out)
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Aug 4, 2016 22:27
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Want to talk bullshit metrics talk about employee satisfaction surveys. They say they are anonymous (they arent). They say they read the comments (they dont). They simply take the numbers most beneficisl to them and laud how great it is for everyone. Its really depressing.
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Aug 11, 2016 02:36
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I find, and studies show, that people are less likely to be dickheads and take advantage if they feel they are being fairly compensated in pay and benefits. A lot lf that can be out of the first line supervisors hands though, so they can get shat on due to higher up decisions. Also im sure the goon is a "lenient boss" but i dont think there is a supervisor or manager alive that DOESN'T say "i have an open door policy/you can talk to me about anything/i will work with you". All say that and Iike 1% are able to actually live up to it.
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Aug 15, 2016 13:49
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Ryoshi posted:I BOUGHT A BAD TV ONCE THIS MEANS WAL MART IS BAD Nah they legit bought the bottom of the line electronics but made sure the name brand was on it. For examplr samsung would have a 46 inch hd tv with all the trimmings and specs listed. Best Buy, HH. gregg, nebraska furniture mart etc. Would have it at say $600. Wal nart would have a samsung 44 inch, not found nearly anywhere else, that showcased some lf thr same stats but none of the features and asked $499. I mean it's a different tv and if you dont care about the extras fine whatever, but they legit were different products and Walmart doesnt stock the good stuff. I suspect this goes beyond just tvs too.
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Aug 27, 2016 12:48
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Ryoshi posted:hmm yes but if you actually bother reading the thread you will notice that this was not what that dude was claiming, at all, he actually said that the model numbers would be identical for different qualities of product Well if you look at it, it CAN be hard to spot. Best buy: Ln46650A1 Walmart Ln4650g3 A quick glance it does look similar and that isnt a mistake.
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Aug 27, 2016 16:12
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PallasAthene posted:Isn't this partly to keep all of Wal-Mart's competitors happy, too? My brother used to work at a Cabela's and people would ask them to price-match guns from Wal-Mart all the time. What the gun companies started doing was selling the same basic rifle, say a Remington 700 ADL with a plastic stock, to Wal-Mart, Bass Pro, Dick's, and Cabela's. Each company would sell a gun with a different UPC, but the only difference was what camo pattern the stock came in (one would be in Mossy Oak Break Up, one in Realtree HD, one in Army ACU, one would be Mossy Oak Brush, etc) so that that when someone brought in a Wal-Mart ad to price match, they could say "Sorry, that's a different model, ours is Army camo and that's Mossy Oak." Absolutely, the difference is with electronics you genuinely did get an inferior versiom at wal mart va a best buy.
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Aug 27, 2016 17:52
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RandomPauI posted:If you don't understand why companies might make stuff specifically for Walmart this might help. If it doesn't help you at all then there's nothing else I can do. Everyone else just skip this post. This right here is what i was talking about. Skip all the idiotic posts by Interceptor and read my last posts like 4 pages ago actually understand how it works for Walmart. I mentioned electronics between retailers. An even easier example is apparel. Clothing manufacturers switch quality, volume, and styles on the same goddam lines. The same factory makes the same brand of jeans for two different companies and they are two different retail prices because they are literally made differently with different materials. All under the same brand.
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Aug 28, 2016 13:00
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Its objectively true that walmart and other big box stores get lower quality goods.
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fits my needs posted:If there's anyone's word you can trust on this issue, it's the word of a fat Iowan insurance salesman. I'm not really that fat though  Not fat enough to be described as a fat guy. Take that back. Fat Shat Sings posted:They sell the same things other stores do (in regards to national brands and in particular non branded items like produce and meat.) If you want to be an obtuse rear end in a top hat and compare them to the absolute best possible quality available then yes their stuff loving sucks. Go re read my posts about electronics and apparel.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:16
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Fat Shat Sings posted:i've worked at the stores for a really long time, i don't need to because I know better than you what you are even talking about as I've been the one price matching those items, or ordering them as the department manager. Nobody is arguing those points. I TOO have done a price match *flex*. I feel like you're telling Moridin and myself that we're making points that we didn't actually make. It shows you clearly didn't read my posts and are just mad about something.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:48
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vyst posted:Walmart owns gently caress dude..just.....goddam thats some hosed up poo poo to say. Fat Shat Sings posted:I'm keeping Moridin out of the rest of GBS by fighting him for eternity here The conversation was entirely about electronics for a while there, duder. Its ok though you can admit you're wrong, no one will get super mad at you about it. EvilJoven posted:Walmart actively strong arms companies to cut prices wherever possible to the point where companies that actually make good products have Walmart specific models that are loving horrendous when it comes to quality and function. Correct.
