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the holy poopacy posted:Couldn't you just...use the billion dollars to pay taxes??? not this year, we finished building it last year
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If this fucks with White Lotus, I will murder. Give me Season 2!!!
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Aug 21, 2022 03:04
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Don't forget that AT&T bought Time Warner in a drunken bender and had buyer's remorse within year after their plan of gutting everything but HBO (which merely got slashed to starvation) didn't result in killing Netflix, which is what they actually wanted. So there was already not much left in terms of prestige assets for Discovery to buy. RIP the Warner Archives, which maybe has a rent-a-cop working the gate, but is otherwise going to go up like the Universal warehouse and take 100 years of movie history with it.
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Aug 21, 2022 03:07
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Sci fi authors spent decades warning us about things like grey goo or robot overlords or skynet, entities that acted entirely "logically" to produce absurd and devastating results. Turns out every corporation is a paperclip maximiser. Number Go Up-!!
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Aug 21, 2022 05:43
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Josef bugman posted:I think a lot of the cool stuff produced by animation people is just gone for instance. At least that is what I saw people complain about online. Unfortunately they dropped a ton of Animation stuff including the amazing show Infinity Train, and other decent hits like Final Space, Mao Mao, OK KO, and Close Enough. They also bought Sesame Street and dropped 200 episodes from the service. HBO Max also has ALL of the DC animated library, which includes classics like Batman TAS and Justice League, which are untouched so far, but there's no telling when they might start dropping less well received, but still good shows shows. And they also own all of the Cartoon Network and Adult Swim library.
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Aug 21, 2022 06:03
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xarph posted:Don't forget that AT&T bought Time Warner in a drunken bender and had buyer's remorse within year after their plan of gutting everything but HBO (which merely got slashed to starvation) didn't result in killing Netflix, which is what they actually wanted. Lol I worked at the place which had a good portion of the Warner archives and rent-a-cop is extremely loving generous It relied on security through obscurity for most of its “protection” but it was also in the middle of a tourist trap that was advertised on billboards for a good 100 miles on the interstates in all directions. The underpaid teens who worked the tour went right past it and told everyone that the WB archives were there for a decade until the one an employee who actually looked after it threatened the ceo to get them to stop mentioning all the rare priceless prints that were kept from them by a garage door. BIG FLUFFY DOG has a new favorite as of 06:39 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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Aug 21, 2022 06:35
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teen witch posted:Cancelling shows and movie for a tax write off is something I wish I could erase from my mind. Hoping that entertainment-related unions go for blood fighting this. This is why Megas XLR will never come back, because everyone involved will go to tax jail if it does 
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Aug 21, 2022 07:58
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xarph posted:Don't forget that AT&T bought Time Warner in a drunken bender and had buyer's remorse within year after their plan of gutting everything but HBO (which merely got slashed to starvation) didn't result in killing Netflix, which is what they actually wanted. I'll never forgive them for killing the adult swim streams. It made them money and cost them little and provided 1-5 hours a weekday of light entertainment for irony-poisoned people such as myself and there is nothing else quite like it.
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Tree Bucket posted:Sci fi authors spent decades warning us about things like grey goo or robot overlords or skynet, entities that acted entirely "logically" to produce absurd and devastating results. Turns out every corporation is a paperclip maximiser. Number Go Up-!! Executives are crack addicts tearing copper out of the walls for more crack. That's the mindset.
