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You Are A Elf posted:Is there anything about Sam's Club that's good? I've never been, having been a Costco member for years. It's basically a worse Costco, but it seems like everywhere with a population over 50k or so has one while Costcos are much less common. That has been my experience anyway.
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Bluemillion posted:Well who has? I went to a Sears maybe 3 years ago to buy a telescoping magnet. It took 5 minutes for the cashier to check out my $1.20 purchase. I went back about a year ago because I had a gift card so I bought a ~$50 blender. It took them 12 actual minutes to check me out. There were people behind me in line too. I have no idea what the gently caress made it take so long since the only thing at all unusual about my purchase was that I was using a gift card. The Moon Monster has a new favorite as of 17:04 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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Mar 24, 2017 16:54
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Jastiger posted:Also you guys click that Pepsi ad about Kendal Jenner I feel like its not getting the necessary embarrassment it deserves here. Most of it was really awful but in the way that all cola ads are really awful. The payoff at the end sure was something though, yikes.
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Apr 7, 2017 22:37
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Pick posted:And I'm quite frugal, but I don't know. I think I'd have a hard time being as cheap with any kids I had as with myself. I just hate seeing kids cry, it's the worst. And when my cat goes meow meow he is going to get food or petting or a new toy or some catnip or some silvervine or something. Cafiffle put it best: "My cat eats Wellness, I eat hot dogs." I always have to stifle laughter when I see/hear children crying in public so I'd probably be a great dad.
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May 6, 2017 03:12
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TheHoosier posted:Wrt to malls, I'm shocked how well the Greenwood Park Mall is doing south of Indianapolis. It's owned by the Simon family, same people who own the Pacers, and I was loving floored to find out how nice it still is. There are a ton of new stores and restaurants just in the last 10 years. poo poo, they expanded the place to fit more stores! I don't see many malls but the other ones in the general metropolitan area are like something out of I Am Legend The mall in Bloomington also seems to be doing well, the Sears is being turned into a Whole Foods.
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May 21, 2017 23:07
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You can get decent quality American cheese from delis. It's good for melting on top of burgers but I'm not sure what else I'd use it for. e: I thought this was the anti food-porn thread. Maybe the real company circling the drain is cheese discussion.
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May 24, 2017 00:59
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The main thing I've learned from my time in industry is that old people be printin'. Anyone over the age of 45 probably does something on the order of 100x as much printing as I do.
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Jun 22, 2017 01:58
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ToxicSlurpee posted:K-Mart has been merged with Sears for pushing a decade now. Sears has been run by an actual crazy person who is a fanatical devotee of Ayn Rand since 2013. I think with videogames in particular Kmart had stopped paying for its inventory so distributors stopped sending them.
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Jul 16, 2017 11:28
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Nerdy: Look in the mirror lol Funko Pops are certainly tat but they're not generally (or ever?) blind boxes as far as I know.
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Aug 29, 2017 23:02
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fartknocker posted:I may have my dates off here, but I want to say Lego first getting the Star Wars license in the late 1990s (It was prior to Episode I coming out, so like 97 or 98) coincided with them coming out of that slump from a few flop lines, like that whole rock-based line I can't remember the name off. Someone did a good write up on it in another thread some time ago... I remember Star Wars legos in the mid 90s, although I guess it's possible 5 year old me thought all spacehips were Star Wars.
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Sep 13, 2017 09:56
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Irradiation posted:SNES games topped out at $70 at TRU. I think DKC3 was the only SNES game I ever bought new at full MSRP. Got it at Toys'R'Us. Worth it.
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Sep 20, 2017 23:16
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New Butt Order posted:Remember how in the 90's people would buy the dumb collectible toy or issue #0 comic of the month on the basis that "it might be worth something some day?" The Cryptocurrency market is that, but they cut out the middle man and just sell you the concept of being worth more someday without an actual product attached. It is providing value in the form of laundering yuan and providing a medium for drug and kiddie porn transactions.
