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Getting off break, so I don't have time to read through the thread yet, but I heard on House of Cards of all places that Walmart is de facto subsidized by the government because they pay workers so little/give them so few hours they qualify for assistance. Is that true?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted: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". It's called "Ohio".  Middle of nowhere: any place that's landlocked, without access to the Great Lakes or the oceans. Population density is irrelevant. (Yes, it's just my personal opinion, but I'll be damned if the city I live in is going to qualify as "somewhere")
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Horseshoe theory posted:Speaking of Sears, it appears that Lampert is planning on stripping the last valuable asset of note, the Kenmore brand, for $400 million, along with another $80 million for Sears Home Services, which caused the stock price to crash about 13% to $1.59. My first (and until June, my only) AC was a Kenmore, and lasted me fourteen years before I required something more portable. Gonna be a shame when they're gone; I couldn't tell you another brand worth buying.
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FilthyImp posted:Gonna be another scorcher! Oh, oh it was. (Legit glad my cat is okay while I'm at work)
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Why in the world would you belive some extremely outlandish story about what schools do based on some guy on the internet saying it? Uh, I'm no theologist, but uh... aren't muslims all supposed to be facing the same direction (towards Mecca) when they pray?
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im depressed lol posted:This sounded insane to me, but it really is 5% of the retail market. But according to this techcrunch article it's quite a different story online. For the sake of clarity, this includes the hundreds/thousands of independent e-tailers using Amazon as a storefront, correct?
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I'd be more willing to use self-checkout if I didn't need a human anyways, because their machines throw a poo poo-fit if I want to use a reusable bag. Bags which they themselves loving sell.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Why would I want to "do the bagging [myself]?" Do people actually care that much about their groceries being bagged a certain way? Depending on the grocery store, it's expected; you have a conveyor up to the cashier, then another 2 leading away where you bag yourself. (NoFrills, Loblaws, Real Canadian Superstore, Fresh Co., etc.)
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EdithUpwards posted:McDonald's switched to okay tomatoes that yield to human teeth after popularizing the poo poo ones because the poo poo ones got so disgusting that people stopped eating at McDonald's and they had to change their supply as part of a big move to make their food more edible and less characterized by the phrase "hosed up chunks." Do you have a link for this, because I'd like to read about it. Speaking of links, maybe I missed it in the thread, but the Sears Libertarian is being sued: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/sears-sues-eddie-lampert-steven-mnuchin-others-for-alleged-thefts.html Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Apr 23, 2019 21:41
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Discendo Vox posted:I was wrong, it looks like the active ingredient was actually Belladonna.  What the gently caress. Giving nightshade to infants. You'd be safer putting a loving shot of booze in their baby bottle.
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May 4, 2019 20:42
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Do snake oil salesmen ever try to discredit each other? "Don't you know bleach is poison? It's an industrial chemical! Would you put something for cleaning floors in your body!? Here, try my ~ * o All Natural™ o * ~ toxin-purging colloidal silver tonic instead!"
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May 6, 2019 04:10
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Now I'm thinking of that "Republican Tears" image, but the bottle says Javex Bleach.
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May 6, 2019 22:23
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Remember the 'Doctor's Book of Home Remedies' commercials? That thing was as thick as a Bible; did it have anything that wasn't bullshit in it?
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Beachcomber posted:This seems like both good news and an incredible indictment of tomato breeding up til now. Well to be fair, the tomato they bred for predated genetic studies by a good 70+ years.
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i am harry posted:They will. You can bet money on it. You'll be able to eat them like apples. The study I posted went on to say that molecule was found in 2%-7% of grocery tomatoes, and while timely, doesn't explain in any way how it is that I can take a seed from a flavorless grocery tomato variety, sprout it, put it in the sun, and harvest delicious tomatoes from it several months later, but I think we covered that with discussion about refrigeration. Pretty sure it's because they're not actually ripe when they're picked and artificially gassed with ethylene to redness. Basically just compounding the problem.
