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the other thing to keep in mind is that the sample I see is the fuckups, not the well and properly run stores.
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Oct 1, 2023 17:24
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SlimGoodbody posted:I could easily do this because I actually really enjoy my wife's company and we've been best friends since high school. L + git gud + skill issue + I have true love The best part of that movie is that it's implied the woman wins the money and donates a ton to the homeless shelter where her dad lives, but doesn't actually do anything to help her dad not be homeless anymore.
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Oct 1, 2023 17:26
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i wonder if there is a correlation between what types of items people thieve and what the perceived "price-gouging" factor is of said items is. I mean, I'd imagine statistics show it's need based (baby formula) and/or a robust secondary market existing for the good (laundry detergent) - is there a "Spite-Based" category of retail theft? Like "Screw paying $45 for this pocketable-good which I'm sure cost 50 cents to manufacture". Do people thieve items more when the perceived value proposition is that of a Rip-Off? I'm not sure how one would go about measuring that.
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Oct 1, 2023 17:36
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yeah my immediate reaction to that Mr beast tweet was “so if the other person tries to leave what are the limits on how you can keep them in and still qualify for the money at the end” because i bet an uncomfortable number of americans, at least, would be willing to do a great deal of violence in order to escape crushing poverty e: ^^ physical size (how pocketable is this) to cost ratio is probably more important than just cost/rip-off factor but i have to imagine there’s a pretty strong correlation LonsomeSon has issued a correction as of 17:40 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 17:38
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Junkiebev posted:is there a "Spite-Based" category of retail theft? Like "Screw paying $45 for this pocketable-good which I'm sure cost 50 cents to manufacture". yes; god blesses those who steal expensive oil and watercolor paints from hobby lobbys and sell them to tattooers 1000x over
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Oct 1, 2023 18:12
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LonsomeSon posted:yeah my immediate reaction to that Mr beast tweet was “so if the other person tries to leave what are the limits on how you can keep them in and still qualify for the money at the end” because i bet an uncomfortable number of americans, at least, would be willing to do a great deal of violence in order to escape crushing poverty has black mirror not done a “big brother” episode with this conceit with the twist obviously being that they were ai simulations for a betting pool, because if not i have a script going
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Oct 1, 2023 18:31
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Jel Shaker posted:has black mirror not done a “big brother” episode with this conceit with the twist obviously being that they were ai simulations for a betting pool, because if not i have a script going Just seems like “15 Million Merits” but with a Saw coating.
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Oct 1, 2023 18:49
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i am harry posted:yes; god blesses those who steal expensive oil and watercolor paints from hobby lobbys and sell them to tattooers 1000x over hobby lobbys all about people stealing stuff morons think is worth a ton of money
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Oct 1, 2023 18:59
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Mustached Demon posted:hobby lobbys all about people stealing stuff morons think is worth a ton of money get your own sheet of hobby lobby price stickers and go nuts
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Oct 1, 2023 19:03
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I ordered some of the pain floss, sounds awesome. LETS RIP
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Oct 1, 2023 19:11
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:That's the one, it's great at making your hands bleed as much as the gums  for sure. Consider checking out a Waterpik if you haven’t, beats $10 a packet floss imo. I tried to find it in bulk online for cheap but couldn’t source anything  just way too pricey for my blood. The pik pays for itself pretty quick vs continually shellin’ on the floss. And while my dentist loves coco floss, the pik is her top recommendation. That being said the best floss is the one you actually do. A lot of people don’t like or understand how to waterpik and kinda let it collect dust. palindrome posted:I ordered some of the pain floss, sounds awesome. tbh it wasn’t noticeably more painful for me, well, just the price, was not the experience. It definitely works great though and its super sturdy which can help if your teeth can shred normal floss. Taima has issued a correction as of 19:38 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 19:17
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Junkiebev posted:i wonder if there is a correlation between what types of items people thieve and what the perceived "price-gouging" factor is of said items is. When I was like 19 I worked for this lovely local clothing company that was importing just the absolute cheapest falling apart poo poo from slave labor manufacturing and half the time we'd get stuff missing buttons, sizes were all over the place, etc and we would sell it for like 20$ for a stretch cami or like 120$ for a coat and this was in like 2006. I felt so exploited by the company and I felt so bad about customers getting taken by them that I absolutely would nab random poo poo especially broken things and then just fix them myself. I definitely felt very spiteful about it. Re paints: aim for windsor newton, michael harding paints, new amsterdam, and gamblin brands. also holbein. silicone thrills has issued a correction as of 19:23 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 19:19
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I'm shredding that normal floss, which didn't happen until the last few years. The conspiracy minded hygienist I sometimes get said it's a plot by Big Floss to lower the quality of their product, I'm not crazy to notice recently
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Oct 1, 2023 19:21
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palindrome posted:I'm shredding that normal floss, which didn't happen until the last few years. The conspiracy minded hygienist I sometimes get said it's a plot by Big Floss to lower the quality of their product, I'm not crazy to notice recently Oh, my guy, if you’re shreddin floss then welcome to coco paradise.
