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We should sacrifice him to Sam, so that we might be favored with great sales
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call to action posted:One person made one emptyquote. I don't even know wtf you're making GBS threads your jorts about now but do you think you could do it somewhere else?
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Oct 10, 2017 21:19
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I don't think I've been inside a Wal-Mart in like ten years. I'd like to say it's out of principle, and partly it is, but mostly it's just because I have closer and better options. I might be spending a little bit more on some things, but it's worth it not to have to drive out to the county or go inside a Wal-Mart
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Oct 10, 2017 21:28
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I'm pretty sure they mean walmart's website and not the store.
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Oct 10, 2017 21:33
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Even then I'd be wary of wal-mart because they mostly sell flimsy garbage so they can stay 'cheap'. Their soap n' stuff is probably fine, though.
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Oct 10, 2017 21:37
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in the grim darkness of the near future, there is only amazon and walmart for soap n' stuff
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some schlub posted:Looks like we brought one post too few No, it looks like you brought two posts too many.
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Oct 10, 2017 21:52
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Just lol if you're not making your own soap, Fight Club style
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I don't even know wtf you're making GBS threads your jorts about now but do you think you could do it somewhere else? Please post more about how much you love Walmart, it's very interesting (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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call to action posted:Please post more about how much you love Walmart, it's very interesting Hi, severely mentally ill guy who follows me around the forums, I have said precisely jack poo poo about Walmart. Barbarian Elephant said "soap and stuff" which reminded me of an amusing store name from the popular television show Parks and Recreation, so I posted a funny line from said show. Now you're having another one of your episodes because you literally seem to have some kind of alert system that notifies you whenever I make a post so you can throw a temper tantrum about it. Take your meds and lie down for a while.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:severely mentally ill    (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 10, 2017 23:32
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Gotta love how a single emptyquote(about retail stores in the retail thread, no less) is enough to get people frothing at the mouth about TB.
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Oct 10, 2017 23:38
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JFC, leave her alone.
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Haifisch posted:Gotta love how a single emptyquote(about retail stores in the retail thread, no less) is enough to get people frothing at the mouth about TB. It wasn't an empty quote, I posted a picture. I guess it's not loading for some people but quite my post and look.
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Oct 10, 2017 23:40
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And in relevant news that isn't petty sniping, Sears Canada is looking to close down all its stores coast-to-coast. I guarantee you there's someone at Best Buy popping open champagne right now.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Hi, severely mentally ill guy who follows me around the forums, I have said precisely jack poo poo about Walmart. Barbarian Elephant said "soap and stuff" which reminded me of an amusing store name from the popular television show Parks and Recreation, so I posted a funny line from said show. Now you're having another one of your episodes because you literally seem to have some kind of alert system that notifies you whenever I make a post so you can throw a temper tantrum about it. So you're an ableist now? Figures.
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Oct 11, 2017 00:05
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We are all adults here, I think everyone can agree that Walmart is for poors and the untermensch... Now target, on the other hand, there is a great retail store!
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:We are all adults here, I think everyone can agree that Walmart is for poors and the untermensch... Now target, on the other hand, there is a great retail store! I thought only anti-social morons left their house to shop?
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Oct 11, 2017 01:23
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My favorite chain store is Ace Hardware, tbh. Not sure if all of them are like that, but the one in my neighborhood has an incredibly well- informed and helpful staff, plants that don't look half dead, a cooler full of weird sodas, and a friendly shop cat named Benjamin. I don't even do much diy or gardening, but it's just a really nice store. Plus they made use of a cool old post office building instead of knocking it down and putting up a featureless box instead, which is something I wish would happen more often
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Badger of Basra posted:I thought only anti-social morons left their house to shop? gotta get groceries somehow, unless you also order those online but there is no way in hell im trusting produce i didn't pick out myself
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Crow Jane posted:My favorite chain store is Ace Hardware, tbh. Not sure if all of them are like that, but the one in my neighborhood has an incredibly well- informed and helpful staff, plants that don't look half dead, a cooler full of weird sodas, and a friendly shop cat named Benjamin. I don't even do much diy or gardening, but it's just a really nice store. Plus they made use of a cool old post office building instead of knocking it down and putting up a featureless box instead, which is something I wish would happen more often Ace Hardware is a co-operative of existing independent hardware stores and has been since the 70s, which allows very large leeway in local operations and locations while allowing the storeowners tons of the benefits from shared warehouses and purchasing of product. Because of how the company originally operated and expanded from roughly the 30s to the 60s, a lot of their stores were newly built but pretty small by today's standards, with the rest being existing independent stores signing up to go under the corporate wing. And since the move to a co-op model, there's been far more of picking up various stores that were already existing in weird locations instead of having any need or want to do big box places. fishmech fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Oct 11, 2017 |
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Please stop stalking me. Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Now target, on the other hand, there is a great retail store! Targét. So fancy.
