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rotinaj posted:Okay, i’ll just go to a local store for my very specific thing and- oops, the stores stopped carrying this one weird purchase, because people don’t buy mattress garters or a four-outlet spigot adapter or a bottle of more than ten prilosec in person anymore The hit dog hollers
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Brother Tadger posted:The hit dog hollers Feel free to counter the actual argument anytime you like Consumers aren’t to blame for corporations choosing not to stock specific items, and consumers also aren’t to blame for the only places to get many items being online It’s mostly just-in-time shipping/stocking being a very poor method for moving product
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rotinaj posted:Feel free to counter the actual argument anytime you like At least where I work, JIT and Covid delays have been over for about a year. I think most items that are not found in stores are more because of profit margins than the breakdown of manufacturing. I agree consumers are not at fault for places not stocking specific items, but with the pressure to always be making money, slow moving items tend to not be carried unless they have insanely high margins, or bring people in the door. (You also have to have your other items inline with what other places are charging locally.) At the store I work at we stopped carrying a bunch of old style single (square key) door knobs, because we only sold two or three a month. In its place we put more Kwikset replacement hardware kits in black and bronze.That generates about 10 sales a month from that same area. Also, we can look and see that the people who buy those old knobs generally didn't buy other items on their trips to our store, so they were not driving sales of other items. The Hardware Hank that just went out of business was a store that still had all old school hardware store stuff that moves pretty slowly now days. It was a godsend to the people who had old houses, but even in a 500k population area, they were loosing money every year, even during Covid. (Most hardware stores saw a 20+ percent yearly uptick in sales in 2020-22.)
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Buce posted:nothin feels as good as a smooth, heavy as gently caress old analogue vol knob https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9FzJ4lUcwQ
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house ware is an interesting area because theres a few articles floating around that house flippers and them buying the cheapest stuff they can get to flip a house is currently driving the homogenization of new houses all looking the same. I dont know if i've seen a kwikset thing ever, but i bet I can picture it just from current style osmosis
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I've got an old house, and I love this online store https://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/
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rotinaj posted:Okay, i’ll just go to a local store for my very specific thing and- oops, the stores stopped carrying this one weird purchase, because people don’t buy mattress garters or a four-outlet spigot adapter or a bottle of more than ten prilosec in person anymore Have you tried asking them if they can order it for you? I've had really good luck with this, I'm actually expecting a very weird and specific bass guitar to arrive at my local music store this week. quote:
I don't take issue with buying poo poo online, it's practically a fact of life nowadays. I just don't think it's that crazy to look for an online retailer that isn't a paragon of financial impropriety, environmental destruction, and human rights violations like the lovely sites I listed by name. I'll concede that it probably doesn't matter because we're in end-stage capitalist hellworld and we as consumers lack the autonomy to effect any sort of positive change, but I'm still glad I ordered my bass from a music store instead of buying it next-day from Amazon (which was 100% an option and also the first thing to show up in literally every search engine). On-topic: I had one of these on Monday for the first time in a decade and it was like weapons-grade disappointment:  While the initial lack of sourness could be easily explained away by my aging tastebuds giving less of a poo poo about the malic/citric acid coating, the actual hard candy tastes like a nasty medicated lozenge now, and it doesn't even have a sour core in the middle.
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Didn't they vastly reduce the strength of warheads because kids were hurting themselves binging on them?
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Woolie Wool posted:Didn't they vastly reduce the strength of warheads because kids were hurting themselves binging on them? Man, kids today. Soft.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Wait so there's a "this new generation doesn't know anything about how cars work" but for computers?? Awful, absolutely awful. Everyone just repeats the complaints of their forbears, eh? I'm surprised no one's complaining about Eternal September. I never did learn computers and I'm semisaved because now everything is set up so your phone works That MAY help me this last decade of employment I have coming up after my brother passes 
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Hardware stores need heavy regulation and probably state ownership
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Against my better judgement I picked up a meal at KFC. The honey is now a honey like substance rather than actual and plentiful honey.
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My knees and shoulders pop all the drat time now!!
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Woolie Wool posted:Didn't they vastly reduce the strength of warheads because kids were hurting themselves binging on them? Sounds like a skill issue to me.
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Darth Brooks posted:Against my better judgement I picked up a meal at KFC. The honey is now a honey like substance rather than actual and plentiful honey. The last time I ate KFC, the chicken was nothing more than a mixture of gross cartilage and rubbery gristle. That was a few years ago. I remember a time when you got full corn-on-the-cob in foil, until they switched to those half cobs. Then they switched to a little-rear end cup of kernels. I don’t know what they’ve switched to since then (here’s some seeds, plant your own drat corn), but that was what made me say gently caress KFC. Well, that, and the discontinuation of the Lil’ Parfaits.
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Darth Brooks posted:Against my better judgement I picked up a meal at KFC. The honey is now a honey like substance rather than actual and plentiful honey.
