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Beachcomber posted:Did pier 1 sell anything useful, or was it all boomer decorative crap? They had some alright stuff, but like a lot of these stores, it was all overpriced until it was on clearance at 75% off.
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In the late 90's and early aughts Pier 1 filled a valuable place in the furniture and home decor biz. For a long while it was one of the few places you could still find affordable solid wood furniture. But the ascent of TJMaxx/Marshalls/HomeGoods and online retail like Wayfair, along with their own degredation in quality, has left them with no niche at all.
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Jan 7, 2020 17:57
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I've learned never to buy a wooden bed frame. You have to spend big bucks to anything made out of actual wood.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:05
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Yeah if you're going to buy wooden furniture just get it made. I priced out two pieces from Ikea that totaled over $800 when I could probably get one large piece to do the same thing for a little bit more if I went to an independent wood worker.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:39
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i am harry posted:Those big round chairs that looked like upturned mushroom caps. Pier 1's greatest achievement, papasan
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Jan 7, 2020 19:50
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Epitope posted:Pier 1's greatest achievement, papasan My mother had one of those. drat, it was great to read in.
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Jan 7, 2020 19:55
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I dont get rhe loving point of gift shops sovanier shops etc. Why do i need shotglasses from dubai or hawaii all over my house.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I dont get rhe loving point of gift shops sovanier shops etc. Why do i need shotglasses from dubai* or hawaii* (made in a country foreign to where it's being sold, no less) all over my house. Because the practice predates the smartphone camera. They're for olds
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Jan 7, 2020 20:11
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I dont get rhe loving point of gift shops sovanier shops etc. Why do i need shotglasses from dubai or hawaii all over my house. I buy a refrigerator magnet everywhere i go v  v
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Jan 7, 2020 20:21
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Mister Facetious posted:Because the practice predates the smartphone camera. 
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Epitope posted:Pier 1's greatest achievement, papasan How to murder an entire quadrant of a room in one easy item!
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Jan 7, 2020 20:22
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I like stupid tourist mugs Not saying I haven't bought my share of t-shirts, or keychains and postcards myself too... (but buy local art instead)
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Jan 7, 2020 20:47
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Weirdly shaped pintglasses are cool.
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ReidRansom posted:I buy a refrigerator magnet everywhere i go v  It's a fun little way to do souvenirs.
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Epitope posted:Pier 1's greatest achievement, papasan My grandparents started a small import business in the 80s after they retired and did a bunch of world traveling. Those chairs were one of their biggest sellers and I spent a large amount of my free time at the store napping on a giant stack up f them.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:00
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I used to work for Pier1 and almost everything they sell is Chinese garbage. The furniture from Vietnam was actually pretty decent for the price though.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I like stupid tourist mugs HootTheOwl posted:Weirdly shaped pintglasses are cool. ReidRansom posted:I buy a refrigerator magnet everywhere i go v OK BOOMERS
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Jan 7, 2020 22:38
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:OK BOOMERS I buy shot glasses and I don't even drink
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ReidRansom posted:I buy a refrigerator magnet everywhere i go v Where do you put all of those magnets shaped like refrigerators?
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Doctor Butts posted:Where do you put all of those magnets shaped like refrigerators? On a magnet shaped refrigerator, of course.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I used to work for Pier1 and almost everything they sell is Chinese garbage. Vietnam's manufacturing niche is "Being better than Chinese quality."
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BlueBlazer posted:Vietnam's manufacturing niche is "Being better than Chinese quality." They also are really, really good at rattan. Like notable worldwide for it.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I dont get rhe loving point of gift shops sovanier shops etc. Why do i need shotglasses from dubai or hawaii all over my house. idk maybe you can try to google "what is a souvenir?"
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Jan 9, 2020 06:51
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I moved into a new place with a nonmagnetic fridge, so what do I do with all these. 
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QuarkJets posted:idk maybe you can try to google "what is a souvenir?" its that method of cooking food in a plastic bag immersed in heated water. 
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Jan 9, 2020 08:05
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A nonmagnetic fridge? Such a thing exists?
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Jan 9, 2020 11:17
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Mister Facetious posted:its that method of cooking food in a plastic bag immersed in heated water. That's sous vide. This is saying goodbye in French.
