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Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

OMGVBFLOL posted:

i'd be amazed if that dude isn't an engineer of some sort. only an engineer would see a machine unable to handle normal use and call it "user error"

like if a cashier was getting all ferklempt and overwhelmed because i was putting things on the belt too quickly and putting my card in the chip reader before they're done scanning nobody's going to be like "well obviously dude, you didn't slowly place one item at a time directly in front of him and speak with a soft, gentle voice, as if to a skittish horse: it's your fault, not his"

When I was a cashier people would frequently swipe their card way before I'd finish up scanning all their poo poo. For some reason the machine let them swipe and enter their card details but it would cancel once I hit the total button on the register and they'd have to enter all their info again.

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 10:39

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Sunswipe posted:

Because when I go shopping for tools, I go with the brand of a guy who played a poo poo repairman on TV twenty years ago. Then I go buy some Imperial Storm Trooper-branded gun sights.

It's for the people who aren't repair/tool savy, like your mom/grandma who keeps buying you Big Bang Theory poo poo for Xmas because you know about science

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 21:15

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

MikeCrotch posted:

I wasn't sure which I felt more gross, the whole "giving the police a pepsi at the end" or the multiple, loving, soft focus pornographic shots of pepsi cans while **tortured artists** take swigs from them

Deffo the "let's be buddies with the police" - FROM YOUR PAL PEPSI

# ¿ Apr 7, 2017 14:51

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Were they the company who retweeted the plane in a vagina photo?

# ¿ Apr 10, 2017 16:45

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

I've seen software consultants charge $1000 an hour for their time so that number is not too surprising.

Many people are bad with technology or their system is so specific that they need a dedicated specialist

# ¿ May 9, 2017 15:48

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS

*screeches incoherently*

# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 19:16

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

"Yeah he's a repeat customer so I offered him a 30% discount" (repeated for half the customers they see that year)

gently caress sales people like this

"Don't worry they will just buy more!", customer then proceeds to buy the exact same amount they have for the last 5 years.

"They come to us because of my excellent service", customer threatens to leave after 2% price increase

# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 20:33

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Bonzo posted:

Anyway.....

Sears Canada is probably going to file for bankrupcy.

http://business.financialpost.com/p...eb-e8a8d988847a

In other Canada news HMV Canada recently closed all their stores but decided to lease them out to Sunrise Records, an Ontario based music store that had 5 locations after many more were closed due to "increased rents".

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/sunrise-records-to-move-into-70-closing-hmv-locations-across-canada/article34138703/

Just recently the HMV near my apartment opened as a Sunrise Records so I decided to go check it out. It's the exact same except less toys and more music and worse branding. How they honestly expect to compete with Spotify and other streaming services I have no idea.

Does anyone buy $20 records anymore?

# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 14:09

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

All the vape shops I walk by are filled with immaculate displays of multi coloured juice bottles with two bros hanging out on the couch in t he middle of a vacant store.

I guess they work like lounges rather than a retail shop? Sort of reminds me of comic book stores.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2017 21:01

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Here's an idea of what the Funko Pop wall looks like at my nearest EBGames:

Also the PC section is literally Blizzard game cards and steam gift cards.

Speaking of Blizzard games, I love finding the random WoW expansions for $29.99 in random rear end grocery stores. Usually it's Cataclysm as well, not even the most recent one.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 21:25

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Krispy Kareem posted:

After a decade of great revenue and increasing market share during one of the worst recessions ever. Their layoffs now are more from consumer fatigue rather than tightening wallets. It�s plastic bricks. There�s only so many different ways you can market that.

No way. There are an infinite amount of ways to market Lego. Any IP that is a hit among children can have a Lego spin off. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Marvel, Disney.

Hell even Mega Bloks was making GAMER bricks for a while, Warcraft, Call of Duty, Halo, all had their own line.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 18:10

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Irradiation posted:

SNES games topped out at $70 at TRU.

My dad bought me Super Mario World 2 for $90CAD. He was so pissed.

What a great game though

# ¿ Sep 22, 2017 21:56

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Scholtz posted:

That game is my parents' first encounter with being annoyed with recurring video game sounds.

I... I wasn't very good at that game as a child.

Was it the crying mario or the game over sound that gave them PTSD?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 00:19

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Detective No. 27 posted:

I hate that they call them "apps." It's 2017, apps is already the dumbed down name for applications. You can't make it one for appetizers too.

they are called "appies", "appys", or "tizers" now in the hip young "'raunts"

# ¿ Nov 29, 2017 23:15

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

# ¿ Dec 5, 2017 19:15

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

If they were smart they'd have a few "characters" that constantly defy the rules like kneeling, not singing the national anthem, standing on the flag, etc. But Vince would call them out during the game or give them punishments or somehow say "his hands are tied" and can't do anything, causing his viewer base to go into a frothing rage.

