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must be some kind of regional thing. i wonder if theres an area where theyre both equally garbage? anyway, makes me appreciate that special place we call costco even more
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Jun 28, 2023 00:42
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Wasn't Lowes founded by the ex of the Home Depot CEO, so they do spiteful poo poo like locate a Lowes as close to a Home Depot as possible just as a gently caress you? Whatever else is going on with those stores, some of it is driven by very divorced energy, as I recall.
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Jun 28, 2023 00:44
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god i loving wish they'd bring their spat to my town so i wouldn't have to drive an extra 30 minutes when lowes stocks something the depot doesn't
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Jun 28, 2023 02:11
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Wasn't Lowes founded by the ex of the Home Depot CEO, so they do spiteful poo poo like locate a Lowes as close to a Home Depot as possible just as a gently caress you? Whatever else is going on with those stores, some of it is driven by very divorced energy, as I recall. Economics 101 tells you to locate specialized businesses close so they have to compete on everything except location. It's not spiteful, its basic theory. There's a Sam's Club across the street from Costco too.
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Jun 28, 2023 02:16
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Weembles posted:I assume it's all people who think sushi is just a soy sauce and pickled ginger delivery device. there were these potato chips once, wasabi and ginger flavored. couldve eaten that pretend sushi every day
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Jun 28, 2023 02:22
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StormDrain posted:Economics 101 tells you to locate specialized businesses close so they have to compete on everything except location. It's not spiteful, its basic theory. There's a Sam's Club across the street from Costco too. Why wouldn't you build your location away from competition so you don't have to compete?
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Jun 28, 2023 02:23
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StormDrain posted:Economics 101 tells you to locate specialized businesses close so they have to compete on everything except location. It's not spiteful, its basic theory. There's a Sam's Club across the street from Costco too. Yeah this is also why you often see two gas stations right next to each other
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Jun 28, 2023 02:31
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Coredump posted:Why wouldn't you build your location away from competition so you don't have to compete? Re read what I posted. It's Nashs equilibrium if you want to search for it.
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Jun 28, 2023 03:14
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Coredump posted:Why wouldn't you build your location away from competition so you don't have to compete? Business analysts are lazy turd underlings and everybody in the chain of command wants an easy win
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Jun 28, 2023 03:33
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StormDrain posted:Economics 101 tells you to locate specialized businesses close so they have to compete on everything except location. It's not spiteful, its basic theory. There's a Sam's Club across the street from Costco too.
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Jun 28, 2023 04:27
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hold on, im going to learn economics
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thathonkey posted:hold on, im going to learn economics Don't. It's a scam dreamed up to perpetrate capitalism.
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Jun 28, 2023 06:00
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McDonalds expanded by considering dozens of factors to balance street access vs price vs local housing vs workplaces to find a good location for a fast food place. Burger king just set up their buildings next to a mcdonalds.
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Jun 28, 2023 06:04
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Never mind, I guess the Lowes/Home Depot thing is an urban legend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-lowes-down/
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Jun 28, 2023 06:55
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That’s too bad; there’s a Lowe’s/HD the next town over that shares a parking lot. Boggles the mind but made shopping convenient that one Christmas our tree was too big and we needed extra lights.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Never mind, I guess the Lowes/Home Depot thing is an urban legend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-lowes-down/ Yeah I was gonna say. My mom repeated it to me and I had to look it up too. So I guess a non-zero amount of moms believe Lowes is the work of a Home Depot ex-wive's vengeance. I'm sure Lowes is not in a hurry to clear that up. Blue Moonlight posted:Lowe’s tries too hard. “Oh look, our store is well lit.” “Oh look, our shelves are well stocked.” “Oh look, we lock up expensive items in modular manufactured cages.” “Oh look, our staff still have hopes and dreams that you haven’t yet crushed.” It is very visibly "woman targeted" compared to HD. "A survey of women shoppers in July by Forrester Research found 69 percent [op's note: nice] rated Lowe's highest in cleanliness versus 31 percent for Home Depot, while 57 percent preferred Lowe's merchandise selection."
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Jun 28, 2023 09:09
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Costco and Sam's Club aren't competitors though? Costco is a chain selling high quality bulk goods via tiered membership at a discount, and Sam's Club is a large sticky box full of rusty needles.
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Jun 28, 2023 10:30
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Who is picking up the Kirkland Signature Hot Dogs for America
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Jun 28, 2023 15:57
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Vegetable posted:The Nash equilibrium explains why stores cluster; it doesn’t tell you to set up near your competitor. If anything it’s an observation of what happens when businesses do their own thing without regard for their competitors’ actions — the exact opposite of what you’re saying. Oh OK. They group up because they're spiteful then, and want to steal their competitors customers by being in the same spot so they serve the same market. How's that? Maybe I grabbed the wrong label and it's not Nashs equilibrium but Spatial Agglomeration. Nash is what came up in one of the first articles I opened to check it. Who cares. Costco rules!
