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Cursed Lumberjack posted:
why would one need an empty Tide box e: snype
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buttcrackmenace posted:why would one need an empty Tide box they wanted to go out "tide", dumbass
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Feb 24, 2015 19:37
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Cracked_Gear posted:Six months ago there were three kmarts within 5 miles of where I live. two nice Super Kmarts that were recently built and actually nice stores, and one lovely regular kmart that's been there since probably the 70's. They just closed two of these three stores. guess which store is still open? The one with the lowest paid staff? The one that got a 99-year lease in the 70's?
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Feb 24, 2015 19:52
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Dick Fagballzson posted:But their tires are extremely overpriced compared to Costco. Same set of Michelins I got at Sears for $800 a few years ago was $500 at Costco when I replaced them recently. Costco usually has them buy 3 get one free, or $70-100 off, which is hard to beat. Also cheap on the install and disposal. Yes but if you have a flat and didn't buy your tires at Costco then Sears is probably the only one around who is open to patch it. And that summarizes the last time I've been at a Sears in the past 10 years
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Feb 24, 2015 19:54
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Dick Fagballzson posted:But their tires are extremely overpriced compared to Costco. Same set of Michelins I got at Sears for $800 a few years ago was $500 at Costco when I replaced them recently. Costco usually has them buy 3 get one free, or $70-100 off, which is hard to beat. Also cheap on the install and disposal. This is a good tip. My dad likes Discount Tire for some reason, though, I think he was looking for a specific tread.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:55
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Dick Fagballzson posted:But their tires are extremely overpriced compared to Costco. Same set of Michelins I got at Sears for $800 a few years ago was $500 at Costco when I replaced them recently. Costco usually has them buy 3 get one free, or $70-100 off, which is hard to beat. Also cheap on the install and disposal. Are you 110% sure they are the same tire? Some of the larger buyers of all items, it being anything from poo poo tickets to computers get their own special poo poo made.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:56
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The Twinkie Czar posted:The one that got a 99-year lease in the 70's? Yep! they shut down two nice stores and leave the smallest one with the shittiest selection open
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Feb 24, 2015 20:17
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buying tires is like buying a mattress
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Feb 24, 2015 20:19
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Cracked_Gear posted:Yep! they shut down two nice stores and leave the smallest one with the shittiest selection open But now that they've cut the costs of the other two staffs and consolidated their customer base to one store, they can afford to upgrade it to a beautiful, new Super ahahaha j/k. It's going to rot for another decade.
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Feb 24, 2015 20:27
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Cracked_Gear posted:Yep! they shut down two nice stores and leave the smallest one with the shittiest selection open Yeah, paying $45,000 x 2 a month or $1,000 a month for lease is a hard choice.
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Feb 24, 2015 21:24
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Cowman posted:I put in an actually good idea and I'm probably not going to win because they claim they're already trying it out. To submit your idea you have to use this social networking thing called Pebble that you can only access while on the clock at work. It's also terribly structured and absolutely ridiculous to try to navigate if you're not on a tablet. They had an idea to speed up the checkout process by giving everyone iPads and letting the employees run around with the iPad and check people out. I'm not entirely sure how that would work but they never did it. The registers also run on an old version of Unix and they're trying to make us utilize the touch screens but it just makes things slower and more of a pain in the rear end. lol to save money let's buy thousands of ipads for no good reason businesses are just run smarter than governments 
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Feb 24, 2015 22:52
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Korthal posted:Before being purchased by Sears, K-Mart's HQ was in Detroit. Not really. It was in the suburbs, across the street from a Neiman Marcus and a few miles from a famous country club that hosts stuff like the US Open.
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Feb 24, 2015 23:01
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Korthal posted:Before being purchased by Sears, K-Mart's HQ was in Detroit. Kmart bought Sears
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Feb 24, 2015 23:02
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Tezzor posted:lol to save money let's buy thousands of ipads for no good reason Depends on whether they were looking at replacing their 20 year old unix terminals anyway. Getting last years ipad wouldnt be so bad in that case compared to the alternative.
