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The internet cut into retail profits, so they started pushing this poo poo to bring in more money. Except it drives people away from retail stores, which cuts into their profits, so they decide to push this poo poo even harder, and the cycle continues.
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Josef bugman posted:I am still shocked by the sheer number of malls in America. There was only one near me in the UK and that was a lot further than just nipping down to the shops and had nothing else in it. I can't believe teenagers/ young adults used to hang out in them. We usually just went to a park and got smashed on cheap booze. That and we love huge, strictly separated commercial areas instead of having clusters of local shops dotted all over the place. Malls make a lot more sense in that context.
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Jan 7, 2017 20:39
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Anyone who hates doctor visits just to get some Amoxicillin, you know you can cheaply buy it online in the US without a prescription, right? Just get it for "fish" and it is the exact same stuff. Not that doctors have a good track record of stonewalling people who go "but I neeeeeed antibiotics!" when it'd do jack poo poo for whatever they've got, but at least they're trying.
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Feb 9, 2017 04:25
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Does Wal-mart still do the creepy forced team cheers? I know they still love their Big Brother-esque anti-union tactics.
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Feb 21, 2017 01:22
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Economic philosophies that are circling the drain: 
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Mar 1, 2017 02:07
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skull mask mcgee posted:Sprint is catastrophically bad, so they're just doing you a favor. dumb. posted:So wait, are they blatantly admitting here that they actively interfere with law enforcement?
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Mar 4, 2017 19:51
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But stores are scary. You have to move around and sometimes you see another person. Once a worker asked me if I needed anything, and I actually had to respond to him.  Seriously though, the internet's obsoleted a lot of retail, but there will always be spaces for poo poo you need now & anything you'd want to see/try in person before buying. There's also the convenience factor in not having to play mail tag any time you miss a delivery.
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Mar 10, 2017 03:30
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ToxicSlurpee posted:For better or for worse they're still probably the cheapest place around I won't pretend Target/Meijer/etc are valiantly fighting for the rights of their workers or offering anything life-changing, but at least they're not actively painful to shop in.
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Mar 19, 2017 04:37
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Krispy Kareem posted:The Wal-Mart near me has started checking receipts before you leave. I know with places like Sam's Club and Costco that's a requirement you agree to when becoming a member. There's no legal requirement for you to wait in a line while an old as gently caress greeter ponders over your purchases, but in a membership warehouse situation they could revoke your access if you didn't consent. I have no idea what a regular store can do to enforce something like that.
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Mar 19, 2017 05:20
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I don't have the self-checkout problems some of you do. But I'm pretty sure 90% of it stems from people being impatient and scanning things/changing weight distribution around too fast for the machine to catch up, then getting frustrated and assuming it's the machine's fault and not user error. Even bags aren't usually a problem now that most self-checkouts have a "I brought my own bag" button. (Except in Meijer, which never recognizes my bags for some reason)Professor Shark posted:I refuse to use self checkouts and it angers me to see people using them when cashiers sit idle  .
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Mar 20, 2017 06:22
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It seems like 90% of the poo poo in any women's clothing section is stuff I never see anyone wearing, so fixing that would go a long way. There's too much weird poo poo with in-fashion-for-two-seconds cuts and bizarre layering, and not enough basic/classic pieces. Although the other part is that(like with most retail) people flat-out don't have the money to buy as much as they used to. No easy way to fix that. 
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Apr 6, 2017 01:50
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girl pants posted:With Lularoe being a lovely MLM that apparently sells leggings that tear like "wet toilet paper", how much longer do you guys think they're going to be around? Not much longer, I hope.  It's already dead.
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Apr 12, 2017 08:00
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Rough Lobster posted:Look out, the autonomous vehicle derail isn't responding to user inputs! My god it's heading this way!!!
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Apr 16, 2017 06:31
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Steak n Shake never had good food in my experience, you just went there as an excuse to get shakes. 
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Apr 18, 2017 03:16
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Part of the problem for women's clothing specifically: The gap between what stores target towards teenagers and what they target towards young adults is striking, and not usually in a good way. Most department stores have a lot more for juniors and middle aged women than for young women, and what 20s-appropriate clothing they have either looks like poo poo or is built like poo poo(sometimes both). The stores more specifically targeted towards young adults are usually too expensive to build an entire wardrobe from, and often suffer from the looks like and/or built like poo poo syndrome too. God knows what we'd be wearing if we couldn't use the internet to buy normal clothes.
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Apr 23, 2017 21:56
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walrusman posted:To make this thread-relevant: how are grocery stores doing these days? Whenever I'm unfortunate or desperate enough to go to Safeway, I always see a line stretching over the horizon while a single cashier begs into an intercom for help that never comes. It's frustrating as a customer and it must be hell on the employee, too. Even a bad grocery store has better stuff than target/wal-mart, though. Grocery stores aren't going anywhere unless that changes.
