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As a parent, I miss toy stores. TRU had everything in one place. You didn't have to guess at how something looked or felt in person- you could compare the different options right in front of you. Then there were other toys next to it. Maybe the kid would like that too! The kid can get an idea of what she likes too. Maybe she sees something else really cool that she'd rather spend her money on instead. Target is usually a mess in the toy aisles and usually seem out of stock. Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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who the gently caress is going to the movies that much Jesus
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Jul 28, 2018 00:31
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I got a notification on my MoviePass app, they're back online now. Not only that, they're also introducing new features soon. 
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Jul 28, 2018 00:52
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Well we know their aws/firebase bills are paid up at least ^^ dammit
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Jul 28, 2018 01:06
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Imagine being a moviepass employee right now
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Jul 28, 2018 01:06
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HEY NONG MAN posted:who the gently caress is going to the movies that much Jesus I had movie pass last summer and through this spring, and I went pretty frequently. The big cinemas in Seattle get all the good stuff so it wasn’t just endless blockbusters, and if I had nothing better to do it was cool being able to stop at the movies on the way home and walk into a screening of like, Phantom Thread or whatever and not even think about it. You do (did) have to be a film dork with free time, though.
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Jul 28, 2018 16:11
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EdithUpwards posted:TRU was killed by Bain. Exactly this. TRU was leveraged into a position where the slightest downturn in business would put them under.
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Jul 28, 2018 16:35
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Liquid Communism posted:Exactly this. TRU was leveraged into a position where the slightest downturn in business would put them under. Someone here argued that TRU was pretty profitable but their entire profit every year went to servicing the acquisition debt. Very sad.
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Jul 29, 2018 10:27
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anonumos posted:Someone here argued that TRU was pretty profitable but their entire profit every year went to servicing the acquisition debt. Very sad. The loss of both sucks, since Giant Toy store is still a cool thing to waltz through (and I'm sad I'll never get to see my kids freak out at all the toys), and BRU was super handy once you hit the late 20s and your friends start babying up.
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Jul 29, 2018 11:06
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I still think Bain probably just hastened the inevitable; TRU was a big thing when you could only reliably find All The Toys there, nowadays, well, you have Amazon.
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Jul 29, 2018 12:01
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still think Bain probably just hastened the inevitable; TRU was a big thing when you could only reliably find All The Toys there, nowadays, well, you have Amazon. The entire reason they were bought out by private equity firms is because Wal Mart ate into their market share and they had to declare bankruptcy.
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Jul 29, 2018 17:02
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still think Bain probably just hastened the inevitable; TRU was a big thing when you could only reliably find All The Toys there, nowadays, well, you have Amazon. Amazon is terrible for two important points. Firstly, deciding if something is going to be too small/fragile for a kid. Secondly, avoiding even shoddier knockoffs.
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Jul 29, 2018 21:41
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Liquid Communism posted:Amazon is terrible for two important points. Firstly, deciding if something is going to be too small/fragile for a kid. Secondly, avoiding even shoddier knockoffs.
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Jul 30, 2018 03:19
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People talk about their kid being obsessed with unboxing videos or videos of kids playing with toys or videos of other people playing Minecraft but I never see it. What age is this happening? My kid is almost five and he only ever wants to watch videos that we’ve made of him doing stuff. Or he wants to watch videos of my band which owns and all but come on kid nobody wants to watch that.
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Jul 30, 2018 03:23
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HEY NONG MAN posted:People talk about their kid being obsessed with unboxing videos or videos of kids playing with toys or videos of other people playing Minecraft but I never see it. 5 is young. My 11-year-old watches YouTube constantly.
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Jul 30, 2018 03:25
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I have said it before, almost all youtube videos that have dull/boring/stupid content that are also popular almost universally are actually just podcasts for kids where the personality speaking is a character and the actual action they are doing is just a backdrop for them to make jokes or tell stories or whatever. Like as an adult they are all unwatchable and stupid to me, but they all obviously are watched because of the podcast for kids nature more than for the actual nominal content. The people are always telling jokes and stories that a kid would like over whatever thing they do.
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Jul 30, 2018 03:35
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I have said it before, almost all youtube videos that have dull/boring/stupid content that are also popular almost universally are actually just podcasts for kids where the personality speaking is a character and the actual action they are doing is just a backdrop for them to make jokes or tell stories or whatever. Like as an adult they are all unwatchable and stupid to me, but they all obviously are watched because of the podcast for kids nature more than for the actual nominal content. The people are always telling jokes and stories that a kid would like over whatever thing they do. This is more or less why I listen to Your Kickstarter Sucks
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Regular Nintendo posted:This is more or less why I listen to Your Kickstarter Sucks It’s not even a new thing. Tons of people that don’t care about cars listened to car talk. Things often have themes where the actual draw is the host, it’s not even a new idea.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It’s not even a new thing. Tons of people that don’t care about cars listened to car talk. Things often have themes where the actual draw is the host, it’s not even a new idea. Half of every Top Gear/Grand Tour fan I know watches it because it is three dudes doing stupid things in cars and occasionally they may review something
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Jul 30, 2018 04:05
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Dameius posted:Half of every Top Gear/Grand Tour fan I know watches it because it is three dudes doing stupid things in cars and occasionally they may review something Yeah, as an adult most children YouTube stuff is like nails on chalkboards annoying but the base concept of “people do little skits and stories tied together with a theme or premise” isn’t weird or alien at all.
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Jul 30, 2018 04:10
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I’ll just have my kid watch Mr Show then.
