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MiddleOne posted:If it's not a toy then it is a sandwich. Therefore, toys are pizza and pizza are toys. Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Somehow, Radioshack and Olive Garden will be the last two places standing GNC will be the last one standing, even though nobody has any idea who shops there. It just is, always has been, and always will be.
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whydirt posted:What’s the difference between electronics and tech? Electronics: I need 10 white LEDs, a soldering iron, some capacitors and throw in two of those Y-Cable adapters for my headphones. Tech: I need a new TV, some RAM, 10000 feet of Cat7, and throw in one of those 18 camera HD nightvision WIFI home security systems. eyebeem posted:The entire Fry's shopping experience is straight out of 2002, including their website. But man, looking at their layout is like discovering a perfect time capsule of old design. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Mar 21, 2018 22:54
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FilthyImp posted:But man, looking at their layout is like discovering a perfect time capsule of old design. I just realized that their website is really just the classic Frys/TigerDirect/Etc newspaper ad layout in an interactive format.
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Mar 21, 2018 22:59
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eyebeem posted:The entire Fry's shopping experience is straight out of 2002, including their website. 2001. It’s literally the same site and layout that they purchased from Outpost.com. They didn’t even change the name until 2006 or so and didn’t even sell the same items until 2010.
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Mar 21, 2018 23:45
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The Fry's near me isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Every time I am there, it is packed. They also always pricematch NewEgg and Amazon prices, so I go there for anything that I don't want to wait 2 days for.
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Mar 22, 2018 14:22
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Do you live in a time bubble? No seriously, what Fry's is that?
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Mar 22, 2018 16:02
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Toys R Us: Millenial's Fault: http://www.businessinsider.com/toys-r-us-closes-millennials-babies-birth-rate-2018-3
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Mar 22, 2018 16:21
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Plinkey posted:Toys R Us: Millenial's Fault: The birth rate has gone down but the population has increased, so shouldn't that result in roughly the same number of kids able to support the same number of stores? To say nothing of immigrant children, of course...
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Mar 22, 2018 16:25
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Plinkey posted:Toys R Us: Millenial's Fault: Essentially every single piece about blaming millennials comes down to the fact that millennials don't have any drat money, including this one. "No wage, only spend!" Forever and ever and ever.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:40
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Cicero posted:Do you live in a time bubble? No seriously, what Fry's is that? Austin. The Fry's at Parmer and Mopac.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:43
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Essentially every single piece about blaming millennials comes down to the fact that millennials don't have any drat money, including this one. "No wage, only spend!" Forever and ever and ever. I think a lot of them is also millennials just not wanting the same stuff. Like mcdonald's is doing terrible right now but more expensive fast food is taking off. If millenials had more money they would probably eat even less mcdonald's and chipotle would do even more better.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Essentially every single piece about blaming millennials comes down to the fact that millennials don't have any drat money, including this one. "No wage, only spend!" Forever and ever and ever. According to boomers we're not making less money, we're just spending it all on avocado toast. Maybe they should have passed better financial responsibility onto their kids if they didn't want all these businesses to die. 
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Baby boomers formed their views of the world during a time of American economic hegemony coupled with the atomization of society thanks to suburbanization, segregation, media, and other factors. Consequently they are the most narcissistic cohort in the history of the planet, and it should be no surprise that they blame the consequences of their political myopia on its victims.
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I loving had to sit at a table with a couple of boomers yesterday and listen to them make fun of homeless people with a cell phone. They're honestly the worst people around. They literally think that a non-wealthy person should eat gruel and work 16 hours a day for pennies that they can save for a downpayment on a house in 30 years, oh yeah and never get sick and never have a family member with a problem and never do anything to make yourself feel like a human being.
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It's pretty loving bad. I work with low income communities and even they get into it, talking about who's "really" deserving of assistance and who's not. I just try not to engage as much as possible because I just want to help as many people as I can but it's frustrating and extremely sad to listen to people in poverty crab bucketing in real time.
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DrNutt posted:It's pretty loving bad. I work with low income communities and even they get into it, talking about who's "really" deserving of assistance and who's not.
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but: you know those posters on the sliding glass door at the grocery store, warning you not to misuse your SNAP because you'll get sent to prison forever? Welfare fraud probably costs the government less than those posters; stuff like that is about making the poor hate each other and themselves. Yeah, we're a great people, always happy to be miserable as long as there's someone we can poo poo on.
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FCKGW posted:I’m gonna say Frys because I have no idea how they’re still in business, they’re all dead now. Fry’s is dead to me because their PC game section with all kinds of random bullshit FSX addons as well older games and non AAA titles is long gone. DrNutt posted:It's pretty loving bad. I work with low income communities and even they get into it, talking about who's "really" deserving of assistance and who's not. I just try not to engage as much as possible because I just want to help as many people as I can but it's frustrating and extremely sad to listen to people in poverty crab bucketing in real time. My coworkers constantly whine about their taxes going to welfare cheats. Anecdotes and straw men for days. Man, I wish more of my taxes went to safety nets that get abused sometimes than loving Lockheed and Goldman Sachs and private prisons which are 100% abuse from seed to plate. And I wish my taxes paid for my healthcare instead of a separate tax paid to a private insurer that either won’t pay because it’s too small time or won’t pay because it costs them too much. skooma512 fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Mar 22, 2018 18:36
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but: you know those posters on the sliding glass door at the grocery store, warning you not to misuse your SNAP because you'll get sent to prison forever? No? I've never seen such a thing in my life?
