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Fat Shat Sings posted:Well that explains it. Some lady smashed into my parked car recently and her insurance covered it, after I got it from the shop I got like 30 calls and emails begging me to take a customer satisfaction survey. When I worked at CompUSA, there was a particularly obnoxious business sales guy who poached my "spiffs" all the time. After a while, I just stopped worrying about sales and told customers where the best deals were (*hint* NOT at CUSA!).
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monster on a stick posted:Last question, I promise: what are you supposed to do with the oyster crackers? There's no clam chowder there. Oyster crackers go great with chili. Honest to god.
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dreezy posted:this thread makes a giant sucking sound. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-picku...ere-a-price-war quote:With pickup trucks, fleet sales are significant. From construction companies to public utilities to government, fleet trucks are always in demand. I'd guess that 40-50% of Ford's truck sales are to fleets, and that GM and Chrysler-Fiat likely approach that same percentage in a good year. Considering Ford is on track to sell more than 700k trucks this year, that's (probably) 300-350k fleet sales for Ford.
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My Saturn SC2 was the best car I ever owned. I managed to get one that did NOT leak oil like a sieve and I loved it. I think it was a 93 or 95 model and a lot of people asked me if it was new due to the styling and general condition. This was in the late-2000s, and people thought it was a new model.
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So how about that Yahoo hack? Apparently, 2 years ago a foreign government broke in, took 500 million user logins, and Marissa Mayer only JUST noticed it. Didn't tell Verizon. Didn't tell anyone. Now it comes out and Verizon is probably pretty pissed right now. Talk about buying a used mattress only to find bed-bugs... https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-500-million-accounts-hacked-data-breach/ quote:The hack, which took place in 2014, revealed names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, security questions and answers, Yahoo said in a press release. Encrypted passwords, which are jumbled so only a person with the right passcode can read them, were also taken. Woops.
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Sep 23, 2016 17:29
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canyoneer posted:Their CEO boasts about how it's their right to only hire attractive people, bit he himself looks like the boss Orc from Lord of the Rings. 'Member when he said he didn't even want unattractive people wearing his clothes and most of the world said, "OK!" and stopped shopping at A&F?
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Nov 21, 2016 18:44
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All of the baby stories are hilariously overpriced, so either the entire market is healthy or it's doomed. I'm thinking the first. Idiot parents are still idiots and all seem to panic about buying stupid overpriced bullshit that will claim any benefit to the baby. We had to resist that urge with our first baby and now we're buying everything but the crib and car seat cheap or used (do NOT buy a used car seat; used crib is somewhat ok).
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Jan 1, 2017 14:49
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I bought some Gildan undershirts from Walmart months ago and they're poo poo. I am 100% sure Gildan will pump out a ton of low cost manure with the American Apparel label, made by the lowest paid employees on substandard machinery in the dankest factory they can find.
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Jan 15, 2017 17:13
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There's a Rite Aid near my office that looks like a liquidation popup store. The Walgreens buyout seems to be going badly... http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/30/rite-aid-shares-plunge-after-walgreens-cuts-acquisition-price.html
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Feb 3, 2017 04:05
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The real problem was that banks would reorder transactions with the specious argument that larger transactions (which are probably rent or utilities) go through while smaller transactions bounce. The real result was that all of your transactions (including the big ones) would bounce and incur 30 overdraft penalties, instead of your earlier (smaller) transactions going through, bouncing one or two big ones, and incurring only 2 overdraft penalties. They did it that way to deliberately charge more overdrafts than they could if they processed things chronologically. At least half of my negative balances in my college years were exacerbated or caused entirely by this reordering. If they had processed my transactions in order of when the merchant presented them, I would have been fine in those cases. In other cases, the overdraft fees would have been dramatically lower. Naturally, there were certainly cases when I was totally wrong and deserved to pay the fees, but the banks totally screwed me multiple times until I started earning enough to not dip that low.
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Mar 22, 2017 17:40
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Is Santander poo poo? I actually had to drop my local credit union cause it was a bit poo poo. I dont know for sure about their retail banking but I had a car loan through them and it was OK. I seem to recall getting forgiveness for a few late payments and they kept my interest rate steady rather than jack it up on a whim.