Just like wrestling they will have a few controversial actors who are hated by design, and the audience will eat this up.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2018 16:03

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Any good looking thing that Wal-Mart does, guaranteed they worked it out that they are making more money than giving away.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2018 21:04

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

I order my groceries online now. Only $10 for delivery to my downtown residence, where usually I'd have to drive about 20 minutes to get to a decently priced grocery store with selection.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 17:29

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Just like with beer, I never fool myself into believing I like the taste.

I drink coffee for the caffeine, I drank beer to get hosed up. Never for the taste.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2018 20:53

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Diet Poison posted:

Maybe semi-related, here in the Great Canadian Nowhere, inter-city public transit is disappearing entirely.
So since everything is far apart in this dump of a province, pretty much everybody except me and people too disabled/old to drive has a car. We had a subsidized bus service that'd take you from town to town (if you were too disabled/old/me to drive a car) which didn't make any profit because of low ridership, so our conservative government (that all these geezers voted for, I'm sure) axed it, saying that private companies would pick up the routes. You know, the ones that didn't make any money. And now Greyhound's pulling out of the west entirely.
This barely affects me, personally- I only ever used it once- but it's sure making it hard to live outside of the cities where life is more affordable and you used to be able to take the bus to go see your hip doctor every month or whatever. And in the city it's only a little better. I live in the biggest city in the province which is still barely over a quarter-million people, and really spread out. We'll never have good public transit because we'll never be big enough to have a monorail or subway. Nobody wants to ride the bus because the bus service sucks because nobody wants to ride the bus. Takes me all afternoon to go get groceries because the little store 5 minutes away on foot closed shortly after I moved to the city centre. Now I'm just getting off track. I guess my point is public transit in North America is sucky to nonexistent outside of the major cities? Small population centres are circling the drain?

This really fucks over the reserves too, which I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of their reasons for stopping the routes

Anytime you bring up a Greyhound bus in Canada, especially in the West, you'll get the Tim McLean story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

I blame the constant news cycle of airing tragedies as influencing the common person so much that they were afraid if they set foot on a bus they'd get their head chopped off

# ¿ Jul 25, 2018 18:24

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Iron Crowned posted:

We've really used up all the good surface resources, so nothing will ever return to our technology level.

The next civilization won't be afraid of nuclear power

# ¿ Jul 26, 2018 17:21

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Just get one of those mattresses from the dollar store that you put it in water and let it grow overnight

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 21:07

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Doggles posted:

MoviePass is un-canceling people�s accounts

When opening the MoviePass app, you may be prompted with this screen:

Nice deceptive no disagree button

# ¿ Aug 14, 2018 20:46

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Just have to disable location services and don't log into the store wifi

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 20:57

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

My ex-gf bought me these Star Wars bookends that were like $150 canadian dollars for a xmas or bday gift:

https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e56f/

Which was odd because I already had bookshelves for my books and this just added clutter. Hell if you thought I enjoyed Star Wars so much, why wouldn't you have gotten me like Star Wars books instead?

Pretty sure she got the gift idea from Big Bang Theory

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 13:00

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

There was a Canadian Superstore (big grocery store chain) where I used to live that had a huge sign out front that said "GUARANTEED ALL REGISTER OPENED EVERY SATURDAY". Maybe it worked for them, I never went into the store on weekends because it's always way too busy.

Once grocery stores started doing online ordering and delivery for like $5 I stopped going in for my weekly ordering, the hassle of driving from downtown to a grocery store and then fighting for what I want in the store is just not worth it. So much easier to just pick from a list and have it arrive the next day.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2019 07:26

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Don Gato posted:

That's most stores nowdays, closing sales aren't actually sales since people will buy things from stores having closing "sales" regardless of the actual prices.

Yeah when Sears closed down they actually sold things for more than they were before the sale

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Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Duckman2008 posted:

Get a switch pro controller. No issues after 2 years.

SimplyCosmic posted:

From what I've seen the restaurant industry is down overall about 26%. That's obviously going to impact some more than others as a good number of restaurants simply aren't built for carryout. Meanwhile, grocery stores are up 26%.

Amazon's largely getting a pass during the pandemic, but I think they deserve a lot more scrutiny. Most of their talk about prioritizing medical supply shipments to hospitals is likely to cover for their system simply not being able to keep up otherwise. They've already shelved the plans they had to open up their delivery service to other companies due to capacity. I'd be a little worried in the future that they'd always prioritize their own shipments during busy months if they open it again in the future. And then there's the explosion of price gauging of everything from sanitizer to Nintendo Switches to webcams. From what I understand they've done little to prevent bots being used by resellers to buy up every last Switch and webcam the second they go up at normal prices.

Yeah are switch pro controllers normally $114 CAD?

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 06:10

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