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rndmnmbr posted:You should learn the meaning of the word "hyperbole". Grandpa didnt leave us much. He had a few grand on credit card debt, owed a bit on a few trucks and cars, and didnt have any life insurance. But he did leave us this 35 year old washing machine he got back in 2017. Truly a legacy we can be proud of, and shall remain in our family and on our family crest.
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Jastiger posted:Grandpa didnt leave us much. He had a few grand on credit card debt, owed a bit on a few trucks and cars, and didnt have any life insurance. Yeah and I want a washing machine I can keep my kids in, rear end in a top hat.
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Krotera posted:Yeah and I want a washing machine I can keep my rear end in a top hat kids in. Fixed for you 
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bunnyofdoom posted:I think Fondar Yards also is good. lol, nice
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When I was a child my mother had a ginormous twin-tube washing machine the size of an industrial chest freezer. One tub for washing and a fully separate tub for rinsing. It was loud as hell and wore away the carpet with friction burns because it shook like it was an angry tectonic plate. This was in the North of Scotland though, so when she finally upgraded to a front loading machine she narrowly avoided being burnt as a witch.
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Mods, plz change thread title to “Companies that are circling the agitator”
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ladron posted:look at the luddite who can't hands-free order toilet paper while taking a poo poo. whose the ruby noun? Only the three seashells for me, thanks.
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Oct 27, 2017 13:54
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gently caress you if you dont poo poo then take a shower to rinse off toilet paper is an invention of corporate greed
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Carrion Luggage posted:gently caress you if you dont poo poo then take a shower to rinse off Just poo poo in the shower and cut out the middle man.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Mods, plz change thread title to “Companies that are circling the agitator”
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JCPenney wishes it had used the gentle cycle. J.C. Penney Suffers Worst Drop in Decades on Loss Forecast quote:The shares tumbled to a low of $2.76, marking the worst intraday decline since at least 1980. The stock had already lost 56 percent of its value in 2017 and 95 percent over the past 10 years.
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Oct 27, 2017 17:23
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Carrion Luggage posted:gently caress you if you dont poo poo then take a shower to rinse off And waste water, you piece of poo poo?? LMAO if you don't walk around with your own personal poo poo haze cloaked around you. I take baths in piles of loose dust like the loving animals do.
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Oct 27, 2017 17:30
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Soon they'll be part of... ...the penny stocks.
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Doggles posted:JCPenney wishes it had used the gentle cycle. I would say I'm surprised but how can I be when they purposefully put the New Coke guy in charge.
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I can't even remember the last time I've seen the inside of a JC Penny's, and I'm thinking I may be confusing it with a Sears.
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Oct 27, 2017 17:33
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Wooohoo we set a record! http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/news/economy/store-closings-2017/index.html
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Doggles posted:JCPenney wishes it had used the gentle cycle. I like Penneys  But to be fair I mostly go in there for accessories and Sephora and occasionally St. John's Bay pants, which are hella comfy. If Penneys goes under Sephora (at least around here) will have to rent out their own storefront, noooooo
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Glazier posted:I would say I'm surprised but how can I be when they purposefully put the New Coke guy in charge. Believe it or not, New Coke made sense at the time. There's a good YouTube channel, Company Man, who released a pretty detailed video about the whole debacle. https://youtu.be/ThZJWmCaYRQ
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Mustached Demon posted:Just poo poo in the shower and cut out the middle man. uncultured savages who have never heard of a bidet Iron Crowned posted:I can't even remember the last time I've seen the inside of a JC Penny's, and I'm thinking I may be confusing it with a Sears. I couldn't remember, either, so I pulled up pictures of both from a local mall that's now dead and torn down.   EDIT: This guy's got several dead and dying malls on his photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/10542402@N06/with/23489022354/ 90s Solo Cup has a new favorite as of 18:04 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Mustached Demon posted:Just poo poo in the shower and cut out the middle man. I waffle stomp my turds down the drain like a real man
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Burt Sexual posted:Wooohoo we set a record! I started getting into vinyl again a few years ago when I inherited my dad's collection. The mall record stores are absolute garbage and were half filled with ThinkGeek products. I starting going to local shops because they had more than just Pink floyd and Metallica albums the people that work there actually know music and can make some incredible recommendations.
