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I used to work at Kohls corporate and knowing what their Black Friday numbers were, I can't imagine the disaster this may be for Macys.
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My Black Friday experience this year: I saved £6.10p on a amazon warehouse toaster because of a 20% off on Black Friday thing, that I was going to get anyway because my old toaster kept blowing the main house fuse. It is the only toaster being sold in the UK especially designed for normal sized sliced bread.
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Nov 24, 2017 21:42
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Canadian retailers keep trying to hype up black friday here but it doesn't work out because they don't give the big discounts like in the US and people here also just don't seem to give a poo poo.
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FistEnergy posted:Probably gonna be some fun 'retail is dead' stories in about a week, after the Black Friday numbers come in. There were already some damage control articles this week to downplay expectations DACK FAYDEN posted:not-USPol crosspost: Hahaha
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My Black Friday experience is staying up until 12:01 to buy a new toaster oven from frys.com. Retails for $120, discounted to $30, not many reviews about it good or bad because it's a brand new design. It took 17 minutes for the order to process.
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Nov 25, 2017 03:39
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My retailer experience of Black Friday in the UK. Sent 2 eCommerce e-mails that took all of 35 minutes to produce. received over 1000% higher daily takings.
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Nov 25, 2017 04:03
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my experience of black friday: weeping silently while a gathering of strangers whipped my rear end with a vacuum hose
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Nov 25, 2017 05:17
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my husband works in a small store (but still a national chain) and their normal sales are about $3,000-$4,000, more or less. they stayed open two hours later for black friday and their corporate expected $8,000. they made less than $2,000.  e: this is really funny to me but I know they're just gonna use it to cut hours and gently caress over everyone snoo fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Nov 25, 2017 |
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Nov 25, 2017 06:08
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The Snoo posted:
Literally anything can be an excuse for this.
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Nov 25, 2017 06:12
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noyes posted:my experience of black friday: weeping silently while a gathering of strangers whipped my rear end with a vacuum hose Working retail sucks
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got any sevens posted:Working retail sucks My father has worked 20 Thanksgivings in a row, retail blows.
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Nov 25, 2017 07:57
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The Snoo posted:my husband works in a small store (but still a national chain) and their normal sales are about $3,000-$4,000, more or less. they stayed open two hours later for black friday and their corporate expected $8,000. In store purchases were by all accounts very low in the UK yesterday, however online was mega.
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Nov 25, 2017 10:01
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I got a nice pair of Timberland leather insulated gloves yesterday for like 60 percent off at Macy's. I love the Macy's near me. That said, the traffic wasn't actually that bad yesterday even around 2 pm...and I live in metro NYC.
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Nov 25, 2017 14:25
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My Black Friday experience? Arriving at the local mall only to find the whole parking deck and the normally-empty back lot completely filled and thinking to myself "gently caress this, I'm heading back home."
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Nov 25, 2017 14:55
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His Divine Shadow posted:I have to say I don't recognize myself at all in most of your lives. I don't have amazon prime, I've never used uber, never bought stuff on black fridays etc etc. I've built and live in a house with the intention of spending the rest of my life here, I've had the same job for 15 years. Sometimes I feel like I'm partially outside the flow of the world, but in a good way. Don't take this the wrong way, but I guess I'm happy for you that you're a unicorn. It's rare indeed to find a job that continues to exist, with raises that meet or beat inflation, for 15 years and doesn't subscribe to the up-or-out management philosophy.
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Nov 26, 2017 01:56
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I'm genuinely ashamed to say that I recently started a retail job for lack of any better prospects and one of the training modules was quite literally one of those propaganda reels wherein they try to dissuade you from joining a union because IT WILL GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND ARBITRATE BY YOURSELF (while failing to point out that one single worker has no leverage regardless). It was all I could do not to get up and walk out of the room. The sad part is that I am totally, honestly, genuinely sure that that probably works on a lot of people, especially Americans, because they have been conditioned for decades by social bullshit to be terrified of anything collectivist.
