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fishmech posted:Listen, it's simple: where's wegmans
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OneEightHundred posted:B&N actually got into e-commerce early and was one of the better sites selling books, or anything, online for a while and was a serious competitor to Amazon. If you compare their sites circa 2000, they were basically the same as Amazon. Barnes and Noble diversified in the late 90s. They bought a bunch of electronics and video game chains and merged them together. It was called GameStop.
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Mar 12, 2018 04:58
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PT6A posted:Wait, you can buy beer at a pharmacy in the US? Like everything in the US, it depends on the state.
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Mar 15, 2018 14:37
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Crow Jane posted:Even on the city or town. The Rite Aid by me sells all sorts of booze, but it's the only one in the area that does, because liquor licenses come with the address here (and are otherwise difficult to acquire) and I think the space was a bar at some point. The new owners decided to keep it going, because there are a lot of drunks in the area and they smelled revenue. In Massachusetts there's a super low cap of liquor licenses per owner (like 5 total), so most chain stores don't have alcohol. Wegmans does, but Wegmans 9nly has a handful of stores It's a real boom for standalone liquor stores though.
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Mar 15, 2018 19:25
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fishmech posted:Any shitheap that calls itself an outer ring suburb definitely isn't a city. Also yeah pretty much nowhere under 100k even begins to count unless it's some poo poo like you're Iceland and 100k people means 1/3 of your whole country. People from the upjumped suburban sprawl of America kinda need to accept that it's not impressive that you have both an Arby's AND a Subway AND a local theater troupe who plays one weekend a month in the high school gym, you know? generally the statutory legal concept of city is related to the incorporation of an administrative division in a state or province; it is highly dependent on the area of incorporation and the amount of responsibilities and governing authority and not necessarily population dependent this is entirely separate from whatever colloquial definition of a city that you've cooked up
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Apr 1, 2018 05:13
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fishmech posted:Re: whatever garbage suburb you're trying to defend: Boston is a garbage suburb? Wow that's harsh.
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Apr 1, 2018 05:30
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Baronjutter posted:All food is made up of atoms, doesn't matter if it's normal fast food or holier than thou "home cooked" food, the atoms are all the same. You can't say some atoms are better for you than others, it's all atoms when you think about it. Unstable atoms that emit radiation are bad for you
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Apr 17, 2018 17:19
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poopinmymouth posted:You are so bad at this, lmao (and completely wrong, still) soooooo trace amounts of flavoring and a food color preservative
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Apr 17, 2018 19:05
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Hand Row posted:It's a merchant fee, that's why some places are cash only. or they cheat on their taxes
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Apr 22, 2018 15:37
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kefkafloyd posted:New England has D'Angelo's. But you can also get grinders at pretty much any pizza shop. d'angelos is just the lovely subs that papa ginos makes which is like a knockoff papa johns
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May 6, 2018 05:34
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:This sounds like what General Mills or Quaker Oats did back in the 70s and 80s. I believe one of them (or maybe both) had a video game division and some other non-food holdings back them. Quaker owned Fisher Price and some small video game company. GM owned Play Doh, Parker Brothers, and had a holding company for chain restaurants (Olive Garden and Red Lobster being the more notable brands).
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Jul 3, 2018 13:03
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still think Bain probably just hastened the inevitable; TRU was a big thing when you could only reliably find All The Toys there, nowadays, well, you have Amazon. The entire reason they were bought out by private equity firms is because Wal Mart ate into their market share and they had to declare bankruptcy.
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Jul 29, 2018 17:02
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fishmech posted:Because banks tried to introduce that back about ~5 years ago and it didn't catch on. My banks for instance issued me new cards with the tap stuff added in that time frame and then both sent me replacements without it a few years later without explanation. I had an NFC card back in like 2008 or something Only the CVS in the mall could take it
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Aug 1, 2018 21:03
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gaj70 posted:We're more trustworthy so a mere signature is enough... in the northeast almost all places are now using chip cards especially all the big chains not sure about elsewhere
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Aug 1, 2018 23:30
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PT6A posted:Also, what I discovered one time is that if you pre-auth $20 to obtain $20 of gas, the last 2 litres or so dribble out like a 90-year-old's pissstream because gently caress forbid you get 3 cents worth of free gas. it's a consequence of not under dampening the feedback loop in the control system, which is the right call from a maintenance and safety perspective Electrical control responses aren't instantaneous (to do so would require an infinite number, of data measurements, which is impossible practically) so you get an approximation one of the consequences of using an approximation is that there can be ripple on the control signal if the feedback loop is under damped, which is going to be manifesting itself in inconsistent pumprates and overshoot where why it would give you that extra 3 cents of gas, the pump would kind of either not work or possibly turn into a vacuum and get hosed up so the better way to approach it would be to ideally critical damp the feedback or underdamp it, which will still have the same behavior you're describing in your post, but without the ability to overshoot or ripple note this is only going to really affect the prepaid amount, since that needs to have a pid controller to autonomously work, switching off from a full tank is pretty much a mechanical sensor that gets triggered when the tank is fill and bypasses the control loop entirely
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Aug 2, 2018 04:42
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BrandorKP posted:Businesses are just systems. The flows in systems are controllable with feedback. the term you're looking for is hysteresis
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Oct 7, 2018 20:07
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FCKGW posted:The truly insidious thing is their AmazonBasics stuff. Amazon has all the data in the world to know what products are selling and what kind of money their marketplace sellers are making. Once Amazon sees a product is doing gangbusters on their site they go up to the OEM supplier and have the same thing made up with an AmazonBasics label. They then start selling that product on their site with premium search placement and drive the other product either out of business or much lower on the rankings. are you new to white label stuff or what
