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MarcusSA posted:Almost feel like stores should be mandated to have regional pricing so if that can of soup is 1.29 at one store it should be the same for all of them. . I think you'd have to make it so the lowest price in the chain is what gets replicated.
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# ? Jan 26, 2020 17:46 |
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I think they're talking at a county level. And again, the problem isn't pricing, it's expensive to simply get the square footage for a grocery store in urban cores and everybody knows that. The problem is people having no money to buy it with.
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# ? Jan 26, 2020 18:46 |
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i saw a dude grabndash a thing of daipers from the fillmore safeway and the security guard hollered after him to use the side exit next time so he doesn't get the guards in trouble it was some beautiful working class solidarity ngl
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# ? Jan 26, 2020 18:52 |
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OMGVBFLOL posted:i saw a dude grabndash a thing of daipers from the fillmore safeway and the security guard hollered after him to use the side exit next time so he doesn't get the guards in trouble that's awesome
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 00:37 |
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So is this sort of law banned by Costa Hawkins? Obviously it's just a band-aid for a much larger problem, but it feels like at least in the short term it could really help lower-income renters if properly enforced.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 01:37 |
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I worked at K-Mart as a high-schooler and we had a decent amount of shrink and theft and such, but the store stayed open for literal decades and our numbers were good. It took a private equity dipshit to spike that chain into the ground. I think that's a good lesson for anyone.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 18:52 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I worked at K-Mart as a high-schooler and we had a decent amount of shrink and theft and such, but the store stayed open for literal decades and our numbers were good. It took a private equity dipshit to spike that chain into the ground. I think that's a good lesson for anyone. quick somebody warn (checks notes) Toys-R-Us, Sears, et al
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 21:40 |
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compare the costs of theft of product to the costs in the sheer amount of unsold/spoiled food (particularly produce) that gets dumpstered daily by any typical grocery store and I bet the latter dwarfs the former by several orders of magnitude
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 21:56 |
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Or the fact that "businesses lose money on shrink" yeah but they gain a lot of money from wage theft.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 22:11 |
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how feasible would it be to have a municipal pick up / wash / drop off for cotton diapers? commercial customers have those kinds of laundry services pretty affordably and municipal garbage pickup is already a thing. my previous post had me thinking about how disposable diapers are one of the most commonly shoplifted items because of how dumb expensive they are
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 22:14 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Or the fact that "businesses lose money on shrink" yeah but they gain a lot of money from wage theft.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 22:18 |
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OMGVBFLOL posted:how feasible would it be to have a municipal pick up / wash / drop off for cotton diapers? commercial customers have those kinds of laundry services pretty affordably and municipal garbage pickup is already a thing. my previous post had me thinking about how disposable diapers are one of the most commonly shoplifted items because of how dumb expensive they are It's 100% feasible, but nobody cares to. BTW I did washable diapers for around 6 months but switched to disposable just because it was SO much laundry and we were struggling already with all the stuff that comes with "a six month old" It's also totally feasible to standardize on packaging and stuff as well, but actually being able to recycle stuff is impinging on our *freedoms* In fact now that I think about it literally every person needs laundry done, we should probably look into how we handle that.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 22:32 |
Both laundry and food preparation are operations that are much more efficient when done at scale, and are daily/weekly chores that most people don't enjoy. Public laundry and public kitchens would be wildly popular and significantly improve quality of life for loads of people. The fact is, both services currently exist, but aren't called "public", and are only for rich people -- laundry services on the one hand and restaurants on the other. Some of the most creative voices on the left are beginning to re-start the conversation about how to use services like these to improve quality of life without increasing consumption (which is an important element of climate-based policy), and also at the same time to break the hegemony of the patriarchal nuclear family as the sole economic and social unit in our society.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 22:59 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Or the fact that "businesses lose money on shrink" yeah but they gain a lot of money from wage theft. Just gonna point out, again, that Safeway employees are union.