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JustJeff88 posted:I'm genuinely ashamed to say that I recently started a retail job for lack of any better prospects and one of the training modules was quite literally one of those propaganda reels wherein they try to dissuade you from joining a union because IT WILL GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND ARBITRATE BY YOURSELF (while failing to point out that one single worker has no leverage regardless). It was all I could do not to get up and walk out of the room. The sad part is that I am totally, honestly, genuinely sure that that probably works on a lot of people, especially Americans, because they have been conditioned for decades by social bullshit to be terrified of anything collectivist. It works on a lot of people because it is literal propaganda being force-fed down their throats by their employers.
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Liquid Communism posted:Don't take this the wrong way, but I guess I'm happy for you that you're a unicorn. We're like 10 people total at this company, so that helps. E: I remember when I started working their, my employer gave me the signup papers for the union, because everyone has to be in a union.
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MiddleOne posted:It works on a lot of people because it is literal propaganda being force-fed down their throats by their employers. Also because of a very valid fear that the employer will just fire everyone if they try to unionize.
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Liquid Communism posted:Don't take this the wrong way, but I guess I'm happy for you that you're a unicorn. I’m guessing that both his Devine shadow and I live in the arse end of nowhere with house prices significantly below average. My 3 bed semi is worth £100k, average national price is 300k, and in London it would be about £800k.
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Liquid Communism posted:Also because of a very valid fear that the employer will just fire everyone if they try to unionize. You can't really have a functioning authoritarian regime if you don't expel dissenters now can you? 
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Nov 26, 2017 11:43
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We were busier than normal on Black Friday which was super strange because that's usually a day we catch our breath before the next sprint to another eating holiday. We lost a poo poo ton of money though for Thanksgiving because someone in charge of category at corporate hosed up and we ran out of fresh turkeys 2 days before the holiday.
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Nov 26, 2017 18:06
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I stopped by a JC Penney this evening out of morbid curiosity and holy poo poo that place was a disaster.
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Nov 27, 2017 04:45
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learnincurve posted:I’m guessing that both his Devine shadow and I live in the arse end of nowhere with house prices significantly below average. My 3 bed semi is worth £100k, average national price is 300k, and in London it would be about £800k. I got municipal land for super ultra cheap and since then this place has taken off, so my place is worth more than we put into building it at the moment. But we weren't building a house, we were building a home.
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Nov 27, 2017 08:13
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His Divine Shadow posted:I got municipal land for super ultra cheap and since then this place has taken off, so my place is worth more than we put into building it at the moment. But we weren't building a house, we were building a home. Old house was bought at auction. I got a loan secured on my parents house, rather than a mortgage. It was dirt cheap because it was basically a shithole that people buy to flip or rent out. Slowly did it up, sold it at auction again, paid off the rest of the original loan and bought this bigger, nicer, house at auction with what was left. People forget that house auctions exist, and that not everything in there is four walls and a leaking roof. Banks sell repossessed houses and the gubberment/police sell confiscated property. Banks are also far more likely to give you a loan than a mortgage, and as a bonus your loan is fixed rate and you don’t get charged for paying it off early.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Like just go in your back yard and light a fire in the fire pit and hangout in the cold together. You could probably get drunk and high too and it would be fun. I went out on Black Friday to get a handful of things, and I was a little bewildered. I remember when every chain was offering huge deals on tons of merchandise that was falling off the shelves, and it was insanely crowded--although those sales were partially because everyone was broke. This Black Friday the sales were unremarkable and it wasn't very crowded in my city. The only place with long lines was Best Buy, and it was way down from a few years ago. I go to Best Buy maybe twice a year, so I was also surprised by the shift to mobile devices and home automation. Last time I was there to buy a cable, the new Blu-Ray releases were the first thing you see when you walk in. Have the big box adjusted to the retail contraction? The local Kohl's used to have literal heaps and piles of merchandise marked down 75% or more to get it off the shelves, but no longer.
