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fishmech posted:You're making the mistaken assumption that getting those buildings "cut up" and re-occupied in any sort of quick timescale is a sure thing. I wouldn't count on that, when a lot of those locations are in shopping centers that are already dying or dead outside of the Sears store. There was a Sears home center or seth in near my apartment and no one moved in for 2 or 3 years after it went out. Eventually the building was sold and it was turned into a car dealership las year.
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fishmech posted:Yeah this sort of thing happens a lot. I'd bet the car dealership was able to heavily undercut the price the property owner originally expected to get too. Admittedly I live on the Massachusetts side of the NH-Mass border and there's a big retail district right on the border that takes advantage of NH's 0% sales tax and that would hurt any major store development in the region. (Cars are a different matter, since the Mass RMV doesn't let you register a car until excise tax is paid)
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think we have had anything like that in the UK but I think there is ground to be broken in the combination shopping/gameshow experience in the digital age. I take it you've never seen Supermarket Sweep
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OhFunny posted:Gamestop will close 150 stores. I wonder how much of it is left over redundancy from when they bought out EB like years ago. The mall up the road from me still has 2 Gamestops for exactly that reason. They've been moving away from purely game sales a while, they own Kongregate and ThinkGeek
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fishmech posted:One thing the article mentioned that I found really salient is that most of these companies had unrealistically gone deep into debt to fund all this expansion, which put a super heightened amount of stress on the business when sales were only ok, instead of meeting unrealistic goals that were never going to happen. this is basically whats going to happen to UFC in ~5 years
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Crabtree posted:I really don't like how these horrible CEO psychos actually prove poo poo like judging people as bad because of their weird as poo poo face is correct in this instance. Because, no really, WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS FACE?! the dude's like 72 now I think that photo is from 3 or 4 years ago
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May 4, 2017 12:03
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:What's the story there? They got sued by the National Federation of the Blind because their site sucked.
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May 26, 2017 01:53
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Pharohman777 posted:So what happens when someone gets demoted using that system? Is it possible for the janitor or such to be the person who signs off on purchases because they were shuffled around in the company from their old position? that would be more of a Japanese thing, in the US either you're using a union for your facilities operations or contracting it out.
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axeil posted:Wegmans is still the god-king of all grocery. Yeah
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RuanGacho posted:And yet people still want to debate if EMF causes cancer for some reason. Uh, EMF tends to have more pressing immediate health effects if received in high amounts than just cancer.
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Jun 18, 2017 04:30
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I'm glad that we are having chats about Uber, self driving cars, public transportation, the very concept of health codes for food preparation in the coffee thread.
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ReidRansom posted:The fate of the one in Houston is a sad tale. Evidently it has, or had at one point, appeared in more architecture books than any other modern building, but after BEST went tits up, the new owner of the building some several years later, fearing that its place in architectural history may have led the city to designate it a landmark of some kind, thus limiting future use of the property, abruptly had the iconic facade removed overnight some time back in the 00s. The shell is still there, apparently, but it's just a boring unoccupied box. This looks like it would be hell if there was precipitation
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Aug 21, 2017 18:05
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BrandorKP posted:Experiences have been status signifiers for a while now. Fyre festival was sold as an experience.
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fishmech posted:And when we say "thousands", we're talking like there are many places where even crossing from one side of town to the other in some place with barely 20,000 people, and the sales tax is twice the rate across that boundary. Or how anyone who wants to run an ad on TV or radio in a major metro area is going to have their advertised price read to easily 10, 20 different tax rates applied to it.  shopping complex to the south of the border line is in Massachusetts and has sales tax mall to the north is entirely in New Hampshire and has no sales tax (the Google Map state line is a bit inaccurate, the mall builders lopped off a chunk of JC Penney that would have otherwise edged into Massachusetts)
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LogisticEarth posted:Holy poo poo the sales tax chat has gone on for too long. It is not difficult to mentally round up roughly what it would cost. If you order anything online, or make any major purchase like a car or whatever, the sales tax is clearly communicated to you prior to actually handing over your method of payment. 99% of the population in the US does not have a problem with it, and the effort to fix it at this point isn't worth it. not really a thing that happens in retail
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Sep 12, 2017 02:05
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HonorableTB posted:I'm a Quality Assurance Engineer so my job is to ensure that it remains possible for you to buy as much as you want on the retail/third party side as you want to and that you have a drat nice experience while doing so. I suppose you could distill my entire job down to "I get paid to kill retail more efficiently" so on a scale of 1-10 if you gently caress up your job, do people die
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Ocean Book posted:He gave a definition of how he was using the word and why for the specific arguments he was making, I don't think anywhere he said all other uses of rural are wrong. It's common and valid when discussing something that doesn't have an exact word attached to it to co-opt a similar word and explain how you are doing so. Refusing to accept a use of a word that doesn't map exactly to Webster's or the census is being purposefully obtuse for it's own sake. he has a long history of gimmick posting in the Trump thread with this exact shtick and has been probated over it previously
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Does Arthur Blank still own Home Depot? Never pictured him as a hardcore Trumper hasn't been running it since 2001 iirc
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Horseshoe theory posted:Wasn't it because GameStop bought up Electronics Boutique and several other regional/national video game store chains? Sort of. The original GameStop was a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble. B&N acquired Babbages and Funco and merged the two into Gamestop. They eventually spun off the business into an independent operation and then Gamestop bought EB Games and some other smaller chains.
