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Progressive JPEG posted:I'm the opposite, I'm just there to find a very specific, often obscure book. I stopped bothering with BN entirely after consecutive books that they claimed were in stock at a store but weren't. I can get that from a reliable independent bookstore, though, along with impulse buys from browsing. B&N has gone from decent because they had a big inventory at least, to all but useless outside of whatever is on the top-ten this week. As one of those people that prefers physical copies for books, I'll be glad to see them go under and take more pressure off the small bookstores they managed not to kill off.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Browsing is cool, but I don't know how sustainable it is. About the only store I'll browse and buy stuff from without even trying to price match online is Microcenter. But that's because I love Microcenter and will pay extra to shop there. I'd rather wait a week and save $2 than give Best Buy or B&N my money. Our main book chain in the UK has turned it around after a bad few years and is growing again, and there's an indy chain which is going from strength to strength as well, so there's some kind of market out there for real bookshops. I think physical books are less price elastic than people expect since even at the £10 average price point for a paperback they're cheap as gently caress. Plus reading for pleasure is still broadly a middle class habit and that's a demographic which can be less sensitive to price. Article about Waterstones' revival which might be interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/03/balancing-the-books-how-waterstones-returned-to-profit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard
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Im convinced all those halloween stores are owned by like one shady as gently caress chinaman he uses to hawk his lovely factory wares.
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Burns posted:Im convinced all those halloween stores are owned by like one shady as gently caress chinaman he uses to hawk his lovely factory wares. Chinaman, huh.
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Sep 29, 2017 02:16
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Let's not jump to conclusions here, he could be talking about a man made out of bone china.
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Burns posted:Im convinced all those halloween stores are owned by like one shady as gently caress chinaman he uses to hawk his lovely factory wares. Also, Burns, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American, please.
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Mammal Sauce posted:Also, Burns, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American, please. 
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Oh wait is he a gimmick poster in the character of Mr. Burns? Because I could get into that.
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Krispy Wafer posted:
Get used to this.. The terminal is showing you the "applications" on your chip card, this is a feature of EMV. The option listed with the credit card brand "i.e. VISA DEBIT, MASTERCARD DEBIT" is actually the credit option. US DEBIT or DEBIT is the debit option.
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blugu64 posted:So did sports authority So does Sports Authority. I was in Denver a few months back for work and the stadium is still named Sports Authority Field.
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uli2000 posted:So does Sports Authority. I was in Denver a few months back for work and the stadium is still named Sports Authority Field. They want 5+ million a year plus a multiyear contract for a stadium that everyone refers to as Mile High. Itll be Sports Authority for a while.
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Halloween stores are an important part of the political progress, mask sales have predicted the winning Presidential candidate for years now.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Halloween stores are an important part of the political progress, mask sales have predicted the winning Presidential candidate for years now. I look forward to casting my vote for the Radioactive Warlord Death Cult with Razor Teeth mask in advance of the 2019 village cull. Ironically in the post-Trump apocalypse, Sears stores are the most popular places to trade skins and animal organs.
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Of course they would. With the large amount of physical space that will never be reused, many Sears shopping centres will simply end up deteriorating into unusable conditions. From there, the homeless population will sneak in and make use of the unusable space, building shantytowns that evolve into full fledged communities. And as the Simpsons prophesied, the post-Trump depression will make not tearing down these buildings a more financially viable strategy. As these buildings become more decrepit, the secret communities actually strengthen the skeleton while letting the metaphorical flesh rot off, intentionally. When the economy takes a minor upswing, those in power will finally wish to destroy those who live outside their walls, and operation 'Destroy Sears for Good' begins. But anyone who ventures inside, with aim to forcibly remove the illegal vagrants, never returns. The spokespeople for these communities declare they have done nothing to these disappearance, never laying a finger against their destructors. Eventually, their bodies are removed from the buildings, having been found under the rubble of fallen ceilings, drowned in rivers of waste that came from the washrooms, and somehow recovered from near bottomless sinkholes. The world comes to conclusion, the active deterioration of these buildings has become weaponized. Where the native population know how to live within these ecosystems, those without knowledge of the safe passages would surely parish. The vagrants have become one with the ecosystem of late stage capitalism, and those who built it have failed to make it past the greeter's podium. The only solution is to destroy the buildings, regardless of the lives inside. Some try bombs, some use fire, but the end result is all the same. As stucco and plaster fall away, what's left in their place is an impenetrable system of reclaimed and re-purposed trash that is people's homes. Those who had been denied place and access within our society have forcibly taken it from us, and built something stronger in it's place. Knowing that nothing can destroy what is now the strongest fortresses in the land, the Sears Dwellers proclaim sovereignty. Our children, acknowledging the way the wind is blowing, leave to join this society. Overnight their populations triple, even those who had once been senators and CEOs had bowed down to their will. It was said they were the footsoldiers when they forcibly took control of the Toys R' Us', and it was then when we knew the American Empire was to fall.