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i go to kmart when i want to roleplay as time traveler and that i somehow traveled back to the 90's
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Feb 22, 2015 10:17
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A few years ago I purchased: 1) That book by Glenn Beck about how one day all true patriots will sit around FEMA camps weeping. 2) A fanny pack. 3) A portable speaker. All three of these items came to like four bucks. The speaker and the fanny pack may be long consigned to the garbage, but I use that Glenn Beck book to support a battered old desk in my work garden. So... thanks K-Mart? Or Glenn Beck? I'm pretty sure it was on super clearance, so I don't think anyone really made money on this, other than the long-haulers that brought them in eventually. So... thanks highway system? Truckers?
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Feb 22, 2015 10:39
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Glasgow Kiss posted:i go to kmart when i want to roleplay as time traveler and that i somehow traveled back to the 90's "According to that weird genie the only way I can get back to the future is if I rub Bill Clinton's magic sax!"
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Feb 22, 2015 10:40
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I vaguely remember when I was a little kid, eating with my mother at the full-service restaurant or cafeteria that K-marts used to have in the '70s. They were usually divided off from the shopping area with that wavy yellow translucent plastic stuff.
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Feb 22, 2015 10:47
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Zeroisanumber posted:Srsly. Once Duane Reade and the local bodega close for the evening, you're boned. The Manhattan Kmart is actually not bad and you usually see people in there
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Feb 22, 2015 15:51
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I like to think Ames is in heaven waiting for his friend to at long last join him. I can't remember if Ames was strip mall or a brand of toothpaste purchased by Crest.
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Feb 22, 2015 16:16
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzf5OL01Kpk Todd Glass says funny things about Kmart.
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Feb 22, 2015 16:38
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InterceptorV8 posted:Yeap, a Wallyworld did that around here, closed one store, opened two stores 5 miles apart because the customer base was getting a bit stabby. Five miles will do nothing to keep a stabby customer base away. The hobos will relocate to the vacant lot behind the new one and the bus line will stop at the new store. lovely customers with cars are impossible to avoid- they will drive past their local store and to the next town because even they want to shop at the nicer location. Walmart moves like that because they can coerce the city into giving them another 99-year lease and they can do their upgrade/remodel without disrupting business.
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Feb 22, 2015 18:37
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Five miles will do nothing to keep a stabby customer base away. The hobos will relocate to the vacant lot behind the new one and the bus line will stop at the new store. lovely customers with cars are impossible to avoid- they will drive past their local store and to the next town because even they want to shop at the nicer location. Walmart moves like that because they can coerce the city into giving them another 99-year lease and they can do their upgrade/remodel without disrupting business. yes
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Feb 22, 2015 19:06
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Zeluth posted:I can't remember if Ames was strip mall or a brand of toothpaste purchased by Crest. Same thing as K Mart, just a different name. Also, I believe you are thinking of Aim brand toothpaste.
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Feb 22, 2015 19:20
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Amazon should buy out their real estate holdings and convert their stores into micro-distribution hubs/analytics driven stores. Or, turn them into libraries.
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Feb 22, 2015 19:53
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one of the most depressing sights of my young life was going to a K-Mart after school because it was in walking distance and seeing clearance racks of z-grade lingerie left over from Valentine's Day prominently displayed despite it being April
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Feb 22, 2015 19:56
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Five miles will do nothing to keep a stabby customer base away. The hobos will relocate to the vacant lot behind the new one and the bus line will stop at the new store. lovely customers with cars are impossible to avoid- they will drive past their local store and to the next town because even they want to shop at the nicer location. Walmart moves like that because they can coerce the city into giving them another 99-year lease and they can do their upgrade/remodel without disrupting business. Are you sure? D&D goons say outright that puts them in a FOOD DESERT and they are completely unable to do anything over being half a mile away from dingdongs and chocolate milk at all times. 