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Aug 21, 2022 09:27
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the holy poopacy posted:Couldn't you just...use the billion dollars to pay taxes??? Or, if you were really crazy, create assets (such as movies) that can generate revenue (via ticket sales and streaming fees) that you could pay your tax liabilities with? It seems very unlikely, but IDK. I seriously doubt anybody in this thread knows anything about corporate tax laws. Everyone in this thread is Kramer from the below clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
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Aug 23, 2022 11:31
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https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1564948724366954496?s=21&t=hoMks7T1u5JRJIh8VODkpA The large store near my house actually closed about 3 months ago
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Aug 31, 2022 14:42
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The only good part of Bed, Bath & Beyond was marveling at all of the "As seen on TV" poo poo they had but never buying any of it
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Aug 31, 2022 16:33
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vyst posted:The only good part of Bed, Bath & Beyond was marveling at all of the "As seen on TV" poo poo they had but never buying any of it The return policy pre-2018 was good. As long as you had a receipt, they’d take most stuff back regardless of how old it was. I swapped out so many pairs of Dr. Scholls inserts when I worked there and all sorts of other stuff.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:50
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FlamingLiberal posted:https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1564948724366954496?s=21&t=hoMks7T1u5JRJIh8VODkpA A Youtube channel that I follow, Retail Archaeology, had a recent video where he said that BB&B wasn't doing too well. I didn't realize that they were this much in trouble.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:53
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The BB&B in my town went under and turned into a Aldi, which is a much nicer upgrade and a business I actually enjoy shopping at.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:57
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:A Youtube channel that I follow, Retail Archaeology, had a recent video where he said that BB&B wasn't doing too well. I didn't realize that they were this much in trouble. They’ve been semi-quietly closing stores, downsizing some existing ones, and heavily cutting staffing since 2017. They also did a lot of actions to try and boost sales at the expense of their customer base, like changing the return policy and actually enforcing the expiration dates on coupons. I worked there until 2019, and when I left I said I doubted they’d still be in business in 10 years. I’d been at Toys R Us when they were going down hill, and BB&B is basically following the same playbook (Which other failing retailers have done as well), the issues were really obvious to everyone working there. Now, I’m wondering if it’ll be a lot sooner than that.
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Aug 31, 2022 17:58
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fartknocker posted:They’ve been semi-quietly closing stores, downsizing some existing ones, and heavily cutting staffing since 2017. They also did a lot of actions to try and boost sales at the expense of their customer base, like changing the return policy and actually enforcing the expiration dates on coupons. I worked there until 2019, and when I left I said I doubted they’d still be in business in 10 years. I’d been at Toys R Us when they were going down hill, and BB&B is basically following the same playbook (Which other failing retailers have done as well), the issues were really obvious to everyone working there. Now, I’m wondering if it’ll be a lot sooner than that. That tracks with Retail Archaeology's point: lots of 'As Seen On TV' stuff and trying to cover up empty shelves. Charlottesville still has a BB&B...for now. I never shop there so I have no idea how they're holding up but I'd imagine that the yuppies in town probably like it. Kohl's, too, seems not to be doing too well, which was also a surprise for me.
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Aug 31, 2022 18:00
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:
I looked up a local Kohl's a few weeks ago because I was going to return something from Amazon there. The Kohl's webpage had some pathetic language like "while you're returning your crap, why not check out some socks or something at Kohl's?" It just reeked of desperation.
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Aug 31, 2022 20:13
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Kohl's, too, seems not to be doing too well, which was also a surprise for me. Me too, but after some googling it seems like they’ve been in dire straights since the pandemic landed. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kohl-could-see-potential-store-183605656.html 30 store leases expiring in the next 2 years (not a big percentage, to be fair), plans to downsize their store footprints, launching “Sephora at Kohl’s”, etc. if any of those stores are on the underperforming list, I’d expect to see an axe swinging that way pretty soon. quote:“Kohl’s is aware that it has more selling space than it needs and plans to open smaller stores,” said David Swartz, equity analyst for Morningstar Research Services LLC. Someone outside the company recognizes the problem, we’ll see if they become fodder for this thread though. At least it sounds like they aren’t being bought out anymore? https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2022/07/01/kohls-no-longer-talks-sell-company-but-pressure-remains/7785915001/
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Aug 31, 2022 20:52
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Maybe stores will downsize and merge so much that we'll have just a bunch of big stores, with certain sections that we'll call "departments". These newly created "department stores" will be one stop shops for all sorts of retail needs. But I'm just making crazy poo poo up.
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AvesPKS posted:I looked up a local Kohl's a few weeks ago because I was going to return something from Amazon there. The Kohl's webpage had some pathetic language like "while you're returning your crap, why not check out some socks or something at Kohl's?" It just reeked of desperation. That is literally the point of the Amazon returns thing, to get people in the door.
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Sep 1, 2022 10:09
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I, like a ton of other people, have been deluged for years with Kohls ads, coupons, etc., but never gone in the store until I had to return a defective Amazon purchase. I was really surprised that the store was so mediocre and boring, the men’s side anyway. Every display looked like it had the same thing in it, like the ghetto stores in GTA:SA. I’ve never considered myself a fashionable guy, and now I’m old, so if *I* found it unappealing and monotonous, it doesn’t bode well for younger people who tend to spend more on clothes and such.
