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OneEightHundred posted:I don't really understand what the appeal of Kmart is even supposed to be, it's like someone decided to just make a Wal-Mart clone except with prices higher than Target. I lost my local kmart a couple years ago so I never have to know. However I was recently inside a fred meyers and while I didn't buy anything, I appreciate being able to sit on their nice display furniture. I also discovered rotating recliners seats, they're like an office chair but I can sleep in it. The internet never told me that!
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I like the big box stores that have furniture in them so I can lay down on their nice couch and pretend that I can afford nice furniture.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:32
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I hope Outback Steakhouse also dies.
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Apr 29, 2017 04:28
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glowing-fish posted:One of the strange things about this thread, is that I started it coming from a background of living mostly in the Pacific Northwest. The Everett Mall has been skirting the edge for like the past decade. The owners defaulted on their loan in 2012, was rescued by a group of investors, and now it's back on the block. Somehow it still pulls in 5.5m a year net and keeps most of its stores open. We'll see how that changes now that its Macy's is gone.
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ISeeCuckedPeople posted:But then I don't get to see your legs... and that's why they're in fact the best trend 
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May 5, 2017 17:37
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I am an older millennial and I get mad when someone fucks up my order, but I remain calm and politely ask them to get me the food I actually ordered. I can understand why a boomer would get hella upset, but they don't know about the current economy and a lot of people are forced into service jobs when they have no service skills or can't develop proper service skills, so lashing out at them doesn't help.
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Jun 19, 2017 23:51
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Lampsacus posted:I have no doubt this series has been plugged already:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOlffr73fuM I love these when an arcade is featured. This one has silent scope and marvel vs capcom 2! And that's it. Good taste though, whoever owns Tilt.
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Jun 24, 2017 01:04
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I'm curious to know where all these fat people clothes micro blogs are.
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Oct 10, 2017 01:34
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There's a kind of mini-mall that exists on a busy street in my home town that used to be a kmart but with a few additional stores attached. I don't recall what those stores used to be but kmart left a few years ago. It's been interesting seeing how things have turned out for that place. Every year there's been a lone business that takes up shop in one of the smaller places and each year they close up and someone else moves in. This year though a walgreens is moving into the corner. They must be confident because the corner building is getting a facelift to look like other walgreens in the area.
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Oct 28, 2017 21:45
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glowing-fish posted:I spent today working at Walgreen's. AMA. excuse me, do you have any eclipse glasses?
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Nov 18, 2017 00:23
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glowing-fish posted:I'm sorry, no. I just have a pair of normal sunglasses, and they are broken. Actual walgreens employees would've had flashbacks to august 21st.
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Nov 18, 2017 20:29
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OneEightHundred posted:There's an international grocery near me that took over a Circuit City and didn't bother remodeling anything, so it still has the Circuit City entrance and an area with a low ceiling and tiny lights where the TV showroom used to be, it's great. A few months ago, I had a similar experience checking out a furniture place that was once a circuit city. Same entrance, same low ceiling where the tvs used to be, ect. It was weird but also awesome.
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Dec 22, 2017 06:33
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there wolf posted:The Sears I was in today was clean, well stocked, had several visible employees running registers and tidying up, and had a "now hiring" sign on the door. I don't suppose you're talking about the everett mall sears? Went there early last month looking at overpriced mattresses. I'm beginning to think corporate misplaced its phylactery.
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Jan 5, 2018 22:50
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BrandorKP posted:The cool kids listen to navel poetry sung by improvisational jazz singers... cool kids should just listen to sea shanties in general.
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Jan 7, 2018 01:21
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Winco owns I was about to make this exact post!
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Feb 18, 2018 22:28
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:You can pry my grocery store sushi out of my cold dead hands. I don't have a grocery store nearby that sells sushi, but I do have like 3 sushi restaurants all within 3 miles of each other, and two chinese buffets that offer some sushi.
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I was thinking back to the last time I stepped inside a TRU, which would've been maybe 2005 or so, they were still trying to push the Sega 32X add-on console. Without a Sega Genesis to pair it with, of course. They had like a dozen of them on an end-stand. Now I'm thinking what are the chances my old TRU will still have some old games? Maybe not 90's era, but if they had any ps2 games laying around I'd love to sift through them.
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Mar 16, 2018 01:38
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Halloween Jack posted:It's very weird to see how Hot Topic and Spencer's have evolved from their origins; the store full of goth/raver stuff and the store full of penis-themed dice kinda met in the middle. Spencer's in particular also has lots of anime and gaming themed merchandise. Presto posted:Malls haven't been good since the arcades closed. This is true, but I rediscovered mall food a few months ago and it turns out some of it was good enough to do a few return trips. The teriyaki place in particular, despite changing ownership and name, has kept the same recipes from 25 years ago so that really helped the nostalgia trip.
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Haifisch posted:There are no pizza rules.  FilthyImp posted:It would look like a rotating rack full of Gift Cards, except the cards would be 8.1x11 (so you can get a nice poster) and inside would be a nice credit-card sized plastic COMMEMORATIVE SUPER RARE COLLECTIBLE card with a tear-away strip to reveal the code you can use to redeem/download it from STEAM. Bethesda kind of did this with their Fallout 4 boxes. Came with one cd with about 7gb of the game on it, the rest had to be downloaded off steam.