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Oct 11, 2017 02:08
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Crow Jane posted:My favorite chain store is Ace Hardware, tbh. Not sure if all of them are like that, but the one in my neighborhood has an incredibly well- informed and helpful staff, plants that don't look half dead, a cooler full of weird sodas, and a friendly shop cat named Benjamin. I don't even do much diy or gardening, but it's just a really nice store. Plus they made use of a cool old post office building instead of knocking it down and putting up a featureless box instead, which is something I wish would happen more often Ace Hardware is more of a Co-op/buyers/franchise club than a chain. If you go into small towns they are usually in the spot of the ancient hardware store of yore. Ace Hardware is cool and good.
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Oct 11, 2017 02:18
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I'd rather to go to ace hardware than lowes, ace is closer and my kid loves going because there's always popcorn 
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Oct 11, 2017 02:53
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The local ace hardwares by me are all owned by a notorious rear end in a top hat who treats his managers and workers like poo poo, so I try to avoid shopping there when I can.
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Oct 11, 2017 03:17
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The place I live has an  AcTuAl DoWnToWn I can't afford to shop there though
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BarbarianElephant posted:If Amazon gets too expensive, there are certainly competitors. Walmart springs to mind currently, for a lot of the random poo poo you can get on Amazon. As a thrifty housewife, I recommend Walmart online for buying soap'n'stuff. Also anecdotally, I've been trying Wal-Mart's in-store pickup thing lately and I'm 4 for 4 on it being a total clusterfuck.
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OneEightHundred posted:I'd guess that if anything's going to be a thorn in Amazon's side, it'll be some new disruptive tech thing that has a different shopping model revolving around something that lets it drive prices down, but it's hard since Amazon has a massive selection and a big loyalty incentive with Prime. I think a more curated competitor to Amazon that didn't make you wade through hundreds of pages of counterfeit crap would do really well. The current rich-people retail trend is really aesthetically-consistent house brands - Trader Joe's and Whole Foods have been doing that for years, but there's Muji for housewares, The Ordinary for skincare... this trend will move to the middle class before too long and even though Amazon has AmazonBasics, their shopping experience is much more cluttered than trends dictate.
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BlueBlazer posted:Ace Hardware is more of a Co-op/buyers/franchise club than a chain. If you go into small towns they are usually in the spot of the ancient hardware store of yore. Ace Hardware is cool and good. I have an awesome one within walking distance and it's exactly this.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I think a more curated competitor to Amazon that didn't make you wade through hundreds of pages of counterfeit crap would do really well. The current rich-people retail trend is really aesthetically-consistent house brands - Trader Joe's and Whole Foods have been doing that for years, but there's Muji for housewares, The Ordinary for skincare... this trend will move to the middle class before too long and even though Amazon has AmazonBasics, their shopping experience is much more cluttered than trends dictate. The price/selection/convenience tradeoff probably still holds in general though, and on the selection axis, Amazon has a ridiculous amount of product overlap. There are 2000 different products listed under M/M HDMI cables.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I think a more curated competitor to Amazon that didn't make you wade through hundreds of pages of counterfeit crap would do really well. ok maybe the site works differently here in Germany, but why not just filter by "sold by Amazon"? I stopped buying from other sellers and haven't had that problem anymore
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Goa Tse-tung posted:ok maybe the site works differently here in Germany, but why not just filter by "sold by Amazon"? I stopped buying from other sellers and haven't had that problem anymore Amazon, at least in the U.S. mixes inventory from multiple sellers who use their "fulfilled by amazon" warehousing and fulfillment service. Even if you buy something "sold by Amazon" you could get a counterfeit item from a 3rd party vendor.
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Oneiros posted:Amazon, at least in the U.S. mixes inventory from multiple sellers who use their "fulfilled by amazon" warehousing and fulfillment service. Even if you buy something "sold by Amazon" you could get a counterfeit item from a 3rd party vendor. Yeah but then you also get returns handled by amazon so the pissbitch 3rd party vendor can't make it difficult for you to return the thing. call to action posted:So you're an ableist now? Figures. im the several missing  smileys itp (in this post)
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Doctor Butts posted:Amazon is fuckin nuts, yo. I absolutely can't believe some of it as well. Like, it gets delivered at all hours on Sunday or whatever. I can order something that's 40lbs (cat litter) and I get free shipping and it's there in a day or two. Like, a couple years ago wasn't USPS going to stop Saturday delivery? Now Amazon has them out not only at all hours on Saturday, but on Sunday as well. I really should post a couple photos of the 800,000sqft warehouse they built down the road from me. drat thing is so big it looks like an optical illusion.
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Anyway whether you work at a brick-and-mortar retail company or online retail company, if you are above store manager you go up against the wall too. 
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Doctor Butts posted:Amazon is fuckin nuts, yo. It has been rumored that Amazon is going to create it's own delivery service. They're making a ton of investments and hires that point in that direction.
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Xae posted:It has been rumored that Amazon is going to create it's own delivery service. They're making a ton of investments and hires that point in that direction. Maybe they can scoop up all the sorry folks that have been trying and failing to make a living with Uber.
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