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I haven't been in one since the 90s, but I don't think a JCP looks significantly different from a Kohl's. (Faux-marble pathways leading in between departments, with the merch on carpet.)
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vyst posted:I waffle stomp my turds down the drain like a real man (don't google blue waffle ever)
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Iron Crowned posted:I can't even remember the last time I've seen the inside of a JC Penny's, and I'm thinking I may be confusing it with a Sears. I did a quick walk around the JCPenney near me the day before it closed.  Citadel Mall-54 by Will King, on Flickr Citadel Mall-55 by Will King, on Flickr Citadel Mall-57 by Will King, on FlickrDomestic Amuse posted:EDIT: This guy's got several dead and dying malls on his photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/10542402@N06/with/23489022354/ He's even been to the mall where I took my JCPenney photos. 2012  Citadel Mall by Mike Kalasnik, on Flickr2017  Citadel Mall-62 by Will King, on FlickrFun Fact: My 2017 photo was taken this past August. Between then and now that Kitchen Art store has closed.
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Moon Slayer posted:Just want to let you know that I, at least, got this and it made my day. Thank you
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Bonzo posted:I started getting into vinyl again a few years ago when I inherited my dad's collection. The mall record stores are absolute garbage and were half filled with ThinkGeek products. I starting going to local shops because they had more than just Pink floyd and Metallica albums the people that work there actually know music and can make some incredible recommendations. They have more vinyl Funko Pops than records. Every mall record store carries Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Thriller, Revolver, Back in Black, and absolutely nothing else. In Sears chat, Whirlpool not shipping any more appliances to Sears looks a lot more like Sears doesn't have the cash to pay invoices. When you're the world's largest manufacturer of home appliances, 3% is a lot of money. Marc Bitzer's statement is basically corporate-speak for "Yeah, we'll keep making Kenmore stuff for them because it isn't worth the court battle to break the contract, but forget shipping them anything else. We don't trust that they will make enough over Black Friday and Christmas to cover the bill if we give them credit, and they don't have enough to pay cash now." I say another 18-24 months. It will be too long and slow, but it's inevitable. Sunshine89 has a new favorite as of 19:06 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Crazy that in 2016 JC Penney’s was looking like a turn around success story. Ends up it was just a dead cat bounce. We used to shop there a lot and use their catalog service. When I first started dating my wife she took me to get my hair cut at the JCP hair salon because why the gently caress not. We later used their photo studio for our kid’s baby pictures. The point I’m getting at is that we were loyal JCP customers and I haven’t been in one of their stores in like 5 years. They didn’t do anything to piss us off. The last time I went I found a pretty good deal on clothes. I just lost all urge to go and deal with a mall department store.
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Their mistake was thinking they were Apple
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Mu Zeta posted:Their mistake was thinking they were Apple No the mistake was valuing their old and dying customers over attracting new ones.
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Glazier posted:No the mistake was valuing their old and dying customers over attracting new ones. For so long these old-school retailers equated their number of stores or thousands of employees = better. JCP could survive with far fewer stores and a focus on online and catalog sales, but that's not as big and bigger is better. I guess there's a risk of being irrelevant as you reduce your retail footprint and lose mindshare, but malls are not coming back. Despite the doom and gloom in this thread, most will survive, but there are going to be fewer and fewer each year. There are online only or online-mostly retailers that seem to be surviving just fine. L.L. Bean and Duluth both do well and even charge premium prices. But their overhead is probably a fraction of a traditional retailer and they have products people want.
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Yawgmoth posted:(don't google blue waffle ever) Google that poo poo real good.
