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Pick posted:$3k isn't much for a hobby, are there a lot of extra guitar peripherals or something? Dropping $3k on a single item is a big purchase for 99.9% of people, pick.
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I don't think I own a single thing worth
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blunt posted:I don't think I own a single thing worth Car? Your kidneys?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Car? Your kidneys? Car was ~$1200 five years ago. I have to confess I don't know the market rate for organs.
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Nov 19, 2020 16:20
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you can't own organs, man
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hawowanlawow posted:you can't own organs, man Not with that attitude!
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blunt posted:Car was ~$1200 five years ago. Three or four thousand, last I checked.
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The Moon Monster posted:One of the Fry's in Houston had an enormous, I think almost full size, model of the International Space Station hanging from the ceiling. An astronaut I know said it was the best ISS mock-up he'd ever seen. From a couple pages back, but I lived in the area when it was being built. It was the last themed Frys. It's off I45 in Webster, which is a small suburb of Houston, and right near NASA. Fun fact, it's on Kobayashi road, which always reminds me of Star Trek. I used to drive over and make a lap of the computer cases just to the right of the entryway and start my loop there. I miss that old Fry's, all I have near me is the lovely one they built at 59 and BW8. The Microcenter here moved from an easily accessed location near the Galleria to a real pain in the rear end to get to location. The old one was so cool, it had logos from all the original computer companies like DEC and neXt. They demolished it for a lovely high rise. Pics here
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I went to the San Diego Fry's today and man was it sad. The back third of the building was walled off, there were areas with absolutely nothing (not even racks), and there was a little mini adult section separated by a single velvet rope next to a giant, rusty, steel box.  
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McPhearson posted:I went to the San Diego Fry's today and man was it sad. The back third of the building was walled off, there were areas with absolutely nothing (not even racks), and there was a little mini adult section separated by a single velvet rope next to a giant, rusty, steel box. Man that is sad. How are they able to make rent every month with the obvious lack of sales?
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BloodBag posted:From a couple pages back, but I lived in the area when it was being built. It was the last themed Frys. It's off I45 in Webster, which is a small suburb of Houston, and right near NASA. Fun fact, it's on Kobayashi road, which always reminds me of Star Trek. I used to drive over and make a lap of the computer cases just to the right of the entryway and start my loop there. I miss that old Fry's, all I have near me is the lovely one they built at 59 and BW8. The Microcenter here moved from an easily accessed location near the Galleria to a real pain in the rear end to get to location. The old one was so cool, it had logos from all the original computer companies like DEC and neXt. They demolished it for a lovely high rise. I forgot there was also a Soyuz and some notional future US spacecraft in there too, pretty neat!
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Nov 19, 2020 23:56
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Jesus that's like Dashcon Ballpit levels of sad.
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McPhearson posted:I went to the San Diego Fry's today and man was it sad. The back third of the building was walled off, there were areas with absolutely nothing (not even racks), and there was a little mini adult section separated by a single velvet rope next to a giant, rusty, steel box. It's like Fallout 76 got a graphical upgrade.
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Zil posted:Man that is sad. Not being an expert, I think the way this works is that they just borrow until they either recover, or can't get any more loans and then go into chapter 11 to shed the debt.
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Nov 21, 2020 03:58
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That looks like something out of the Abandoned series by Bright Sun Films.
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Is the rusty sex cage for sale too?
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I don't know, but if you end up breaking it you should probably run.
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I worked retail at a successful store and it was mind crushingly depressing every day I can't imagine manning something like that.
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redgubbinz posted:I don't know, but if you end up breaking it you should probably run. I feel like I should get a tetanus booster just from looking at it 
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redgubbinz posted:I don't know, but if you end up breaking it you should probably run. 
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Groovelord Neato posted:I worked retail at a successful store and it was mind crushingly depressing every day I can't imagine manning something like that. I dunno, customers were usually the worst part about working retail.