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# ? Jan 27, 2020 23:31 |
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OMGVBFLOL posted:how feasible would it be to have a municipal pick up / wash / drop off for cotton diapers? commercial customers have those kinds of laundry services pretty affordably and municipal garbage pickup is already a thing. my previous post had me thinking about how disposable diapers are one of the most commonly shoplifted items because of how dumb expensive they are I'd be curious how much water that would use and what quality water would be needed when doing it at a commercial/industrial scale.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:how feasible would it be to have a municipal pick up / wash / drop off for cotton diapers? commercial customers have those kinds of laundry services pretty affordably and municipal garbage pickup is already a thing. my previous post had me thinking about how disposable diapers are one of the most commonly shoplifted items because of how dumb expensive they are We used a diaper service back in the 1980's. I think they still exist.
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 03:13 |
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VideoGameVet posted:We used a diaper service back in the 1980's. I think they still exist.
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 04:10 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:In California, it's not clear that trading off greater water consumption for less landfill space is a net win. I used a diaper service in the '90s; we gave it up because we still had to bring disposables to daycare, so we weren't using enough cloth diapers at home to keep up with the cheapest # diapers per week. So the question becomes just how lovely do your babies need to be?
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 04:13 |
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Billy Gnosis posted:So the question becomes just how lovely do your babies need to be? We literally had to repaint a wall in the bedroom because of projectile poo poo.
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 05:53 |
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Billy Gnosis posted:So the question becomes just how lovely do your babies need to be? Parenting classes should require their students shovel manure for a week to pass. Then they'll know they'll be ready (at least for the poo poo).
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 07:22 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Trust me. All the poo poo. All the time. So much poo poo. i had it arced/fountained into my mouth and eyes on separate occasions talking to people who've used cloth diapers, in addition to the daycare problem, you're also going to have soiled diapers in at least some of your sinks and/or toilet bowls (yuck) at any given time even if you use a service. and that's on top of the initial up-front cost of all the diapers plus the detergent and utilities if you even wash them yourself some of the time you can easily be changing an under-three-months newborn every other hour, for 24 hours straight
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 08:59 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:In California, it's not clear that trading off greater water consumption for less landfill space is a net win. I used a diaper service in the '90s; we gave it up because we still had to bring disposables to daycare, so we weren't using enough cloth diapers at home to keep up with the cheapest # diapers per week. Or we could just cut back on almonds
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 09:04 |
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We too tried the cloth diaper thing for our first kid. There literally isn't enough time in the day to deal with that poo poo (literally) AND a child at the same time. I can imagine it working in our parent's generations, when extended families were still raising kids together and mothers were not also working a full-time job/going to school while trying to balance pumping milk and getting the kid to daycare, but it's not that way anymore.
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 09:04 |
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xcheopis posted:Are any Bay Area goons interested in naloxone training? Hell yes.
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 09:41 |
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Raising a kid is a joy but our garbage society makes it as difficult as possible.
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 17:54 |
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https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1222278899121508355?s=20
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 23:36 |
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Just been informed below that this is fake news from the LA Times, my own fault, I thought LAT would be a little more trustworthy and didn't follow the link. My bad!
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:LMAOOOOOO that loving worthless old lich! https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1222285001653411841
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 23:48 |
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https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey...D516%23lastpost Seriously, you gotta do more than just read headlines in this era of lovely clickbait, though I would normally expect a lot better out of the Times
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 23:49 |
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the failing los angeles times
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 23:52 |
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https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/st...r%3D143%23pti25 She had to put out a statement telling everyone she isn't that big of a moron
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# ? Jan 28, 2020 23:52 |
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OK DiFi
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 00:12 |
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/st...r%3D143%23pti25 lol
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 00:16 |
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Weak-rear end correction from the LA Times, not that I'm interested in defending the Lich Queen of California
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 00:24 |
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I dunno, I d say maybe the LA Times did a public service preemptively. Who knows what that criminal and her criminal husband might have pulled without attention.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 01:08 |
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey...D516%23lastpost Don't tell me what to believe!
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 04:14 |
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I'm surprised there's not aftershocks and blackouts from Di-Fi distancing herself from the right. That's what happens when ancient things shift in California.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 04:27 |
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Really the saddest part is that the LA times came out with a headline of "DiFi will vote to acquit Trump" and most people bought it because its 100% in character for her. Burn the DNC establishment to the ground.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 09:24 |
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Yeah it’s pretty telling that “oh yeah of course she would” is most people’s immediate response.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Yeah it’s pretty telling that “oh yeah of course she would” is most people’s immediate response. Feinstein is awful, but if that's your immediate response you're miscalibrated. She's not Manchin.
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