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I'm fortunate enough to live relatively close to Easton Town Center in Ohio, its a great outdoor mall with a decent sized traditional indoor mall as well. Love going there just to browse and/or eat. Sidenote, I used to like reading The Wirecutter for reviews of stuff. But I feel like in the past couple of years I find myself ignoring their recs because it feels like they just use random expensive stuff. Case in point, their sheet recommendation is a $200 set. Not to say its all bad, plenty of good reviews still on there, but plenty of others I'd just balk at
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I feel they often order 5 kinds of something off of Amazon and pick the best one based on a couple hours of testing.
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Aug 13, 2019 21:31
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I used to like the Wirecutter too and will usually at least check them out when I'm buying something, but it really does feel like they've gotten weird. Last year's holiday gift guide had some real great picks, like the $150 yellow drawstring pants, or the $125 plastic stool.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:02
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I was already laughing about Halloween candy being out two weeks ago, but y'all wanna see some truly desperate poo poo? If Christmas this year goes badly, big boxes are going to fall like dominoes.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:16
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Is that your picture? Those sidekicks look distinctly walmart, but those peg lables are years old for a walmart.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:21
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Yep. Taken yesterday.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:23
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Jeeze. I wonder if its leftovers or what. Maybe even a vendor, that looks like its by celebration and the gift cards. Thankfully nothing has shown up here yet. Well, nothing christmas branded.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:04
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Same Hallmark display they've had out every year for the last five, but those are definitely 2019 ornaments.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:13
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Is it Wal-mart or a Hallmark? I remember being shocked in 1998 that a stand-alone Hallmark store was putting out Christmas stuff at around this same exact time.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:18
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And I've actually been glad that Australian stores have been pushing Halloween because it leaves a buffer before they fill up with Christmas junk.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:32
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Plucky little Australia unable to resist the siren call of over produced candy corn and sexy nurse costumes.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:47
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Look man, it gets the kids to actually go outside and the weather's great. And the lovely American candy can't compete with our preferences. The only hard part is deciding when to start and stop, since the sun sets at like 9 PM.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:54
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Liquid Communism posted:I was already laughing about Halloween candy being out two weeks ago, but y'all wanna see some truly desperate poo poo? That is the saddest toy section I've ever seen 
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Aug 14, 2019 20:18
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Meanwhile my local Costco is selling life-size poseable skeletons with glow in the dark eyes for about $40, and that is some early Halloween junk I can support.
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Aug 14, 2019 21:54
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Hungry posted:Meanwhile my local Costco is selling life-size poseable skeletons with glow in the dark eyes for about $40, and that is some early Halloween junk I can support. That’s not merchandise, those are people who got lost inside Costco and died.
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Aug 14, 2019 22:06
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Even in death, you to can support number.
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Aug 14, 2019 23:33
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sauer kraut posted:That is the saddest toy section I've ever seen It's a rack of christmas ornaments. The toy selection is like eight isles of terrible plastic crap on the other side of the store.
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Aug 15, 2019 01:28
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Liquid Communism posted:It's a rack of christmas ornaments. Ohh, oh no 
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Aug 15, 2019 03:33
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Liquid Communism posted:It's a rack of christmas ornaments. I think the Republican party should have a word with them about the War on Christmas then, because there's a distinct lack of angels, stars and baby Jesuses. Just looks like a lot of cheap toys.
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Aug 15, 2019 04:04
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Liquid Communism posted:I was already laughing about Halloween candy being out two weeks ago, but y'all wanna see some truly desperate poo poo? I'm the Hallmark-branded, Harry Potter-themed, FunkoPop-styled, mass-produced Christmas ornament on sale in August. Nothing says "Christmas Tradition" like cheap plastic.
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Aug 15, 2019 04:48
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Sundae posted:I'm the Hallmark-branded, Harry Potter-themed, FunkoPop-styled, mass-produced Christmas ornament on sale in August. I'm the rainbow poo emoji for 7.97 because Jesus loves us.
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Aug 15, 2019 04:50
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Hungry posted:Meanwhile my local Costco is selling life-size poseable skeletons with glow in the dark eyes for about $40, and that is some early Halloween junk I can support. So how many did you buy?
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Aug 15, 2019 05:11
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Baronjutter posted:They don't have big ol' pipes under the roads for that? I never quite understood why a lot of super suburban areas have these gross ponds all over the place, is that to save money vs having a proper storm water system? When you build new impervious areas and pipe all the rainwater somewhere else, a bunch of water that would normally infiltrate & refill the aquifer... doesn’t. That’s one reason why that city in India, Chennai, has no drinking water. Years back, someone build a million+ square foot industrial park over a natural low spot in the city, where the soil infiltrated water really well. Kinda like the Katy Prairie near Houston, which is now ~70% paved-over. So now they have a “proper” storm water system, which increases peak flows downstream (since the water is being transported much faster now), and doesn’t let any water infiltrate.
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Liquid Communism posted:I was already laughing about Halloween candy being out two weeks ago, but y'all wanna see some truly desperate poo poo? Disney'sObligationToRaiseShareholderValueAtAllCosts.jpg
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Aug 15, 2019 06:04
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The "festive season" gets earlier and earlier every year. I suppose that the official start date is now 1 November, but the introduction of the merchandise push is going to keep creeping up. I'm both happy and fortunate to have a job that allows me to, during the height of the season from about mid-December until a week after New Year's, gently caress off and pretend that it doesn't exist.
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Aug 16, 2019 03:36
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It's not retail, but the implosion of the oil and gas sector with a bunch of shotgun mergers and bankruptcies is pretty nice.
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/loot-crate-the-curated-pop-culture-subscription-se/1100-6469134/ Looks like the subscription box model is failing.
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Dehry posted:https://www.gamespot.com/articles/loot-crate-the-curated-pop-culture-subscription-se/1100-6469134/ But what about my million sub-crates?
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Aug 19, 2019 01:10
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They owe $20 million in backorders lmao.
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Aug 19, 2019 03:40
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Dehry posted:https://www.gamespot.com/articles/loot-crate-the-curated-pop-culture-subscription-se/1100-6469134/ employees were given a box and told to drop it off at the post office on their way home cold
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/over-100-gamestop-employees-laid-off-including-mem/1100-6469270/ GameSpot laid off 120 from its corporate staff. Which is about 14% of the total and a third of it's Game Informer editors.
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SCheeseman posted:GameStop GameOver
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Hungry posted:Meanwhile my local Costco is selling life-size poseable skeletons with glow in the dark eyes for about $40, and that is some early Halloween junk I can support. Costco's seasonal stuff always begins and ends early though so they're not a good judge. I worked there for peak once and customers were always shocked that we stopped selling Christmas stuff about a week before.
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Makes sense. Gotta get those New Years decorations in so you can switch the theme immediately after presents are opened.
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Obviously you just dress the skeletons up in Christmas costumes.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Obviously you just dress the skeletons up in Christmas costumes.
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What do you people think about something like a pharmacy? It has a more fundamental reason to exist than a department store.. but.. landscape still changing
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