Major US retailer (who sold US products) bites the dust

[Milland]

I know you arent supposed to talk about the actual topic here, but-

I blame mismanagement.
Costco has a chain of tire centers, something like 500 of em.
And they do basically the same thing as the Sears stores did.
they are doing great.
Of course, they pay their employees better, carry better brands, and fill your tires with nitrogen, too.

I tend to be more of the opinion that hedge funds sucked sears dry, not that the failure tells us anything about running a profitable business in 2022.

Walmart has similar auto centers, I presume they're doing OK too. They've had some of the same shortages during the last couple years as other places due to the disruption from Covid. These Are the Walmart Stores That Have Closed Because of COVID

I suspect it wasn't just bleeding dry by management, there could have been some "consumer influence" where bad news causes people to shy away and look for other outlets to get work done or buy tires, and that contributes to drops in sales, etc.

 

[standardparts]

I know you arent supposed to talk about the actual topic here, but-

I blame mismanagement.
Costco has a chain of tire centers, something like 500 of em.
And they do basically the same thing as the Sears stores did.
they are doing great.
Of course, they pay their employees better, carry better brands, and fill your tires with nitrogen, too.

I tend to be more of the opinion that hedge funds sucked sears dry, not that the failure tells us anything about running a profitable business in 2022.

Part of the success of Costco is the ability to use demographics and place stores in locations that provide a customer base that offers greater profits. Comparison between a Costco and typical WalMart presents a stark difference in customer and products. Both are profitable so obviously they know the market they seek. Sears was an old legacy chain with a whole bunch of good offset by a whole bunch of bad. And yeah the money people carved 'em up and spit out the remains of a Sears that was already dying.

 

[thermite]

as a Russian, I can say that "revenge and 500 years" is a myth. in fact, we are unfortunately too kind

"Kind" are ye? ALL humans CAN be. A Russian Merchant Seaman - Engineering spaces, as it happened - who had taken the Hong Kong opportunity to buy goods for a family to-home, found he hadn't kept-back the HIGHER fare asked for the illicit water-taxi back to the rusted hull he doggedly kept power to.

SHOCKED that an American cold-but-not-only Warrior would twig to what the Chinese boatman was telling him, said boatman also paid "properly" to get that hard working HUMAN .... back to his duty station.

Figured he might be the last guy in all of Russia who refused to touch a drink, was only looking for nice things for a hard-done by wife and child whilst his mates were being hauled pig drunk . but not SHOWING it - out of Hong Kong's cheapest free-lance and over-age-in-grade VERY! slippery-granny-for-hire's arms. "Tour Group Rate", I am sure. You'd have to ken Hong Kong costs vs Russian sailor's wage rates of the era?



"Rich" China keeps it's Garrison OFF Hong Kong streets... because their monthly wage won't even buy a decent meal at Hong Kong prices.
"Sticker Shock" is bad for any sojer's morale, too!



Even so..

Can I interest you in a souvenir of concrete that had once been a short-lived bridge across the Kerch strait? Not the first to not live very long.

Russia repeats its history with boring regularity, not because the average Russian lacks intelligence.

Rather because until they ESCAPE da Rodina, they are denied CLEAR SIGHT of their own history.

"The West's" advantage?

Among other things, the passage of time - and terror - has placed more of the most brilliant of "Russians" out and about, learning and growing lo these many generations.. famous, even, as well as rich.. in OUR world.. than remain trapped in a vicious Kleptocracy "at home".

Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians, Kazakhs, Bulgars, Poloni, Balts, "Balkanese"..

...you name it?

We got it!


If not, then ever-valiant Canada.. has made them a home where they can grow and prosper ... and contribute their best..



Ever twig to the designer's surnames on some of our legendary aircraft?
And Сергей Михайлович Брин is Irish, yah?



You have BEEN producing your own regime change mechanism.
Good on yah!

But it wasn't what was expected in Tsar Stalputler's PLAN to.. put the .. already dispersed ..."toothpaste" .. back into the .. squashed FLAT.. remains of the "tube".. was that?

NOW wadduzeedoo?