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Mar 24, 2017 15:57
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OMGVBFLOL posted:Isn't Santander the first one uber was working with to set up all those insanely predatory weekly leases They're heavily involved in sub-prime auto lending. apparently the Fed ordered them to shore up their compliance and oversight. They would probably be a sub-prime lender of choice for people getting into Uber that way. Ah, here it is: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-santandercons-deal-over-idUSKCN0PX2CB20150723 quote:Uber, Santander partnership on car loans is over
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Solice Kirsk posted:~$500 monthly car payment? And they're saying "as little as?" When you break it down per day anything sounds doable.
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It's unlikely to be caused by fat fingering the number. It would fail the encryption check when using the code on the back of the card. Perhaps someone found the cut up card in your trash, since you don't keep the card on a safe place, it may have been your fault. Not that the banks aren't crooks, but come on...
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ductonius posted:And they ripped you/the driver off every single time.
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Apr 15, 2017 18:14
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Pocket Billiards posted:I find increasingly that if you put in the time to research well reviewed and value for money products you end up looking for brands/lines that big box stores don't stock. This is it. Look online at any models you find in store and there are 3 better models, for the same price, shipped to your door.
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Apr 25, 2017 15:35
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Bonzo posted:It's not just the site but all the backend stuff like linking it into the company's ERP and CRM systems. If you gently caress that up you end up like Target in Canada. Contrary to popular belief, website design and maintenance isn't cheap. A company can easily spend $1 billion on infrastructure, payroll, office supplies, and a thousand other cost drivers, "just" to make a relatively simple website.
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May 9, 2017 14:28
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Black August posted:Complex problem, simple solution "A strange game. The only winning move is eat the rich."
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Saint Freak posted:There's a strip mall near me that has a space that reads "CROSSFIT KRAV MAGA" and I keep thinking I need to peek in there one day and see if they just forgot an "&" or if I'm going to see the funniest self-defense class ever. I haven't been to South Florida in a while. On the way down I95 in Fort Lauderdale we passed a place called CrossFit TrapHouse. I wonder how much life the Crossfit fad has left.
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Straight White Shark posted:It's shady, but he's not really quite as much of an evil mastermind as he's sometimes made out to be. He had to light a lot of money on fire to get into the position where he is now and a lot of his manipulations are just trying to dig himself out of a really bad investment. Things are going to have to go juuuuuust right for him to actually wind up with anything to show for 15+ years of loving around with dying retail giants. http://fortune.com/2017/03/31/sears-eddie-lampert-net-worth-hedge-fund/ Eddie Lampert's hedge fund has lost about half of its value in 2016. quote:Sears, making up about a third of Lampert's portfolio, was a major contributor to the the hedge fund's shrink, but investors have also abandoned the fund recently, taking their money with them. By the end of 2016, Lampert's fund held a mere $653 million—a sizable decline of 94% from the $16.5 billion it once managed at Sears' peak in 2007, according to securities filings. While its true he transferred the cherry Sears land holdings to a separate company owned by himself, I don't see how he's going to make back enough to come out on top of this ordeal. This article tries to break down the things he did to protect or carve off value from Sears: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/03/22/sears-holdings-ceo-eddie-lampert/99487518/
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Lime Tonics posted:Just announced: Applebee’s is closing up to 135 restaurants Yeh, Applebee's and its ilk are terrible, terrible, terrible places to eat. Last time my wife and I went to Olive Garden, we joked the ENTIRE meal about how much salt was in it. Ever since we got married, my wife has cooked low salt meals, so I notice salt in things more now but Olive Garden was literally more salt than food. Like, you ever see those videos about how much sugar is in a can of coke, and it's a pile half the size of the can, and you wonder how that much sugar can be put into a suspension without black magic...like that but with salt.
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Aug 10, 2017 18:45
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I'd like to submit the company I work for - a lovely telecom called Windstream - for your review: I found the problem (bold)...though you did qualify it correctly (italics).
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Windstream is a joke and a horrible company. They do no infastructure builds and run off legacy equipment in almost their entire area. Worst company for service and promise things it can't deliver. 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.
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Iron Crowned posted:I can't speak for Blue Apron, but I did Hello Fresh three times because I would put it on hold and forget to put it on hold again. They use a box with insulation and ice packs. The insulation varied between boxes as did the ice packs. My biggest complaint really was the sheer amount of packaging that was used, thankfully by the third box they had started cutting back on that We tried Hello Fresh for a few weeks too, but didn't fall into the trap of holds vs. canceling. We liked it but in the end it was still too expensive. The food was good and the recipes really worked well together (their baked sweet potato sides were to die for and the meat was all good cuts). We just couldn't justify it like we can the subscription to Munchpak. That's our monthly treat to ourselves (and our son now that he's a toddler).
