Jaxyon posted:

malls in megacities in rich communities are still alive

The Grove and Westwood Century City are both busy in Los Angeles

also they spend a ton on destination poo poo for families, like they had it snowing in the mall back around Christmas, and regularly bring in live performance acts

CC mall is literally all high end stores and had a billion dollar reno, these are not normal malls

nikosoft posted:

I live near a dead mall that is officially going to be knocked down and the area turned into much needed multi-residency housing with a central green space, but this is going to take 20 years to happen for some reason????

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

yeah, Russia had stuff like the big GUM building in Moscow that I guess was essentially a mall before the mall. The ones we know in the US were entirely dependent on tax scams for new development to get places to locate out by the new whites-only country estates though. There just wasn't enough population density out in suburbia to get stuff like that built organically.

euphronius posted:

the green space will never happen.

Jon Irenicus posted:

the mall about ten minutes away has officially become Teen Fight Club where all of the poorly behaved students go to gently caress around on the weekend and routinely get in fights. one kid even got stabbed. thus the mall is trying to crack down and literally ban unaccompanied minors

euphronius posted:

the green space will never happen.

Frosted Flake posted:

e: Yep "Greensea Systems Inc. has been awarded a 2-year Phase 2 option period contract by the U.S. Naval Office of Naval Research to continue developing technology for autonomous hull cleaning vehicles. This is a continuation of the work Greensea has been doing since 2018 through the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. While the first phase of the contract focused on designing the system, the second phase will focus on technologies that improve navigation and autonomy."

quote:

Paco joins Greensea after serving as a Commander in the US Navy for more than twenty-two years. He previously held Business Development positions at VideoRay, iRobot, and Riptide.

Al! posted:

is this lloyd center

Frosted Flake posted:

Someone had a really good post in this thread about how all retail is going to cater exclusively to the upper middle class and up, chasing a luxury market while everything else declines. That makes sense to me as to why Nordstrom and nice malls with Rolex stores will continue on while Sears and normal suburban malls die.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

- Wanna buy fresh vegetables? Tough poo poo, go grow them in your back yard

Al! posted:

is this lloyd center

spacemang_spliff posted:

lol I remember in like 2010-2011 there were a record number of Millennials living with their parents a number not seen since the great depression.

but the fundamentals of the economy are strong and cool

Mr Hootington posted:

The media and idiots are using this as a "gotcha!" moment.

https://twitter.com/tallRevere/status/1638949402315456517?t=DqB2c71FM0vTBwJ92RCxqQ&s=19

EDIT: speaking of idiots lol

nikosoft posted:

I live near a dead mall that is officially going to be knocked down and the area turned into much needed multi-residency housing with a central green space, but this is going to take 20 years to happen for some reason????

euphronius posted:

pictures from a mall. very relevant.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

doing great.

is pepsi ok posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4KFNhxibec

Slow News Day posted:

TikTok hearing going well

https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1638945871642370062

I feel like the chances of a federal ban have increased significantly after this worst-possible answer lol

Cpt_Obvious posted:

TikTok needs to find a way to allow American capital to invest in it. Maybe that would shield it from protectionist legislation.

anime was right posted:

and an NSA backdoor

and for a way for a billionaire to utterly own it

Frosted Flake posted:

Someone had a really good post in this thread about how all retail is going to cater exclusively to the upper middle class and up, chasing a luxury market while everything else declines. That makes sense to me as to why Nordstrom and nice malls with Rolex stores will continue on while Sears and normal suburban malls die.

Malleum posted:

https://greensea.com/greensea-hires-vp-of-business-development-defense/

nailed it lmao

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Idk who is stronger, finance or the state, but I'd bet the state would make room for TikTok if finance was making money off it regardless of whether or not they let the nsa in.

WhatAGreatCountry posted:

HallelujahLee posted:

i dont know of many people that can afford to pay off the cc balances entirely every monthly in fact i dont know of any

gradenko_2000 posted:

Builder Blames Navy as Brand-New Warship Disintegrates

skooma512 posted:

I do. I completely resent paying interest, but I also like harvesting cash back. I use the CC for everything and just pay them off, and it works because I monitor spending closely and treat the CC as if it was cash.

webcams for christ posted:

Dollar Generals aren't going anywhere

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Dollar General latest player to enter retail clinic arena
Published Jan. 23, 2023


A sign is posted in front of a Dollar General store on March 12, 2015 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan via Getty Images

Dive Brief:
Dollar General is piloting mobile clinics at three Tennessee stores in partnership with mobile health provider DocGo.

The clinics, which are hosted in vans in store parking lots, offer basic, preventative and urgent care services, along with lab testing. Visits are available for walk-ins and by appointment.

The pilot could expand to additional stores, depending on customer response, as Dollar General continues to grow its healthcare products and services targeted at rural communities.

Dollar General is the latest player to foray into consumer-focused health clinics, following in the footsteps of drugstores and retailers like CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Amazon, UnitedHealth Group, Kroger and more. The goal of such clinics is to serve as a front door to the healthcare system amid rising demand for better, more convenient care and outcomes, and direct consumer dollars to the company’s other healthcare offerings, whether that be pharmacy fulfillment, health plan signups or food sales.

Dollar General took a step deeper into healthcare two years ago, saying it wanted to expand access to healthcare products in rural communities, including a wider assortment of medical, cough and cold and feminine hygiene products under its DG Wellbeing health initiative.

DG Wellbeing now also includes onsite clinicians provided through DocGo at the three Tennessee pilots, the companies announced last week.

Under the new partnership, clinicians can perform physicals and routine checkups, vaccinations and immunizations, screening and lab testing, along with management for chronic conditions like hypertension and diabetes, and urgent care services like wound care, according to the DG Wellbeing website.

The initial focus of DG Wellbeing is an expanded health offering, consisting of roughly 30% more feet of healthcare selling space and up to 400 more items as compared to standard stores, Dollar General CEO Jeff Owen said in a third-quarter earnings call in December. It’s similar to CVS’ HealthHUB store offering.

DG Wellbeing was available in roughly 3,200 of Dollar General’s more than 18,800 stores as of October 2022.

Owen addressed the DocGo pilot on the call, saying Dollar General plans to test the offering over the next few months in a bid to bring low-cost health and wellness to rural communities.

Over the summer, Dollar General said it planned to create a healthcare advisory panel to help the Tennessee-based dollar store develop its strategy in health and wellness. The panel includes its first chief medical officer, Albert Wu, who was appointed in 2021.

The Tennessee clinics with DocGo will accept Medicaid, Medicare and select private insurance plans, and will bill those plans at urgent care center rates. DocGo, which was founded in 2015, calls itself a “last-mile” provider, and dispatches clinicians to locations to provide care that would otherwise require a patient to go to a physical clinic. The company, formerly called Ambulnz, went public in 2021 in a merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/dollar-general-health-clinics-docgo/640940/