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tagesschau posted:To be fair, retail logistics in Canada are noticeably worse than south of the border. Also general retail logic. For example, when I went to Best Buy to buy a Surface, they had the lower-spec ones but not the higher-spec version I wanted. Right there, you've eliminated the possibility of being able to up-sell. It'd be easy to say, "well, we don't have that one in stock, but we do have a better one for only slightly more money!" That's much more likely to end in a sale than "you could buy the still-expensive, worse version than the thing you actually want." Then they tried "we could order it for you." Yeah, I can order it for me too. Your involvement is completely unnecessary and in fact counterproductive for me. I'll give that to Apple Stores: they may offer a horrible, horrible retail experience, but they have every possible thing in stock in my experience.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I mean, the red bags we put janky produce in to mark it down have all the stores in the corporate umbrella listed as being ~part of the donation program~, and that apparently includes Fry's Electronics When you go to the Kroger corporate site and scroll down to their subsidiaries, you can see that it's Fry's Food Stores. The logo is similar, but it's not the same company. If you're seeing a Fry's Electronics logo on some random bit of branding, odds are that a graphic designer in the corporate HQ was trying to turn out an image on a deadline, slammed "Frys logo" into google images, and Ctrl-C'd the first thing that came up and looked vaguely correct. This kind of thing happens all the time, because google results are a few seconds away and it can take hours to chase down the "official version" of some logo file (if that department even wants to let you have it, instead of playing silly power games).
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It's gonna get real weird at any rate since they own the stores outright, but unlike Sears aren't selling them off and instead of keeping them open as some kind of elaborate commercial performance art. poo poo, I wish I could work at a retail store with no product or customers kept open by bizarre corporate edict if only for a short term lark; at least their Black Friday this year is gonna be gently caress easy.
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Nov 28, 2019 17:33
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Oh man, the Fry's Thanksgiving Day ad is out and it's bad. It's real bad. No computers at all No monitors No video cards No Motherboards No CPUS One external hard drive No networking stuff A few TVs No appliances No video games or consoles They are 100% dead
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Nov 28, 2019 18:12
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FCKGW posted:Oh man, the Fry's Thanksgiving Day ad is out and it's bad. It's real bad. Why even put out an ad?
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Nov 28, 2019 18:16
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How are u posted:Why even put out an ad? Contractual obligation with the printers. Apparently they're still getting checks 
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Nov 28, 2019 18:54
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Mister Facetious posted:Contractual obligation with the printers. loving lol
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Nov 28, 2019 18:56
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Post some photos of it
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Nov 28, 2019 19:00
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i am harry posted:Post some photos of it This is the PC Components section. Build your own PC with a single no-name power supply, SATA cable, and soda can safe!   This is a Computers and accessories section. Just keyboards, mice and gaming glasses. loving Gaming Glasses.  
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Nov 28, 2019 19:07
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FCKGW posted:This is the PC Components section. Build your own PC with a single no-name power supply, SATA cable, and soda can safe! FREE beer??
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Nov 28, 2019 19:20
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FCKGW posted:This is the PC Components section. Build your own PC with a single no-name power supply, SATA cable, and soda can safe! The joke is this is literally all the product they have in stock nationwide.
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FCKGW posted:Oh man, the Fry's Thanksgiving Day ad is out and it's bad. It's real bad.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:35
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FilthyImp posted:Dude, you didn't even post the worst poo poo. I was browsing before bed last night and realized that I wasn't in some Amazon Warehouse page in a sleepy haze. Fry's was actually advertising poo poo like bungee tie-downs and storage totes as Black Friday deals! They always have some weird oddball stuff in their Black Friday ad. The same paper CD sleeves are in there every year, it’s kinda charming. But when you run out of actual poo poo to sell and you ONLY have paper CD sleeves, it’s dire.
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Nov 28, 2019 22:07
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Beachcomber posted:Retail should really be run bottom up, but since that involves listening to people who don't have business degrees it doesn't happen anymore. The worst thing is, they teach them it should be that way. Like that's a thing I was explictly taught. Unrelated, this is my father's 35th and last Thankgiving working retail. A reminder do not shop today, thanks.
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Nov 28, 2019 22:11
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Beachcomber posted:At CVS we couldn't buy eye rinse, but we could buy this: I would be genuinely happy if someone got me this for Christmas. Now I want to do all my Christmas shopping at CVS.
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Nov 29, 2019 15:44
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You do realize you can simply fill a glass with milk and dunk your Oreos that way? This a product designed to be thrown away after purchase.
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Nov 29, 2019 16:38
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Lambert posted:You do realize you can simply fill a glass with milk and dunk your Oreos that way? This a product designed to be thrown away after purchase. Glasses are too tall. Now a regular fork? That you already own.
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Nov 29, 2019 16:50
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HootTheOwl posted:Glasses are too tall. Use a tumbler
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Nov 29, 2019 17:19
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HootTheOwl posted:Glasses are too tall. Repeat these steps 1) Take an Oreo out of the packaging, grab it with your fingers to do this 2) Dunk it into the glass of milk using your fingers 3) Now lead the Oreo to your mouth using your fingers You don't need to buy a special glass with an Oreo printed on it to do cookie dunking.