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Cicero posted:A nonmagnetic fridge? Such a thing exists? They absolutely do, mine is non-magnetic as well (has a pressed wood panel in front to match the rest of the kitchen)
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Jan 9, 2020 12:14
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Strange, I find being able to put stuff on the front of the fridge is useful. Didn't know this about Amazon: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2020/01/08/walmart-has-made-a-genius-move-to-beat-amazon/#406a54531119 quote:According to The New York Times, the average Amazon order for one-day shipping is $8.32, which costs $10.59 for Amazon to fulfill. Because of shipping, Amazon’s megastore is losing money on most sales.
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I’d imagine nothing. Surely small orders are a loss leader for amazon, allowing them to become more central to people’s lives, physical consumption, media consumption, and the functioning of the internet as a whole.
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Jan 9, 2020 13:50
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If they’re really that concerned they’ll just set more products as add ons.
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Jan 9, 2020 15:32
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Also, you really need to check prices on Amazon. I recently got into knitting and I started out buying yarn and needles and poo poo on Amazon. The availability is poo poo, the filters are poo poo, the prices are anywhere from 150%-200% what they are at another site (which actually categorises things in a non-hateful way so you can find them!). The $6 shipping versus free Prime shipping doesn’t matter because you aren’t get hooped by the insane Amazon prices. If they’re making an extra $2-3/order because their poo poo is wildly overpriced, “losing” $1 on shipping still works out nicely for them.
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PT6A posted:Also, you really need to check prices on Amazon. I recently got into knitting and I started out buying yarn and needles and poo poo on Amazon. The availability is poo poo, the filters are poo poo, the prices are anywhere from 150%-200% what they are at another site (which actually categorises things in a non-hateful way so you can find them!). The $6 shipping versus free Prime shipping doesn’t matter because you aren’t get hooped by the insane Amazon prices. It's this, Amazon hasn't been price competitive for a number of years now (at best they'll just pricematch whatever brick and mortar has it on sale) and for a ton of stuff they're way more expensive. 3rd party reseller have taken advantage of our laziness and drop ship poo poo from Walmart or Ross or Dollar Tree at 500% markups because people don't know any better. There's been a few articles out last year that were just like "I bought something on Amazon but then I discovered that it was drop shipped from somewhere cheaper! How not to get screwed!" Like this idiot who overspent $20 (!!!) on buying tea quote:A few weeks ago, I added some chai tea to my cart on Amazon, clicked the buy button, and didn’t think anything more of it. Or this guy who spent 2x as much on diapers on Amazon that came from Walmart quote:When my wife and I shop together, that typically means that she sends me a link to buy something on Amazon. That was also the case with these pull ups that she wanted me to order for our two-year-old. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Amazon also has terrible quality control when it comes to inferior bootlegs. Never buy sex toys from Amazon.
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I bought a manual coffee grinder from Amazon because I literally couldn't find one anywhere in the five department stores around me. I knew I was getting a good one because Amazon had at least half a dozen listings for identical products, only cheaper and each from a different manufacturer. One had photoshopped coffee beans into one of the product pictures, poorly. I figured if so many chinese scam e-stores were going to that kind of effort to rip it off it must be a good one.
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Anyone who uses Amazon/thinks two packs of diapers is $80 deserves every single bad thing that is going to happen to them.
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i am harry posted:Anyone who uses Amazon/thinks two packs of diapers is $80 deserves every single bad thing that is going to happen to them. I have never had a child, but this seems high even to me. I will say that I also have, in recent years, started making much broader searches for things rather than just going to Amazon unless I'm in a hurry. For example, when I want a physical copy of an old game I will check ebay, local game shops, this place in New Jersey that has its own site etc before I commit. 2-day shipping on many/most things is nice, but time is a luxury that I have - money isn't.
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JustJeff88 posted:I have never had a child, but this seems high even to me. it is high a months supply of infant diapers should be closer to $65
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One thing that I'll say for Amazon is that when they say Free Shipping they really mean it, even to Hawaii. There have been a million times when I've been on some other site to buy some cart with a few nominal small things, such as tea, and the website advertises free shipping to the continental US and then at checkout it's like "UPS Ground Shipping - $76" for Hawaii
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Macy's closing 28 more stores: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/macys-to-close-28-stores-2020-01-09?mod=mw_quote_news
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