Shooting down that Aeroflot flight full of Russian Tourists as cassus belli - Chechin War "bombings" false flag style - to invade Ukraine "full-throttle" LAST go.... surely went all to shit when his krew got LOST, arrived LATE, and BUK-whacked a MALAYSIAN airliner that bought him nowt but GRIEF... INSTEAD of a Russian one.. meant to rally SUPPORT!!

HE may be getting forgetful. Xi of China has not. Hard man. Not as fond of mad dogs as he is of value-for-money Ukrainian grain, though.

Our surveillance systems? Not so 'forgetful' either!

It is an IQ test....

You never set a Bear trap?

Not a thing done casually...

 

[mrSanders62]

Treaty of Versailles says no.

do you think the first world war was needed exclusively by germany?

 

[Milland]

do you think the first world war was needed exclusively by germany?

I think neither world war was "needed" by anyone other than certain political and military/arms-industrialist classes. But the peasantry that paid the greatest price were rewarded least for their sacrifices.

 

[mrSanders62]

"Kind" are ye? A Russian Merchant Seaman - Engineering spaces, as it happened - who had taken the Hong Kong opportunity to buy goods for a family to-home, found he hadn't kept-back the HIGHER fare asked for the illicit water-taxi back to the rusted hull he doggedly kept power to.

SHOCKED that an American cold-but-not-only Warrior would twig to what the Chinese boatman was telling him, said boatman also paid "properly" to get that hard working HUMAN .... back to his duty station.

Figured he might be the last guy in all of Russia who refused to touch a drink, was only looking for nice things for a hard-done by wife and child whilst his mates were being hauled pig drunk . but not SHOWING it - out of Hong Kong's cheapest free-lance and over-age-in-grade VERY! slippery-granny-for-hire's arms.



Even so..

Can I interest you in a souvenir of concrete that had once been a short-lived bridge across the Kerch strait? Not the first to not live very long.

Russia repeats its history with boring regularity, not because the average Russian lacks intelligence.

Rather because until they ESCAPE da Rodina, they are denied CLEAR SIGHT of their own history.

"The West's" advantage?

Among other things, the passage of time - and terror - has placed more of the most brilliant of "Russians" out and about, learning and growing lo these many generations.. famous, even, as well as rich.. in OUR world.. than remain trapped in a vicious Kleptocracy "at home".

Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians, Kazakhs, Bulgars, Poloni, Balts, "Balkanese"..

...you name it?

We got it!


If not, then ever-valiant Canada..



Ever twig to the designer's surnames on some of our legendary aircraft?
And Сергей Михайлович Брин is Irish, yah?



You have BEEN producing your own regime change mechanism.
Good on yah!

But it wasn't what was expected in Tsar Stalputler's PLAN to.. put the .. already dispersed ..."toothpaste" .. back into the .. squashed FLAT.. remains of the "tube".. was that?

NOW wadduzeedoo?

Shooting down that Aeroflot flight full of Russian Tourists as cassus belli - Chechin War "bombings" false flag style - to invade Ukraine "full-throttle" LAST go.... surely went all to shit when his krew got LOST, arrived LATE, and whacked a MALAYSIAN airliner INSTEAD of a Russian one!

HE may be getting forgetful.

Our surveillance systems? Not so much.

It is an IQ test....

I was talking about kindness not about individuals who are different, but in general about my nation
story? history always goes in circles, empires rise and fall like china, like great britain or russia. and it will be the same with your country, these are objective historical processes, whether we like it or not

 

[SteelrFn]

I was talking about kindness not about individuals who are different, but in general about my nation
story? history always goes in circles, empires rise and fall like china, like great britain or russia. and it will be the same with your country, these are objective historical processes, whether we like it or not

You are probably right. Especially if the dead keep voting

 

[thermite]

and it will be the same with your country, these are objective historical processes, whether we like it or not

Not to forget:

"America is not a 'place'. It is a state of mind."

 

[mrSanders62]

You are probably right. Especially if the dead keep voting

are you talking about elections? we now have a hybrid voting system. you can vote as before on a paper ballot or via the Internet directly from home or from a mobile phone. and this is the end, now there is no need to forge signatures or throw papers into the ballot box. two conditional clicks of a computer mouse and you have as much voice as you need. something impossible to check.digital slavery is getting closer.

