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I haven't done this, but I've worked a couple lovely jobs where people would quit, come back within a few weeks, then quit again for good.
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The courier company I worked was like that. Not because the company itself was bad (one of the best I've worked for, actually), but because of the nature of the job. It paid pretty good for a job that required zero education and experience, but it's also dangerous as hell and most people don't actually want to be cycling around for 8 hours a day. Even our orientation was upfront about that, stating outright that it was likely everyone attending was going to be gone in a month. I ended up working there for a couple years and it was basically a core group of about ten hypercompetent people who could do anything, another 40 who were soundly reliable, and dozens of people who came and went
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Jun 19, 2022 18:26
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Kellogg is breaking itself up https://twitter.com/ap/status/1539211868581109760?s=21&t=LRNppDUmM7SzWAPY2KHLLw
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FlamingLiberal posted:Kellogg is breaking itself up Which division is in charge of stopping masturbation?
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bunnyofdoom posted:Which division is in charge of stopping masturbation? Divisin of Onan
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Is the idea there that one company can go bankrupt without taking the other two out, or what?
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Jun 21, 2022 15:58
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I always thought cereals were plant-based food?
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Xlorp posted:I always thought cereals were plant-based food? If only. You know how most cereals in the US are fortified with calcium? Mouse bones. That's also how they stay crunchy so long in milk.
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Jun 21, 2022 16:08
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Gort posted:Is the idea there that one company can go bankrupt without taking the other two out, or what? quote:Kellogg’s had net sales of $14.2 billion in 2021, with $11.4 billion generated by its snack division, which makes Cheez-Its, Pringles and Pop-Tarts, among other brands. Cereal accounted for another $2.4 billion in sales last year while plant-based sales totaled around $340 million.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I can only assume that they're worried about the plant-based stuff? I didn't know snacks were so much larger than their cereal sales, cause I feel like I can name an equal number of both brands honestly. It's either plants are gonna tank or the cereal workers strikes got them worried? i would have thought that it's because the kellogg's brand is super toxic to anyone who cares due to their aggressive union busting and subpar-to-outright-unsafe production when their workers were on strike
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I can only assume that they're worried about the plant-based stuff? I didn't know snacks were so much larger than their cereal sales, cause I feel like I can name an equal number of both brands honestly. It's either plants are gonna tank or the cereal workers strikes got them worried? A split like this doesn't necessarily indicate anything wrong with the health of either part of the business, just that they don't make much sense together. The plant-based stuff is tiny compared to the rest of the business and is much newer and more experimental, so its business needs are going to look very different than the rest of Kellogg's business--spinning it off is probably going to be a win-win. On the other hand, the packaged cereal business is going to be very similar to the packaged snack business and there are going to be a lot of benefits to operating them together in terms of shared overhead and connections, product crossover, etc. So they are 100% afraid that the cereal business is going to be a drag on the larger and more successful snack business; it's not necessarily circling the drain, but it's got much less growth potential and as the most recognizable part of their portfolio it's going to be a lightning rod for the PR fallout from the strikes.
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Plant based isn't even remotely new for Kellogg's. They've owned Morningstar Farms since 1999.
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I think a lot of this is just to goose stock prices
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Xlorp posted:I always thought cereals were plant-based food? Many cereals are fortified with non-vegan vitamins. D3 is the usual one. So they're primarily plant ingredients, and they can say plant based if they want (as it's not a regulated term), but a portion of the market buying those foods looks elsewhere for cereal.
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Xlorp posted:I always thought cereals were plant-based food? AngryRobotsInc posted:Many cereals are fortified with non-vegan vitamins. D3 is the usual one. So they're primarily plant ingredients, and they can say plant based if they want (as it's not a regulated term), but a portion of the market buying those foods looks elsewhere for cereal. Plant-based in that they are produced in factories, yes.
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Rockman Reserve posted:If only. You know how most cereals in the US are fortified with calcium? I just make sure my cereal uses freerange mice
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vyst posted:I just make sure my cereal uses freerange mice Oh, sure, I assume most of us were in the fieldmouse procurement business before we got accounts here
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PhazonLink posted:Nintendo somehow patch the Gen 3 pokemon games with the GC's GBA link thing. Something called The Berries Glitch that was a time based thing even though Ruby/Sap didnt have a dayday cycle. ruby/sapphire had a day/night cycle that's why they had you set the clock in the beginning. its just only used for umbreon and espeon evolution and eevee doesn't show up in the game without trading from fire red/leaf green. fire red/leaf green do not have a day/night cycle at all so trading eevee to hoenn is necessary to complete the national dex that gen.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:ruby/sapphire had a day/night cycle that's why they had you set the clock in the beginning. its just only used for umbreon and espeon evolution and eevee doesn't show up in the game without trading from fire red/leaf green. fire red/leaf green do not have a day/night cycle at all so trading eevee to hoenn is necessary to complete the national dex that gen.  (they were actually pretty ingenious about fixing it, adding the patch to Colosseum and such)
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DACK FAYDEN posted:the clock is also used for berries maturing, thus the berry glitch that's a calendar system not a day/night cycle.