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Jun 28, 2023 16:32
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The membership card crackdown is making the rounds on the news now lol.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:09
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Yup. I saw a few new signs up at my Costco the other day, but at least personally didn't see any different behavior. The reactions in those news stories is something else too. I'm not going to get mad at Costco for enforcing their long-held rules, but apparently some people are also mad at the idea that others have been shopping Costco without being members.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:14
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Chinatown posted:The membership card crackdown is making the rounds on the news now lol. What's Costco doing?
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Jun 28, 2023 20:23
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The Slack Lagoon posted:What's Costco doing? checking IDs against cards at self checkout according to the story I saw. which is funny because if you're gonna have someone stand there, just put them at a register so we can get out of the store faster.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:47
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the clickbait articles love love loving LOVE to make a comparison to Netflix with this.
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Jun 28, 2023 21:03
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pentyne posted:the clickbait articles love love loving LOVE to make a comparison to Netflix with this. The guy checking cards yesterday made the same comparison. He was not a fan.
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Jun 28, 2023 21:21
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There are a fair amount of people that don't realize each membership is for a household and you can generally have two separate adults on the membership, I got lady bagmo her own card so she didnt need to bother me to go. I have some other friends that split memberships to keep it cheaper, so just do that
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hark posted:checking IDs against cards at self checkout according to the story I saw. which is funny because if you're gonna have someone stand there, just put them at a register so we can get out of the store faster. All the "self-checkouts" at my local store have cashiers that do all the scanning anyway, I guess they just needed to cram more lanes in by any means necessary.
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Jun 29, 2023 00:30
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the nougat crackers are still life changing even when sober
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StormDrain posted:Re read what I posted. It's Nashs equilibrium if you want to search for it. I re-read it a few times and the way you explained it is still bad because you said it's desirable so "they have to compete," just not about location. The poster was right to point out they shouldn't want to compete at all. They don't want to, they're just setting up in the optimal locations for themselves without cooperating and compromising with their competitor. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Tiny Timbs posted:I re-read it a few times and the way you explained it is still bad because you said it's desirable so "they have to compete," just not about location. The poster was right to point out they shouldn't want to compete at all. They don't want to, they're just setting up in the optimal locations for themselves without cooperating and compromising with their competitor. OK. Let me rephrase it. It is desirable because it eliminates competing by getting the best location. No matter what two businesses in a region are competing. If you don't want to compete with an existing business then don't open one. If you want to open a business and you think there's enough people to shop there and abandon your opponent, put it next to them. Then you're at the center of their market too. They absolutely do want to compete and that's why they opened a second business in that market. This is the entire system. If you really don't want to compete go work for them.
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Well poo poo, I really don't want to compete with Costco, guess I better do the needful
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Dick Fontaine posted:the nougat crackers are still life changing even when sober whats the texture of the filling like is it stick to your teeth or foamy or what
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The Saucer Hovers posted:whats the texture of the filling like is it stick to your teeth or foamy or what when you warm it up it has kind of a gooey cheese sort of texture going on. cold it sticks to your teeth just how you’d expect. warm is the way to go
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Lazyhound posted:All the "self-checkouts" at my local store have cashiers that do all the scanning anyway, I guess they just needed to cram more lanes in by any means necessary. Yea, I've barely been able to get my card scanned before someone is going through my cart with the scanner. I just though I looked incompetent or something the first time.
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Lol our version of Kroger also went out of their way to disable tap to pay.. like no Kroger I'm not going to use your stupid phone app to pay gently caress off. Also Sam's scan and go is the best self checkout experience I've had. You just scan your poo poo as you dump it in the cart, walk to the exit, show the QR code on your phone you've been using the scan and they scan like 3 items in your cart at random to verify you scanned it. Betcha could sneak in a bag of jerky at the bottom and never get caught. Stick it to the sam!
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https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230629000695&np=1&mp=1quote:A 31-year-old worker at a Costco outlet in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province, died of heatstroke after organizing shopping carts in the sweltering parking lot all-day last week, according to news reports Thursday. The Costco's in Korea are some of the busiest Costcos in the world, to the point where the Southern Seoul store has the most business of any Costco in the world. The Korean government started this rule where major retailers had to close one Sunday a month to give a leg up to the mom and pop grocery stores, or face a steep fine. Costco (and the other big stores) just chose to eat the $250,000 fines because business was that good. So it's kind of shocking that Church wouldn't take care of their clergymen like that.
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AmbientParadox posted:https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230629000695&np=1&mp=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLX0gDaH_d0&t=38s
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Who is picking up the Kirkland Signature Hot Dogs for America Cooked some over the fire when camping earlier this week.
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Enos Cabell posted:The guy checking cards yesterday made the same comparison. He was not a fan. Why do they even have someone at the front door checking memberships? You can't *buy* anything without one.
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