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May 16, 2017 03:23
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walrusman posted:Apparently the entire concept of the mall is alive and well in Asia. The Philippines alone is home to four of the top 11, and twenty-loving-two of the 100 largest malls in the world. From what I can tell they're doing alright, with some reporting nearly a million visitors a day. I was wondering why malls kept popping up on TripAdvisor's lists of top things to do in Manila - it's because they're gigantic self-contained cities with some really interesting attractions. I have two malls within 20 minutes of me. It goes up to 4 or 5 if I'm willing to go 40 minutes. Not even a dense area needs that many loving malls.
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Jun 7, 2017 21:55
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Sir Lemming posted:I think they'll stick around a while longer because they're much smaller than a whole Walmart/Target so it's not as much effort and money to cram one into whatever empty storefront is available. Don't need their own parking lots either. And on the consumer end, it's usually a quicker stop because it's not as much of a big space to walk around, and the lines usually aren't nearly as long. 
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Jul 4, 2017 22:49
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Don't forget the grocery store or chain pharmacy acting as the anchor.
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Jul 14, 2017 02:11
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What kills me is when you're in an area with multiple malls within a 30-40 minute drive from each other, and there's no reason to switch up where you go because they all have the same damned stores. Hmm, I wonder why malls are having so much trouble?  I have four regular malls and an outlet mall in that range, and you could cut it down to one with no meaningful impact.
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Jul 17, 2017 00:37
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Didn't Best Buy swerve into focusing on appliances and other things people might actually buy at a store still? They also get paid to be a showroom iirc, so people using them to check things out before buying online isn't as terrible for them as it used to be. Neither of which is really a good tactic for B&N to try, although it'd be funny to watch.
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Jul 17, 2017 03:04
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FlamingLiberal posted:I would really like to know why every dead mall has a GNC and a Bath and Body Works. Outdoor outlet mall? Got one. Upscale mall? Got one. Mall for poors? Got one. Huge tourist trap mall? Got one. Fashion outlets? Got one. Sir Lemming posted:Because you can't sniff soaps online. Similar reason to why you still see Yankee Candle stores
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Jul 17, 2017 22:15
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:It would be better to just till over blighted commercial development, let it return to natural land, and focus future efforts on denser, more sustainable urban planning rather than try to force the old bad sprawl to work. The real problem is that our suburbs are in a vicious cycle of "build stuff only usable with a car->everyone has to own a car->car owners want everything to be easier to drive in->build stuff only usable with a car." God help you if you do something that goes against the car grain, even if it's something that unintuitively helps cars like road diets. Or you get things like NIMBYs rallying against nice interconnected roads with lots of alternate routes because a car might drive through their neighborhood sometimes. Haifisch has a new favorite as of 01:23 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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pangstrom posted:Naming the Denver stadium was a particularly weird choice because the place the Broncos play has been "Mile High" for 50 years and is above average organic branding. It's technically the Willis Tower now, but nobody calls it that. The one time I did a tour thing in there, half the souvenirs were still Sears Tower branded too. Hope the naming righs were worth it.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:13
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anonumos posted:I can't believe most of the US still measures bandwidth in mbs. Single or double digits no less. It's pathetic considering how much money we pay for it.  applebee's article posted:Applebee’s president John Cywinski said the turnaround won’t happen overnight, but an action plan is in place that will focus on simplifying operations while elevating the guest experience.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:32
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Double Punctuation posted:https://soundcloud.com/chestermoistmuffins/work-through-the-fire-and-the-flames How can you post that and not the most important one? 
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ANUSTART posted:My friend works at a Goodwill and yeah it is a bit sad to hear about, especially the people 'donating' grocery bags of used underwear and garbage. Just fuckin throw it away wtf that is not charitable to donate. Also yes employee theft, so much of it. But at least it's not in a landfill! 
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Aug 13, 2017 21:56
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Choco1980 posted:Even worse are those clothing donation bins scattered about. Usually they pay the charity to advertise on the side of their bin, and instead sell the clothes to 3rd world scrap textilers. Your clothes ain't helping noone in those bins. Good to know they're as sketchy as they look.
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http://fortune.com/2017/08/25/gamestop-stock/ posted:Shares of video game retailer GameStop dropped nearly 13% after it reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, recovering only slightly in Friday trading. That harsh response came despite mixed results: The company reported $1.69 billion in revenue, beating projections of $1.64 billion, but only 15 cents per share in earnings against Wall Street targets of 16 cents.
