|
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. Every place should look like Times Square. Be much more efficient.
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 00:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 12:07 |
|
|
Burt Sexual posted:Every place should look like Times Square. Be much more efficient. ...I'm guessing you're feeling defensive and this is an attempt at sarcasm? If you've ever seen a conversation about urban planning before then you've seen the obvious, unnecessary explanation that "dense" almost never means "skyscrapers" so take a few deep breaths and calm down.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 01:21
|
|
|
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 |
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 01:21
|
|
|
curufinor posted:you don't go bankrupt from losing at gambling, you go bankrupt from the martingale you start like a loving idiot after losing your first, reasonable tranche looking up a bunch of words itt
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 01:23
|
|
|
There's a soap store, not Bath and Body Works, in two malls I can remember, where some chick stands with a loving platter right at the door and offers you a soap sample. They seriously expect you to take a flick shard of soap as a sample. The gently caress do I do with this? You can at least eat the pretzel sample!
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 02:50
|
|
|
Wait you aren't supposed to eat the breath mints they give you?
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 03:09
|
|
|
Tiny Brontosaurus posted:...I'm guessing you're feeling defensive and this is an attempt at sarcasm? If you've ever seen a conversation about urban planning before then you've seen the obvious, unnecessary explanation that "dense" almost never means "skyscrapers" so take a few deep breaths and calm down. I like my guns and shooting them. Not at people tho
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 03:11
|
|
|
I'm guessing that when Sears goes under, Lampert will be the largest creditor. How convenient.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 03:18
|
|
|
Cowslips Warren posted:There's a soap store, not Bath and Body Works, in two malls I can remember, where some chick stands with a loving platter right at the door and offers you a soap sample. Lush?
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 03:22
|
|
|
Subjunctive posted:Lush? It's not always soap, either. Could be moisturizer or lip balm or whatever whack thing theyre selling in the shape of a chunk of ore. Also those strip malls are almost 100% sure to be converted into a mixed use set of luxury or boutique apartments if they go under. The kind with a dog pool and a sommelier lounge and a starbucks at the bottom and a separate entry/exit for residences so they dont see the poors on their way up to their fab studio.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 03:33
|
|
|
FlamingLiberal posted:I'm guessing that when Sears goes under, Lampert will be the largest creditor. How convenient. Yes, duh. He's a rich hedge fund manager who will never have to pay taxes again in his life.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 03:53
|
|
|
Amazon filed for a meal kit trademark, causing Blue Apron stock to plummet 12%: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-17/blue-apron-plummets-after-amazon-files-for-meal-kit-trademark I don't think anyone is going to miss Blue Apron too much (unless you live in a food desert, in which case, condolences), but that's a sort of terrifying effect.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 04:56
|
|
|
Is Amazon going to start supporting my favorite podcasts
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 05:09
|
|
|
AlmightyBob posted:Is Amazon going to start supporting my favorite podcasts No, I don't think they have plans to sell postage.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 05:10
|
|
|
GrandpaPants posted:I don't think anyone is going to miss Blue Apron too much (unless you live in a food desert, in which case, condolences), but that's a sort of terrifying effect. Why couldn't you get the Amazon dealio, if you're in a food desert?