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Oct 1, 2023 19:24
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Pain floss sounds like what some women would call thong underwear.
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Oct 1, 2023 19:26
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Taima posted:The pik pays for itself pretty quick vs continually shellin’ on the floss. Perio sez this is an all hands on deck situation, and it's a great example of value based pricing: if I can maybe cut back the perio visit to 1x/year using this poo poo, it's still worth it.
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Oct 1, 2023 19:33
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remove your teeth, they are an unnecessary experience. been thinking about this recently too. my diet doesn't require them and their maintenance is costly
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Oct 1, 2023 19:40
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Junkiebev posted:i wonder if there is a correlation between what types of items people thieve and what the perceived "price-gouging" factor is of said items is. 
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Oct 1, 2023 19:46
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Bar Ran Dun posted:it depends on the chain and their staffing levels and which inventory management system they got sold. Yep, I remember doing this exact thing at Blockbuster. Also usually someone would gently caress up and we'd have to redo a whole section.
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Oct 1, 2023 19:53
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Frosted Flake posted:I wish I was better at rote memorization. I needed Greek and Latin to graduate undergrad and I cannot learn languages to save my loving life. Flash cards and actually putting in the hours of practice.
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Oct 1, 2023 20:13
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Frosted Flake posted:I wish I was better at rote memorization. I needed Greek and Latin to graduate undergrad and I cannot learn languages to save my loving life. I hired a translator to do my Ottoman Turkish take home final the second time I took the class (first time around was not take home)
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Oct 1, 2023 20:15
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Jel Shaker posted:has black mirror not done a “big brother” episode with this conceit with the twist obviously being that they were ai simulations for a betting pool, because if not i have a script going Before Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker made Dead Set, which is about a Big Brother production during a zombie outbreak.
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Oct 1, 2023 20:16
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StrugglingHoneybun posted:get your own sheet of hobby lobby price stickers and go nuts I used to do something like this with xx% off stickers at virgin megastore worked like a charm
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Oct 1, 2023 20:45
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Frosted Flake posted:I wish I was better at rote memorization. I needed Greek and Latin to graduate undergrad and I cannot learn languages to save my loving life. Copying conjugation and declension tables over and over and over, and then when I was reading I would test myself to see if I could decline and conjugate every relevant word in a paragraph
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Oct 1, 2023 20:49
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we inventory about 40k units of medications twice a year and about 6k units of controlled substances once a week as well as a few semirandom spot checks every day... when something goes missing we notice it quickly and can usually track down what happened very accurately with task timestamps and cameras and such
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Oct 1, 2023 21:03
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i'm willing to believe that medications have tighter controls than other retail goods, and will for at least a few more years in the us
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Oct 1, 2023 21:08
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Yep, I remember doing this exact thing at Blockbuster. Also usually someone would gently caress up and we'd have to redo a whole section. You are my comrade in arms. Blockbuster was such a uniquely bizarre piece of awful retail work.
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Oct 1, 2023 21:11
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my current employer runs the whole store like that because they're big on tight inventory controls, when i worked at cvs there was the state-mandaded biannual controlled substance inventory required by law performed exclusively by the pharmacist and a yearly inventory performed by a van or two full of carnies because cvs hates paying for labor for little things like making sure you're not $400k overstocked on 5 medications
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Oct 1, 2023 21:15
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LonsomeSon posted:i'm willing to believe that medications have tighter controls than other retail goods, and will for at least a few more years in the us California pharmacies make an estimated 5 million errors every year, according to the state’s Board of Pharmacy. Officials at the regulatory board say they can only estimate the number of errors because pharmacies are not required to report them. Most of the mistakes that California officials have discovered, according to citations issued by the board and reviewed by The Times, occurred at chain pharmacies such as CVS and Walgreens, where a pharmacist may fill hundreds of prescriptions during a shift, while juggling other tasks such as giving vaccinations, calling doctors’ offices to confirm prescriptions and working the drive-through. Christopher Adkins, a pharmacist who worked at CVS, and then at Vons pharmacies until March, said that management policies at the big chains have resulted in understaffed stores and overworked staff. “At this point it’s completely unsafe,” he said. Adkins now works at an independent pharmacy company in Los Angeles. He isn’t the only pharmacist worried that heavy workloads and distractions are leading to errors. In a survey of California licensed pharmacists in 2021, 91% of those working at chain pharmacies said staffing wasn’t high enough to provide patients adequate care. Although the board requires pharmacies to document errors internally, inform patients about mistakes in certain cases and learn how to prevent them from occurring again, only 62% of chain pharmacists said stores were following those rules, according to the survey. Some errors have been deadly. More than 10% of malpractice claims against pharmacists were for injuries that resulted in death, according to a 2019 report by two insurance providers. The leading cause of death was from overdoses, in which patients were given dosage strengths that were too high or incorrect instructions that multiplied the amount of medicine the patient received. As many as 9,000 Americans die each year from prescription errors, according to one study. Rarely does the public learn of the mistakes. Not only does