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Sep 1, 2022 11:06
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Kohls also suffers from not being a high quality name, but being more expensive then places like Wal-mart
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Kohl’s clothing is ridiculously marked up for the quality and taste. Sometimes there’s something kinda worth getting? But like the last time I bought something there were a pair of witch themed socks. I never got the popularity because it’s just some particularly bland clothing.
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Sep 1, 2022 12:20
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They used to have some good options for work wear back when I worked in an office.
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teen witch posted:Kohl’s clothing is ridiculously marked up for the quality and taste. Sometimes there’s something kinda worth getting? But like the last time I bought something there were a pair of witch themed socks. I guess the world is full of particularly bland people?
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Sep 1, 2022 12:32
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Kohl's is my mom's favorite store, this is because sales are catnip to her. It doesn't matter that nothing at Khol's is actually on sale, just that those little displays say that everything is.
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Sep 1, 2022 12:32
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hallo spacedog posted:They used to have some good options for work wear back when I worked in an office. Yeah, if you just need some bland clothing at whatever prices that you can try on before buying you can do worse. I say this not having shopped at a Kohls in many years, though.
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Sep 1, 2022 13:30
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Basticle posted:That is literally the point of the Amazon returns thing, to get people in the door. Yes. And the language they are using to implement that seems sad and pathetic, to me. Like it's probably not going to work.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I, like a ton of other people, have been deluged for years with Kohls ads, coupons, etc., but never gone in the store until I had to return a defective Amazon purchase. I was really surprised that the store was so mediocre and boring, the men’s side anyway. Every display looked like it had the same thing in it, like the ghetto stores in GTA:SA. I never really came back and looked at the men's department since I realized I was trans well after I stopped shopping at Kohl's(and Target/etc are fine and cheaper if you just want a basic buttonup or whatever), but the women's department had like a small handful of things that might be okay officewear, and then a sea of frumpy stuff I couldn't imagine anyone below age 60 wearing. teen witch posted:Kohl’s clothing is ridiculously marked up for the quality and taste. Sometimes there’s something kinda worth getting? But like the last time I bought something there were a pair of witch themed socks. Iron Crowned posted:Kohl's is my mom's favorite store, this is because sales are catnip to her. It doesn't matter that nothing at Khol's is actually on sale, just that those little displays say that everything is.
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Sep 1, 2022 17:27
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I worked at Kohl's for a while in college and it is indeed a very depressing place I wish I had some inside dirt to share, but nothing interesting ever happened
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Haifisch posted:I never really came back and looked at the men's department since I realized I was trans well after I stopped shopping at Kohl's(and Target/etc are fine and cheaper if you just want a basic buttonup or whatever), but the women's department had like a small handful of things that might be okay officewear, and then a sea of frumpy stuff I couldn't imagine anyone below age 60 wearing. I don't know exactly what the analogous situation for men's clothing is but I have no trouble believing Kohl's does.
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I got a really nice to me shirt once at Kohl's like 13 years ago. I would return in hopes of finding another one periodically, but alas it was a unicorn. Sadly the washing machine tore a gigantic hole in that shirt somehow, it was a very sad day.
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Since spooky season is coming up, all these dying chains are perfect for a Spirit Halloween store! The one closest to me always opens in the same location that use to be a Staples. I worked there last year, and helped set up other locations in abandoned buildings. The ghost of past companies forever lingers in those locations. Space Robot has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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Sep 1, 2022 23:14
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Spirit had been setting up in this shopping center by my house in a former Books-A-Million, but since last Halloween the other two large stores in the shopping center closed (Staples and Bed, Bath and Beyond) so now they get their pick
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This is more companies that have circled the drain , but  Brands can never die.
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Idgi sorry 😕
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Professor Shark posted:Idgi sorry 😕 Better known as the A&P chain of grocery stores https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26P
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Haifisch posted:had jack poo poo for me other than basics like socks teen witch posted:kohl’s... but like the last time i bought something there were a pair of witch themed socks. Huh. Yeah, their pitch literally was like "Why don't you buy some socks from us while you're returning your Amazon crap?" I guess they know their market. AvesPKS has a new favorite as of 13:08 on Sep 2, 2022 |
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