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OhFunny posted:https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/20/dressbarn-is-going-out-of-business-to-shut-all-650-stores.html I remember driving by Dress Barn when I was a kid and thinking it was a terrible business strategy to imply your female customers were cows. I’m shocked it’s lasted this long.
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:I remember driving by Dress Barn when I was a kid and thinking it was a terrible business strategy to imply your female customers were cows. I’m shocked it’s lasted this long. 
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May 23, 2019 04:57
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I went into one a few years ago thinking I could find some Western or otherwise old fashioned dresses and was not particularly surprised to discover it was just another bland store with passable clothing for sightly more than they should cost. Maybe if they opened their stores in actual barns they'd get some ironic business.
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May 23, 2019 06:52
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It looks like the Arcadia group in the UK are in serious trouble. They're closing 30+ stores and trying to get a CVA to save the rest. They're also closing all the Topshops/Topman stores in the US.
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May 23, 2019 07:03
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It was probably a mistake to only cater to doms.
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May 23, 2019 09:45
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Instead of bland they should have gone slutty. What I'm hearing is it was a bad idea to let the whores out of the barn.
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May 23, 2019 12:33
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Cross-post for peple that don't read USPOLskylined! posted:Would love to see Mnuchin eat poo poo and die penniless.
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May 23, 2019 18:13
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Accretionist posted:I once saw an $8 heirloom tomato and was like, "gently caress it, I'm going to find out." Modern home tomato growers grow even more delicious tomatoes than legacy breeds by selecting for at-home desirable characteristics rather than survives-transport/storage traits and you don’t have to say “heirloom”, a word no other vegetable prides itself on “My yam tastes like the one my grandfather grew” says this guy, who probably smells quite ordinary
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May 25, 2019 20:27
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yeah i always find it funny how people who make a big deal about how much effort they put into finding the perfect tomatoes at farmers markets or whatever somehow decide to just forego the lower-effort solution of just planting some of their own (but maybe they live in a windowless room)
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my dad spends an inordinate amount of time fuckin around with growing old timey tomato breeds rather than new ones which aren’t ridiculous compromises, because of some weird notion that “back in the good old days”  well give back youtube then
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May 25, 2019 21:08
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the next time that he gets a bacterial infection just tell him to open an incision on his arm and start praying, just like they did in the good old days and then replace his refrigerator with an actual icebox
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May 25, 2019 21:20
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serious gaylord posted:It looks like the Arcadia group in the UK are in serious trouble. They're closing 30+ stores and trying to get a CVA to save the rest. They're also closing all the Topshops/Topman stores in the US. phillip green is a sexual predator and all around rear end in a top hat, so good riddance.
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May 25, 2019 21:49
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QuarkJets posted:yeah i always find it funny how people who make a big deal about how much effort they put into finding the perfect tomatoes at farmers markets or whatever somehow decide to just forego the lower-effort solution of just planting some of their own (but maybe they live in a windowless room) I have plenty of space for an earthbox or whatever, but my success rate for growing anything but the most unkillable plants is abysmal.
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May 25, 2019 21:55
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Beachcomber posted:I have plenty of space for an earthbox or whatever, but my success rate for growing anything but the most unkillable plants is abysmal. And why is that?
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May 25, 2019 23:57
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QuarkJets posted:And why is that? I'm going to guess they'll freely admit to being terrible at gardening? Most people are.
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QuarkJets posted:And why is that? Well an Earthbox is supposed to be self sustaining if you keep it full of water. But everything died instead. Even the zucchini.
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Beachcomber posted:Well an Earthbox is supposed to be self sustaining if you keep it full of water. But everything died instead. Even the zucchini. Mother of god.
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May 26, 2019 04:41
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Beachcomber posted:Well an Earthbox is supposed to be self sustaining if you keep it full of water. But everything died instead. Even the zucchini. Did you keep it full of water or brawndo?
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May 26, 2019 05:27
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Like, there's a reason there's a running joke about how you realise you're not a young man anymore when you're actually capable of keeping a plant alive.
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ryonguy posted:Mother of god. I know, right?! QuarkJets posted:Did you keep it full of water or brawndo? Straight from the hose. (Water) Ghost Leviathan posted:Like, there's a reason there's a running joke about how you realise you're not a young man anymore when you're actually capable of keeping a plant alive. All the plants we have now survived our 5 week vacation/work conferences trip, so I think we're good.