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 06:40
|
|
|
AlmightyBob posted:Is Amazon going to start supporting my favorite podcasts Their patent just came through for fancy underwear, so yes
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 06:53
|
|
|
FilthyImp posted:It most certainly is Lush, or one of the also-rans that follows its boutique bathroom essentials aesthetic. I quite like lush, over here in Britain their staff always seem engaged and willing to help out, which is a nice change when you are trying to buy a lot of Christmas presents.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 07:09
|
|
|
[quote="“GrandpaPants”" post="“474469831”"] Amazon filed for a meal kit trademark, causing Blue Apron stock to plummet 12%: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-17/blue-apron-plummets-after-amazon-files-for-meal-kit-trademark I don’t think anyone is going to miss Blue Apron too much (unless you live in a food desert, in which case, condolences), but that’s a sort of terrifying effect. [/quote] Amazon does fail sometimes though. Their Groupon clone, cell phones...yeah, that’s it. Two industries that won’t nosedive if Amazon re-enters those markets.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 13:35
|
|
|
Josef bugman posted:I quite like lush, over here in Britain their staff always seem engaged and willing to help out, which is a nice change when you are trying to buy a lot of Christmas presents. They have to work on commission or something like that. I was in Las Vegas for work last year and there was like a mall type deal that connects a couple of the casinos. I was a little drunk after dinner and wandered to a lush store to buy something for my wife. I was immediately set upon by two chubby girls and an outrageously campy twink. I was definitely a little visibly drunk, so they knew they had a mark but they up sold me so much glittery bath poo poo it was incredible. They kept touching me and rubbing weird poo poo on my hands, was absolutely drunk enough to go along with it but still sober enough to admire how well they were playing me.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 13:45
|
|
|
GrandpaPants posted:Amazon filed for a meal kit trademark, causing Blue Apron stock to plummet 12%: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-17/blue-apron-plummets-after-amazon-files-for-meal-kit-trademark
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 14:15
|
|
|
bongwizzard posted:They have to work on commission or something like that. I was in Las Vegas for work last year and there was like a mall type deal that connects a couple of the casinos. I was a little drunk after dinner and wandered to a lush store to buy something for my wife. I was immediately set upon by two chubby girls and an outrageously campy twink. I was definitely a little visibly drunk, so they knew they had a mark but they up sold me so much glittery bath poo poo it was incredible. They kept touching me and rubbing weird poo poo on my hands, was absolutely drunk enough to go along with it but still sober enough to admire how well they were playing me. Not sure that is true over here, they talk about stuff and try to sell new stuff, but they sure as poo poo don't individually ring it up.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 14:26
|
|
|
bongwizzard posted:They have to work on commission or something like that. I was in Las Vegas for work last year and there was like a mall type deal that connects a couple of the casinos. I was a little drunk after dinner and wandered to a lush store to buy something for my wife. I was immediately set upon by two chubby girls and an outrageously campy twink. I was definitely a little visibly drunk, so they knew they had a mark but they up sold me so much glittery bath poo poo it was incredible. They kept touching me and rubbing weird poo poo on my hands, was absolutely drunk enough to go along with it but still sober enough to admire how well they were playing me. Those glittery bath bombs are hilarious. Mostly because the cat likes to hangout in the bathtub and so if you fail to wipe it out after, he sparkles for days.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 14:41
|
|
|
there wolf posted:Those glittery bath bombs are hilarious. Mostly because the cat likes to hangout in the bathtub and so if you fail to wipe it out after, he sparkles for days. Yep, when I got back to my room, which had a huge whirlpool tub, I thought it would be a good idea to throw the most glittery and purply one in there and see what the fuss was all about. I think I was still scrubbing glitter out of my body hair 3 to 4 days later. I had to actually scrub at the tub to get all the purple residue out of it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 15:12
|
|
|
Krispy Kareem posted:Amazon does fail sometimes though. Their Groupon clone, cell phones...yeah, that’s it. Two industries that won’t nosedive if Amazon re-enters those markets. To be fair, Groupon's on its way out, isn't it? And with phones, the Fire Phone was so bad. It just had these features as selling points that no one asked for. I'd be interested to see what happens if they bought Sprint or T-Mobile, but also not because we don't need another loving communications merger.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 15:16
|
|
|
More likely they buy HTC and get into both handsets and VR at the same time.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 15:23
|
|
|
