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BarbarianElephant posted:Seems like a more libertarian way of doing things would be to allow individual store managers free reign. So if a store in Colorado wants to dump the soda aisle because it doesn't make much profit and replace it with a vast selection of skis for the local slope, then he gets to do it. If it doesn't work out, he's fired. Seems to me that even dumber than having a garden department is having a K-Mart in Manhattan in the first place 
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Amazon is good if you know what you want but if you're just looking for a class of product it can be a nightmare. There is such a thing as too much choice.
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OhFunny posted:http://www.businessinsider.com/sears-failing-stores-closing-edward-lampert-bankruptcy-chances-2017-1 I love this quote: "In an environment where new companies like Uber can raise almost unlimited capital, what are the implications for older companies that are held to a very different standard when it comes to profitability and regulation?" Lampert wrote. In a way he's not wrong - Uber is losing a heroic amount of money but VC morons can't give them more fast enough because ~disruption~
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J. Crew seems like one that doesn't go with the others in that list. Although maybe I just see their stores more often than the others.
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Apr 7, 2017 02:27
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted: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. There's so much loving parking here.
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Apr 27, 2017 04:11
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Don't say this, that's how you get New Yorkers Cities change.
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Apr 27, 2017 16:13
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It bums me out that we seemed to stop building nice looking public buildings in like 1950.
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Apr 28, 2017 03:01
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OwlFancier posted:I guess the biggest disconnect I have with this is the concept of consumption as competition. Everyone I know even in niche fashion scenes is generally very inclusive, to all appearances. People who do goth stuff for example tend to like their own individual items but a lot of the social aspect is a celebration of the mutual enjoyment of it. More generally, if you get something nice people tend to be happy for you and you would tell them how you got it (cheaply, because you did get it cheaply or you wouldn't have it). I think the point of all the responses to your post is that this kind of stuff happens in social circles other than yours.
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May 2, 2017 23:28
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If there's a massive unfilled niche of decent quality clothes at reasonable prices that is just totally open, why isn't anyone trying to fill it?
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May 3, 2017 01:59
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Because most garment labor is exported to places where the labor is dirt cheap (see: Haiti, Bangladesh, China but it's on the up-and-up so not so much soon). Not to mention private interests lobby governments to ensure that the labor stays dirt cheap as well. Sexual harassment.
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May 3, 2017 02:13
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HEY NONG MAN posted:What about Filson? Is that too niche for this discussion? I wish they sold clothes in colors other than brown.
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May 3, 2017 04:25
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Aliquid posted:Does anywhere have progressive property taxes? I.e. a "standard deduction" of the first 500sqft then rates tick up from there A lot of places have exemptions for primary residences but they can be either a flat amount (first $10,000 of value exempted, say) or percentage (5% of value exempted). In the reverse of income tax, the flat exemption is more progressive than the percentage exemption. 5% of a $5 million house is a lot more than $10,000, and $10,000 matters more to someone with a $100,000 house than 5%.
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NihilismNow posted:If the most meaningful and fun thing you can think of to do with someone else is buy things you don't need it might be you who is the goony gently caress. Sometimes it seems like y'all could never enjoy any retail experience, ever.
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dont even fink about it posted:It's true, I don't loving LOVE shopping for groceries to the point that I object to people doing it any other way. It seems like everyone itt objects very loudly to people enjoying shopping! But also at the same time, here are all my ideas about how retail should be better: Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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TBH I hate shopping for clothes on Amazon because there is too much choice.
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Sprawl is caused by zoning in a way, but the cause is the overly restrictive zoning in central cities that makes sprawl development cheaper by comparison. Why bother with three years of permitting when you can put down a new subdivision on greenfield in less time for similar profit?
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ISeeCuckedPeople posted:Because were ten times the size of any other country? Der? I mean you could easily pass a law creating an exemption similar to the mortgage interest deduction that applies to rent. I think some states have that for their state income tax. We just don't because renters have no political power as a class. It's not like it's forbidden or not possible in an administrative sense. The rest of your post touches on the pernicious and destructive view of housing as investment, which is what causes so many of our problems today. Ideally people could come to see housing as another asset that depreciates rather than the only good on the planet that's destined to appreciate forever.
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Did someone really buy an account so they could complain about Pitchfork liking black music too much in the retail thread
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ThisIsWhyTrumpWon posted:I don't have problem with black music. If Pitchfork wanted to promote little known hip hop artists that's fine. They have to some extent with The Weeknd, Danny Brown, Death Grips, and Lil B. This, truly, is why Trump won
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"Reducing parking minimums is anti-poor people" is definitely a new one for me. I can't wait til the rich white homeowners who complain the most about parking in my city get ahold of it!
