Retail Collapse 2019: Bezos realized that marriage is a form of union

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DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

PT6A posted:

Is Zara and its associated brands a big thing in the US? They're absolutely loving gigantic in Europe and elsewhere, and the whole business model kicks the poo poo out of all the "mall stores" I used to go to. The quality/price ratio seems decent, too. I bought a pair of 25� jeans there a few years ago when I was travelling and one of the pairs of jeans I brought on my trip got all hosed up, and they've lasted longer than jeans I bought for twice the price.

They also rotate through stock and designs at a furious rate so there's always a reason to go in and check things out.

Seattle is getting one pretty soon. I'd never heard of it until recently.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2017 01:19

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 23:16

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

OwlFancier posted:

Shopping parks are often terribly positioned. Converting them to housing would be lovely housing with no transport access.

Westwood Village
2600 SW Barton St, Seattle, WA 98126
(206) 322-1610
https://goo.gl/maps/i8xStFVjt4u

University Village
2623 NE University Village St #7, Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 523-0622
https://goo.gl/maps/GnANeY5paLJ2

It's loving ridiculous that neither of these campuses have a single piece of residential housing in them.

DR FRASIER KRANG fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Apr 24, 2017

# ¿ Apr 24, 2017 15:12

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Horseshoe theory posted:

Kind of a rehash of the previous list I posted, so no real shock on who is distressed.

The Sears in south Seattle closed two years ago and just re-opened as an Amazon Fresh pickup center.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 04:35

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Like a public-facing grocery store or just a warehouse for the delivery service?

Public facing. There is a special parking structure you pull into in front then someone comes out with your groceries and you drive away.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 14:04

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Cicero posted:

I'm kind of surprised they have a person do this instead of a conveyor belt or something. Seems like that'd be a way easier thing to automate than drone deliveries.

They have a person stand outside at the parking stalls and another person standing outside at the store (I presume to receive customers who don't have a car).

They always look miserable and cold.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 18:11

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Here's the parking structure for that amazon fresh pickup store

# ¿ Apr 26, 2017 21:15

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Turn the big box stores into weed grow ops

# ¿ Apr 26, 2017 23:14

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Panera's new marketing push is something like "more than just bread" but maybe if that's the case they should change their name?

# ¿ Apr 29, 2017 17:33

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I don't think my parents would have even let me hang out at a mall but I also don't think I ever wanted to be at one longer than it took to buy a videogame.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 15:18

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

They're empty people who have a hole to fill. It's not complicated.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 22:33

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

What about Filson? Is that too niche for this discussion?

# ¿ May 3, 2017 04:18

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Every time I go into Marshall's (it's like a Ross) I find a few things that are decently priced but then I see there are 15 people in the cashier line and I just leave.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 18:49

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Nordstrom Rack is fascinating because they slyly transitioned from being an overstock/seconds outlet to having actual clothing lines specifically made for them while still convincing people that they were buying luxury goods at a discount rate.

Outlet malls did the same thing I think but since the rack is less of a destination shopping experience, it's almost more impressive.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 21:13

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

ISeeCuckedPeople posted:

How dare people enjoy looking at legs!!!! For shameeeee. Be a good Christian and hide your lust by loving underage rentboys at the local motel 8!!!

Dude gently caress off you are skeeving the gently caress out of this thread.

# ¿ May 5, 2017 17:46

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I live a block away from a Thriftway in Seattle and even though their prices are higher than QFC or Safeway, they know that people want to get the gently caress out of there ASAP so they staff up to be able to literally open every register if there are more than 3 people in a line.

I recently realized how much I appreciate not being held hostage by lovely self checkout software (Target has it and it's awful, ditto Home Depot).

# ¿ May 10, 2017 15:16

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Taintrunner posted:

Didn't Radio Shack die, try to revive itself with Carlos Mencia in their commercials, and is now about to die again?

They def partnered with Nelly for some lame headphone line.

# ¿ May 17, 2017 15:22

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

What do you mean "logarithmic fining"?

# ¿ May 18, 2017 04:49

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Xae posted:

This is another area where retailers shot themselves in the foot.

When I worked at BB Corporate the website was dog poo poo. It was dog poo poo because it had no funding.

It had no funding because because the entire management team was made up of former store managers.

Store managers hated the website because they viewed it as stealing their sales.

And managers were paid based on their in store sales.

I'll bet there is a similar situation in at least half of retailers.

I think this happened at Dunder Mifflin.

