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Ariong posted:It’s certainly not going to help their financial situation having to change all their signage to read “Temporarily 21.” Just advertise it as a birthday sale.
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Similarly, has anyone ever actually eaten at a Target cafe? I've seen them as long as I've ever gone to Target and never seen anyone there.
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The Target on this side of town has both the cafe and a Starbucks. Of course, I'm old enough to remember the Walmart having a McDonald's inside (while there was another outside in the parking lot) and also my sister having a birthday party at a McDonald's in the early 90s.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I think a lot of Walmarts still have McDonald's inside, but plenty of them have switched to Subway, especially newly built ones. Yeah. This was in the back of the store but most of those are up front now. Ours had an Auntie Em's cinnamon roll place or whatever. It never opened because the employees found out they weren't going to get paid, or paid less than they were told, or something, and so no one ever showed up to work and the place never actually opened.
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madeintaipei posted:I used to work for a distribution company delivering crackers. At one point we were forced to sell product into K-Mart by corporate. Cue my supervisor and I wandering in at 1 pm and sitting in a meeting with store management for five minutes until the store manager gets up and pukes all the way to the restroom (re-thinking the cafe now?). They told us that nothing would sell, we told them we had to. loving surreal when, as a salesman, the customer warns you off their business. Put the longest-coded product on a display and pulled it all out three months later. Not even worth the gas. As a current distributor, I feel your pain. We're independent so if a company decides they want to feature a product, or the company that makes it tells us we have to put it somewhere, we have to. And go back every week to bring more, even if it's just a single box because nothing sold. Someone sitting up in an office deciding what to sell.
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mind the walrus posted:God I miss arcades right now. There are "barcades" but they're almost always the same 10 lovely games that are cheap to maintain/repair/replace. Not to mention the screens are covered in beer because they never get cleaned. I want to like the only local barcade because they have good beer but the place is tiny and the selection of games is stale.
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mind the walrus posted:Harsh but true, even in the most Socialist Paradise someone's got to do Guard Duty the exact same way that even in the theoretical Objectivist Paradise someone still has to clean the toilets. We get it, you think bigotry and evil is perfectly fine as long as they put out a product you enjoy.
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Nov 1, 2019 16:41
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Krispy Wafer posted:There's no such thing as ethical consumption. Wendy's is probably top three for awful companies as well.
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vyst posted:McDonald's is no better as far as the environment is concerned How about you gently caress off then?
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Must be a pretty sweet gig for the workers that don't need the job to survive. Customers were almost always the worst part of working retail.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:My favorite part of working big box retail was customers asking me questions that could have been easily answered by looking at the box/price tag for two seconds. Why, if it was a snake it'd've bit me! 
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Strangers don't want to hear lame lovely dad jokes but I will never stop inflicting them on my friends and family.
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Dollar General is terrible and sticks their lovely stores in every little nook and cranny they can find so it's easier to grift poor people.
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Zenni also has a tool to measure that distance.
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Movie theaters don't make any money on ticket sales, maybe a little bit after a few weeks depending on the movie. They're completely hosed by the studios and the only way they make any money is concessions. I almost always get something at the local chain for that reason, because I like big screen movies and don't want them to go away. You could argue that more people would buy stuff if it was cheaper but I'm sure some suit somewhere has reams of paperwork showing the price, to the cent, that maximizes profit.
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The local chain also has a "Royal Suite" where you can order food and beer delivered right to your chair, which sounds godawful for actually watching a movie. Supposedly you can buy a beer at their bar and take it into any of the theaters but I haven't bothered. Won't be happy until they start offering poop socks and empty 2Ls.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:You won’t be happy until you can smell other goon’s feces and urine while trying to watch a movie? There's no edge case, this isn't a porno theatre. 
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Random Stranger posted:Someone gave me a souvee machine for Christmas a few years ago and the only way to turn it on was to use an app. I didn't have a smart phone at the time, so back it went into the box. I was looking forward to that dinner. No bone app the teeth I guess.