 

[thermite]

are you talking about elections? we now have a hybrid voting system. you can vote as before on a paper ballot or via the Internet directly from home or from a mobile phone. and this is the end, now there is no need to forge signatures or throw papers into the ballot box. two conditional clicks of a computer mouse and you have as much voice as you need. something impossible to check.digital slavery is getting closer.

Really?

When was it your minders had ever given it UP?

Lev Trotsky's idea of a "voting machine" was built under an H.P. Maxim patent, was it not?

Lenin substituted simple starvation to reduce need of brass cartridge casings. That worked for rather too long ....for bank-robber Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili & henchman did it not?

Tsar Stalputler?

The draft?

Conscripts are where he orders them to be.

Far from where they might irritate HIS gangs at THEIR business.

It is an IQ test....

Our nation FAILED our one, November of 2020. But by fewer than 50,000 genuine votes.. "if even".

Difference is that our society makes a LOT of foolish mistakes. Few do mistakes HALF as well as we.

So.. we have gotten better at recognizing and correcting our mistakes, and sooner than the global average.

Works well. Seems to have great legs, going forward, too.

Painful? Betcherazz.

Xin Loy!

That, too, we are accustomed to.

Need to shed rotten eggs? Make an omelette so very-damned inedible that NO ONE can swallow it!

Throw it out as NOW very obviously useless, if not also dangerous.

Try again, wiser and better.

 

[mrSanders62]

Not to forget:

"America is not a 'place'. It is a state of mind."

I have an American friend, we met on eBay. when we talked, he talked all the time about the corporation and the social system. he served in the army, took part in the second Iraq war, traveled around the world, one might say. and he went forever to Japan in a foreign country for himself, forever.. more stability, less rat race
Was there a soul in America? as elsewhere, probably, do not think that here you are exceptional. in some things we have much more freedom than you
ooh, too many stamps. Tell me, do you watch TV a lot?

 

[mrSanders62]

WuT?
You now have "Dominion voting systems" too?!
How to change the world - at a flick of a switch....

we have a website called "government services" through it you can do a lot of things, for example, replacing a passport and much more. by voting remotely, you will not be able to control your vote even if you want to. the Gaussian curve shows the stuffing of millions of votes, but you don't have the tools to challenge the results of the electronic vote.

 

[camscan]

You can visit the USA whenever you want as long as our government doesn't have you on any lists that would prohibit that.

even if I am on any government lists it wont matter because Brenda, you have the power to get round little problems like that. Come on Brenda,show the three hooligans that you can do it,xxx

 

[SteelrFn]

are you talking about elections? we now have a hybrid voting system. you can vote as before on a paper ballot or via the Internet directly from home or from a mobile phone. and this is the end, now there is no need to forge signatures or throw papers into the ballot box. two conditional clicks of a computer mouse and you have as much voice as you need. something impossible to check.digital slavery is getting closer.

Hope that never happens here. I don't trust anything internet. I have zero issues showing up to a polling station, standing in line, showing my ID and being checked by both a republican rep and a democrat rep then getting my paper ballot casting my vote. And then have equal representation during the counting process. Simple and fair. If it is too inconvenient for anyone, then vote by mail by sending a copy of your ID and requesting a ballot with a cereal number that will match up with your Identification. If that is too much of a hassle, then you dont deserve to have a vote IMO

 

[mrSanders62]

Hope that never happens here. I don't trust anything internet. I have zero issues showing up to a polling station, standing in line, showing my ID and being checked by both a republican rep and a democrat rep then getting my paper ballot casting my vote. And then have equal representation during the counting process. Simple and fair. If it is too inconvenient for anyone, then vote by mail by sending a copy of your ID and requesting a ballot with a cereal number that will match up with your Identification. If that is too much of a hassle, then you dont deserve to have a vote IMO

hope dies last.sad emoticon. you already have your own experiment, gender identity and stuff like that

 

[thermite]

I have an American friend, we met on eBay. when we talked, he talked all the time about the corporation and the social system. he served in the army, took part in the second Iraq war, traveled around the world, one might say. and he went forever to Japan in a foreign country for himself, forever.. more stability, less rat race
Was there a soul in America? as elsewhere, probably, do not think that here you are exceptional. in some things we have much more freedom than you
ooh, too many stamps. Tell me, do you watch TV a lot?