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May 26, 2019 05:55
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Beachcomber posted:Straight from the hose. (Water) Water? Like in the toilet? Try using Brawndo next time, it has the electrolytes that plants crave
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May 26, 2019 06:23
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Tornado hit my town while at work. First, they issue the warning to last about an hour. Naturally, sirens go off, they page overhead everyone to the safe place. After about 15 minutes, sirens still going of, warning still very much in effect, management gets an email from corporate saying all clear. Sirens are still going going off and county emergency services very much have NOT issued an all clear. So management starts trying to get all the employees back to their work, paging for help in all the different areas as we all refuse to go back out until the county issues an all clear. As the manager starts explaining how there's no threat, trust corporate, you gotta get back to work, everyone's phones start going off as the warning gets escalated to an emergency. Shortly after, 2 mile wide tornado, moving 30 mph touched down within a mile of us. No structural damage to the store but several nearby homes got totally destroyed. I'm still just dumbfounded how they would actually take the expertise of corporate headquarters, several states away, over the NWS.
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May 29, 2019 05:41
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Who is the company's insurer? You could anonymously send them that information if it's documented. Are they dumb enough to have done any of this by email or in writing?
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May 29, 2019 05:50
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https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1134167595341492224?s=19
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May 31, 2019 03:08
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It takes a special kind of mindlessness to buy into the idea that your vastly better-paid superiors are really intellectually more powerful than you, and that is exactly the kind of stupid that would make you believe they know more about tornadoes than meteorologists.
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May 31, 2019 13:38
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It wouldn't be that. It be fear.
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May 31, 2019 15:06
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MixMastaTJ posted:As the manager starts explaining how there's no threat, trust corporate, you gotta get back to work, everyone's phones start going off as the warning gets escalated to an emergency. Shortly after, 2 mile wide tornado, moving 30 mph touched down within a mile of us. Do you work for Cloud 9?
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May 31, 2019 16:14
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Let's not forget that officials in 2 WTC told people to go back to their desks.
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May 31, 2019 17:35
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MixMastaTJ posted:As the manager starts explaining how there's no threat, trust corporate, you gotta get back to work, everyone's phones start going off as the warning gets escalated to an emergency. Shortly after, 2 mile wide tornado, moving 30 mph touched down within a mile of us. Gonna say this has more to do with normalcy bias than any kind of unwavering trust in corporate. Odds are that your manager just wasn't mentally prepared to accept the idea that an emergency was actually happening, like, right now.
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Golbez posted:Let's not forget that officials in 2 WTC told people to go back to their desks. That was because everybody expected the first crash was some sort of horrible accident, not intentional, was it not? It is something of a special circumstance. And then even after second crash occurs, there was half a tower of people who were hosed from being in floors above impact, but would also not have made it down past the next impact floors in time in any cases.
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"the tower right next to ours has suffered from an enormous explosion, better not let anyone leave"
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Golbez posted:Let's not forget that officials in 2 WTC told people to go back to their desks. That wasn't like, bosses telling people to go back to work, that was the building security telling people to not go outside where stuff was falling down. No one at the time expected the whole building to collapse.
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Why am I not surprised it's those two Kramering up to defend condemning a bunch of office workers to die.
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I mean, I wouldn't exactly blame people too much for making what may have seemed like a sensible decision in the middle of a crisis that turned out to be wrong. Mass panic can cause more damage than a disaster itself.
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Liquid Communism posted:Why am I not surprised it's those two Kramering up to defend condemning a bunch of office workers to die. Do you also complain about all the other nearby buildings who didn't order the occupants out immediately after first impact? You need to be real here, waiting to organize an orderly evacuation after what seems to be an accidental disaster is standard procedure for office buildings, especially 100+ storey super-towers. There is also whole matter that there is only 17 minutes between attack impacts, and there was surely a lot of time that had to be waited before building-wide orders could be issued. This is frankly on all levels no sensible comparison to things like a much more predictable weather emergency where there are clear guidelines on what areas are expected to be immediately dangerous.
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Liquid Communism posted:Why am I not surprised it's those two Kramering up to defend condemning a bunch of office workers to die. There are more than enough capitalism horror stories that you shouldn't be feeling the need to have the dumbest take on a situation. Like, a few people got thrust into a terrible situation with basically no precedent and made a decision based on ensuring safety for their occupants and access to the south tower for first responders. It's kinda hosed to Monday morning quarterback that situation 18 years later. e: f, b
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Liquid Communism posted:Why am I not surprised it's those two Kramering up to defend condemning a bunch of office workers to die. In the event of an emergency, you absolutly don't jam up the stairs and streets outside with thousands of people for no good reason. They made the correct decision with the info they had at the time.
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Liquid Communism posted:Why am I not surprised it's those two Kramering up to defend condemning a bunch of office workers to die. People standing outside died too! No one knew what was going to happen. It wasn’t capitalism ordering people to work, it was people not knowing where was safe places.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:People standing outside died too! No one knew what was going to happen. It wasn’t capitalism ordering people to work, it was people not knowing where was safe places. I mean I'm sure there was a fair bit of that, but it doesn't really matter too much in a scenario where you have few to no good options and no way to know what the good options actually were without the benefit of hindsight.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:That wasn't like, bosses telling people to go back to work, that was the building security telling people to not go outside where stuff was falling down. No one at the time expected the whole building to collapse. Except, of course, for W, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz
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