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No one uses public transit in the US because it's poorly run and it's poorly run because no one uses it, basically. There are only a few cities that have organized transit rider lobby groups. There's no political value in improving public transit, especially for state-level politicians. E: it doesn't help that in a lot of cases (most?) transit agencies are separate entities from municipal governments. Their boards are appointed by the various City Councils that make up the service area of the transit agency, so it's really hard for users to pressure the leadership or management of the agency. I doubt any City Council member has ever lost their seat because of how they voted on transit agency board appointments. Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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got any sevens posted:Anyone know why there are so many storage facilities these days? People accumulating more than their house can hold, but dont want to part? In my city storage is seen as an easy thing to do with the land while you wait for the value to go up or work on planning permissions. Apparently they're easy to tear down. Also a lot of the lovely NIMBY types have fought against proposed apartment developments on major corridors that were then turned into storage instead ("Much less traffic than new condos!").
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Cheesus posted:If it were immune to shenanigans, sure. That's not why the fund is going to run out. It's because there will be too many people pulling out and not enough people paying in. The federal government might borrow from the fund, meaning they also pay it back.
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WampaLord posted:Nah, gently caress that mindset. I'm in St. Pete, FL and it's a pretty nice blue area, with craft bars and hipster hangouts and all the signifiers of "worth living in" for Millennials. There's nice enough cities all over the place, it doesn't just have to be LA/SF/NYC. I think his point is that many many other people do not agree with you, not that LA/SF/NYC are in fact the only places worth living.
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boner confessor posted:i think we're all in agreement that many american cities are worth living in or around Yes but not [city that many people like to live in] because of [contrarian reason]
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MiddleOne posted:Traveling in all forms has definitely become more fashionable than ever. I have former classmates from college who despite working service or entry-level office positions spend the entire summer flying around the globe for seemingly no other reason than to fill up their Facebook feeds. gently caress the environment I guess. I mean, they might do it because they enjoy travel.
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Inescapable Duck posted:It's been explored in other threads, but simply that naturally formed communities barely exist any more, especially among the young. There's no point getting to know your neighbours because chances are they'll be gone in a few years. All the social groups that older generations took for granted don't exist for the young, between the irrelevance of religion, disintegration of neighbourhoods, and atomisation of the personal identity. What counts as "naturally formed"?
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I don't particularly care whether the tax is included or not but I'm totally baffled as to why everyone thinks it's such a huge problem that it isn't.
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Has someone ITT literally pulled out their phone to calculate the post tax price or their items when they went to the grocery store or something? That seems insane.
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boner confessor posted:this is probably because of secondhand stores. babies and young children grow out of shoes and clothes so quickly that you can get very lightly used stuff at thrift stores or even from people you know who have boxes of that poo poo sitting around in their house. every couple months my wife takes a box of stuff to the local thrift store and swaps it out for the next size up Thrift stores aren't a new thing though. Why is this happening now?
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:No one in this thread can ever agree upon who they mean when they say "rich." Lots of people who make above-average household incomes are perfectly comfortable with second-hand children's gear, and even use it as a status symbol in subcultures where belonging to the local wealthy-neighborhood parenting group is a big deal. In places like Manhattan you can find literal billionaires participating in kid gear swaps. Not every rich person is a paranoid nouveau-riche tackmonster leaving the price tags on everything. A rich person is someone whose consumption patterns I disapprove of.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Same, but also the taxes have gone up 60% unless they're taxing your house at 100% i have little sympathy, bourgeois scum
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I think I've said it before itt but Amazon is a pretty good demonstration of the fact that there is such a thing as too much choice.fishmech posted:Ok so you want stores to do what they always do with merchandise positioning in stores. TBF stores from the 1890s or whatever probably did look generic at the time, but people think they look cool now so I can see how someone would think that older stores were also thought to look cool at the time.
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Arglebargle III posted:Does anyone like retail tho? Not it's workers Depends on what you mean by liking retail. Not everyone prefers being waterboarded to shopping, despite what the thread consensus might lead you to believe!
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Haifisch posted:All shopping is bad. Retail has poor selection and is usually overpriced for the quality, online shopping makes you play the "will the package be left in the hallway for anyone to steal? Will I have to pick it up from the post office? Will they actually manage to deliver it normally?" dance. Counterpoint: not all shopping is bad, and many stores often have what I need
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:We are all adults here, I think everyone can agree that Walmart is for poors and the untermensch... Now target, on the other hand, there is a great retail store! I thought only anti-social morons left their house to shop?
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I see we've reached the "anyone who goes to a physical store to buy anything is abnormal" part of the thread cycle.
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Nordstrom Rack is like 90% garbage
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:That sounds like the D&D system mastery thing where they intentionally design bad skills and feats to trick dumb people into taking them because it makes "smart people" that know better like the game better. Like making two skills that raise HP but making one sound good and be bad and one sound bad and be good so you have to be "in the know" to pick the right one. Is it that hard to read a store map? Also I've been considering buying something from one of Amazon's new furniture brands but it doesn't have any reviews on it yet so I'm hesitant.
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This is something I see come up sometimes when people discuss manufacturing jobs. A lot of people (including reporters, unfortunately) make it seem like the loss of manufacturing jobs is bad because they are manufacturing jobs rather than because manufacturing had high unionization rates and therefore better pay and benefits. Retail jobs are only “bad jobs” because we allow them to be, they are not inherently worse than working in a steel mill or something.
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