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Of course they would. With the large amount of physical space that will never be reused, many Sears shopping centres will simply end up deteriorating into unusable conditions. From there, the homeless population will sneak in and make use of the unusable space, building shantytowns that evolve into full fledged communities. And as the Simpsons prophesied, the post-Trump depression will make not tearing down these buildings a more financially viable strategy. As these buildings become more decrepit, the secret communities actually strengthen the skeleton while letting the metaphorical flesh rot off, intentionally. When the economy takes a minor upswing, those in power will finally wish to destroy those who live outside their walls, and operation 'Destroy Sears for Good' begins. But anyone who ventures inside, with aim to forcibly remove the illegal vagrants, never returns. The spokespeople for these communities declare they have done nothing to these disappearance, never laying a finger against their destructors. Eventually, their bodies are removed from the buildings, having been found under the rubble of fallen ceilings, drowned in rivers of waste that came from the washrooms, and somehow recovered from near bottomless sinkholes. The world comes to conclusion, the active deterioration of these buildings has become weaponized. Where the native population know how to live within these ecosystems, those without knowledge of the safe passages would surely parish. The vagrants have become one with the ecosystem of late stage capitalism, and those who built it have failed to make it past the greeter's podium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zov7PEXdVZk
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Of course they would. With the large amount of physical space that will never be reused, many Sears shopping centres will simply end up deteriorating into unusable conditions. From there, the homeless population will sneak in and make use of the unusable space, building shantytowns that evolve into full fledged communities. And as the Simpsons prophesied, the post-Trump depression will make not tearing down these buildings a more financially viable strategy. As these buildings become more decrepit, the secret communities actually strengthen the skeleton while letting the metaphorical flesh rot off, intentionally. When the economy takes a minor upswing, those in power will finally wish to destroy those who live outside their walls, and operation 'Destroy Sears for Good' begins. But anyone who ventures inside, with aim to forcibly remove the illegal vagrants, never returns. The spokespeople for these communities declare they have done nothing to these disappearance, never laying a finger against their destructors. Eventually, their bodies are removed from the buildings, having been found under the rubble of fallen ceilings, drowned in rivers of waste that came from the washrooms, and somehow recovered from near bottomless sinkholes. The world comes to conclusion, the active deterioration of these buildings has become weaponized. Where the native population know how to live within these ecosystems, those without knowledge of the safe passages would surely parish. The vagrants have become one with the ecosystem of late stage capitalism, and those who built it have failed to make it past the greeter's podium. sir this is a mcdonald's drive through
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Of course they would. With the large amount of physical space that will never be reused, many Sears shopping centres will simply end up deteriorating into unusable conditions. From there, the homeless population will sneak in and make use of the unusable space, building shantytowns that evolve into full fledged communities. And as the Simpsons prophesied, the post-Trump depression will make not tearing down these buildings a more financially viable strategy. As these buildings become more decrepit, the secret communities actually strengthen the skeleton while letting the metaphorical flesh rot off, intentionally. When the economy takes a minor upswing, those in power will finally wish to destroy those who live outside their walls, and operation 'Destroy Sears for Good' begins. But anyone who ventures inside, with aim to forcibly remove the illegal vagrants, never returns. The spokespeople for these communities declare they have done nothing to these disappearance, never laying a finger against their destructors. Eventually, their bodies are removed from the buildings, having been found under the rubble of fallen ceilings, drowned in rivers of waste that came from the washrooms, and somehow recovered from near bottomless sinkholes. The world comes to conclusion, the active deterioration of these buildings has become weaponized. Where the native population know how to live within these ecosystems, those without knowledge of the safe passages would surely parish. The vagrants have become one with the ecosystem of late stage capitalism, and those who built it have failed to make it past the greeter's podium. Dredd prequel pitch looking good.
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Gorgar posted:I have one of the big lions. Think I got it at a zoo in Louisville. Same, I've got the one Barron Trump has.
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Sep 29, 2017 19:36
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Our local mall's Sears is having the bottom level converted to a Dave and Busters
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There's a Sears in St. Paul MN that has a DMV on the top floor.
