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actionjackson posted:As a white person, I visit GAP and J Crew sometimes but the latter almost never has sales, yeah. However GAP always has something like 40% off shirts or whatnot and I just buy a bunch at a time. It's me, the person that buys based on sales, not price.
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Hand Row posted:JCrew are running into the same thing that hosed Toys R Us, leveraged buyout from private equity. Then don’t have the money to invest when you have brand identity problems. I can sell clothing from the same sweatshop without the overhead of a retail outlet. I just have to call them and offer an extra 10%. You have to buy the clothes to try them on which helps my cash flow considerably. No one under 35 chooses to go out to place less bougie than Nordstrom to try anything on in person. Good luck fighting the new Era of online retailers. Retail as a location is dieing unless you shift your locationing to distributioning. It's what makes Sears dieing so sad. They had every opportunity given to them to save it.
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Nov 23, 2018 19:03
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Nov 23, 2018 19:16
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Invalid Validation posted:I can’t wait till malls die off completely. I can. Unless we figure out how to make UBI work we will be hosed. Hell, even if we do we will still end up like Wall-E
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Nov 23, 2018 19:46
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Lambert posted:It's me, the person that buys based on sales, not price. It even bit JC Penny in the rear end when they went for always low prices instead of constant 'sales' and coupons. People like to think they're getting a deal, even though it's not really a deal when you can almost always get it for that price.
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Nov 23, 2018 19:58
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BlueBlazer posted:I can sell clothing from the same sweatshop without the overhead of a retail outlet. I just have to call them and offer an extra 10%. You have to buy the clothes to try them on which helps my cash flow considerably. No one under 35 chooses to go out to place less bougie than Nordstrom to try anything on in person. Good luck fighting the new Era of online retailers. That pressure really isn’t there yet as you can’t compete with the mins and scale the sweatshops want that established retailers offer, although it’s definitely headed there. Mall owners having their own debt and driving off retailers by squeezing them on rent and killing their malls is only surpassed by outlet malls in stupid poo poo. Who knew building malls in bumfuck nowhere probably wasn’t the best idea. Only ones that get foreign traffic gonna survive.
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Nov 23, 2018 20:00
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Beastie posted:I walked by a Barnes and Noble today that had some signage in their window that presented them as #1 in the most trusted brands. I don't know what it's like to work there, or if it was #1 most trusted brands just for book sellers or in general, but if it's in general I can totally see it. It's just books. They've never delayed my flight for 12 hours, or put random charges on my internet bill, or sold me a book that exploded or caught fire and burned down my apartment. Although their dvds are outrageously priced. I can't imagine anyone has ever bought one there.
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Nov 23, 2018 20:28
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Beastie posted:That or do some sneaky poo poo where you stock book #1 and #3, but not #2. That way people will have to order #2 from you, and they'll end up buying 3 right then and there because why not? This is a great way to lose two sales, because if someone has to wait for book 2 to be delivered, they're probably ordering 2 and 3 off Amazon so they don't have to make a trip back to the store to get 'em.
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Nov 24, 2018 09:37
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Yeah if I went into a store and they were missing a book of a series I wanted I would buy it somewhere else. And if it happened more often than not there would be no point in even going to that store in the first place.
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Nov 24, 2018 09:48
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Yeah Amazon's success is due to making the process of ordering and receiving stuff as easy as possible, I don't think that a book store that deliberately makes purchasing things a hassle would stick around long
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Nov 24, 2018 11:55
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Hand Row posted:That pressure really isn’t there yet as you can’t compete with the mins and scale the sweatshops want that established retailers offer, although it’s definitely headed there. Basically. The major Outlet type complexes in the NYC area (Tanger out in Riverhead and Woodbury Commons up in Orange County) both have busloads full of Chinese people from Queens going out there all the time. They're also bolstered by being located in the NYC metro statistical. I'm weird. I like shopping for clothing in person. The Macy's near me in Yonkers is a zoo, but they have so much stock. Their Levis section can rival any actual Levis store (and I have a problem buying jeans to the extent that I think it's pathological at this point).