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Oct 10, 2017 00:00
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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.Corrode posted:It's the investment thing. Ever since mint condition early comics and Star Wars figures started selling for big money, nerds and nerd-adjacent types have been hoarding anything that comes out in the hopes that they'll sell them all in the future. They've completely misunderstood the market though; the reason that old stuff sells for high prices is because there's relatively few of them around any more, since they were mostly sold to kids who ripped them straight out of the packaging. When there's a million adults buying every Star Wars toy that hits the shelf and vacuum-sealing them away, the scarcity value is gone. I was too smart to fall for this in the 90s so I passed up buying a Black Lotus for $250 
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Nov 9, 2017 23:42
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Straight White Shark posted:also people who might conceivably want products that were made in this century instead of gramma prints from the 70s I'd go into Hobby Lobby from time to time before they revealed themselves to be awful and I was always struck by how much of their floor space was dedicated to terrible knickknacks I couldn't imagine anyone ever buying, rather than the arts/crafts/hobby stuff I assume is their main reason for existing. Like, who is buying all of these large, non functional washboards with some banal message about Jesus painted on to them? I guess they must move.
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Mar 18, 2018 13:52
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Beachcomber posted:Does anyone else try to go to regular checkout when they can, or is it just me? I do if I'm at an actual grocery store and have more than 4 items. It's usually faster and they're better at bagging. At Walmart though they seem to only ever have one register open and the cashiers seem about as good as checking stuff out as I am.
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Jun 16, 2018 10:09
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anonumos posted:Check out this hyuge failure: I had to read that entire thing before I realized that by "nails" they meant the kind you pound into wood and not fake [finger]nails made of steel for wolverine wannabes.
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Jun 28, 2018 02:19
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I hear people complain about breaking their fake nails now and then so maybe they should be made of steel. Million dollar business idea except there's a trade war now thanks Trump.
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Jun 28, 2018 10:31
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IIRC the're doing this because it pauses the countless lawsuits against them, or something like that.
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Dec 8, 2018 16:27
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rndmnmbr posted:IIRC the US government had a plan in case he won - he'd get a Harrier, all right, but they would gut it first. No engines, avionics, weapons, etc. Just basically a Harrier-shaped shell, additional purchases necessary, some assembly required. Why would the US government need a plan just in case? Does Pepsi have some way to obligate them to sell them a harrier?
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Dec 14, 2018 13:33
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Wait so did they actually cause/exacerbate those fires or does "wildfire liabilities" have some sort of businessy meaning I'm not familiar with.
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Jan 14, 2019 23:12
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I bought some shoes from payless a year or so ago that gave me terrible back pain, something I've never had before or since, after wearing them for 3 days. That's my payless anecdote, thanks for reading.
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Feb 16, 2019 21:13
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Croatoan posted:The only thing I liked about Payless Shoes was that I could get super extra wide shoes back in the 90's before the internet made it easier for me to cover and hide my Fred Flintstonesque stupid wide feet. Yeah, I have size 13 wides and most stores don't stock over 12 so that was one reason to go to Payless. The quality was always pretty bad though.
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Feb 18, 2019 17:10
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Moon Slayer posted:I think it was someone on the forums who said that drinking LaCroix was like taking a sip of tap water while someone in a different room of your house yelled the word "orange!" and I always thought that was pretty apt. This seems to be the standard LaCroix joke and I've probably heard it in 15 places from 30 people.
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Mar 10, 2019 12:04
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:He’s talking about the ones that don’t come with someone in the other room whispering, “orange”. *adds entry to thelacroixjoke.xls"
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Volmarias posted:Like there haven't been for years lol this owns http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=289801093420
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Apr 7, 2019 23:11
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Terrible Opinions posted:Are you seriously stupid enough to think that the majority of insurance cost comes from labor costs? Honest question. I mean if you consider massive executive salaries/incentives "labor costs" they're not an insignificant portion 
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Nov 20, 2019 00:59
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Patreon is weirdly lovely to use, as a patron (and I've heard bad things from creators). As far as I can tell there's no option to search through a creator's posts, or have them all listed by title or some other easy to search method. So you just have to hope the creator tagged them all really well (or, like, at all) because otherwise the only option is to scroll through all of them chronologically.
