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haljordan posted:It's pretty clear at this point that the richest 1% have a secret space station built somewhere so that when the entire world does collapse economically, they can all just bounce the gently caress out because goddamn. Maybe there's a huge bet going between the super-rich to see who can turn America into Thunderdome first. they're all buying islands and land in secluded places like new zealand that don't connect to civilization where they can piss off to when the proletariat finally rises up and starts guillotining people
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ReidRansom posted:they're all buying islands and land in secluded places like new zealand that don't connect to civilization where they can piss off to when the proletariat finally rises up and starts guillotining people This, so hard. "Accelerationists" (or whatever the term is these days) who want to hasten the destruction in order to build from scratch are pretty deluded. It sounds nice - if all of the educated people would just say "ok, fine, you win, we'll stop resisting your stupidity". Like a parent letting their kid learn a lesson about eating candy all night. Go for it, see what happens. You'll learn why doing $thing was a bad, bad idea. The kid throws up and wanders, shame-faced and stricken, to Mom, and she still loves junior. But what these folks forget is that American citizens aren't needed in the equation anymore. The fastest-growing markets* are India, China, and Thailand. If everything goes to poo poo completely instead of just mostly, the 1% will give no fucks. They don't live in NA, they don't keep their money in NA, and they don't have any income left to wring from NA. poo poo is hosed up and bullshit. * a generalization, obv not all "markets" are equal
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"only a company man would think their kin delighted by company scrip" -crazy hobo by the gas station
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Feb 24, 2015 01:52
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KMart sucks but JC Penney has really upped their game.
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FuturePastNow posted:People like my dad shop at K-Mart because a certain ever-shrinking segment of the population refuses to shop at WalMart. I'd rather go to a depressing KMart than WalMart any day.
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Feb 24, 2015 01:56
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johnny sack posted:I'd rather go to a depressing KMart than WalMart any day. Walmart is putting on a fig leaf and giving about a third of their workers raises, but with how KMart's CEO operates, I'm sure those employees are paid poo poo, too. Costco or gtfo
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Feb 24, 2015 02:01
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Last time I was at a Kmart I walked from sporting goods in the back to the front and went past a Nikki Minaj clothing display. 
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Three-Phase posted:Last time I was at a Kmart I walked from sporting goods in the back to the front and went past a Nikki Minaj clothing display. it was probs geared to preteens too
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Three-Phase posted:Last time I was at a Kmart I walked from sporting goods in the back to the front and went past a Nikki Minaj clothing display. sorry it was nicki minaj and not a men's asses display
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Three-Phase posted:Last time I was at a Kmart I walked from sporting goods in the back to the front and went past a Nikki Minaj clothing display. Good story! I too am shocked that successful rap artists have their own clothing lines in the year 2015
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She has her own line of moscato wines too. A very diverse portfolio.
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nicki minaj is loving cool you dork
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There are 4 Shopkos in my valley and nobody goes to any of them. How the gently caress do they still exist? We have 2 Kmarts too that refuse to die
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Walmart is putting on a fig leaf and giving about a third of their workers raises, but with how KMart's CEO operates, I'm sure those employees are paid poo poo, too. Costco or gtfo Old timer Kmart workers get 5 weeks paid time off a year.  AK-mart.
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Pick posted:KMart sucks but JC Penney has really upped their game. it seems as poorly run and starved for cool brands as ever
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I want to know more about the world of Nerf gun collecting
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Hustlin Floh posted:I want to know more about the world of Nerf gun collecting it sounds lonely there used to be a lot of threads abt it here iirc. People would paint and mod them
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Took my nephew to the mall for his birthday this past weekend and parked at Sears because there was plenty of parking and it's easy to walk through the store to get in the mall (no crowds!). 75% of the store was clearance on old person clothing with nothing new to fill the void of the clearance items. I went up to the tools for fun, and there was virtually nothing in the aisles. A couple of speed squares, a non-LED Maglite flashlight, some yellowed and faded boxes of incandescent light bulbs, and a Crescent wrench in a hosed up package. It's like the place is specifically made for customers to contemplate death and suicide by being in such a depressing place. Even the escalators were depressing. I don't know how that's possible, but they were depresscalators.
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Hobohemian posted:Is that all it is, seriously? 3 parts orange juice 1 part club soda
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Arian_Samurai posted:Just give 'em the cash. Nothing is better than a fat stack of bills. Yeah but people feel rude or thoughtless for giving cash and instead want the appearance that they put effort into the gift while standing in the checkout line waiting to pay for gas or groceries. It's the only reason why the gift card industry got off the ground. Pick posted:KMart sucks but JC Penney has really upped their game. When that Apple guy got fired, the old fogies were calling in to Coast To Coast to claim victory and complain about how much they hated everything that was done and how out of touch that CEO was. Don't discount the old foogies that hate change, they are single handily keeping CC Radio alive
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I worked overnight at KMart for about five weeks this year, it was probably the chillest retail work experience I've ever had. SHC sucks at conducting business, though, so no way they'll be around much longer.