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Feb 24, 2015 23:09
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say what you will about sears but craftsman is pretty bang for the buck handtools
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Blue Raider posted:say what you will about sears but craftsman is pretty bang for the buck handtools or was, until they made them all in China and got rid of the warranty because they are now unreliable pieces of poo poo
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Ryoshi posted:or was, until they made them all in China and got rid of the warranty because they are now unreliable pieces of poo poo I bought a rotary edger that warped trying to cut through some thickish sod. I took it back and got a replacement on it. The new one did it again after like the third lawn job. Need to get Bob Vila back to fix their poo poo
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Feb 24, 2015 23:53
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WhyteRyce posted:Yeah but people feel rude or thoughtless for giving cash and instead want the appearance that they put effort into the gift while standing in the checkout line waiting to pay for gas or groceries. It's the only reason why the gift card industry got off the ground. That and my mom not wanting me to buy alcohol when she sent me money when I was in college
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Fetus Tree posted:Also nicki minaj owns I can appreciate her rise in hip-hop. (Except crap like "Starships" and "Stupid Ho". Come on.)
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Somebody said K-Mart pays employees if they provide a way to save money. My idea is to cut all electricity to the store and fire all the staff. Customers can use a flashlight to see where they are going and a K-Mart app on their phone to scan and pay for items. All items are in a giant pile so customers may need to dig through it for hours, increasing the amount of impulse buys and rope to drag them out when the pile falls on them.
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Feb 25, 2015 00:26
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Ryoshi posted:or was, until they made them all in China and got rid of the warranty because they are now unreliable pieces of poo poo This explains so many things on why any replacements have been giving me trouble. I didn't even know this.
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Feb 25, 2015 00:29
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KMart had a warehouse in my hometown. About 20 years ago the warehouse thought it would be a good idea to hire undercover investigators, have them pose as employees, become friends with the workers, and to give management detailed reports about the workers family lives, family issues, sex lives, and any/all statements they made about their bosses.
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Yaos posted:Somebody said K-Mart pays employees if they provide a way to save money. My idea is to cut all electricity to the store and fire all the staff. Customers can use a flashlight to see where they are going and a K-Mart app on their phone to scan and pay for items. All items are in a giant pile so customers may need to dig through it for hours, increasing the amount of impulse buys and rope to drag them out when the pile falls on them. bonus incentive: looting items off of the corpses that are buried in the pile. You never know what you'll find!
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Feb 25, 2015 00:52
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Ryoshi posted:or was, until they made them all in China and got rid of the warranty because they are now unreliable pieces of poo poo Yeah, I think I found this out in the last Kmart thread, and I definitely won't be buying Craftsman anymore. I think they do have a Pro series or something that still is made in the US, but I'll still be going with someone else next time I need something. I can't justify spending Snap-On money, but there are a few decent US manufacturers at a more affordable price point.
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Emanuel Collective posted:KMart had a warehouse in my hometown. About 20 years ago the warehouse thought it would be a good idea to hire undercover investigators, have them pose as employees, become friends with the workers, and to give management detailed reports about the workers family lives, family issues, sex lives, and any/all statements they made about their bosses. You left out the part in which they had a drug ring and where stealing everything not nailed down or on fire there.
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InterceptorV8 posted:You left out the part in which they had a drug ring and where stealing everything not nailed down or on fire there. ok sorry Johnson v. KMart posted:The Posegos submitted handwritten reports to CIC by mail every few days. These reports were then forwarded to defendant. The Posegos wrote the reports from memory based on the events they observed and conversations they participated in or overheard. The reports contained information including, but not limited to: (1) employee family matters (i.e., the criminal conduct of employees' children, incidents of domestic violence and impending divorces); (2) romantic interests/sex lives (i.e., sexual conduct of employees in terms of number/gender of sexual partners); (3) future employment plans (i.e., which employees were looking for new jobs and which employees were planning to quit without giving notice); (4) complaints about defendant (i.e., the quality of the company and employee's view that defendant was "screwing people up"); and (5) personal matters and private concerns (i.e., employee's prostate problems, paternity of employee's child, characterization of certain employees as alcoholics because they drank "frequently").
