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Walmart offers important services like cheap glasses or low cost check cashing for the unbanked, stuff like that. They're even slowly rolling out low cost medical clinics. Seriously Walmart does a lot for actual poor people in this country. But I'm sure dingy, cramped, expensive mom and pop shops that were only open 4 hours a day and didn't serve black people or unwed mothers had so much more dignity.
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Cease to Hope posted:yeah nah they take a fixed fee plus a %. Walmarts are often worse than payday loan outlets when it comes to cashing paychecks. That's just false. They charge a low fixed fee, no percentage. Taking a percentage of the check is exactly why regular check cashing places are so evil, and not taking a percentage is exactly why I mentioned that service in my post.
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Dec 8, 2016 22:16
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fishmech posted:At a lot of their locations they waive the fee or heavily reduce it... but only if you're also about to pay for your monthly groceries etc with it at that Wal-Mart. It's basically holding their business and paycheck hostage. Same sort of deal at a lot of supermarket chains. What the hell are you talking about? Also, the fee is $3-6.
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Dec 8, 2016 22:19
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How would that even work, specifically? Every Walmart I've seen has check cashing at a side counter away from the cash registers? How do you cash a check as part of your purchase? How is $3 not a token fee?
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Dec 8, 2016 22:32
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Walmart doesn't cash personal checks.
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Dec 9, 2016 03:48
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Caedus posted:Can we talk about other large chains as well? I'd like to ask about HMV - specifically, what the gently caress. CEOs don't do wacky poo poo to actually help their businesses, they do it to generate good buzz so the stock goes up and everybody is happy. Then they go off and CEO somewhere else. If sales at this chain went up because of this strategy, well, that's not a bad thing, but what was most important was creating a narrative that something was really being done.
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Dec 10, 2016 11:38
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What's stopping Amazon from building a little room on to the front of their warehouses where the public can pick up an online order or browse Amazon.com at a touchscreen kiosk?
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Dec 12, 2016 07:15
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Thank you for the answers about my Amazon question. I guess I'm just such a Northeasterner that I don't truly understand the concept of "middle of nowhere".
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Dec 16, 2016 01:12
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Corning, Arkansas, a town with less than 4000 people, which is in a county with 16000 people, which is 30 miles away from the nearest town with a population of over 10000 and 50 miles away from the nearest town of over 50000 people has and supports a Walmart. There are plenty of Cornings out there.
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Dec 16, 2016 23:44
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A town of 4000 people surrounded by farms can support a Walmart, is my conclusion.
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Dec 16, 2016 23:46
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Alaska is fake rural, Antarctica is the real thing.
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Dec 18, 2016 06:05
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BrandorKP do you think that all the complicated analysis you posted last page basically boils down to "people on the ground, if they're paid enough to care and are being paid attention to, can better respond to consumer trends that arise organically"?
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Mar 9, 2017 10:24
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I do wonder how Walgreens is so continuously expanding so fast. I feel like I could make all those Starbucks jokes from the 90's about Walgreens in the 2010's.
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Mar 22, 2017 20:04
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So landlord greed is more to blame than actual sales collapse? Color me shocked.
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Apr 6, 2017 11:25
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So retail is in free fall for some partially unknowable reason and the retail sector employs more Americans, percentage wise, than ever before: has there been anybody talking about how this could lead to Bad Stuff?
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Apr 13, 2017 10:24
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One of the first things a corporation does when it's spooked by bad reports is cut labor costs, and those jobs don't come back.
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Apr 13, 2017 11:38
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Cicero posted:Actually, companies hire people when demand is high enough to necessitate additional employees. The more you know! When business is up after a dip companies are usually pretty down to paper over labor needs with "seasonal" or temporary workers, yes. Then, very begrudgingly, part timers if they absolutely have to. These employees have very different jobs than all the full time workers who got shitcanned during the downturn. Speaking of retail especially.
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Apr 13, 2017 12:36
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If you want to know something that is not completely depressing that is going on with a dead mall, look no further than what has happened to Southeastern Pennsylvania's Granite Run Mall, currently being repurposed into the Promenade at Granite Run.  Essentially, the mall was shaped like an upside-down Y, with three anchor stores. The mall has gone out of business even though two of its anchor stores are still around. Also there's a stand-alone clothing store and grocery store in the mall complex that are still doing fine. This company is going to bulldoze the mall concourse and retail space that connected the anchor stores together and replace it with parking and go for sort of a mixed-use complex thing with shops and apartments peppered around the overall site. quote:MIDDLETOWN >> As a township resident and the chairperson of council, Mark Kirchgasser views the Promenade at Granite Run from two different angles. http://www.delcotimes.com/business/20170107/town-center-to-bring-new-life-at-granite-run-mall Now I think this sounds awful but I'm not exactly sure why.
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Apr 27, 2017 03:45
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About the parking, they are talking about two department stores, a massive bowling alley, a huge movie theater, apartment buildings, restaurants, and God knows what else. But yeah, I think the whole thing sounds completely unwalkable and unsuited to any sort of experience other than park car, go to thing, leave thing, return to car.
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Apr 27, 2017 04:26
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Halloween Jack posted:Granite Run was my wife's teenage hangout mall and she was very sad to see it in such a dilapidated nigh-abandoned state. I bought a shirt from that Boscov's on the way to a wedding. 2 of the 3 anchor stores in Granite Run, including the Boscov's, are still up and running, and the whole thing is the site of a many millions of dollars public/private business venture under construction right this second. Tell her not to be sad!