# ¿ May 24, 2017 00:24

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I get your point but why aren't you recycling cardboard? Also my recycle can is massive.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 01:43

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I walk a block to the grocery store and just shove it all in the bottom of my kid's stroller. The trade off is that the grocery store a block from my house is bougie and expensive as gently caress.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 21:10

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Can't be Southcenter because it's madhouse lately.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 04:43

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Meanwhile...

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/fbi-used-best-buys-geek-squad-to-increase-secret-public-surveillance-7950030

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 04:34

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Did you have to eat all the pizza too?

# ¿ Jun 3, 2017 19:07

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Headcount is the sum of all employees. A singular head would be the correct term.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 20:31

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Heads. You'd say heads in that instance.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 21:53

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Automats still exist in asia. Both in the form of literal fancy vending machines but also in the form of restaurants that you walk up to, buy a ticket from a machine then give the ticket at a counter and you give you your meal. They are less based around pretending humans don't exist because they don't hide everyone behind a wall like US automats do but the whole concept is fundamentally the same where your interaction is with a machine and the person is only there to hand you something.

This is called a WaWa in the US.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2017 23:37

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Septic Tank Gulag posted:

Capitalism is dying here in the west. Big box stores and the malls they support are a major bubble waiting to burst. It's going to be bad - worse than 2008 bad.

Did you reg just to post this? Lol

# ¿ Jun 20, 2017 17:22

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Where'd you get your cereal decanter? I can only find plastic ones.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2017 00:03

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

WampaLord posted:

God drat this hits hard.

Don't forget "Landlords raising rent absurd amounts when leases expire" to add to the list of "why you have to move a lot"

That's what he meant by "renters have no rights"

# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 17:49

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

poo poo I just counted it up and I've already moved 13 times in my life. It fuckin' sucks.

Can't wait to see the weird racist take you come up with for this topic.

Same. Six or seven times as a kid and then another six as an adult.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 18:36

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

My dad can't move because of two reasons:

1) his house lost a ton of value in the crash

2) he cant move to the west coast because he can't find a house that is both big enough and cheap enough for all his poo poo.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 19:18

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Wait why do you have roommates in the sticks but you live alone in NYC?

# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 19:24

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

blowfish posted:

I mean technically I will have moved 7-9 times by 30, even if all but 3 of those would just be into different college accomodation.

lol that doesn't count. Be an adult.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 00:51

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

call to action posted:

I'm so glad parking requirements exist, so many people move to my city into new "parking exempt" structures and then just leave their lovely Jeep on the street all week waiting for the weekend. And you'd better believe these people call themselves "car free"

What? Nobody who owns a car calls themselves car-free. That's absurd.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 05:51

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

In Seattle, car registration renewals are like 4x bigger than usual suddenly because of a mass transit levy that recently passed. People are hooting and hollering about a war on cars but I say gently caress em let's build more rapid rail transit.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2017 04:53

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I heard an ad on the radio for Amazon warehouse jobs in Sumner, WA so I headed over to the website to check it out.

Some highlights:

quote:

Amazon lets customers order whatever they need, whenever they need. Flexibility is key, associates should be open to extra hours, time off, and a rapid pace.

quote:

Temperature in our warehouses may vary between 60 and 90 degrees, and will occasionally exceed 90 degrees.

quote:

Flex, not just your muscles - you are willing and able to work all shifts
Overtime isn't just a sports term - you are willing and able to work overtime as required, bringing smiles to our customers doesn't take time off.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2017 19:33

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

I like that amazon is like "hey it's gonna be loud and hot af in here. Wear comfy shoes and BYO ear pro lol"

# ¿ Jul 6, 2017 22:21

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

If you want proof that dairy placement is huge for retailers, look at how every Costco has their dairy case crammed into the back corner AND you can walk around the entire thing because it's literally a room inside of the building.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 07:30

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Isn't the whole point of Amazon Prime that the shipping is paid for?

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 17:55

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 23:16

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

WampaLord posted:

I think there's a thing going on here where the anti-capitalist lean this forum has leads to people assuming all businesses are evil and bad, which also means they're dumb. But big corporations are not actually that dumb at marketing, for the most part.

Nothing you see in a store was put there by random chance. You have to pay for shelf space, for example, and shelf space at eye level costs more. That's just one of many many factors that goes into item placement.

Yea, I hope so too, they're my fave.

I remember when I was a kid and Malt-o-Meal brand cereals started running ads about where to find their products in the aisle and it was literally a dude squatting to the ground and walking like a duck.

Malt-o-Meal is such lovely cheap cereal that it doesn't even come in a box. It's in a bag.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 05:07

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