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Feb 22, 2015 20:07
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psyopmonkey posted:Amazon should buy out their real estate holdings and convert their stores into micro-distribution hubs/analytics driven stores. You didn't read the part about them being leased at low-low rates did you.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:08
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Add me to the list of people surprised that Kmart is still even a thing. I'd thought they'd closed down way back in 1987 when it turned out the kids they were selling had violent hallucinations and couldn't differentiate between fantasy and reality.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:08
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k mart is a money laundering scheme
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Feb 22, 2015 20:11
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Glasgow Kiss posted:i go to kmart when i want to roleplay as time traveler and that i somehow traveled back to the 90's its a well known fact that if you go into a k-mart bathroom, turn off the lights, and spin around 3 times you will emerge from that store in the 1990's. after that you can go back further in time if you find a Sears and do the same thing
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Feb 22, 2015 20:19
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I like to think Ames is in heaven waiting for his friend to at long last join him. Caldores too.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:32
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My mom would always try to drag me to Caldor to shop for clothes I had to beg her to take me to Bradlees.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:51
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InterceptorV8 posted:You didn't read the part about them being leased at low-low rates did you. psyopmonkey is special 
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Feb 22, 2015 20:53
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InterceptorV8 posted:Are you sure? D&D goons say outright that puts them in a FOOD DESERT and they are completely unable to do anything over being half a mile away from dingdongs and chocolate milk at all times. lol all the carless goons too lazy to walk a mile, color me shocked
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Feb 22, 2015 20:56
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Fetus Tree posted:lol all the carless goons too lazy to walk a mile, color me shocked You just don't understand! Then again, D&D did mod Exclamation Marx.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:58
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I go to K-Mart all the time, it's the only place near work that has 2-liters of diet root beer.
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Feb 22, 2015 21:01
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InterceptorV8 posted:Are you sure? D&D goons say outright that puts them in a FOOD DESERT and they are completely unable to do anything over being half a mile away from dingdongs and chocolate milk at all times. once again the south fucks things up
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Feb 22, 2015 21:01
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The Mad Archivist posted:once again the south fucks things up look if you werent such a welfare queen you'd have a car and a house in the suburbs
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Feb 22, 2015 21:04
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Monday_ posted:I go to K-Mart all the time, it's the only place near work that has 2-liters of diet root beer. Is that what you drink for lunch? 2L of diet soda?
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Feb 22, 2015 21:04
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Hobohemian posted:Is that what you drink for lunch? 2L of diet soda? its diet its obvs healthy for you idiot
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Feb 22, 2015 21:06
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only really fat people drink tons of diet soda it just goes to show that really fat people are fat because they're dumb as poo poo not GLANDS or whatever
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Feb 22, 2015 21:06
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The Mad Archivist posted:once again the south fucks things up Just FYI that map is poo poo. Unless you are going to tell me that there is a store everyplace in Nevada, Oregon (eastern half) Idaho and Utah.
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Feb 22, 2015 21:07
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The only soda i like is club and orangina
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Feb 22, 2015 21:07
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Pellegrino makes better orangina than orangina does.
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Feb 22, 2015 21:09
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Fetus Tree posted:The only soda i like is club and orangina Is that even soda?
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Feb 22, 2015 21:09
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you can make your own orangina with orange juice and club soda 
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Feb 22, 2015 21:10
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InterceptorV8 posted:Is that even soda? Idk it has bubbles. I dont like how cloying most soda tastes
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Feb 22, 2015 21:11
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gggiiimmmppp posted:you can make your own orangina with orange juice and club soda Is that all it is, seriously? 
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Feb 22, 2015 21:12
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InterceptorV8 posted:Just FYI that map is poo poo. The few people that live in the remote parts of the country probably hunt game and/or have pallettes of food shipped to their y2k compounds.
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Feb 22, 2015 21:17
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Hobohemian posted:Is that all it is, seriously? PROTIP: make concentrated orangejuice with club soda instead of water
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Feb 22, 2015 21:23
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InterceptorV8 posted:Just FYI that map is poo poo. It does state "no supermarket nearby AND no car". Most rural people in Idaho and Utah probably have cars
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Feb 22, 2015 21:47
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readingatwork posted:Add me to the list of people surprised that Kmart is still even a thing. I'd thought they'd closed down way back in 1987 when it turned out the kids they were selling had violent hallucinations and couldn't differentiate between fantasy and reality.  It's nice to see Calvin's dad have the last laugh every once in a while.
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Feb 22, 2015 21:52
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While K-Mart is depressing, a few years ago I went to a full sized Shopko and it was dimly lit and the video game section had nothing but microsoft word CDs and a million copies of the Left Behind game for 90 dollars.
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