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Nov 29, 2019 17:55
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PT6A posted:I feel like the death of retail is at least part due to the fact stocking policies are, to my view, completely insane. Let me throw something out there that's really similar, and really weird, to this that I've observed lately. You ever try to buy underwear at a Wal-Mart lately? The only brands that were stocked with any care at all were their own house brand. The rest (Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, etc) were literally just thrown around the shelves, not organized by type whatsoever (briefs with boxers with boxer briefs and no accurate price tags on anything) with no consistent sizes available for anything. I've been to like four Wal-Marts over the last few months in two states (I moved) and they were ALL this way. And this isn't exactly a store on a death watch or anything. What's up with that? Did MeUndies kill this side of their business? EDIT Lambert posted:Repeat these steps This is accurate. Source: I am a fat and have dunked both single and double stuf Oreos plenty in my life.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:02
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People in this thread have a huge problem with the Oreo Dunking Industry. Pretty hosed up that society has lead to this.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I would be genuinely happy if someone got me this for Christmas. Id buy this for a recent divorcee as part of a bachelor starter kit
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Nov 29, 2019 19:34
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I think the thing that's being overlooked is that the Oreo dunking kit costs 30 dollars
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Nov 29, 2019 19:47
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Lambert posted:Repeat these steps I'm not shoving my hand into milk.
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Nov 29, 2019 19:52
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Lambert posted:You do realize you can simply fill a glass with milk and dunk your Oreos that way? This a product designed to be thrown away after purchase. OH WORD ?!?!?
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HootTheOwl posted:I'm not shoving my hand into milk. The trick is to only dunk the cookie up to your finger, that way, you dunked a cookie, but didn't get milk on your fingers!
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Dump a bag of Oreos on the floor and eat the Oreos off the floor like an animal you piece of poo poo
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Unoriginal Name posted:Dump a bag of Oreos on the floor and eat the Oreos off the floor like an animal you piece of poo poo 
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Nov 29, 2019 19:59
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Motronic posted:I have one for that too. I was attempting to buy air filters for one of my cars from the local AutoZone. They had one. There is no car where one of this part number is a thing. They are always replaced in pairs. They checked the nearby stores. All were stocked with exactly one. So they ordered one to be dropped off from the nearest store. Their system even indicated that these were to be replaced as quantity 2. So no excuses about not having the data. Brake calipers get replaced in singles all the time. If a caliper fails I'm not replacing both sides of the other side is fine. Not sure why you would waste money like that.
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Unoriginal Name posted:Dump a bag of Oreos on the floor and eat the Oreos off the floor like an animal you piece of poo poo make this the serving tips on all foods, tia e: just toss that poo poo into a manger and shuffle it up like the pig you are
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Unoriginal Name posted:Dump a bag of Oreos on the floor and eat the Oreos off the floor like an animal you piece of poo poo
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Oreos are trash cookies consumed exclusively by dumb people, of course a $30 mug and cloth napkin is going to be successful with that demographic
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a hydrox fan, eh?
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celewign posted:Brake calipers get replaced in singles all the time. If a caliper fails I'm not replacing both sides of the other side is fine. Not sure why you would waste money like that. When you live in salt hellworld one side freezing badly enough that you can't reliably clean and lube that parts that matter means the other is soon to follow, but thanks for just deciding I'm a loving moron instead of asking.
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PT6A posted:
I 100% agree with your post but the reason for this is old people. I work in a different sector of retail (hardware/tools) and if we were to tell someone to "just go on our site and order it" it'd be like giving them a crazy unbeatable task. Whenever people call in to order something, we literally just open up the website and order it as if we were them. I've had people looking at the same page I'm on over the phone and yet I'm the one ordering because they are somehow incapable. Even funnier when they admit they're scared to put a CC# on the site but will gladly give it to me, a random person, over the phone
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duz posted:a hydrox fan, eh? I feel like I should support hydrox because they invented that cookie type, but nothing dunks like an Oreo. I've sampled everything from Val-U-Sav brand to whatever whole foods calls theirs. They just don't suck up the milk right.
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QuarkJets posted:Oreos are trash cookies consumed exclusively by dumb people, of course a $30 mug and cloth napkin is going to be successful with that demographic Fair play, you guys came up with chocolate chip cookies, but you've a long way to go when it comes to sandwich biscuits.
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Paul.Power posted:I have to admit, I've eaten Oreos before and gone "this is that biscuit Americans go crazy over? It's like a cardboard Bourbon." Did you dip?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/business/amazon-baltimore.html One of the worst impacts of Amazon in my opinion is the constant pressure to deliver things faster, which puts enormous pressure on warehouse workers. And then this forces other companies to try to do the same to keep up.
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actionjackson posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/business/amazon-baltimore.html I've especially noticed this with ordering things cross-border from the States. We get so used to having things appear in a day or two that suddenly a 10-day wait might as well be the end of the loving world, but in fact being able to order pretty much any arbitrary thing from any corner of the world and have it show up by (cheap) post in a week or two, is still pretty great.
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