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Jul 30, 2018 04:26
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Yeah, as an adult most children YouTube stuff is like nails on chalkboards annoying but the base concept of “people do little skits and stories tied together with a theme or premise” isn’t weird or alien at all. I remember like half of live action children's TV being that when I was a kid.
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Jul 30, 2018 05:28
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Wait, I thought it was toy reviews. Is it just...unboxing videos of toys?
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Pants Donkey posted:Wait, I thought it was toy reviews. Is it just...unboxing videos of toys? Theres a few channels that make millions every year from sponsored videos of them just opening toys and showing them off. Theres one 11 year old kid I think that has like 4 million subscribers or something bananas.
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serious gaylord posted:Theres a few channels that make millions every year from sponsored videos of them just opening toys and showing them off. Theres one 11 year old kid I think that has like 4 million subscribers or something bananas. My 3 year old son's favorite channel now is a kid and his dad who build lego sets or unbox tonka trucks and play with them. It's part review, part unboxing, part speed build, part randomness of a dad and his son.
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anonumos posted:My 3 year old son's favorite channel now is a kid and his dad who build lego sets or unbox tonka trucks and play with them. It's part review, part unboxing, part speed build, part randomness of a dad and his son. I picture you sitting on the floor, across the room, amid a pile of Lego boxes, looking very sad. 
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Toys r Us Canada still exists and was somehow one of the things keeping Its parent company alive (much like Sears Canada) but TRU went backrupt before destroying its Canadian division unlike Sears. Internet shopping in Canada basically doesn’t exist.
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sbaldrick posted:
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Kommienzuspadt posted:Wait, really? Amazon Canada has a slightly smaller selection of goods, it's apparently the end of the world or something. Who knows?
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I just moved up to Canada from America and they (we!) are kinda weirdly behind on a lot of things.
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Isn't there some sort of fuckery where a lot of Canadian debit cards still get issued that don't work on credit card networks, and vast amounts of sites don't bother to support the Canadian debit network? Even when the site does sell in and ship to Canadian buyers.
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Beachcomber posted:I picture you sitting on the floor, across the room, amid a pile of Lego boxes, looking very sad. 3 is a little young for Lego, so think of it more as preparation for when the kid gets older. dad won't have to teach him how things go together since he already knows, so they can jump right into building a 10000 piece Millennium Falcon or whatever
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sbaldrick posted:Internet shopping in Canada basically doesn’t exist. I live in the Alabama of Canada and that's a big nope little buddy. People buy poo poo online all the time. As for Amazon, from what I've seen if it's listed on amazon.com but not amazon.ca that usually means that product is getting stopped at the border. Otherwise Amazon doesn't care and will sell the same products. fishmech posted:Isn't there some sort of fuckery where a lot of Canadian debit cards still get issued that don't work on credit card networks, and vast amounts of sites don't bother to support the Canadian debit network? Even when the site does sell in and ship to Canadian buyers. Most debit cards in Canada are tied specifically to your bank account and aren't supplied by a credit card company. Since a lot of US sites assume you have one of those, you need a credit card issued debit card to buy things. To get around that, the banks up here can give you a Visa Debit which basically works like a US version for online stuff.
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Stretch Marx posted:
US debit cards are tied specifically to your bank account and aren't supplied by a credit card company even though the same bank likely issues credit cards too. But the US banks near-universally put their cards onto either Visa or Mastercard on top of being in an ATM/debit network like Allpoint, PLUS, STAR or Interlink. Brick and mortar stores and the ATMs are capable of accessing the cards through at least one debit network and usually one or two credit networks, and online stuff tends to rely on the credit facing side of it only with exceptions where certain sites also except the (rare, pretty much only used by the elderly) strictly debit and ATM cards.
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fishmech posted:Isn't there some sort of fuckery where a lot of Canadian debit cards still get issued that don't work on credit card networks, and vast amounts of sites don't bother to support the Canadian debit network? Even when the site does sell in and ship to Canadian buyers. What you're thinking of is Interac which has actually been pretty awesome traditionally. But yes, online retailers have been slow to adopt it as a payment method (probably due to the widespread usage of credit cards on the Visa/Mastercard networks) and I think at this point many Canadians think of online shopping as the domain of credit cards. Visa Debit does exist with some Canadian banks at least. I got a debit card a couple years ago that was Visa Debit enabled and I didn't understand what that meant when I got it. I imagine Visa Debit is still a foreign concept to most Canadians. Interac is king.
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There are a lot of limitations on things up here, it kinda makes me feel like I'm back in in like, 2004.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:There are a lot of limitations on things up here, it kinda makes me feel like I'm back in in like, 2004. Oh be careful what you wish for lest it becomes true. In 2004 my town still had many shops, a big department store, coffee houses, a thriving market and a post office. Now it’s empty store fronts, and the bigger buildings are being converted into hotels no one will come to and apartments no one wants to live in because the big new high speed rail line is now going to bypass our town.
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House of Fraser appears to be dead, with the risk of 6000 directly employed and 11,000 'secondary' who man the concession stands in each store for makeup/shoes/brands etc.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I just moved up to Canada from America and they (we!) are kinda weirdly behind on a lot of things. While that’s true in some ways, last time I was in the States I didn’t see a single place that used tap technology for their debit/credit machines.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:While that’s true in some ways, last time I was in the States I didn’t see a single place that used tap technology for their debit/credit machines. Because banks tried to introduce that back about ~5 years ago and it didn't catch on. My banks for instance issued me new cards with the tap stuff added in that time frame and then both sent me replacements without it a few years later without explanation.
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