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Emanuel Collective posted:ok sorry And.....?
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InterceptorV8 posted:And.....? I too don't understand why its bad for my bosses to be spying on my personal life
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Feb 25, 2015 01:16
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Emanuel Collective posted:I too don't understand why its bad for my bosses to be spying on my personal life I too don't understand how to be an adult and not take home strangers from work.
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Feb 25, 2015 01:17
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InterceptorV8 posted:I too don't understand how to be an adult and not take home strangers from work. those are called "friends"
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Three-Phase posted:I can appreciate her rise in hip-hop. (Except crap like "Starships" and "Stupid Ho". Come on.) Granted I really haven't sought out her music, but the two songs they play on the commercial radio here sound like country-pop to me.
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Tezzor posted:those are called "friends" Figures you'd be sad enough to get your "friends" from Kmart.
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So, who is the next major retailer that will sink? K-Mart/Sears? J.C. Penneys?
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You Are A Elf posted:Even the escalators were depressing. I don't know how that's possible, but they were depresscalators. This would make a great name for a parody goth band
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Feb 25, 2015 03:35
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buttcrackmenace posted:why would one need an empty Tide box Apparently Tide is used as a form of currency in some areas http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tide-black-market-2013-1?IR=T
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ReidRansom posted:Yeah, I think I found this out in the last Kmart thread, and I definitely won't be buying Craftsman anymore. I think they do have a Pro series or something that still is made in the US, but I'll still be going with someone else next time I need something. I can't justify spending Snap-On money, but there are a few decent US manufacturers at a more affordable price point. Which is weird because I think the Chinese Craftsman ratchets are miles above the last few years of the American-made ones. You wanna talk about sloppy action and slippage resulting in bloody knuckles? Those were the last few years of the American-made Craftsman ratchets. The new Chinese ratchets are pretty tits and seem to have better QC then when Danaher was making them. At least the ratchets are better; I can't speak for the rest of the tool line. That still doesn't give me incentive to go out and buy a new ratchet since I've got enough already. When I think of Craftsman, I've got the old fart mentality of "good American-made tools at a reasonable price with an awesome warranty," not "Chinese-made tools of questionable quality at high prices with a warranty you may or may not get depending on who's manning the register and how much of a dick they are." They've got to be at least better than Harbor Freight tools. You just look at those things funny and they break.
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You Are A Elf posted:Which is weird because I think the Chinese Craftsman ratchets are miles above the last few years of the American-made ones. You wanna talk about sloppy action and slippage resulting in bloody knuckles? Those were the last few years of the American-made Craftsman ratchets. The new Chinese ratchets are pretty tits and seem to have better QC then when Danaher was making them. At least the ratchets are better; I can't speak for the rest of the tool line. Yeah but it's cool because every week you can get a new Harbor Freight coupon for a mini led flashlight and janky toolset.
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haljordan posted:Yeah but it's cool because every week you can get a new Harbor Freight coupon for a mini led flashlight and janky toolset. 9 LED ALL ALUMINUM SUPER BRIGHT FLASHLIGHT! TAKES ONE AAA BATTERY!! ONLY $1.99!!! *9 leds that put out 3 lumens of light and works once, then dies*
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You know what I always found scummy about Craftsman, though? Those mechanic tool sets that come out every holiday season. 600 PIECE BLACK FRIDAY MECHANIC'S TOOL SET HOLY gently caress!! Where 580 of those "tools" are allen and torx keys.
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idk what it is about led flashlights but ive never had one that didnt kick rear end
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