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Halloween Jack posted:That is also terrible. there is nothing more human than getting shitfaced sitting around a fire for the hell of it
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I was worried when my wife wanted a fire pit, until we clarified that she wants to sit outside for awhile, roast marshmallows, and then go back inside, not sit in a circle staring at a fire for seven goddamned hours like some weirdos I know.
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boner confessor posted:meanwhile, amazon marches on Maximum laziness in product design. Though I'm sure someone will buy one as a novelty.
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It's made by a bot, guys. cf. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2017/7/10/15946296/amazon-bot-smartphone-cases
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Nonsense posted:HEB makes the rest of American grocers look like Soviet food depots. Wegman's would like a word. 
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Nov 27, 2017 21:40
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CFox posted:As someone that inherited a ton of those old, solid, real wood furniture pieces I can pretty safely say that your children/grandchildren won't want it since it's huge and heavy and the style clashes with what we actually like. My parents are actively trying to get rid of a whole set of MCM furniture that they'd inherited from their parents.
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learnincurve posted:Old house was bought at auction. I got a loan secured on my parents house, rather than a mortgage. It was dirt cheap because it was basically a shithole that people buy to flip or rent out. Slowly did it up, sold it at auction again, paid off the rest of the original loan and bought this bigger, nicer, house at auction with what was left. People are well aware. They simply lack the capital. Most banks aren't going to give them tens of thousands of dollars unsecured outside of a mortgage loan to speculate with, as buying 'as-is' property is fraught with risk. Especially when you are intending the property as a primary residence, and can't just write it off if it is discovered to need, say, several thousand more dollars of asbestos remediation, a new roof, or foundation repair.
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learnincurve posted:Old house was bought at auction. I got a loan secured on my parents house, rather than a mortgage. It was dirt cheap because it was basically a shithole that people buy to flip or rent out. Slowly did it up, sold it at auction again, paid off the rest of the original loan and bought this bigger, nicer, house at auction with what was left. Okay, a couple questions here: 1. How did you get a loan secured on your parents house? As in, you put up your parents house as collateral? 2. Dirt cheap...can you be more specific? Are we talking $20,000, $50,000 , $100,000? 3. "Slowly did it up again"...how slowly? How much time and money did you spend to get it into shape? Like, theoretically, if someone spends $10,000 on supplies, and works 10 hours a week (on average) for two years fixing a house up, and makes $40,000 dollars profit on it, then what they have is a part-time job where they make 15,000 dollars a year. I mean, in that example, it isn't a bad deal, but I would have to know exactly how much money and time it takes to do it.
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glowing-fish posted:Okay, a couple questions here: Yes, that is exactly what he did.
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Nonsense posted:HEB makes the rest of American grocers look like Soviet food depots. I mean, sure. My company is poo poo. And the merger with Giant didn't really help things.
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Okay, a couple questions here: 1. How did you get a loan secured on your parents house? As in, you put up your parents house as collateral? Exactly this, I’m in the UK so I don’t know how American laws work. It meant instead if having to borrow money for a deposit from my parents I just had to promise to keep up on the payments. 2. Dirt cheap...can you be more specific? Are we talking $20,000, $50,000 , $100,000? Loan was £50k. House was £35k plus the fees and it sold for £180k 3. "Slowly did it up again"...how slowly? How much time and money did you spend to get it into shape? Like, theoretically, if someone spends $10,000 on supplies, and works 10 hours a week (on average) for two years fixing a house up, and makes $40,000 dollars profit on it, then what they have is a part-time job where they make 15,000 dollars a year. I mean, in that example, it isn't a bad deal, but I would have to know exactly how much money and time it takes to do it. The house was livable in but needed everything in it replaced, electrics, central heating, roof, kitchen were the main ones. Cost around £50k total over 10 years and I payed other people to do it. It could have been done in 2 years and a lot cheaper if I didn’t have children. Warning, you have to know or have somone around you who really knows thier poo poo when it comes to inspecting houses. You also see a lot of very cheap houses that will be shells, don’t be tempted, wait until a better one comes up, you may be out bid on that one but not on the 4th one.
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