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Feb 19, 2020 21:21
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I think inflation and rising meat costs have just made the <$10 steakhouse business model untenable, and if you're going to pay more than that you might as well go somewhere better than the sizzler.
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May 14, 2020 15:11
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:Anyone else been getting ads for these ‘smart’ toaster ovens? They usually include some kind of subscription service for the food as well, but some work by scanning the barcode on existing food packaging. Suvie huh? So is this company's entire business plan selling to people who think this is what that sous vide they've been hearing about is?
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May 19, 2020 14:08
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Sunswipe posted:I'm still trying to understand that there's an excercise bike that requires an online subscription. I wonder if there are underground wellness blogs where you can download cracks for your pelaton.
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Jun 10, 2020 16:33
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I went to a Men's Wearhouse when I was 19 to get a suit for job interviews and the guy who fitted me had a fake German accent just like in the cartoons! Also they did the whole "all suits are buy one get one free" scam.
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Jun 16, 2020 02:13
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bulletsponge13 posted:How was it a scam? Genuinely no clue. I've seen various stores selling big ticket apparel that do the "all of our suits/dress shoes/whatever are buy 1 get one free". What this actually means is that you have to buy two at once, rather than single one you probably came in for. e: also if you don't get 2 that cost around the same amount you're getting ripped off on the cheaper one. The Moon Monster has a new favorite as of 16:15 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Jun 22, 2020 15:56
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Randaconda posted:I think about that commercial at the most random times, and how smug the mom's tone of voice was. I'll always know how to say "I'm a little girl" in French thanks to Muzzy, the system works.
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Jul 14, 2020 11:54
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Krispy Wafer posted:As green as Marvin the Martian to put it in a Disney perspective. 
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Aug 4, 2020 16:21
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Beachcomber posted:I'm hoping once Bezos becomes the first trillionaire that he starts philanthrophizing like a drunken sailor. If he's not doing it with a mere hundreds of billions I'm not sure why hitting a trillion would make a difference.
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Aug 31, 2020 23:51
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Aw. I actually kind of like Fuddruckers. They have that topping bar, plus buffalo and ostrich burgers. I only eat there when I go to Vegas, because they have one at the Orleans, but still. As far as moderately upscale chain burger joints go they were probably my favorite. rip in peace
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I feel like Denny's went seriously down hill somewhere around 2010. It was always junk food but if you just wanted some bacon, eggs, and pancakes sort of meal and didn't know of any local diners it was a decent option. But then their meals started resembling a deconstructed mcmuffin, quality-wise.
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Oct 8, 2020 15:10
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I've definitely gotten the black screen when print screening Netflix in the past, but it seems to work fine now.
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Oct 24, 2020 11:56
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McPhearson posted:Sunnyvale's theme is "The History of Silicon Valley". One of the Fry's in Houston had an enormous, I think almost full size, model of the International Space Station hanging from the ceiling. An astronaut I know said it was the best ISS mock-up he'd ever seen.
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BloodBag posted:From a couple pages back, but I lived in the area when it was being built. It was the last themed Frys. It's off I45 in Webster, which is a small suburb of Houston, and right near NASA. Fun fact, it's on Kobayashi road, which always reminds me of Star Trek. I used to drive over and make a lap of the computer cases just to the right of the entryway and start my loop there. I miss that old Fry's, all I have near me is the lovely one they built at 59 and BW8. The Microcenter here moved from an easily accessed location near the Galleria to a real pain in the rear end to get to location. The old one was so cool, it had logos from all the original computer companies like DEC and neXt. They demolished it for a lovely high rise. I forgot there was also a Soyuz and some notional future US spacecraft in there too, pretty neat!
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