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Krispy Wafer posted:For so long these old-school retailers equated their number of stores or thousands of employees = better. JCP could survive with far fewer stores and a focus on online and catalog sales, but that's not as big and bigger is better. I guess there's a risk of being irrelevant as you reduce your retail footprint and lose mindshare, but malls are not coming back. Despite the doom and gloom in this thread, most will survive, but there are going to be fewer and fewer each year. Ding ding ding we have a winner!  Retail experts have been saying this for the last 20 years- the USA and Canada are over -retailed. We have the highest and 2nd highest of retail square footage per capita in the the world. Department store giants have been particularly bad at seeing this. The boards can't see past the next quarter. The CEOs and COOs see that the companies have brand equity, name recognition, an established customer base, and national presence and don't want to give it up. The bean counters see that the stores are either owned and paid off or the leases are at a fraction of market values, and there are extremely favourable supplier contracts, and don't want to mess with a good thing. They have too much real estate, but somehow manage to sell off the profitable stores and keep what's left. All the while, their customer base is aging rapidly. I was talking to my dad about the demise of Sears Canada, and realized Sears isn't the store where I think old people shop- Sears is the store where my dad thinks that old people shop. The middle market is struggling in general. Luxury goods are always in flux, and discounters and fast fashion places are booming. Meanwhile, inline mall stores like Gap, J.Crew, Club Monaco and Ann Taylor are caught in a perpetual fire sale trap- nobody ever pays full price for anything, which sends the message to those that can pay full price that the goods aren't worth full price. Fashion labels like Michael Kors and Coach are trimming their lines and pulling out of mainline department stores because they feel that the constant sales devalue their goods, which puts another dent into stores like Macy's.
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Sunshine89 posted:Ding ding ding we have a winner! Which is what JCP tried to admirably break out (the fire sale trap) by getting rid of coupons and just lowering prices. And consumers rejected it. It's like going to a car dealership and haggling versus paying a price that profits both parties and doesn't encourage underhanded dealer add-on's or fuckery with trade-in values or loan terms. The majority of people would be better off by not haggling or trying to squeeze out the lowest cost, but their perception of value decreases when they can't knock a few thousand off that MSRP. Eventually you get to a situation like Kohl's where retail prices are meaningless and the helpful clerk reminds you that you saved $700 off your $50 purchase and isn't that great. I still get a little giddy when I get the 30% off coupon though.
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John Big Booty posted:Don't listen to grandma here. Hell do it at work or even on the living room smart TV at home.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Which is what JCP tried to admirably break out (the fire sale trap) by getting rid of coupons and just lowering prices. And consumers rejected it. Macy's and Kohl's just recently got hit with lawsuits for false reference pricing in California. In CA, the goods actually have to have been sold for the original listed price at some point (6 months IIRC) in order for a retailer to claim that the goods are discounted by whatever percentage from the original price. Macy's and Kohl's never bothered charging the original price at all for hundreds of items, so it wasn't really ever a discount.
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Sears announced Thursday it planned to close dozens more Sears and Kmart stores around the country, continuing a yearslong pattern.quote:These 45 Kmart stores and 18 Sears stores are slated to close in late January, the company announced.
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Doggles posted:Sears announced Thursday it planned to close dozens more Sears and Kmart stores around the country, continuing a yearslong pattern. Goddamnit, close the K-Mart in Minneapolis so we can have our loving street back! 
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How many more loving K-Marts are there even left to close?
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Krispy Wafer posted:It's like going to a car dealership and haggling versus paying a price that profits both parties and doesn't encourage underhanded dealer add-on's or fuckery with trade-in values or loan terms. The majority of people would be better off by not haggling or trying to squeeze out the lowest cost, but their perception of value decreases when they can't knock a few thousand off that MSRP. Carvana does exactly this and it rules
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Mr.Radar posted:Goddamnit, close the K-Mart in Minneapolis so we can have our loving street back! And. Yet. 
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