the state not require the reporting of errors, but the big pharmacy companies often ask consumers to sign agreements demanding that they take any dispute not to court but to private arbitration panels. Patients typically agree to arbitration when they are asked to click a box to accept the company’s terms and conditions when they pick up a prescription. “You agree that CVS and you each waive the right to trial by a jury,” states the CVS agreement. To begin understanding the frequency of the mistakes, the pharmacy board sponsored a bill that would require pharmacies to report every error — not publicly but to a third party outside the government. The bill would also give the pharmacist responsible for the store the ability to increase staffing if they believe the workload has become too heavy to keep patients safe. The legislation is opposed by the California Community Pharmacy Coalition, a lobbying group representing retail pharmacies, including the big chains. The coalition has told legislators that the pharmacy staffing requirements are too rigid and that it does not want the pharmacy board to have access to the error reports, among other objections with the bill. The coalition did not respond to a request for comment. Language in the bill being debated in Sacramento states that the board would not get access to the reports — and neither would the public. Instead the reports would be kept confidential. The third-party group receiving the error reports would periodically provide information to the pharmacy board, including how many mistakes have been reported. The pharmacy board said it hopes to use the information to learn more about what is causing the errors and what can be done to reduce them. The bill would allow the board to publish de-identified information compiled from the data in the reports. The bill, AB 1286, authored by Assemblymember Matt Haney, a San Francisco Democrat, has passed the Assembly and is now before the state Senate. “Shockingly, there’s no centralized reporting mechanism for medication errors,” Haney said in an interview. “There should be transparency, and the Board of Pharmacy should have the authority to respond to protect patients. That’s not happening right now.” Two years ago, the state Legislature passed a bill that banned chain pharmacies from setting quotas for pharmacists on the numbers of prescriptions filled, vaccines given or other activities during a shift. The law’s goal was to make the chain pharmacies safer. In the 2021 survey, taken before that bill passed, 73% of chain pharmacists said their employer monitored the number of prescriptions filled and 62% said the company monitored the average time it took them to fill a prescription. Despite the new law, some chain pharmacies have continued to require pharmacists to meet quotas, according to citations issued by the board. Since January 2022, at least five pharmacies have been cited for asking pharmacists to meet quotas. CVS set quotas and measured pharmacists on the number of vaccinations they gave each week, according to a March citation issued to the company’s pharmacy in Ripon, a town in the Central Valley. The citation included a $10,000 fine. CVS declined to answer questions about the citation. It said it did not set quotas for pharmacists or pharmacy technicians. A pharmacy board inspection at a Walgreens in Citrus Heights in August of last year found that the store had set quotas for pharmacists on the number of COVID-19 tests dispensed and vaccinations given. The quota was “expressly encouraged by Walgreens corporate ownership,” the citation said. The pharmacy was fined $50,000, and an additional $5,000 for the inspectors’ finding that a pharmacist had dispensed a prescription of atenolol, a blood pressure medicine, without consulting with the customer about how to safely take it. That consultation is required by state law if the drug hasn’t been given to the patient previously. Walgreens said it disagreed with the citation and was challenging it. “Walgreens does not utilize quotas for pharmacists or pharmacy technicians,” the company said, “and was in compliance with the new law before it went into effect.” In a nationwide move last fall, Walgreens announced that it would no longer evaluate its pharmacy staff on any task-based metrics.
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Oct 1, 2023 21:20
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i said “tighter than other retail” not “awesome,” my goodness
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Oct 1, 2023 21:22
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ng-answers.htmlquote:
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Oct 1, 2023 21:39
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lmao just quit your job drat
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Oct 1, 2023 21:42
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lmao "why could he have killed himself the eagles were doing so well?!?"
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Oct 1, 2023 21:49
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What's the word like "shrinkflation" that means "substituting with inferior product & misleading consumers with pictures"? Stouffer's frozens were on sale so I picked up a couple, and made the mac-n-cheese-n-what-I-thought-would-be-broccoli-florets for lunch this afternoon. The first thing I noticed is that the broccoli was all mixed up in the mac & cheese, unlike the picture on the box:  The second thing I notice, after it's cooked, is why they mixed it all up before freezing: because they've substituted the broccoli florets with inedible broccoli stalks:  Tempted to @ them with pics. 
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Oct 1, 2023 21:51
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Willa Rogers posted:because they've substituted the broccoli florets with inedible broccoli stalks: reminds me of my time in Tent City, AZ where the horses were fed the broccoli florets and the inmates got the stalks
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Oct 1, 2023 21:55
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DINKflation
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Oct 1, 2023 22:09
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Spaced God posted:lmao "why could he have killed himself the eagles were doing so well?!?" Yeah that seemed like a batshit thing to append to that story
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Oct 1, 2023 22:10
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It’s a good point though, I’d never kill myself if the Steelers were doing well
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Oct 1, 2023 22:13
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Right but the stalks are both tastier and better for you than the florets
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Oct 1, 2023 22:17
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one time at cvs another store called us and asked us what we would do if we found a sealed tamper-evident bag full of controlled substances from 8 months ago found shoved in the back of a cupboard behind some sharps containers for some reason when they already had an inventory and apparently either didn't catch the shortages or just wrote them off
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Oct 1, 2023 22:19
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