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Nov 9, 2017 14:08
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:The reviews tell you online Reviews never lie.
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Nov 9, 2017 19:10
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:gamestop stopped selling videogames to the point they co-branded with thinkgeek to sell stuff under that label instead. They're a wholly owned subsidiary of GameStop. Got bought out in 2015.
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Nov 9, 2017 23:12
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Magius1337est posted:"there's never gonna be an app that can handle the complexities of the legal system" they handle the complexities of the legal system by giving it to actual lawyers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDzDukmSsE
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learnincurve posted:Here’s a fun fact that makes Americans seem far less silly in comparison to the brits. Acrually if you refer to DOA standard A-A-20052....
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Nov 13, 2017 17:05
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:I'm a middle man selling widgets to US Govt contractors from contractors. The price for buying 1-4 of an item is 867 each. no that's what happens when you start failing to meet a MOQ manufacturing tends to be easier and cheaper in bulk, especially considering that it tends to be subtractive rather than additive in nature if I buy a printed wiring board from a supplier, they will fabricate a larger PWB and cut it down to my specifications. they're limited on a minimum size by their machines, so if I give them a board that's a quarter of their minimum fabrication size, I would be charged for the fabrication of the larger board first to satisfy my order as a materials cost, and then additional labor to chop it down to size since the chopping it down bit is pretty minimal and a fixed cost compared to materials, I could have them make 4 boards, using the entirety of their original fabrication, plus the same fixed costs to cut them in quarters.
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Slanderer posted:price breaks like this are really common, especially when you're not dealing with custom quotes or anything. like look at this random part from an electronics supplier: Once you get above 1k, they're just shipping you entire reels of the stuff from the supplier instead of cutting and respooling it.
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Nov 30, 2017 16:36
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't know who Mike Rowe is He hosted Dirty Jobs on Discovery Channel where he spent like 8 seasons shoveling poo poo and other refuse.
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Zebulon posted:Pretty sure that's just a joke/advertising gimmick. No it's an actual thing, but it probably is such a rare occurrence it's basically an advertising gimmick. One that probably won't involve someone having a psychotic break.
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Motronic posted:If the one in times square is anything like the one in vegas I'm not surprised. It's absolutely fine (as in acceptable) food, but it's marketed in a way that you expect a whole lot more. You don't get it. It's like going to any other generic "nice" fast casual burger place. https://nyti.ms/SZCqjJ quote:Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex? When you saw the burger described as “Guy’s Pat LaFrieda custom blend, all-natural Creekstone Farm Black Angus beef patty, LTOP (lettuce, tomato, onion + pickle), SMC (super-melty-cheese) and a slathering of Donkey Sauce on garlic-buttered brioche,” did your mind touch the void for a minute?
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Panfilo posted:The trick is to be extra nice about telling them to get hosed in order for everybody to realize how unreasonable they are. When I went to state university, one of the stipulations of living on campus was that you had to buy a meal plan. Some Jewish white guy decided one summer that he would fight this by converting to Rastafari. He figured that the university wouldn't be able to meet the dietary restrictions of the religion and he's get out from the meal plan by claiming 1st amendment religious discrimination. The university cafeteria went and bought a special set of non metal cookware and got a cook familiar with Ital and basically put him on call for this guy and refused to exempt him. The guy then went on a hunger strike and everyone started laughing at him for so transparently dickish. It eventually ended after of all things The Daily Show sent someone to
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The Snoo posted:didn't walgreens just buy rite-aid? how many of those closures are affected by that? I vaguely recall them saying they weren't going to rebrand a bunch of rite-aids but I'm not sure. They bought Duane Reed and they closed a bunch of them that were located next to existing locations (which is a ton of them)
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:At one point sears was the biggest mail order company to ever exist, there was at least some point in history "our stuff has to be seen in person" wasn't hurting them. Sears was selling mail order houses at one point. Yes the economic trends from a loving century ago have such meaning today. Catalog sales declined enough that they stopped publishing the thing before Amazon was even created.
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Donald J Trump posted:who is sam anyway Sam Walton He also founded a little known chain called Walmart.
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Jan 11, 2018 23:21
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MiddleOne posted:Most of us remember what Amazon proceeded to do once they had control of the e-book market. I'm glad someone attempted to whitewash Apple's violations of the Sherman anti-trust act
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fishmech posted:Yes, I understood that you were making an incorrect point. That is why I posted the real reason things are happening. you could be Apple and start throttling the hell out of performance before you tell the consumer about it
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TyroneGoldstein posted:This is actually what happened with the Cross County shopping center in Yonkers here in NY. The old man in the family that owns it finally passed and starting in I want to say around 07 they completely renovated the place from this dirt mall throwback to the 50's to a completely new place and they've been doing gangbusters ever since. The Westchester got hosed by the Palisades, since if you're well off enough to go to the Westchester, you're probably just as able to go over to the Palisades, which is gigantic and was built about the same time.
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