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Aug 29, 2016 22:01
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Fat Shat Sings posted:nah the company is bad enough that people don't have to outright make poo poo up about them. If they are literal evil and are driving millions into further poverty it doesn't solve anything by trying to pretend that their toilet paper really is a special brand of cottonelle that is only 1.5 ply instead of 2 ply in some kind of conspiracy to mislead consumers. They do plenty of obvious poo poo that is widely verified to call them out on. Lol you just can't help yourself. Content: WHole Foods. I think Whole Foods is going down as people realize just how expensive their stuff is for not-that-much-better quality. Even if you genuinely like their stuff, its almost prohibitively expensive to shop there for like 80% of Americans and people are figuring that out. Also there as a company called FRESH MARKET or something that had a GRAND OPENING here...and closed in less than 8 months haha what the gently caress.
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Don't eat at PIzza Ranch. They are the Hobby Lobby and Chic Fil A of midwest pizza except way worse and overt about their hatred of gays. There is a reason republicans schedule all their meetings at Pizza Ranches and presidential campaigns use them as caterers and campaign stops. Plus their pizza is greasy poo poo.
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For those of us who dont have time to watch the whole documentary, what did Lego do to turn around?
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http://www.nbc-2.com/story/32881615/another-round-of-layoffs-at-chicos Maybe Chicos? About 200 layoffs. This is the same kind of thing that happened to their former competitor Coldwater Creek. They ended up going under. Chicos may be further from the drain, but definitely circling.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:sears.txt Awesome post, thanks for this.
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Krispy Kareem posted:I'm not sure Sears could have transitioned that well. Mail order-in general died horrible deaths in the 90's (first Sears, then Service Merchandise). People wanted to go out and buy poo poo in stores because malls were cool. Retailers like JC Penney that kept their catalog business didn't see huge increases in mail-order sales once the Sears competition disappeared. I think the take away isn't that Sears could just hold onto catalogue business and not change. Rather they should have toned it down while building the internal infrastructure to use the internet, so that once they had their infrastructure in place it was SEARS you went to online instead of Amazon. I don't think Sears would necessarily have eaten Amazon's lunch, but from the way that post sounds, they definitely had enough hands in enough cookie jars that they would have been well enough that they could have established some kind of permanent presence online be it through finance, insurance, or some niche specialty market. Instead they shut it down to compete with WalMart and welp.
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1500quidporsche posted:I'm quoting this because it's a solid explanation for 90% of the companies in this thread. These big behemoth companies simply don't have the focus and fortitude to hold out long enough to break into a new industry or update their business to keep up with the times, and even if they do the shareholders will call for blood because it's not happening fast enough. I'd say this is a good point. I'm sure there were people at Sears in the 90s who really wanted to do it but would have been eaten alive since it would have upset shareholders.
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Aug 31, 2016 22:11
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stinch posted:Sounds like they would have had to execute in the 90s. They would have had to start getting out from the corner they had painted themselves into in the 80s at least. Ehh I dunno about that. They probably could have done it in the 90s. A lot of other big companies did. Hell, Target and Wal-Mart have done so to some extent. Same for companies like LL Bean, Nebraska Furniture Mart, and even auto dealers. Its all about being willing to pivot and Sears clearly wasn't willing to do so.
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Aren't franchies anti capitalist in that when you purchase a franchise you're not purchasing a good or service, but rather a right to sell a good or service i.e. a guild?