I had a Fire phone (got in on the phone + prime ‘fire’ sale). As a $20 phone it was still the most horrible handheld computer that I’ve ever used. Windows 6.5 was easier to use. Bezo’s may take us to Mars, but he will still never live that down.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 15:26
|
|
|
AlmightyBob posted:Is Amazon going to start supporting my favorite podcasts Don't forget that Amazon owns Audible.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 15:52
|
|
|
Audible almost got me once with their FREE AUDIOBOOK!, but everything I read said that it was 1 000 000% not worth it
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 18:14
|
|
|
Professor Shark posted:Audible almost got me once with their FREE AUDIOBOOK!, but everything I read said that it was 1 000 000% not worth it I got three free audiobooks from them, cancelled, and still own those books? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 18:42
|
|
|
ToxicSlurpee posted:I kind of wonder if it's a mix of things. I'm going to guess that a lot of people just don't trust the internet enough to buy supplements from a website. When you hear stories about people getting supplements that were literally just pills full of sand it looks bad. Though that was the entire supplement industry and not just the internet. GNC is a pretty old company so I think it has that inertia behind it; the mall you've gone to forever has probably had a GNC the entire time so it's just a fact of existence. I also figure maybe they get people buying protein powder or whatever on the way to the gym. That or people who forgot to order their stuff and had to go to an actual physical store because God forbid you don't have your bottle of magical muscle goo for three or four workout sessions. My friend manages a couple of GNCs in Montreal and told me that while they do get their usual creatine whey protein muscle men regulars, a large portion of their business comes from first generation Chinese immigrants buying thousands of dollars of herbal supplements to send back to their family in China because it's so much cheaper here.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 19:37
|
|
|
Professor Shark posted:Audible almost got me once with their FREE AUDIOBOOK!, but everything I read said that it was 1 000 000% not worth it I suspect the members of the audiobook thread would disagree with your sources. If you like audiobooks, Audible is 100% the way to go unless you're listening on a CD or cassette player.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 21:45
|
|
|
nm-someone else bought MW's rotting carcass
uli2000 has a new favorite as of 22:58 on Jul 18, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 22:45
|
|
|
fordan posted:I suspect the members of the audiobook thread would disagree with your sources. If you like audiobooks, Audible is 100% the way to go unless you're listening on a CD or cassette player. Or your local library supports Overdrive.
|
|
#
?
Jul 18, 2017 22:56
|
|
|
fordan posted:I suspect the members of the audiobook thread would disagree with your sources. If you like audiobooks, Audible is 100% the way to go unless you're listening on a CD or cassette player. Huh, I got the impression it was a shoddy provider and had no idea that we have an Audiobooks thread. Does it cover BBC Dramatizations as well?
|
|
#
?
Jul 19, 2017 00:39
|
|
|
CordlessPen posted:My friend manages a couple of GNCs in Montreal and told me that while they do get their usual creatine whey protein muscle men regulars, a large portion of their business comes from first generation Chinese immigrants buying thousands of dollars of herbal supplements to send back to their family in China because it's so much cheaper here. This is also how Coach and MK stay in business.
|
|
#
?
Jul 19, 2017 00:46
|
|
|
[quote="“Professor Shark”" post="“474495590”"] Huh, I got the impression it was a shoddy provider and had no idea that we have an Audiobooks thread. Does it cover BBC Dramatizations as well? [/quote] Audible a horrible provider? I’ve had an account since 2001 and that poo poo is the bomb. One of the best digital media services available. It’s also the cheapest way to get audiobooks other than the public library.
|
|
#
?
Jul 19, 2017 00:58
|
|
|
I might be crazy but I was biking down Robson Street, one of Vancouver's main retail high streets, and I'm pretty sure the JCrew was boarded up. Rents on that street are absurdly high and there's always a lot of turn over, but it does seem from some googling that JCrew is having a bit of trouble right now. Their CEO Micky Drexler stepped down on June 5th.
|
|
#
?
Jul 19, 2017 16:37
|
|
|
Femtosecond posted:I might be crazy but I was biking down Robson Street, one of Vancouver's main retail high streets, and I'm pretty sure the JCrew was boarded up. Buying Mens Warehouse was a bad plan, yes.
|
|
#
?
Jul 19, 2017 16:39
|
|
|
Barudak posted:Buying Mens Warehouse was a bad plan, yes. Didn't they buy it after forcing out George Zimmerman and not requiring a non-compete so he's now destroying them with a new company?
|
|
#
?
Jul 19, 2017 16:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 12:07 |
|
|
Gumbel2Gumbel posted:Didn't they buy it after forcing out George Zimmerman and not requiring a non-compete so he's now destroying them with a new company? Im not sure if he is destroying them, per se, but yes they did push him out and yes his new business is vastly more forward thinking and as far as I recall doing quite well.
|
|
#
?
Jul 19, 2017 17:03
|
|