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Capfalcon posted:Retail Collapse 2019: Tomato Slavery Advice https://www.audible.com/pd/Tomatola...WAGPG650QZCGZKY quote:Throughout Tomatoland Estabrook presents a who's who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents' medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:And it boils down to doing the cost/benefit analysis to determine the exact number of minimum wage "associates" required to deter a sufficient number of crackheads and teenagers from stealing so that shrink remains at acceptable levels. I'm more curious about employee theft; workers are payed so loving little that I'm amazed spontaneous organized crime rings don't pop up in Walmarts around the continent.
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OhFunny posted:https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/business/sears-kmart-closure-list-trnd/index.html Yeah, I'm not seeing a GM turnaround for this one. 
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Liquid Communism posted:I was already laughing about Halloween candy being out two weeks ago, but y'all wanna see some truly desperate poo poo? Disney'sObligationToRaiseShareholderValueAtAllCosts.jpg
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Neo Rasa posted:(meanwhile you'll see like from 2013 to 2014 the top folks basically like doubled their salaries). "If they gently caress a thousand employees out of ten grand each, that's ten million more for them," - The Big Short (the book, not the movie)
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I mean, that's how we teach kids about healthcare in Canada... 
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"That Ivory Tower nerd poo poo doesn't work in the real world of Hard Decisions and Quarterly Results!"  "You treat workers nice and all they'll do is get lazy and waste time talking when they could be upselling!" 
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JustJeff88 posted:Watching capitalists get hoisted with their own petard is great, but I can't allow myself to enjoy the schadenfreude because they land on the bodies of their (former) employees. They float away on golden parachutes while the employees have to jump out of the burning plane with whatever they could bribe the pilot with.
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FilthyImp posted:Kids, afaik, use the Caps Lock as a shift key. That's more a Trump thing imho "I'm gonna do it the wrong way anyway, cause that's how I already do it!"
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Someone please explain this reference to me.
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I said the reference/metaphor, not the object.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Fish Mac = fishmech I just bought my first iphone recently, so I thought it was some weird Apple joke that I've never heard of. v  v
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Shrecknet posted:Wah, wah. Every 21 year old is broke. "I guess human beings can't be... Forever 21." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47jWLMiY
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less than three posted:lol and 4 hours ago... Kind of impressive that it was finished off, considering how many dead companies can survive as zombies up here (The Source/Circuit City/Radio Shack, Toys "R" Us, etc.)...
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sbaldrick posted:It's because Canada is gently caress for online retailers, or maybe brick and mortar still works here because we can see now much better American online store are a d just say gently caress it and drive to the mall. My assumption was distributor exclusivity/monopoly/cartel control making it extremely hard to get all kinds of items online/directly from manufacturer websites like you can in the States.. overmind2000 posted:Sad then that there aren't any more Kmarts left in Canada, you'd think that would be the perfect place for them It's hard to be worse than a Zellers, but KMart went the extra mile; nobody loving shopped at them, they were already dying in the nineties, back before Walmart purchased Woolco. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Big K of Justice posted:Same thing happened with Krispy Kreme. They scammed a ton of people with one suburban Toronto location in Mississauga for months where media was talking about 500 car lineups at the drive-through where they had to hire off duty cops to manage traffic. THE NEXT TIM HORTONS! A year later locations started popping up all over, and then quickly closed down within 2 or so years leaving just a handful left. the single location in my city of a third of a million people.
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QuarkJets posted:I have a theory that places with larger denominations of coins transition to digital money more slowly, because big coins are a joy to use and make a lovely clinking in my pocket why would I ever switch to anything else? We have up to 2 dollar coins and changed to debit (and then tap to pay) as soon as possible because nobody wants to carry them. If I didn't need the laundromat, I wouldn't use cash at all.
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Laundromats are actually safe in Canada.
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Morbus posted:is this before or after accounting for cocaine lol
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Cocaine is fairly insignificant on a caloric level and most users insufflate it, not ingest it. You're still introducing it into the bloodstream though.
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Beachcomber posted:There are too many of the same flavours of yogurt 
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Invalid Validation posted:We produce enough money to feed everyone in the world.
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Nutritional items are sold at retail.  Where will you get your avocadoes for your french toast after the Collapse, hmmm? 
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Invalid Validation posted:Don’t feel sad that malls are dieing. My country has snow and rain though.
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Welp.
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