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skooma512 posted:Fry’s is dead to me because their PC game section I can't even really imagine what a physical PC game section could really be in 2018. Like AAA games are all significantly online or have major content patches. And like I can't imagine going to a store to buy a disk copy of like night in the woods or FTL or undertale or something. Like digital delivery seems like the most perfect fit for videogames of anything ever. Console games still have slowing but real physical sales but PC stuff has been a decade gone for buying disks of stuff.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I can't even really imagine what a physical PC game section could really be in 2018. ///I remember getting some Half-Life megapack from Best Buy and inside the hueg box were 4-5 CDs in lame paper protectors with a Serial Key sticker slapped to the back of each.
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fishmech posted:No? I've never seen such a thing in my life? Some of the Southern States have them especially in rural areas.
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FilthyImp posted:It would look like a rotating rack full of Gift Cards, except the cards would be 8.1x11 (so you can get a nice poster) and inside would be a nice credit-card sized plastic COMMEMORATIVE SUPER RARE COLLECTIBLE card with a tear-away strip to reveal the code you can use to redeem/download it from STEAM. Like it's not even like there aren't single player offline games, this is the best time in years for offline single player games but they are all the exact opposite of the type of games that would make any sort of big sale display at physical retail. Like you can't really meaningfully sell call of duty in a box because you need so much internet to run it anyway, and you could sell like thomas is alone in a box, but like, who would care? You aren't gonna market that or get people into the store showing that off. So it'd be some thing you threw in a corner somewhere, and at that point, it might as well not exist because everyone will just buy it online anyway.
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The founder of TRU died today.
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Jesus that leveraged buyout was brutally thorough.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I can't even really imagine what a physical PC game section could really be in 2018. If Target is any indication: 2 Racks of pre-paid cards for kids to play WoW/LoL/CS/DOTA 1 Shelf of Blizzard 1 Shelf of Sims 1 Shelf of everything else All in a single 4 foot section.
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Xae posted:If Target is any indication: I'm pretty sure half of the physical media are various SIMS games.
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Haifisch posted:There are no pizza rules.  FilthyImp posted:It would look like a rotating rack full of Gift Cards, except the cards would be 8.1x11 (so you can get a nice poster) and inside would be a nice credit-card sized plastic COMMEMORATIVE SUPER RARE COLLECTIBLE card with a tear-away strip to reveal the code you can use to redeem/download it from STEAM. Bethesda kind of did this with their Fallout 4 boxes. Came with one cd with about 7gb of the game on it, the rest had to be downloaded off steam.
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Yeah the thing with a console game is that all of the consoles now with drives have full on Blu-Ray drives which can support up to the 120 GB quad-layer discs (though no game has shipped on any of them using that yet) and it's common to see the 50 GB dual layer discs in use. Meanwhile on the PC side, most people that have an optical drive at all are going to only have DVD support if anything. Games could be shipped on USB drives or something, but those are expensive in small batches and who's going to want to try to risk the costs of having a million copies made to really bring the costs down?
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Looks like another buyout of TRU is being attempted.quote:The CEO behind Bratz dolls and Little Tike toys wants to save Toys "R" Us. Per the article, he's also made a bid for TRU Canada. Says he thinks the toy industry will collapse without a major retailer, and as he's in the toy business, that would hurt his companies. He's using his own money and investors for the same reason, so he doesn't risk his companies' finances on the bid. Makes sense to me. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/GS_CapSF/status/976969971807830016?s=19 Bad news from Nike.
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Lmao a gofundme to pay for a corporate acquisition SOUNDS LEGIT 2 ME
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Morbus posted:Lmao a gofundme to pay for a corporate acquisition SOUNDS LEGIT 2 ME Yeah, even as an (outgoing, found a new job) TRU employee who wants to see his coworkers land on their feet, the Bratz guy can go screw unless he finds enough actual investors for a bid.
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skooma512 posted:Man, I wish more of my taxes went to safety nets that get abused sometimes than loving Lockheed and Goldman Sachs and private prisons which are 100% abuse from seed to plate. And I wish my taxes paid for my healthcare instead of a separate tax paid to a private insurer that either won’t pay because it’s too small time or won’t pay because it costs them too much. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Just as an example, we're planning to spent about 14 times what it would cost to solve extreme poverty worldwide, if I remember the figures right, on the F-35. This is why we should launch a total and overwhelming strike on Russia, China, Pakistan, and Pakistan. Without nuclear armed rear end in a top hat states, we could safely scale back our military to an EU style "well we have submarines that will gently caress your poo poo up right back!"
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Morbus posted:Lmao a gofundme to pay for a corporate acquisition SOUNDS LEGIT 2 ME I know the gofundme page is just a marketing ploy so if they buy it the people can say “we did it!” But it’s still super duper gross
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Caganer posted:This is why we should launch a total and overwhelming strike on Russia, China,
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Toys R Us going out of business sale started. Rip
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Freakazoid_ posted:Bethesda kind of did this with their Fallout 4 boxes. Came with one cd with about 7gb of the game on it, the rest had to be downloaded off steam. Sure, Valve was ahead of the curve thanks to literally owning Steam, but it's been a long time coming.
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Best Buys PC games section is literally mostly game codes now that I think of it
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