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DariusLikewise posted:EB Games/Gamestop isn't going anywhere soon. They get pretty advanced knowledge of where the market is going from Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony and would probably have enough time to pivot if there was a an all-digital generation of video games. I don't know how it is in the states, but in Canada they didn't over-saturate with stores either so they are in a not-awful position. Professor Shark posted:I have no idea how LUSH is in business, it feels like something that should have quickly opened and closed as the fad died out Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Yeah, full disclosure I don't dislike Lush for being more expensive than drugstore brands, but for marketing itself as a luxury brand despite not having any of the qualities I happily let better brands gouge me for.  Hell, some of their stuff is full-on worse than the cheapest poo poo you could buy at a big box store. Their solid shampoos built up on my hair and left it a greasy-looking mess. But it's all natural & not tested on animals so that's fine, right? Meanwhile Body Shop's slowly imploding despite being what I really tried Lush for in the first place(nice body care stuff a step above B&BW). Haifisch has a new favorite as of 21:38 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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ladron posted:legit Qs - Is staples going out of business? I thought they had a stadium or something? (I haven't lived in the US for 12 years so this is news to me if so) people posted:Borders
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:We never ever needed 200 branches of the same chain in a single state, let alone the same city. Things are contracting back to a more sustainable arrangement and it's going to be just fine. Even if the rest of the retail landscape was doing fine, we probably would have seen a mall contraction from that alone.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Except, apparently Hot Wheels.
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Oct 10, 2017 22:06
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Have we talked about Blue Apron's rather high cost to attract customers? If they hold this course, they are in trouble I think. Building the customer base is easy if you can just keep throwing money at it; making a profit is harder. The ideal strategy is to build it up enough to sell to some suckers right before its unsustainability shows itself. See also: Most tech unicorn stuff.
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Oct 18, 2017 21:57
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Raldikuk posted:I've had great experience with Samsung's built in apps for Amazon, Plex, and Netflix and my tv's have updated in the background just fine. Unfortunately they do have ads in the menu and there is no way to disable it (other than flashing old firmware and never letting your tv connect to the net). The ads on my tv are one tile out of 10 so it isn't too crazy but still absurd given that I bought it before they introduced the ad thing and I never agreed to it. At no point will anyone(on the side of people pushing these ads on us, that is) ask if these ads are actually bringing in enough business to be worth the cost.
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Oct 25, 2017 05:05
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DACK FAYDEN posted:In fairness, Amazon has been really bad with release-day shipping for specifically Nintendo games for the last year or so. The only things that kept Gamestop afloat this long are selling overpriced used games(which are slowly dying out along with physical copies of games) and pushing subscriptions to their stupid gaming magazine. No wonder they're scrambling at anything vaguely game-related to keep the money coming in.
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Sunshine89 posted:However, if I lived in a smaller city or somewhere more suburban, I'd shop online a lot more. Shipping is less now, more companies offer free returns, and the convenience of not having to leave the house to go on a crapshoot is pretty appealing. The crapshoot turns from "will the store have this in stock?" to "will this be delivered when I'm home? If not, will they leave a note, leave it outside where any random rear end in a top hat can take it, or leave it inside where a smaller number of random assholes could take it?". Sure, Amazon's usually willing to replace stuff if it get stolen, but then you get to endure the crapshoot again. It's the one factor keeping me from shopping online a lot. Still worth it for stuff you're not likely to find in a chain store, or where the price differential is huge.
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Segmentation Fox posted:Yeah I was going to mention this as well. Every Plaid Pantry (regional 7-11-alike) in my immediate area has a set of Amazon drop-off boxes; you just go in and flash a QR code and it unlocks the box with your stuff in it. They've also got a bigger thing down in the city proper where you can apparently get free (with Prime?) next-day delivery if you can be bothered to go down and pick it up. Basically give me that system but for anything I buy online using any shipping company, and you've obliterated my(and probably a lot of other people's) biggest obstacle to buying most of my/their stuff online. The Moon Monster posted:USPS is my favorite shipping company because they won't leave packages worth several hundred dollar packages laying on my front door. Last time I was expecting a shipment from FedEx, as soon as I got my tracking number I tried both requiring a signature and then picking it up at one of their locations and straight up could not do either of those. They left it sitting on my doorstep in the rain for a few hours. The company I bought it from refunded me but I don't get how doing poo poo like that is sustainable. Just the fact that USPS lets you put in mail holds(and opt to pick everything up at the post office at the end of it) when you're on vacation(or "on vacation", aka "expecting a lot of packages over a span of 1-2 weeks and don't want to play the delivery dance with each one") & is generally good about leaving notices instead of shrugging and leaving packages out in the open puts them miles ahead in my book.
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Ofecks posted:Isn't this just a PO box? I've never had one so I don't know exactly how they work, though. I'd be glad to be proven wrong, though.
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Professor Shark posted:Nah, I think that's one of their "things".  And it's only $7.50/mo. Well poo poo, now I'm tempted.
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