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vyst posted:I just make sure my cereal uses freerange mice This was largely supplanted by a revolutionary new non-nutritive varnish coating that was invented by a clear genius in the late 80s. Some company in Chicago I think. 
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Analysts at Bank of America are accusing Bed Bath and Beyond of having their stores turn off A/C to save costs, although the company is denying this. The company seems to be in serious trouble due to supply chain issues. It is estimated that the company lost $175 million in sales due to supply chain issues. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/investing/bed-bath--beyond-sales-decline/index.html
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I live near a KDC plant that primarily does Bed Bath and Beyond stuff, and it's closing down as of the end of this year due to a combination of lack of sales meaning low orders and supply chain issues. So I can fully believe they're in trouble. Of course, they're still running Job Fairs without disclosing that, so extra bonus.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Analysts at Bank of America are accusing Bed Bath and Beyond of having their stores turn off A/C to save costs, although the company is denying this. The company seems to be in serious trouble due to supply chain issues. It is estimated that the company lost $175 million in sales due to supply chain issues. It's gotten so bad I only get 20% coupons from them every other day now.
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Silly Burrito posted:It's gotten so bad I only get 20% coupons from them every other day now. They're easily the worst of anyone outside the Nigerian Prince category: 
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Bed Bath and the Great Beyond I thought they already went out of business years ago, I guess that was Linens n Things.
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Knormal posted:Bed Bath and the Great Beyond Apparently this is how I find out Linens n Things was an actual store and not just a throwaway name for a Death Grips line. It looks like the nearest one was a good 50 miles away from me in a place I never traveled to before they shut down, which would explain it.
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The Bed Bath and Beyond I knew took over a movie theater which is too bad because I liked that theater. But then it closed and became a Peter Pipers Pizza which is somehow successful even though its parent company, Chuck E Cheese, no longer is in town.
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Knormal posted:Bed Bath and the Great Beyond They were teetering on the brink before 2020, then had a bit of a pandemic boom and bounced back for a bit, now they're super deep in the poo poo because the pandemic trends that kept them afloat have largely reversed.
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Knormal posted:I thought they already went out of business years ago, I guess that was Linens n Things. Shoulda been more specific!
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In case you hadn’t already heard https://twitter.com/people/status/1551688891488522241?s=21&t=znIu8-8m0gSOtcLzmid5DA This essentially went viral yesterday
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Knormal posted:Bed Bath and the Great Beyond Bed, Bath, and Beyond the Infinite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imbxqv_5TJU
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FlamingLiberal posted:In case you hadn’t already heard This is 100% to drum up interest, have people buy a ton, then have them go "ah man we didn't know you guys cared so much ok we'll keep it around" or some bs like that Also in the 40 year history not one Choco Taco has looked like that
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It works as a marketing ploy for me; I've never even heard of this thing, and now that it's going away, I feel I've missed my chance and want one.
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I mean Taco Bell and McD's have mastered this play
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I feel like there's going to come a scenario where a smaller company cancels a popular product expecting that kind of outrage, and the general public is going to call their bluff and not give a poo poo, resulting in the company tanking their profits and going under before they can bring it back. Like I'm aware of the Choco Taco but I don't think I've ever had one, are they really that beloved?
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Knormal posted:I feel like there's going to come a scenario where a smaller company cancels a popular product expecting that kind of outrage, and the general public is going to call their bluff and not give a poo poo, resulting in the company tanking their profits and going under before they can bring it back. Like I'm aware of the Choco Taco but I don't think I've ever had one, are they really that beloved? I've definitely had one but I don't really remember anything about it other than "yep, that's ice cream, which I certainly enjoy in any form including this one"
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Knormal posted:I feel like there's going to come a scenario where a smaller company cancels a popular product expecting that kind of outrage, and the general public is going to call their bluff and not give a poo poo, resulting in the company tanking their profits and going under before they can bring it back. Like I'm aware of the Choco Taco but I don't think I've ever had one, are they really that beloved? They aren't. I'm guessing the avg person getting angry/sad online about it hasn't eaten one in 15-20 years. This is the millennial version of being nostalgic for baseball cards in the spokes and catching frogs by the creek.
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Remember when Twinkies went away and people spent thousands of dollars on eBay buying them up as an investment then Twinkies came back.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Remember when Twinkies went away and people spent thousands of dollars on eBay buying them up as an investment then Twinkies came back. Also, Twinkies "went away" because they didn't want to agree to unreasonable union demands like "do not cut our pay further" if I recall
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