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Aug 31, 2016 23:19
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bongwizzard posted:Starbucks also seems to be really dominant in getting stores in hotel and office building lobbies. Even if there is already a Starbucks a block away, I bet a ton of people are more willing to elevator to the lobby then walk outside. I think a lot of that is less "oh they want STARBUCKS" and more "there is going to be a coffeeshop here, and people will use it. Might as well make it Starbucks".
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Sep 1, 2016 16:18
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cuck cuck im gay posted:"It is with profound regret that we must report that ITT Educational Services, Inc. will discontinue academic operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes permanently after approximately 50 years of continuous service. With what we believe is a complete disregard by the U.S. Department of Education for due process to the company, hundreds of thousands of current students and alumni and more than 8,000 employees will be negatively affected.” Targeting Private PRisons and for profit colleges. Obama's second term looking fuckin good.
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cuck cuck im gay posted:NYC has quite possibly the highest cost of business yet there are zero empty buildings/an incredibly high employment rate. Yes yes Iowa blah blah, but Iowa has had the highest rax rate of all surrounding states except Minnesota and Illinois, yet Iowa boasts far more corporate hqs than all bordering states except Illinois and Minnesota. Its almost as if tax rates isnt the main driver of business or something. Theres a reason Des Moines has a huge insurance hub and higher taxes vs Topeka or Sioux Falls. gently caress Brownback and his state is definitely circling the drain.
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Sep 6, 2016 16:58
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Moridin920 posted:if the employment choice is between Kansas or Ohio I think I'd rather just be homeless Happy Medium is available. Just click the link in my snazzy new avatar.
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Sep 6, 2016 17:11
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Moridin920 posted:I can't find the article now because the news is just flooded with articles about some shooting in a factory there... maybe it wasn't Kansas. It was def a Southern state losing a fat factory deal because the workers were just too uneducated though. This was in the South. A union rep for one of the big manufacturers was being interviewed on why they relocated from Alabama to Canada and he said that the workers in the South didn't understand the instructions at first. So they switched to pictograms and the workers were STILL requiring a ton of extra training because they still weren't literate and couldn't grasp the concepts. Relocated to Canada, paid more in taxes, and it was worth it because I guess the Canadian workers could read.
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Captain Yossarian posted:I have a jastigar related confession- I actually don't mind Des Moines despite threatening him with violence. I live to close to Iowa to bust his balls too bad Printed and Framed. Now ya done hosed up.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944 Lol did they seriously order them an escort?!
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Johnny Aztec posted:That is such a massive load of bullshit, and it really shows your bigotry to be pushing that " hurr southerns are retarded" stereotype. Lol the fact that you're willing to jump on the grenade that is trying to defend the South says more about you than it does me. Citizen Tayne posted:Volkswagen pushed to unionize workers at their Nashville plant, so the state of Tennessee threatened to take away their state tax credits if they did. This story really pisses me off for a lot of reasons. For one they say the UAW killed Detroit, yet somehow, through some magical fuckery, foreign companies were able to make, market, and sell cars ACROSS THE OCEAN for the same price or cheaper as their American counter parts. It wasn't  we have to pay our workers a living wage. The cars were just not as good. Two, the unionizing employees and VW actually had a GOOD relationship. VW was leaning towards unionization because everywhere else in the world they have union workers and its easier to figure out benefits and stuff. They were more or less luke warm on whichever way it went, and left it up to the workers. Three, the Senators got involved on their own. VW didn't' want them interfering, and the workers sure as hell didn't. This poo poo is bordering on illegal the way the Senators were trying to union busting and interfering with the NLRB. loving parasite rear end in a top hat REpublicans.
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Y-Hat posted:And the workers ended up voting against unionization anyway. It could be argued that he workers only voted against unionization because of the efforts of the REpublicans. It was REALLY close when they did polling on it. For more on the South and why they are terrible but not always you can read this: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3785258
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Moridin920 posted:actually i found it Thanks for finding it, I couldn't yesterday. gently caress that s Confederate sympathizer trying to shut me down.
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