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Any early numbers coming out for how various chains have done this year now that Christmas is over? In particular JCPenney, Macys and the other chains slowly (or not-so-slowly) being smothered.
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Invalid Validation posted:When it’s taxpayer money they’ll give their buddies a shitload more than they should. I work for the state and they rent out the building we work in and I guarantee you it’s for much more than anybody else would pay. I'm not ashamed to say that my department buys a lot from Amazon, because Amazon doesn't make me physically print out paperwork and mail it to Vancouver and wait four weeks for their accounting department to mail back more paperwork asking for additional information and blah, blah, blah.
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Dec 31, 2019 18:40
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Horseshoe theory posted:Any early numbers coming out for how various chains have done this year now that Christmas is over? In particular JCPenney, Macys and the other chains slowly (or not-so-slowly) being smothered. I'm not sure Christmas is really over until February, given how ingrained Christmas commercialism is in western society (sales! sales! sales!)
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Dec 31, 2019 20:11
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I'm not sure Christmas is really over until February, given how ingrained Christmas commercialism is in western society (sales! sales! sales!) Poppycock! Valentine's Day items are being displayed as we speak!
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Dec 31, 2019 20:51
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suck my woke dick posted:When the rental pool Dells get rotated out after 3 years it's awesome because you can buy them second hand for basically scrap prices and fulfil your own office's needs for computers that run Office and don't break on the cheap. My first tech job was at a “computer recycling company” that received massive cardboard boxes on pallets full of these computers by the truckloads. We cleaned them, wiped everything, sent some of them to schools within the state, put others on eBay, and the owner of the company had a retail computer shop so he would just grab the cleanest best ones and take them in the back of his pickup to his store and sell them for ~$300-500.
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Dec 31, 2019 21:18
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Mister Facetious posted:Poppycock! Valentine's Day items are being displayed as we speak! I feel a deep, visceral anger over the fact that so much of retail is just swapping out one holiday's bland, commercialized bullshit for another holiday's bland, commercialized bullshit. Even then there's so much overlap, especially when it comes to Christmas. Like gently caress you Christmas, you gobbled up Thanksgiving a matter of decades ago leave Halloween alone and stop showing up in loving August.
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Dec 31, 2019 22:24
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I feel a deep, visceral anger over the fact that so much of retail is just swapping out one holiday's bland, commercialized bullshit for another holiday's bland, commercialized bullshit. Even then there's so much overlap, especially when it comes to Christmas. Like gently caress you Christmas, you gobbled up Thanksgiving a matter of decades ago leave Halloween alone and stop showing up in loving August. We will not stop fighting the War on Christmas until it is forced back across the Thanksgiving DMZ, and anyone who says otherwise is a dirty appeaser who would see Labor Day swallowed next.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:17
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Complications posted:We will not stop fighting the War on Christmas until it is forced back across the Thanksgiving DMZ, and anyone who says otherwise is a dirty appeaser who would see Labor Day swallowed next. This Canadian humbly suggests you adopt Canadian Thanksgiving as an American holiday akin to Victoria/Memorial Day, to create an "autumnal buffer zone" against the forces of St. Nick, Kris Kringle, and Sinter Klaus.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:30
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You're worried about Valentine's Day merch? I have bought Mini Eggs today and have seen Easter Eggs on the shelves. In December.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:33
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ellspurs posted:You're worried about Valentine's Day merch?  I gotta say, that might be a record for Easter candy.
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Yeah holidays (all of them) just keep starting earlier. It's aggravating.
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They're the only thing to look forward to in hellworld 2020.
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Complications posted:We will not stop fighting the War on Christmas until it is forced back across the Thanksgiving DMZ, and anyone who says otherwise is a dirty appeaser who would see Labor Day swallowed next. You'll never make it over the Black Friday no man zone!
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Jan 1, 2020 21:48
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah holidays (all of them) just keep starting earlier. It's aggravating. Chaos reigns.
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FilthyImp posted:It is the year 2035. Christmas displays are available all year long. The space from January through September is a jumbled celebration of all events. Easter eggs for New Years, American Flag-colored Valentine's cakes. I embrace our candy oriented future.
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Jan 2, 2020 12:06
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By 2021 mall security is a bunch of Daleks shouting CONSUME while being appropriately decorated for the closest holiday
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blatman posted:By 2021 mall security is a bunch of Daleks shouting CONSUME while being appropriately decorated for the closest holiday  1986
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Jan 2, 2020 12:56
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Somfin posted:There's an early bit in Accelerando where a shopping mall is decked out in dead elves because the AI driving its marketing determined that combining war crimes and christmas would move product like hell
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Jan 2, 2020 13:40
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah holidays (all of them) just keep starting earlier. It's aggravating. I hate it because we get the consumerism of the two Christian holidays blasted at us but gently caress it, if it's going to be like that people collectively should go full feast day mindset with it like, what, you're expecting us to come to work any time within one week on either side of Easter Sunday? gently caress off, I got poo poo to buy/prepare/recover from. You'll see companies pushing holiday stuff go away real fast.