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No idea how the Kmart in my town is still in business. We've always had it and a Walmart. The town is much too small for even one store really. And everyone had no problem driving 5 miles if they wanted a larger store. About 3 years ago Walmart bulldozed a bunch of people's houses to build a supercenter nobody wanted. Then last year, Meijer demolished a used car dealership to put in a supercenter directly across the street. Between those two, they've put two supermarkets and almost every smaller store out of business. Somehow Kmart stays around. Half the shelves are empty, large streaks of rust run down the front of the building from the metal sign mounts. Grass and weeds poke up from the cracks in the empty parking lot. The thing is, it's consistently the place that has hard to find video games always in stock. If there's a big release coming up, I'll just skip the lines at Walmart, GameStop or whatever and just grab it at Kmart. It pays to check a bit early too, I picked up Fable II, LA Noire, and Mass Effect 3 each a few days to a week before street date there. And for some reason all the copies of the first Mass Effect were tossed in the $12.99 discount bin about a week after release so I scored that too. But then again, this is the same store that still had some PS2 and GBA games at full price last I checked. Up until last year sometime there was a copy of Tony Hawk 3 for N64 there too, until someone must have got it. I was tempted to buy it, but it was like $40 still. From what I hear, the main customer base is the elderly, because apparently Kmart has the best prescription drug prices in town. Also, they did good business with the meth heads for a while, because when all the other stores cracked down and set limits on sudafed purchases and demanded ID, Kmart just kinda let it go until laws were officially passed forcing them to.
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I have no idea how any Kmarts are still in business. Also, other than appliances, I have no idea what anyone buys at Sears these days. It seems like Kmart/Sears would be wise to spin off their Kenmore appliance business and just shut down everything else.
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Feb 24, 2015 08:26
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Before being purchased by Sears, K-Mart's HQ was in Detroit.  It kinda says something.
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You Are A Elf posted:
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Dick Fagballzson posted:I have no idea how any Kmarts are still in business. Also, other than appliances, I have no idea what anyone buys at Sears these days. It seems like Kmart/Sears would be wise to spin off their Kenmore appliance business and just shut down everything else. I believe they did that to lands end.
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I bought a new fridge/freezer from a Sears scratch/dent outlet when the 30+year-old one in my house died I will probably do the same when I'm sick of the dryer making more noise than a Van Halen concert If you don't give a poo poo that your appliances have a few outer blemishes on them (and you shouldn't, because who the gently caress is judging you by how spotless your appliances are, especially since you can shove them into alcoves), the Sears scratch-and-dent outlet is gold.
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There was a mall in town that was built in the 70s. (our only mall) There was a Sears on one end. When a new mall was built and they were going to tear down the old one, Sears wouldn't budge. They tore down the rest of the mall, and left Sears store. Guess they had one of those 99 year leases that couldn't be broken.
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Johnny Aztec posted:There was a mall in town that was built in the 70s. (our only mall) There was a Sears on one end. When a new mall was built and they were going to tear down the old one, Sears wouldn't budge. They tore down the rest of the mall, and left Sears store. same thing happened to the mall in the suburb where i grew up near minneapolis, sears owned the building and declined to be demolished along with the rest of it
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When video games started getting ratings and I couldn't just buy whatever I wanted I would always go buy M rated games at K-Mart as the cashier in electronics was illiterate and being 15-16 I just flashed my learners and got whatever I wanted good stuff. Also the K mart in my current town is literally the most depressing place in the world. Last time I was in there was the 3DS launch and man I think I made their day by signing up for their newsletter for 5% off my order like the clerk was actually giddy it was loving weird.
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http://business.time.com/2012/01/09/billions-wasted-do-gift-cards-make-sense-when-so-many-go-unused/ Article is a bit old but gift cards are pretty much free money for the amount of effort the makers actually put in
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Korthal posted:Before being purchased by Sears, K-Mart's HQ was in Detroit. Kmart bought Sears actually
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stringball posted:http://business.time.com/2012/01/09/billions-wasted-do-gift-cards-make-sense-when-so-many-go-unused/ Seriously, just give cash. It's like a gift card, except better in every way.
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Six months ago there were three kmarts within 5 miles of where I live. two nice Super Kmarts that were recently built and actually nice stores, and one lovely regular kmart that's been there since probably the 70's. They just closed two of these three stores. guess which store is still open?
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Johnny Aztec posted:There was a mall in town that was built in the 70s. (our only mall) There was a Sears on one end. When a new mall was built and they were going to tear down the old one, Sears wouldn't budge. They tore down the rest of the mall, and left Sears store. My town has a dying mall on some prime real estate. The mall is currently 80% vacant and mostly serves as office space, a church and those Halloween stores. The mall was built around a stand alone Sears and they refuse to go. I went to sears to get vacuum bags for my Kenmore to discover that the shelves were bare and the employee I asked for help flat out told me he didn't know where anything was.
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Sears is pretty cool because it's like the one place other than Costco that has a tire center open on Sunday
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Also Sears still hires old guys who might maybe know things about ovens/fridges. YMMV
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there was a kmart down the road from me literally next door to a kroger, sandwiched between it and a publix in the same shopping center the walmart was ~2 mins from that spot one time i went there cuz i was trying to find the absolute cheapest 100% acetone i could find and kmart was my natural assumption when i thought "absolute cheapest" i went in and there were no employees in sight but at least 4 or 5 other 'customers' were in there at the same time i put quotes around customers because they would just walk up and down the aisles, find something 'useful' and walk out i put quotes around useful because the things i saw people walk out with were: empty box of tide with the top ripped off, a double armful of k-mart shopping bags, and a shopping cart with 2 and a half wheels they didnt have any acetone so i left but that kmart stayed open for like 2 more years and now its just an empty storefront that no one can use because its absolutely enormous and they wont split it up, since its between two grocery stores and literally the only thing that could go there is a grocery store or a home depot (the home depot nearby is in the same shopping center as the walmart 2mins out) Cursed Lumberjack fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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WhyteRyce posted:Sears is pretty cool because it's like the one place other than Costco that has a tire center open on Sunday But their tires are extremely overpriced compared to Costco. Same set of Michelins I got at Sears for $800 a few years ago was $500 at Costco when I replaced them recently. Costco usually has them buy 3 get one free, or $70-100 off, which is hard to beat. Also cheap on the install and disposal. Dick Fagballzson fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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