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Barudak posted:Golden Corral was the only buffet chain doing well prior to this plague, for, and you wont believe this, maintaining quality and higher prices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKr3KQVyp8 When my grandparents would pick my sister and I up to stay at their house for Spring Break/Christmas Break/etc., they would always take us to the Sizzler down the road that we never went to normally. Golden Corral, for being a pig trough of a buffet, is fine. It's..it's fine. It's not fine dining and it's not cheap but I've never seen any food at the one we sometimes go to that was obviously bad, and if anything most of it is underseasoned. Except the chocolate fountain, I've seen kids sticking their fingers in there.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I've never even heard of companies threatening to do this. What the hell? Nintendo likes, or liked, to send C&D's to people with their game footage on YouTube reviews or whatever. Edit: https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2018/11/29/nintendo-new-video-rules/ Admiral Joeslop has a new favorite as of 12:28 on May 12, 2020 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:I was talking more about podcasts. Video is another thing entirely. Back in the early 2000s, Nintendo sent a C&D to someone on SuicideGirls because their profile mentioned Metroid and Zelda. Turns out they had an automated process doing this for them. Nintendo has always been stupid about internet stuff.
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The people that don't want to wear a mask will make a big stink and leave, or just take the mask off once they're seated.
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hawowanlawow posted:Grandy's is absolutely loving terrible, I have no idea how they are still in business They do, a lot.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjnsYz-xdOI She sounds like a woman actor on SNL playing a man character in a sketch.
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McPhearson posted:I went to the San Diego Fry's today and man was it sad. The back third of the building was walled off, there were areas with absolutely nothing (not even racks), and there was a little mini adult section separated by a single velvet rope next to a giant, rusty, steel box. It's like Fallout 76 got a graphical upgrade.
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Groovelord Neato posted:I worked retail at a successful store and it was mind crushingly depressing every day I can't imagine manning something like that. I dunno, customers were usually the worst part about working retail.
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The struggle of renting an SNES RPG and hoping that next time someone hadn't erased your save file. I used a Game Genie to beat FF6 over a weekend before I owned it, that was rad.
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https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354853920762253315?s=19 Unsourced and all but completely believable.
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I would love to boycott places that allow non-maskers to shop but the only place around here that does so is Costco and I don't always need giant containers of food. Edit: Looks like even Costco allows face shields, which are useless. Admiral Joeslop has a new favorite as of 15:25 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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I'm curious if theaters in other countries get hosed by the movie companies on ticket sales. Around here in the US, theaters are lucky to get some small percentage of sales after something like a month, if it's not a huge movie.
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Eclipse12 posted:All this Peloton talk is making me remember some weird piece of exercise equipment that used to be advertised in a lot of magazines back in the 90s. I can't remember anything about it except that it had an absolutely ludicrous price of near $7-8k (or was it $ They have a niche customer base though. 
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Acute Grill posted:I'd be surprised. Every tiny Midwestern town has their first and possibly only fast food location be a Subway attached to the gas station. Can also confirm, having to go to lots of tiny shitholes for work.
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Quiznos had the only good meatball sub. Everyone else's are soggy and gross.
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Acute Grill posted:I have literally never heard a single person in my entire life say anything good about that place until this thread. I'm sure that specific Mongolian BBQ place could be bad but in general I would eat at any Mongolian BBQ place, no questions asked.
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Knormal posted:That sounds like that thing where a franchisee decides they don't want to pay 10% or whatever to corporate and they think they'll do better off on their own. A Dairy Queen around here did that, chopped off half their sign to become "Dairy Heaven" but kept selling not-Blizzards and chicken strips. They usually don't last too long, because the non-corporate ingredients make everything taste off, and also usually don't keep up the already not-that-great cleanliness standards of the chain. There's a local baked potato chain here; one of their franchisees decided he didn't want to work under them anymore and didn't renew his contract. The company didn't expect this and suddenly they didn't have a potato place on this side of town and everything was a mess. The guy took the customer list he had from online orders, full of names, emails, and phone numbers, and called/texted/emailed people to gush about his "new" restaurant that was in the same spot. I think he lasted a couple months. There's an amazing Himalayan place there now. It's actually the same spot that was a Quiznos 20 years ago, so it ties into the sub shop derail (that might actually be in the dumb marketing thread.)
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I Haven been to one in years; the shakes were good but the food is overpriced for the amount and any place that serves tiny shoestring fries deserves to go out of business.
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Cracker Barrel is perfectly adequate and filling food. If you want more than that, certainly go somewhere else.
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Basticle posted:
There's also the local Chinese place that was hanging up meat outside, behind the building. When questioned, he said it was his own personal food. That place shut down and reopened with a new name and now I think it's a mattress store? I don't go to that strip mall much.
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20 Blunts posted:had to come into this thread because I noticed it's still somebodys job to update the Kmart Twitter https://twitter.com/Kmart/status/1475840982184833024 gently caress Brands but also lmao
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