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Neo Rasa posted:I hate it because we get the consumerism of the two Christian holidays blasted at us but gently caress it, if it's going to be like that people collectively should go full feast day mindset with it like, what, you're expecting us to come to work any time within one week on either side of Easter Sunday? gently caress off, I got poo poo to buy/prepare/recover from. You'll see companies pushing holiday stuff go away real fast. It's very much like this for higher-status workers, especially around Christmas. Party in mid-December, take all the time between the 24th and the 2nd off. It's the people who have already-poo poo jobs that don't get to indulge like that.
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Jan 3, 2020 00:18
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PT6A posted:It's very much like this for higher-status workers, especially around Christmas. Party in mid-December, take all the time between the 24th and the 2nd off. It's the people who have already-poo poo jobs that don't get to indulge like that. I didn't get that time off, but I did get to work from home and since literally nothing was scheduled to happen or did, it was basically a staycation that required me to check my work laptop every now and then. While I'm gllad I get it, I remember still when I didn't and its bullshit that everyone can't.
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Hell, I'm a federal worker and our office basically shuts down from Thanksgiving through this coming Monday. People on half days or day on/day off, it's been a ghost town.
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College professor, so this is basically a month's holiday for me, though I am doing some committee stuff and the like. I've had a ton of lovely retail jobs, though, and this time of year I plan out even my grocery shopping to avoid the BS as much as possible. The people doing that work have my infinite sympathy... they work 2 or 3 times as hard for the same lovely wages.
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Jan 3, 2020 03:40
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Yeah I work in higher Ed and I'm back today after being off from the 17th of last month.
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PT6A posted:It's very much like this for higher-status workers, especially around Christmas. Party in mid-December, take all the time between the 24th and the 2nd off. It's the people who have already-poo poo jobs that don't get to indulge like that. 24th and 2nd? More like 20th though the 6th. TyroneGoldstein posted:Yeah I work in higher Ed and I'm back today after being off from the 17th of last month.  
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Jan 6, 2020 17:00
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Pier 1 is done https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/business/pier-1-imports-to-close-nearly-half-of-its-north-american-stores-1.4755419
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Jan 7, 2020 02:01
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PT6A posted:It's very much like this for higher-status workers, especially around Christmas. Party in mid-December, take all the time between the 24th and the 2nd off. It's the people who have already-poo poo jobs that don't get to indulge like that. OTOH, it circles around.... the next higher tier of workers are all trying to close deals, make numbers, etc. before the quarter closes. Christmas to New Year Eve ends up being the busiest week of the year.
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Jan 7, 2020 05:10
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I didn't know Pier1 even had this many stores... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pier-1-reports-widening-losses-hundreds-of-planned-store-closures-2020-01-06?mod=home-page
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I was shocked a few years ago when on a smallish lot they built a standalone Trader Joe's and a standalone Pier1. As expected, TJ's is always super busy and it seems like even wasting the footprint for the Pier1 building took away valuable TJ parking space. Secondly, there's a non-dead, indoor mall across the street that seems like it would have been a more perfect fit for Pier1 than a standalone building.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:31
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The perfect fit for Pier1 is in the bin, and that’s where it’s going.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:41
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Did pier 1 sell anything useful, or was it all boomer decorative crap?
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Jan 7, 2020 14:43
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Beachcomber posted:Did pier 1 sell anything useful, or was it all boomer decorative crap? I thought peir 1 was like a Ross' or Marshalls but for furniture?
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Jan 7, 2020 14:52
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It always seemed like overpriced flimsy junk to me, so I’m not sad to see it go.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:54
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HootTheOwl posted:I thought peir 1 was like a Ross' or Marshalls but for furniture? Like an even more WASP Pottery Barn.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:55
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Beachcomber posted:Did pier 1 sell anything useful, or was it all boomer decorative crap? Those big round chairs that looked like upturned mushroom caps.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:56
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Pier 1 is where you go when you need a Live Laugh Love plaque for the dayroom.
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sbaldrick posted:Pier 1 is done Add another to the list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o
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Jan 7, 2020 15:08
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HootTheOwl posted:I thought peir 1 was like a Ross' or Marshalls but for furniture? Nah that's Homegoods. Pier 1 is like Homegoods but expensive and filled with plain ol' awful stuff instead of entertainingly awful stuff.
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Cheesus posted:I was shocked a few years ago when on a smallish lot they built a standalone Trader Joe's and a standalone Pier1. Trader Joe's actively rejects large parking lots so it's stores can seem busy and vibrant without actually seeming too crowded inside. It is an idea that seems to be working well.
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I hope JCP did well. They're my favorite!
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