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Apr 29, 2017 08:32
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This is way off the topic of the thread but how would you actually ban MLMs in the USA? What laws at the federal or state level would make a difference?
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May 6, 2017 04:11
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FistEnergy posted:Best Buy keeps posting solid profits and their stock has jumped up again. Boywhiz88 was right all along.
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May 27, 2017 06:31
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Boywhiz88 posted:I just argued that some of us in Geek Squad legitimately care about the people that we serve. Hubert just got the rest of the company in line with that vision. I've eased up over the years, and do my best not to talk about BBY or GS on SA. Good to know that GBS thread is burned into people's brains. You're still the shilliest shill who ever shilled on the internet.
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Jun 2, 2017 03:08
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SalTheBard posted:I work for a large Optical Chain. Its been crazy how much we've been impacted by online glasses sales. I'm worried about the future of this company because we are getting crushed right now. I hope it's Visionworks. Wait all optical chains are awful. And don't tell me it's just the online glasses retailers, you can get wonderful glasses and an exam at Walmart or, if you've got more money, Costco.
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Jun 16, 2017 02:49
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I was a Lens Crafters consumer between 2002 and 2014 and I can tell you they suck. I don't hate you, I don't necessarily want you to lose your specific job, but there's no reason my poor eyesight should cause me to be gouged. If instead of not seeing well, I was constantly spewing feces out of my eyes, I wouldn't want some assholes giving me disingenuous arguments about how amazing their eye poo poo funnels were and how nobody would notice my constantly spewing eyes if only I bought their brand.
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Jun 16, 2017 05:11
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No love for just boiling some grounds with some water in a saucepan and then drinking it through your teeth like a humpback whale sucking down plankton?
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Jul 30, 2017 02:21
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Speaking of actual retail, don't malls have to climate control even when they're not open? If you're a mall owner, isn't heating and cooling gigantic mall concourses even when nothing is open a huge expense?
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Aug 21, 2017 06:49
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Plinkey posted:Where I lived in CA cigarettes from the safeway on one side of the street were about $1.50 a pack more expensive than from the walgreens on the other side of the street because that street was the dividing line of the incorporated/unicorporated part of the city it can get pretty absurd. Philadelphia is very incorporated with its nearest Pennsylvania neighbors, where there's a million places you wouldn't notice the city line if you weren't looking for it, and cigarettes are $3 more in the city and soda is like 40% more. Just thinking of two gas stations across a two lane street from each other which is totally a thing.
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Sep 9, 2017 05:56
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When was that attitude ever justifiable??
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Sep 15, 2017 03:52
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You don't work, you don't eat, is a maxim for murderous penal camps. We have evidence of Neanderthal burials of disabled people who definitely needed to be supported by others their whole life. You're thinking of extreme survival situations, which are an aberration, not the normal day to day.
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Sep 15, 2017 04:26
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Walmarts in the middle of nowhere are usually incredibly clean and tidy and staffed by people who don't seem on the verge of self-immolation.
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Oct 11, 2017 16:06
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FCKGW posted:Most of the Sears are closing in the next 3 weeks too, that's fast. Haven't they been closing the stores without closing them? Like when somebody remains in a job instead of retiring but stops doing any work.
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Paradoxish posted:If it's true that people don't want to buy books, then it's a new trend. Younger people read more than older generations, so if there's some overall decline in reading that's happening then it's something unique to the last year or two People either want the cheapest price for an item they've already researched exhaustively, to peruse an endless panoply of extremely cheap things they might need, or enjoy a full fledged "retail experience" where they drink coffee and wave their hands around. That's it.
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Jan 7, 2018 06:17
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Crow Jane posted:In my experience (I only worked at independent places, can't speak for corporate or chain joints), restaurant and bar owners, whether in a cynical way or not, tend to really push the "we're a family here!" thing. Which... some families are better than others. I ended up getting guilted into doing a lot of poo poo that was absolutely not worth doing for $2.75/hr+tips, either because I really liked, or was really afraid of, the boss that was asking. Yeah if I'm continually late to dinner my parents aren't going to loving fire me from my position of son.
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Jan 27, 2018 02:30
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There's a half dead mall in the Baltimore area that has a weird place that's just for sitting. It's just a hole in the wall with really uncomfortable and dirty dining type tables and chairs under harsh fluorescent light with nothing for sale and no decoration. Wander in and sit as long as you like. It's like a little Greyhound bus terminal with no buses. Also the food court features a place that makes keys. As far as I can tell this mall will exist forever as long as the DMV that is in it for some reason and the movie theater don't leave.
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Feb 8, 2018 08:01
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Halloween Jack posted:IME it's actually easier to stop in Delaware en route to the Philadelphia area than to try to get in and out of DC. And I can buy everything I want in one big box store, mostly for better prices than in VA, even before sales tax. I know which Total Wine you're going to, it's the one located 200 feet south of the PA border with the parking lot filled entirely with cars that have Pennsylvania license plates.
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Mar 17, 2018 06:59
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Motronic posted:Which is the same one I go to. And everyone else in SE PA. I keep expecting the PLCB to send a few mortar rounds over the border onto the place, it's got to keep an ungodly amount of dollars from going to the state just on its own.
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Mar 18, 2018 16:30
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Plinkey posted:Toys R Us: Millenial's Fault: Essentially every single piece about blaming millennials comes down to the fact that millennials don't have any drat money, including this one. "No wage, only spend!" Forever and ever and ever.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:40
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It's the end of late fees forever.
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Fishmech I posit that Wilmington, Delaware, qualifies as a city under all the most stringent definitions.
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