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There are plenty of retail spaces that are iconic and memorable, it’s just that a lot of them were probably built before WWII.
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WampaLord posted:No one's saying that. I'm saying the people who claim that without work they would be bored and without purpose are suffering from a lack of creativity. If you have a plan to work for yourself, that's totally cool, you do you. Is it impossible for you to believe someone might enjoy the job they have currently, and want to continue doing it even if they weren't forced to by necessity?
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mandatory lesbian posted:i'm also 25, maybe you're just an old curmudgeon Am I out of touch? No, it’s the shoppers who are wrong.
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Since we don't have a general cities or transportation thread I figured I'd put this here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html Story from the NYT about why subway construction in New York City is hilariously more expensive than anywhere else in the world ($1.5 billion - $2.5 billion per mile, compared to $450 million per mile in Paris). The story picks out staffing costs, "soft cost" inflation, and bad contracting practices (including corruption, though the story doesn't come right out and say it). Includes a guy from London rolling his eyes at NYC claiming the city is too old to do this cheaply, and someone from Paris talking about how they thought their project was expensive but uhhh I know there's an article out there somewhere comparing NYC and other American cities to Europe and Asia but I can't find it at the moment. US cities are generally always towards the top. Here's a thread expanding on the MTA's terribleness and the constant insistence on innovation, rather than just copying successful systems that work in other countries: https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/946488823478972416 edit: see if you can find The Weirdest Guy Ever in the mentions on this thread Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Dec 29, 2017 |
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Toys 'R Us as a symbol of the failure of private equity rather than the failure of retail generally: https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/974721070405160963
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Hadn't seen this posted but since Sears filed for bankruptcy I thought this was a pretty interesting look into how it made shopping easier for black people through anonymity: https://twitter.com/louishyman/status/1051872187047661571 There's a whole thread to read if you like. This same guy also has a really interesting book on the history of consumer debt in America if anyone is looking for some reading.
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BarbarianElephant posted:If they do that, they’ll push themselves out of business too, because people go to Amazon to choose from an enormous range of products not one “AmazonsBasics” product. Speak for yourself, if Amazon can identify one good phone charger cord out of the hundreds listed on their website and sell it to me I'm fine with that
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