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Nov 24, 2018 12:58
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QuarkJets posted:Yeah Amazon's success is due to making the process of ordering and receiving stuff as easy as possible, I don't think that a book store that deliberately makes purchasing things a hassle would stick around long As lovely as Amazon can be the fact that I don't have to go anywhere, put pants on, or be sober to buy things is a massive upgrade to brick and mortar stores.
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Nov 24, 2018 14:23
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Liquid Communism posted:This is a great way to lose two sales, because if someone has to wait for book 2 to be delivered, they're probably ordering 2 and 3 off Amazon so they don't have to make a trip back to the store to get 'em. Good news. Buying books 1 and 3 qualified you for free 5 day shipping on book 2. O think it was any purchase over $25 gets free shipping. It happened a lot and most people thought it was helpful.
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Beastie posted:Good news. Buying books 1 and 3 qualified you for free 5 day shipping on book 2. O think it was any purchase over $25 gets free shipping. Why do people buy a whole series before reading book 1?
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Nov 24, 2018 20:24
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Beachcomber posted:Why do people buy a whole series before reading book 1? It's not like you go into every purchase with zero information. Sometimes it's a total mystery if you will like something but there is plenty of times you have a pretty good idea.
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Nov 24, 2018 23:18
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Lambert posted:It's me, the person that buys based on sales, not price. Do you think I just ignore the sale price itself? Ok
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actionjackson posted:Do you think I just ignore the sale price itself? Ok I do.
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Nov 25, 2018 19:46
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more percents off == better than, duh 
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Nov 26, 2018 04:00
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I buy online so I don't have to look at myself when trying on clothes.
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Nov 26, 2018 04:05
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Overstock.com is shedding it's retail business. This is great news... for bitcoin!The Wall Street Journal posted:In August 2015, Overstock.com Inc. Chief Executive Patrick Byrne rented out Nasdaq Inc.’s Times Square broadcast studio for a lavish party to unveil his newest project, a blockchain-based trading system called tZero. Not sure if this is a collapse, per se, but e-Commerce is a growing industry while crypto is... crypto.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:26
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Lmfao saying:quote:We think we’ve got cold fusion on the blockchain side.
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A SITH.......LORD.
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BrandorKP posted:I wrote a thing for the trade thread, but I'm cross posting it here because it's relevant. It's going to take me a bit. Not sure when the next time I'll not be phone posting will be. Discendo Vox made some corrections for me but here's the original post. I am plowing through this thread and I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your posts. Keep it up. 
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Beastie posted:. I work at a comics and board games store and this goes from ten percent of my job to the entirety of my job from black Friday to mid-January every year
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BlueBlazer posted:I can sell clothing from the same sweatshop without the overhead of a retail outlet. I just have to call them and offer an extra 10%. You have to buy the clothes to try them on which helps my cash flow considerably. No one under 35 chooses to go out to place less bougie than Nordstrom to try anything on in person. Good luck fighting the new Era of online retailers. The only people who think nobody tries things on in the store are people who are like 5'6 and 150 pounds. Believe it or not most body types do not fit in any random clothes and ordering online is prohibitively expensive when you know you'll have to return most of it. I would never find clothes if I didn't go to the store to try it on.
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jit bull transpile posted:The only people who think nobody tries things on in the store are people who are like 5'6 and 150 pounds. Believe it or not most body types do not fit in any random clothes and ordering online is prohibitively expensive when you know you'll have to return most of it. I would never find clothes if I didn't go to the store to try it on. Are you saying that the returns cost money? Because most places provide return shippers.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Are you saying that the returns cost money? Because most places provide return shippers. Both because of restocking fees but also most people can't afford the overhead of floating a thousand bucks to eventually get 100 bucks worth of stuff.