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AvesPKS posted:People don't want to admit to themselves how much prices have risen over that timeframe. Correspondingly, places compromise on quality instead of raising prices. At a place like 5 Guys, prices have risen drastically because quality has stayed the same. At a place like McDonald's, the Fish Filet has gotten ever so slightly smaller to accommodate the relative lack of price increase. 5 Guys have been shrinking their burgers for a while now...AND raising prices.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:So Cracked fired all those people, and one they decided to keep was that idiot fucker David Wong. What's wrong with David Wong? I remember really enjoying "John Dies at the End" when it was posted in serial somewhere, then being ecstatic when the movie came out. I'll admit I don't really dig into the authors' and musicians' backgrounds on my own, so did he gently caress a famous idiot or something?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Maybe not. My brother is an unemployed mortician’s assistant and the industry is consolidating while at the same time getting pinched by cremation and the internet. I think that gen x are the ones burying the boomers, and they aren't paying for ceremonies or actual burials. They're having Grandma cremated and putting her in a box on a shelf in the dining room.
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Straight White Shark posted:Gamestop will absolutely 100% take used games and sell them as new games "that they had to take out of the box for the empty display." I assume it's less about PRESERVING THE SANCTITY OF THE UNBOXING EXPERIENCE and more about not wanting to get scammed buying a potentially damaged used product. Also being reassured that the extras remain yours.
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The XFL is gonna suck sooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard.
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Sports suck. Just bring back professional dueling.
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fritz posted:The Wonder Years. Christmas Story. Fuller House?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Sears outlived Toys R Us. Who would have guessed? Never underestimate Bain.
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Zil posted:iHeart Media most likely. As Zil mentioned, iHeart Media is having some serious problems right now. As with all Bain Capital investments, they're under a significant debt load. http://fortune.com/2018/03/15/iheart-media-bankruptcy-radio-chapter-11/ I thought Michaels would be struggling, but a search of Google News shows nothing bad.
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:Oh of course they own Symantec. Why couldn't they kill Symantec? Have YOU ever tried to uninstall Symantec antivirus?
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Doggles posted:Billionaire starts a GoFundMe page to ask for donations to save Toys R Us. #NotTheOnion "And God wept..."
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It seems to me that all stages of life are getting delayed. There's a reason the Affordable Care Act recognized 26 year olds as dependants for health care. It wasn't political. It was pragmatic. Adolescence lasts longer. People start families later. They buy houses later. They retire later. Everything expected of an 18 year old happens after the college years. You used to babysit for neighbor's at 15, now nobody trusts you with kids until you're 20.
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I'm surprised anyone still uses eBay. I don't know anyone in person who still does.
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Beachcomber posted:Does anyone else try to go to regular checkout when they can, or is it just me? Nope. But I'm an antisocial adult-diagnosed autistic.
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Check out this hyuge failure: https://www.pluralist.com/posts/130.../partners/44204 Missouri Nail Manufacturer Loses Half Its Business 2 Weeks After Trump's Steel Tariffs Kick In The 500-employee company has laid off 60 temporary workers since the Trump administration's 25 percent tariff on steel imports took effect. Mid Continent could potentially slash another 200 jobs by the end of July and be out of business around Labor Day. Mid Continent's Mexico-based parent company, Deacero, produces the steel Mid Continent uses to manufacturer its products in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Deacero is being affected by the 25 percent tariff, even though its importing steel to its own company, spokesperson Elizabeth Heaton told Missourinet. “There are only about 15 of these companies left and Mid Continent produces about 50 percent of the nails out of those 15. If you could imagine, if it were to go out of business and that is of course worse case scenario, we want to do everything that we can to make sure that does not happen, that would be a huge blow to that segment of the industry," said Heaton. "It’s a big deal, not just for Missouri and for the economy there, but for the whole industry,” she added.
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I've ridden in my boss's Model S and it wasn't bad. It wasn't Prius level of plastic and the only thing that bothered me was that everything had to be done on the touch screen. The passenger seat was pretty comfy...and the radio was bumping. The ride was really nice, too, especially when the accelerator is mashed to the floor. Everything I hear about the Model 3 is kinda meh.
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