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Haifisch posted:This makes me wonder how much longer Barnes & Noble is going to hold on. I know they pushed their e-reader/tablet hard and pretty much all of them have a Starbucks now, but there's no way that'd be enough to save them in the long term. The Barnes & Noble near me is basically a toy store. There's as much floorspace devoted to Legos and Settlers of Catan as there is to books.
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TheAwfulWaffle posted:The Barnes & Noble near me is basically a toy store. There's as much floorspace devoted to Legos and Settlers of Catan as there is to books.
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Is it possible that all these retail stores will just disappear in our lifetimes? And what will replace them?
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Blue Star posted:Is it possible that all these retail stores will just disappear in our lifetimes? And what will replace them? Amazon dropoffs, restaurants, rub n tug parlors.
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Barudak posted:Amazon dropoffs, restaurants, rub n tug parlors. God willing
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Blue Star posted:Is it possible that all these retail stores will just disappear in our lifetimes? And what will replace them? Around my way, gyms. We have two gyms in a very small town.
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Sep 29, 2017 21:58
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You like to tan don't you. Well you're going to have lots of tanning parlors.
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"chinaman" still sounds cooler than asian american tbqh Kojima even considered naming a Metal Gear boss "ChinaMan" before axeing the idea which is a shame because it would have told us 10 years earlier that he was earnest and oblivious
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Willing to bet money that the dead mall area in The Last of Us: Left Behind is based on pictures of this mall http://sephlawless.com/gallery/abandoned-snow-mall/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYPN5pRGLA&t=120s
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Blue Star posted:Is it possible that all these retail stores will just disappear in our lifetimes? And what will replace them? Other retail stores, just smaller and not as many. There's no reason to ever think that the way things were when you were a kid is the way things always will be, or should be. Most of the gnashing of teeth about "millennials are killing X" is lovely bad overextended companies rightly disappearing. Megastores weren't a particularly good way to buy books. Casual full-service restaurants didn't serve particularly good food. No store that hits a peak of appearing on every main street in America gets to stay that way. Just ask FootLocker, the last gasp of Woolworth's and formerly the most ubiquitous store in the country. Most of the American retail landscape was shaped by mass suburbanization and car-dependent development. Turns out that's an expensive and unpleasant way to live, so people are gradually stopping. The US is massively oversupplied in retail space because the ethos of suburban sprawl is you don't go to one central store for everybody, you go to YOUR Borders and YOUR Chili's where you never run the risk of seeing any filthy minorities or poor people. 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.
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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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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Willing to bet money that the dead mall area in The Last of Us: Left Behind is based on pictures of this mall That was my childhood mall  . Once the biggest mall east of the Mississippi, it turned into a hellhole by the late 90s. By the late 2000s it was all but abandoned and had nothing but a JC Penney outlet store and a dying Sears. Today it's just waiting to be demolished - I did some Urb-X in there a few years ago and it was the most depressing nostalgia trip you could ever take
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Other retail stores, just smaller and not as many. There's no reason to ever think that the way things were when you were a kid is the way things always will be, or should be. Most of the gnashing of teeth about "millennials are killing X" is lovely bad overextended companies rightly disappearing. Megastores weren't a particularly good way to buy books. Casual full-service restaurants didn't serve particularly good food. No store that hits a peak of appearing on every main street in America gets to stay that way. Just ask FootLocker, the last gasp of Woolworth's and formerly the most ubiquitous store in the country. Cool. I wont miss all the chilis and megastores. Blue Star has a new favorite as of 01:42 on Sep 30, 2017 |
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Around my way, gyms. it is so people can say "lets not go to that gym lets go to the good one"
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sharknado slashfic posted:Our local mall's Sears is having the bottom level converted to a Dave and Busters I would say they're in the Bargaining phase, but D&B is hardly a bargain.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:There's a Sears in St. Paul MN that has a DMV on the top floor. It's so god drat odd. It's not like "Sears rented a chunk of back office space to the DMV," oh no, it's right out there on the floor. 
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When they finally tore down the once thriving mall in my home town they discovered a bunch of dead bodies buried under it.
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shadowvine118 posted:When they finally tore down the once thriving mall in my home town they discovered a bunch of dead bodies buried under it. From when they built it or further back or after it was built?
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JB50 posted:From when they built it or further back or after it was built? My bad- it wasn't so much under the mall directly as within the vicinity of the mall. Apparently, the mall was nicknamed "Mall of Murder" before it closed.
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shadowvine118 posted:My bad- it wasn't so much under the mall directly as within the vicinity of the mall. Apparently, the mall was nicknamed "Mall of Murder" before it closed. I still want more details because this is actually intriguing
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