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mandatory lesbian posted:Look wotc is a collapsing company but I think this is beyond the scope of retail in general I haven't heard about wizards of the coast collapsing, so please explain.
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Apr 3, 2018 22:09
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Star Man posted:Wizards did have retail stores at one point. I went to one once when visiting family in Phoenix in 2000. I had my 18th birthday party at the wotc gaming center in seattle. That place pretty much had everything my nerd heart wanted. Arcade, card/pnp gaming tables, LAN, and battletech pods.
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So not only did my local TRU close, but my nearby Albertsons also. The difference is, the local Albertsons went out of their way to help everyone find new jobs. I feel pretty bad for the one person I know who worked at the local TRU, she was very emotionally attached to the company. She cried after the doors closed for the last time. Worse, she got roped into working at the TRU one town over until that closes in a few weeks and relive the pain.
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Apr 12, 2018 22:08
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DrNutt posted:Ya'll can smarm all you want about this poo poo but it's actually really loving gross that we essentially allow giant corporations to target children and instill brand loyalty as soon as they leave the crib, and TRU was a particularly poo poo example of that sort of thing. kids don't give a poo poo about brand loyalty, only that there are places with toys.
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Apr 14, 2018 22:13
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boner confessor posted:obesity rates would plummet overnight if people had to fight bees every time they wanted to drink something sweetened I don't think you understand how easy it is to rob from a beehive. We've been doing it with minimal stinging since ancient egyptian times.
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Vegetable posted:Sandwiches are ubiquitous, why do you have to eat from a lovely chain instead of a local place I had a local place that made great sandwiches, especially philly cheesesteaks. Despite making great food overall, the owner wasn't happy spending a shitload of time for what amounted to small pay. Over time some of her ingredients got worse and after about 4 years she gave up the restaurant. I did manage to find another local restaurant that makes sandwiches almost as good, but they're more expensive.
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et tu, cucke?
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Jun 5, 2018 01:06
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My hot take: smartphones are a vector for the modern day version of Tiger Electronics.
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Kommienzuspadt posted:Maybe I'm an outlier here but I definitely manage to destroy levis. They always end up tearing at the crotch or thighs. They do last at least a few years though, and I don't buy other brands of denim for a reason Same here, except it doesn't matter which brand I buy. I've had levis, dickies and carhartts all rip after 3-4 years. Wranglers rip after 2 years, or 6 months for their cargo pants.
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Aug 20, 2018 21:15
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If only Discovery Zone has made their venues outside.
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Cicero posted:Obviously Amazon can afford it, but $15/hour probably would be unreasonably high in some cheap/rural parts of America for other types of businesses. A federal law that tied minimum wages to something like cost of living for a given county/region would make more sense imo. Keep in mind that washington state passed a $13.50 minimum (gradual, it's 11.50 right now, 12.00 next year, then 13.50 in 2020) and the cheap/rural parts of the state have yet to show any sign of poo poo hitting the fan for them.
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I just want mall arcades to make a comeback 
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I saw an old episode of Law & Order a while back where the detectives visited a computer shop and I just about died from nostalgia.
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OneEightHundred posted:They've been doing some periodic runs of it lately in response to some retro enthusiasm. There's some irony in that the retro enthusiasm exists in large part because the product failed. Hope that means the Archburger comes back. That was McDonalds only burger I ever liked and I wasn't even an adult when it debuted.
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RandomPauI posted:My feet are 4e, my option for new shoes that cost under $50 is limited to ~$50 New Balances when they go on sale.  Will they last longer than New Balance? Bought a pair almost a year ago and the inside is worn out pretty bad, but still holding together.
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:I have an original 1999 Everquest manual and its hilarious -- they tried to include game world maps and specific information for an MMO that were out of date by the time the game launched, let alone two or (20!) years later This, but also Ultima Online.
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pseudanonymous posted:Thinking about old games just makes me badly want sequels to Alpha Centauri and Master of Magic. I feel like the industry is slowly getting the message as young adults from the early oughts are now nearing middle age. In combination with the current middle aged, there's a lot of demand for old games to see a sequel.
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suck my woke dick posted:hot take: copyright protections should be seriously weakened
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Blut posted:Going from $60 an hour ($2400+ a week, $125k a year) to $40 an hour ($1600+ a week, $83k a year) as someone in their mid/late 20s is not a reasonable life complaint. The problem there is not low wages, they're both comparatively extremely high. The problem is the $200k of college debt. Did you have a fishing accident or is that a trickle-down economics baited hook in your cheek?
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:There is a McDonalds a block from my house and the only reason I don't eat there all the time is because their value menu is a joke and only has a couple things on it. 80% of the options are bullshit drinks or other stuff that you wouldn't go to McDonald's for anyway. The state minimum is $12.00 an hour, about to be $13.50 an hour next year. It is very unlikely that the minimum wage is the factor you're looking for.
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All those employees getting paid to do nothing.
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