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Dec 19, 2018 20:06
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sitchensis posted:The Retail Collapse of 2019: Tears for Sears This is good
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Jan 1, 2019 04:29
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QuarkJets posted:And that's just fine. The immoral thing would be Trader Joe's selling other products and then using that sales data to create and sell their own, identical products while hiding the originals in a box labeled "ROTTEN FRUIT". Good thing that Trader Joe's is an eclectic boutique grocery instead of being part of some gigantic international grocery conglomerate taking in some 50 billion euros of revenue
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Jan 1, 2019 06:51
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Literally is. It has an advantage in that it's probably hitting like 50% of electronic retail sales these days but at the same time, Wal Mart probably has about a 25% overall retail share and Amazon is somewhere around 5 or 6%
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Jan 1, 2019 07:35
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Raldikuk posted:Here is an example or perhaps this product isn't significant enough? Or maybe the company is too big/too small/just right to count? Or maybe a laptop stand isn't considered an invention? I'm curious what your rationalization will be. they had a design patent and didnt get a utility patent so yes, it wasnt an invention, just a common application that had protection for the specific ornamental design
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Jan 1, 2019 21:42
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QuarkJets posted:They're not. Microsoft wasn't (and isn't) a monopoly, either. when you draw comparisons to a situation where the US charged Microsoft for acting as a monopoly and violating the Sherman antitrust act, and say "hey this is comparable to AmazonBasics", you may actually be suggesting that Amazon and/or Microsoft to be monopolies especially considering the case that the courts decided that Microsoft was qctually acting as a monopoly in the case that you brought up
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Jan 1, 2019 22:06
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QuarkJets posted:I pointed out that Microsoft wasn't a monopoly in the early 2000s but was sued for violating antitrust laws anyway. Microsoft wasn't the sole distributor of software or operating systems, so they weren't an actual monopoly. It helps to illustrate how silly it is to say that everything's fine so long as they're not the sole seller in a market (e.g. an actual monopoly) Microsoft's operating systems were installed on 90+% of computers when the lawsuits were filed. Apple was sitting somewhere around 4% as the second place OS. They were absolutely a monopoly and were leveraging that position to push out 3rd party software by pushing their own software as built in installs to Windows.
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Jan 1, 2019 22:18
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Cicero posted:Even that was stupid since it turns out when people want an OS, they don't literally just want a bunch of API calls and the barest possible interface, they expect some standard applications to be present. Nobody wants Windows to come without any browser whatsoever, and a standard of "for every program they add themselves, they have to add several competitors to it" would be silly and impractical. at the time Internet Explorer was a standalone commercial product, and part of the argument against MS that you shouldn't be bundling IE and Windows was that the price of the OS was being inflated to subsidize IE, so why should someone be paying for standalone commercial software that they didnt intend to use when free alternatives exist
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Jan 1, 2019 22:32
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QuarkJets posted:Having their operating system on 90+% of computers means that they were not an actual monopoly the US justice system and courts disagree
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Jan 1, 2019 22:38
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QuarkJets posted:Please write this on a chalkboard 100 times: they did however satisfy the conditions for monopoly set forth in the Sherman Anti Trust act per the US DOJ and US federal courts US DOJ complaint posted:2. Microsoft possesses (and for several years has possessed) monopoly power in the market for personal computer operating systems. Microsoft's "Windows" operating systems are used on over 80% of Intel-based PCs, the dominant type of PC in the United States. More than 90% of new Intel-based PCs are shipped with a version of Windows pre-installed. PC manufacturers (often referred to as Original Equipment Manufacturers, or "OEMs") have no commercially reasonable alternative to Microsoft operating systems for the PCs that they distribute. US District Court findings posted:33. Microsoft enjoys so much power in the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems that if it wished to exercise this power solely in terms of price, it could charge a price for Windows substantially above that which could be charged in a competitive market. Moreover, it could do so for a significant period of time without losing an unacceptable amount of business to competitors. In other words, Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market. US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit posted:A. Monopoly Power OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Jan 2, 2019 01:31
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Beachcomber posted:Yeah, they've been at it for awhile now. the catholic church is kind of the exact opposite of franchising though
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Feb 3, 2019 14:58
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Paradoxish posted:This is pretty far off-topic, but can someone explain how homeopathic bullshit became so widespread and acceptable? It's demonstrably worthless and makes claims which can potentially encourage people to choose it over treatments that are actually safe and effective. It seems like an absolutely massive regulatory failure. in the grand scheme of things homeopathy has been around for millenia and it took well into the 1900s for widespread eclectical medicine to be stopped
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Apr 22, 2019 04:50
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fishmech posted:Nah, we know this douchebag invented it in the 1790s and is even to this day revered in the name and practices of several otherwise reputable medical institutions around the world. I am being a bit loose with using homeopathy for non scientific medicine. The point still stands. Modern scientific medicine forcing homeopathy its ilk out is still a historically recent phenomena and homeopathy and the such still has managed to maintain a supportive minority in spite of it.
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Apr 22, 2019 05:18
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Shrecknet posted:I can say confidently that every city I've ever lived in (in America) is definitely not interested in providing anything resembling "a nice place for people to just sit and chill for a minute*" *looks at Central Park*
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Aug 12, 2019 16:38
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Dehry posted:https://www.gamespot.com/articles/loot-crate-the-curated-pop-culture-subscription-se/1100-6469134/ employees were given a box and told to drop it off at the post office on their way home cold
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Aug 19, 2019 04:09
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JustJeff88 posted:
right now it costs $65 plus a $5 ESPN+ monthly subscription to watch a UFC PPV
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Detective No. 27 posted:Never heard of them. Guess that's why they're bankrupt. they're big in the northeast
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