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Nov 21, 2020 19:11
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I dunno, customers were usually the worst part about working retail. I worked in the stockroom so for most of my retail career I avoided that.
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Nov 21, 2020 20:09
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Yesterday on Twitter Naturalizer announced they were going to close all but two of their stores. I started working there around this time last year when my other store, Dressbarn, was going out. Due to Corona, I've only got like 4 months worth of work in.
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^drat, my hardiest pair of work shoes was from there. worn every day for six months straight, sometimes 12+ hour days. I probably could have kept them longer but after I quit that job I got rid of all the clothes I wore there because I couldn't take the association. sorry about your unemployment 
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Nov 21, 2020 21:54
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sweeperbravo posted:^drat, my hardiest pair of work shoes was from there. worn every day for six months straight, sometimes 12+ hour days. I probably could have kept them longer but after I quit that job I got rid of all the clothes I wore there because I couldn't take the association. Thank you. I was told that if I wait it out Famous Footwear might take me in at my current pay. Both stores are owned by the same company and they're in the same complex. Thankfully I haven't burned through all my unemployment from the summer so I should be ok.
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Nov 22, 2020 01:01
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^That's too bad. They've made some of the best-fitting and most comfortable dress shoes I've ever owned. :frown:
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DreadUnknown posted:That looks like something out of the Abandoned series by Bright Sun Films. wwwwwWWASSUP guys this is JAKE welcome to ABEEAAANDONED! It's a great channel, along with Dan Bell's Dead Mall series. I find all those dead/dying malls utterly fascinating and depressing. Amazon and their ilk did all this, the internet was a mistake.
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Im prettu sure Dan Bell is going to end up being found dead and stuffed in a closet in one of those loving super sketchy abandoned apartments he keeps exploring.
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DreadUnknown posted:Im prettu sure Dan Bell is going to end up being found dead and stuffed in a closet in one of those loving super sketchy abandoned apartments he keeps exploring. Another Dirty Room is my favorite youtube show
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/22/investing/guitar-center-bankruptcy/index.html Guitar Center is filing chapter 11
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Whooping Crabs posted:Another Dirty Room Please don't vlog how I live
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Whooping Crabs posted:Another Dirty Room is my favorite youtube show 
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Retail Archeology is similar to Dan Bell's show but if it was mostly in Arizona with the occasional side trip to Vegas and Southern CA. He started checking on Frys like 4 years ago so you can really watch it sloooooooooowly circle the drain.
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drat, Naturalizer does good comfortable work shoes. A lot of shoe stores in particular seem to be taking it on the chin, which is weird to me because I will never buy shoes without trying them on??
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it's probably more that people don't need shoes when they're not tearing them up or showing them off at work. No one cares if you're wearing slippers on a Zoom call.
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Nov 23, 2020 11:10
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Plus not really that wild about trying shoes on in a store during a pandemic
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Nov 23, 2020 11:17
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I have a whole rack of dress shoes that I haven't worn once since March 15th.
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Goober Peas posted:I have a whole rack of dress shoes that I haven't worn once since March 15th. Button-down shirts for me. I think a lot of business clothing stores are in trouble.
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ultrafilter posted:Button-down shirts for me. I think a lot of business clothing stores are in trouble. I’ve started wearing button-downs over T-shirts to a) stay a bit warmer especially when working in the basement and b) give my dry cleaner some work without just re-laundering unworn shirts.
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I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 summer dresses and a ton of fun happy skirts I usually live in from the first warm day of the spring until the fall chill forces me back into pants. This year there were some I never even wore once some days i'd put on a dress just for fun to feel good about myself but day in and day out, when you're doing nothing but like, cleaning up and yardwork or just lying there waiting for the day to be over, it's difficult to justify wearing anything other than 15-20 year old t shirts and threadbare shorts ...man, i can't wait til my job goes back to normal and i can put on clothes that make me happy and not just comfy.
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