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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 27, 2022 9:24:37 GMT -5
Dollar Tree is an excellent name for a store! There's also Dollar General and Family Dollar
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2022 9:26:46 GMT -5
Dollar Tree is an excellent name for a store! There's also Dollar General and Family Dollar Yes, but while discount stores, the only thing dollar applies to in those stores is that things are priced in even dollar amounts. Something in Family Dollar can cost upwards of $50 depending on what it is. -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2022 12:50:38 GMT -5
We have a store called Poundstretcher here. Never been in there, I presume it’s a starting point of £1, but something could cost anything. I think that sounds slightly misleading.
Just call it Bargain Store or something. Anything with the word “Pound” in is gonna imply things of or around £1.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2022 18:26:03 GMT -5
^ the store that mostly fits what many are talking about re: Price increases, is "5 Below"
tho they have a LOT of items that are in the $-5 range, and any number of them that are $5 a pop? there's also quite a bit that they carry that's 1-2 bucks.
and it's, for the most part, pretty quality merchandise
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 27, 2022 19:19:07 GMT -5
Went in a local shop I’d never been in before. A mini-market (if that’s even a term). Cheap food. Their “speciality” is selling food whose use-by-date is very nearby, allowing them to offload it at a lower price. (...) Do they have those kinds of shops outside the UK, for all you international members? Yes indeed! Back when I was a student, a friend and I used to buy cans of soda from such an outlet, at prices that averaged something like 25 a can. It's not that soda goes bad and needs to be sold quickly, but on top of almost expired soups, beans and the like, the store also sold "unsellable" items like cans damaged by an impact, and that included whole crates of soda in which a few cans were obviously empty. We quietly resold them to our peers for 50 cents apiece, outcompeting the school's vending machine that charged a dollar. Business was brisk (but don't tell the school's headmaster)! We completed our offer with chocolate bars bought wholesale, but those were "new" and the profit margin was lower. It was an easy way to get beer money, or comics money in my case. And that was my brief and only foray in the world of entrepreneurship! When I was a Navy supply officer, I bought canned soda, for the vending machines onboard ship, for 17 cents a can, and sold them for 35 cents per can (circa 1990), which was more mark-up than I was allowed, according to Navy policies (20% max). The price was set by the Executive Officer, to build up the ship's welfare and recreation fund (which is where anything earned by the vending machines or ship's store went); so, I let him take the hit from the inspection team. Retail price, at that time, was 50 cents, in commercial vending machines (more at airports).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2022 2:52:13 GMT -5
Amazing, you can assault someone on live television, return to your seat, get an award and no one does anything.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2022 3:28:21 GMT -5
Amazing, you can assault someone on live television, return to your seat, get an award and no one does anything.
I just read about this with Will Smith, I’m still not entirely clear how what Rock said triggered this severe a reaction. In any case, the whole thing seems really bizarre. I read Rock declined to press charges, so he seems to have let it ride, but again, this seems kind of messed up to your point. Maybe at the moment everyone thought it was somehow scripted, confusing and uncomfortable (even in that scenario) as it was.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 28, 2022 6:04:01 GMT -5
I wonder if it was staged but Will's wife is suffering from a disease that causes her to lose her hair. Nothing to joke about.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 28, 2022 6:48:27 GMT -5
Yes, and there had been some jokes made about their "open marriage" earlier in the evening made by someone else, so emotions were likely already running high before Chris Rock crossed that line. I've been wondering how Will Smith hasn't snapped by now when memes of him at his worst moment continue to get laughs across the internet.
That being said, Rags has a point. However, there will be consequences. Smith has spent 3.5 decades cultivating a squeaky clean look, and there's a good chance that image is destroyed now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2022 7:04:28 GMT -5
Yes, and there had been some jokes made about their "open marriage" earlier in the evening made by someone else, so emotions were likely already running high before Chris Rock crossed that line. I've been wondering how Will Smith hasn't snapped by now when memes of him at his worst moment continue to get laughs across the internet. That being said, Rags has a point. However, there will be consequences. Smith has spent 3.5 decades cultivating a squeaky clean look, and there's a good chance that image is destroyed now. Yeah, that last point seems like a real shame, he didn't seem like the kind of guy to do something like this (maybe that was a wrong assumption all along). I didn't realize all of the other stuff, makes more sense of why he was so on edge in that context. At first, I thought maybe he even might have had a few drinks or something along those lines that clouded his judgement badly, but I don't remember Will having any issues like that in the past.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 28, 2022 7:14:37 GMT -5
Yes, and there had been some jokes made about their "open marriage" earlier in the evening made by someone else, so emotions were likely already running high before Chris Rock crossed that line. I've been wondering how Will Smith hasn't snapped by now when memes of him at his worst moment continue to get laughs across the internet. That being said, Rags has a point. However, there will be consequences. Smith has spent 3.5 decades cultivating a squeaky clean look, and there's a good chance that image is destroyed now. Yeah, that last point seems like a real shame, he didn't seem like the kind of guy to do something like this (maybe that was a wrong assumption all along). I didn't realize all of the other stuff, makes more sense of why he was so on edge in that context. At first, I thought maybe he even might have had a few drinks or something along those lines that clouded his judgement badly, but I don't remember Will having any issues like that in the past. It's always shaky ground when one tries to infer what a famous person is like behind closed doors, but I've been an admirer of Smith for the past year. I don't watch his films, and I groan every time he executive produces something just to get one of his kids a starring role in it, but I've been so impressed by how he has handled all of this. He strikes me as someone with tremendous discipline, heart, and integrity. So this moment really caught me off guard. He did what I might have done--what most of us might have done--and we have a very hard time forgiving folks we admire for being just like us, all while endlessly celebrating celebrities behaving badly. Smith's best chance of living this down is suddenly inventing an alcohol problem and then going to rehab because folks can understand THAT, but if he dares to act like he has moral integrity after this, he'll be a villain or a laughing stock. It makes me sick what we do to good people.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2022 7:21:05 GMT -5
Sad but true.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 28, 2022 7:54:25 GMT -5
Yeah, that last point seems like a real shame, he didn't seem like the kind of guy to do something like this (maybe that was a wrong assumption all along). I didn't realize all of the other stuff, makes more sense of why he was so on edge in that context. At first, I thought maybe he even might have had a few drinks or something along those lines that clouded his judgement badly, but I don't remember Will having any issues like that in the past. It's always shaky ground when one tries to infer what a famous person is like behind closed doors, but I've been an admirer of Smith for the past year. I don't watch his films, and I groan every time he executive produces something just to get one of his kids a starring role in it, but I've been so impressed by how he has handled all of this. He strikes me as someone with tremendous discipline, heart, and integrity. You're not the only one!
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Post by shaxper on Mar 28, 2022 7:58:02 GMT -5
I've been getting way too invested in this and have found quite a few Youtube videos published over the past two weeks (prior to the incident), each arguing that Will Smith's mental health has been deteriorating as tension in his family has been getting worse.
That's right: When I want facts, I go to tried and true sources. When I want hearsay about celebrities, I go to Youtube.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 28, 2022 7:59:34 GMT -5
It's always shaky ground when one tries to infer what a famous person is like behind closed doors, but I've been an admirer of Smith for the past year. I don't watch his films, and I groan every time he executive produces something just to get one of his kids a starring role in it, but I've been so impressed by how he has handled all of this. He strikes me as someone with tremendous discipline, heart, and integrity. You're not the only one!
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