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Dec 4, 2018 05:48
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Yeah that's totally fair. It's a lot of transitive debt to carry if you're living month to month. My experience with this is mostly my wife buying and returning things and I doubt she would put up with restocking fees (given what I know about her shopping style). I also imagine she picks and chooses where to buy based on their return policy as well.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Yeah that's totally fair. It's a lot of transitive debt to carry if you're living month to month. Yeah, for example in my case I'm 6'4 and a woman's 15 in shoes so so there's only 2 sites on the internet where I can reasonably find stuff and they have 10% restocking fees and shipping takes a couple weeks. Or I can go to the mall and hope to get lucky on a few things fitting right and being long enough. Online is great if you have the body type clothes are templated against. If you're outside the mean in any way online shopping is a torture chamber.
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I view it the opposite way, online it's generally easier to find things that fit me, a very skinny man, because online you can find a much wider selection. IRL I'm mostly limited to Uniqlo.
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As a dude who's a little overweight and a little above average in height I can confirm that basically every store in the world caters to me
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QuarkJets posted:As a dude who's a little overweight and a little above average in height I can confirm that basically every store in the world caters to me I used to be just a little more overweight and taller than you and I lived in a nightmare hellscape where the stores didn't carry my pants size because I was just a little too big but the big-and-tall stores didn't carry my pants size either because I was too small. Fortunately, I lost weight.
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Cicero posted:I view it the opposite way, online it's generally easier to find things that fit me, a very skinny man, because online you can find a much wider selection. IRL I'm mostly limited to Uniqlo. For men sizes are pretty standardized, women have way more trouble in that regard
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I recently started a new job where I have to wear scrubs, which apparently come in Small, Medium, Large, etc. rather than having actual measurements. I ordered five pairs online based on the measurements of my chest and waist, as suggested by the website. Everything was one size to large, and I showed up to work looking like a doofus until I got my labcoat on. I found the local brick and mortar store for the place I ordered from and exchanged them. I wear a large t-shirt, but the large scrub shirt was HUGE. My pants size is 30/30, but the medium scrubs needed to be tied at the waist and were like 6" too long. I am now wearing SMALL scrub pants. I can't even remember the last time I wore a small in anything. Shirt companies online are pretty poo poo about nailing the proper size as well. I ordered a women's large shirt for my gf once and it came in WAY too small. I called to get a return authorization number to send it back and exchange it and the customer service lady told me that the reason it was too small was probably because they use CHILD sizes when people ordered women's clothing from them. Like, what the goddamn gently caress? That shirt would barely fit on my cat and it's the default women's large shirt? What idiot thought that was okay? How many returns do you think this company had to process before they figured out how goddamn stupid it was to just send out children's clothing instead of actually printing adult women's shirts?
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:The ikea near me has its own sign on the freeway exit that says "IKEA COMMERCIAL TOURIST DISTRICT" as if it's a local attraction. For all I know it is. I did have customers once that came from the next state over to check out the IKEA.
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I buy clothes in the store but I never try things on. I can tell well enough from looking at something in person if it's going to fit and if I like the material. I'm also cheap and shop at Marshalls, which seems to be better priced than most online clothing sources. I do buy bike clothes online, though, because in that case stuff is about 5x more expensive in a store.
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there wolf posted:I did have customers once that came from the next state over to check out the IKEA. Where we live in Iowa, we are four hours away from three Ikeas. You bet we've made day trips solely to go to them.
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What the gently caress is going on with eyeglasses in the USA? My prescription changed, but I have two pairs of glasses less than a year old, so I figured I'd try to get new lenses put in the frames. Must be cheaper, right? Wrong. Every brick-and-mortar place in the city quoted upwards of $150 just for new lenses, with some climbing to $250. Meanwhile I can go online and get exactly the same frames, brand new, with new lenses, for less than $100. How are any of these places still in business? What on earth is going on here?
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Combination of insurance leading to higher prices across the board (as has happened for the entire medical industry) and older people not realizing that you can get good affordable glasses online
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Hungry posted:What the gently caress is going on with eyeglasses in the USA? Glasses are sold by a monopoly.
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