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KFC is loving putrid compared to every one of its competitors and I have no idea how it's still in business.
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Tarkus posted:KFC is loving putrid compared to every one of its competitors and I have no idea how it's still in business. Colonel Sanders said that for YEARS
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I heard a 12 piece is like 30 dollars now, or something ridiculous like that. As for "why are they still in business", at least in LA they've receded quite a bit. My home-burb lost all its KFCs in the 2010s
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MrQwerty posted:Colonel Sanders said that for YEARS They hated Him for He spoke the Truth.
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I feel like the US is kind of an afterthought for KFC nowadays, they do way more business in China and SE Asia. I haven't been there in a long time, but KFC in Thailand was actually pretty good. They always had a couple traditional Thai dishes on the menu made with your choice of regular or extra crispy KFC chicken.
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i haven't had kfc in at least 25 years, but I tried jolibees the other day and it was pretty meh
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There are more KFCs in china than in the united states which makes sense because last time I ate KFC in china it was edible while in the US it was undercooked garbage. They got big in China by being a "clean" restaurant you could visibly see cooking your food and maintaining quality, so its extra lol regarding their US arms problems.
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PhazonLink posted:house ware is an interesting area because theres a few articles floating around that house flippers and them buying the cheapest stuff they can get to flip a house is currently driving the homogenization of new houses all looking the same. Capitism kills everything it touches. Lost of things piss me off, but people treating houses as investment opportunities instead of homes is right up there. lovely flippers and opportunistic landlords are near the top of the list imo.
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Barudak posted:There are more KFCs in china than in the united states which makes sense because last time I ate KFC in china it was edible while in the US it was undercooked garbage. this reminds me of Nathan's Hotdogs paying docs or people wearing white labcoats to eat their hotdogs. "well if those nice clean MEDICAL professions eat hot dogs they mush be 'clean'! " this was the 191X so whats his names The Jungle and the horrors the meat industry's
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Buying a ninja foodie on sale was the best investment I've made in a long time. Cooking quick really good meals is incredibly easy. I say this as an idiot who does all of their other cooking in cast iron.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Speakers in every single media device. Not so much the quality, but this is how it goes down: Leviathan Song posted:The human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale: No, there are two dumb (business) reasons for this. First, no one actually wants 100 steps as a user. It's mildly usable on a computer or with a touch interface, but it sucks on a remote. So manufacturers either shift all the "usable" volume range into the lower third, or make the volume jump in steps of 5 or something. But if they do the latter, people complain because they can't set the volume to exactly 23.5 or whatever. The second is headroom. Literally the "this one goes to 11" bit. If you buy a thingie and it's volume goes from 1-10 and you regularly use it at 8, what would happen the day you need to use it at... three steps more? The manufacturer could have made a sensible 1-10 scale, but it "feels" more powerful to the consumer if a whole bunch of steps are added. "See how loud it is, and it's only at 25! Imagine if I turned it all the way to 100%!"
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also alot of new music is kind of being mastered with not much respect for the recorded dynamics as well, i guess? is that enshittification we're kind of being cheated out of the good frequencies, they're just providing loudness. lotta bag no chips i think the rules are thrown out tho
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20 Blunts posted:also alot of new music is kind of being mastered with not much respect for the recorded dynamics as well, i guess? is that enshittification New music as in 20 years ago? The loudness wars were fought in mid nineties to mid 2000
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KFC also got rid of their potato wedges and now just serves generic fries. They were the only moderately okay thing left on the menu.
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W424 posted:New music as in 20 years ago? The loudness wars were fought in mid nineties to mid 2000 from what i understand loudness won but now we're trending quieter so when did you become lovely?
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why is everything remastered, definitive edition, etc.? just do it right the first time idiots
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Music mastering might be getting quieter again, but I swear almost every new album I listen to is compressed to death and sounds muddy and dull. I guess they want to make sure people listening through their phone speaker or on a lovely little bluetooth speaker hear everything.
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Work is closing the building cafe on Fridays and every other day at 2pm. The only place to eat is 10 minutes drive in any direction. There is no vending machines either. Have fun with everyone leaving the building for 25+ minutes every time they want a coffee, snack or lunch. Productivity is going to hit the roof. 
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Outrail posted:Capitism kills everything it touches. That's been the joke about houses where I live for the last decade. "Wait, you want to LIVE in this thing???" I recently found out Japan is an interesting counter-example. A combination of very high inheritance tax plus strict building codes due to earthquakes pretty much destroyed the idea of houses as an investment. Old houses lose value and are frequently torn down and replaced. That has some downsides (especially if you feel strongly about architectural preservation) but it's made housing much more affordable.
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Montague Tigg posted:why is everything remastered, definitive edition, etc.? just do it right the first time idiots They did do it right the first time, but how can they make you buy it again if they admit that? 
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