Not sure I even OWN a "Tee VEE" that works as such, actually.

There is a 50 inch, old-tech "Plasma" screen for widest-viewing angle that I can run perhaps 2000 DVD and Blue Ray movies through if a guest want something.

I can't easily watch a movie TWICE any more than I can stand to read the same BOOK "twice". if you read it, yo uread it. So you already "own" it.

No media service subscription, either. "Clips" over the 'net can be oaded with graphics and video NOT dpwnloaded and rendered.

Reading one does at yer one speed. "Not slow". Video runs at a dead-slow rate chosen not by the vieiwer, buit by the producer.

Over-the-air Digital TV antenna to be erected if there is some compelling REASON, else not ..for about six years, come February. My late Mum stayed mentally sharp up until about the last 48 to 36 hours then directed a command shutdown to have the last word over her sixth year of a cancer the witch Doctors had twice given her but three WEEKS to deal with.

You know Swiss-German, Bavarian-German, stubborn Merseyside English, and seriously HARD CORE "Kings of the Connail" horse-shagging Irish?

Usta tease her we should be happy the clan was famous for doing white mares and making soup of them, right away, rather than sore UGLY foals, let alone doing pigs or sheep.

Damned if she saw any more humour in it than accusing he of wanting to revive the custom?

She liked to watch the slick Chinese travel channel, never having been to the ancient city sites. I had been to 'several', so "BFD".

 

[CITIZEN F16]

If it is too inconvenient for anyone, then vote by mail by sending a copy of your ID and requesting a ballot with a cereal number that will match up with your Identification. If that is too much of a hassle, then you dont deserve to have a vote IMO

Our Vice president said needing an I.D. copied to vote by mail is impossible for a lot of rural voters because they don't have Kinkos where they live. Yes, she actually said that.

 

[mrSanders62]

Not sure I even OWN a "Tee VEE" that works as such, actually.

There is a 50 inch, old-tech "Plasma" screen for widest-viewing angle that I can run perhaps 2000 DVD and Blue Ray movies through if a guest want something.

I can't easily watch a movie TWICE any more than I can stand to read the same BOOK "twice". if you read it, yo uread it. So you already "own" it.

No media service subscription, either. "Clips" over the 'net can be oaded with graphics and video NOT dpwnloaded and rendered.

Reading one does at yer one speed. "Not slow". Video runs at a dead-slow rate chosen not by the vieiwer, buit by the producer.

Over-the-air Digital TV antenna to be erected if there is some compelling REASON, else not ..for about six years, come February. My late Mum stayed mentally sharp up until about the last 48 to 36 hours then directed a command shutdown to have the last word over her sixth year of a cancer the witch Doctors had twice given her but three WEEKS to deal with.

You know Swiss-German, Bavarian-German, stubborn Merseyside English, and seriously HARD CORE "Kings of the Connail" horse-shagging Irish?

Usta tease her we should be happy the clan was famous for doing white mares and making soup of them, right away, rather than sore UGLY foals, let alone doing pigs or sheep.

Damned if she saw any more humour in it than accusing he of wanting to revive the custom?

She liked to watch the slick Chinese travel channel, never having been to the ancient city sites. I had been to 'several', so "BFD".

by the phrase "watch TV" we primarily mean watching pro-government or propaganda channels. we have all the federal TV channels solid trash. has a very detrimental effect on the human brain, especially on older people.my father is 68 years old and as soon as he discovered the internet he stopped supporting Putin after years of support. I think on television brainwashing plus or minus is the same

 

[Mcgyver]

i If that is too much of a hassle, then you dont deserve to have a vote IMO

I'd like to vote online for selfish reasons (Toronto is dysfunctional and hard to move around in), but I do overall agree with you. I think, that a large percentage doesn't vote, is a good thing. Governments are horrendous enough without encouraging the slobs, low lifes and knuckle draggers to get out and vote - I guess I have the view that there is correlation between less redeeming human qualities and not making the effort to vote. If that is the case, making voting require some effort might make for better government,er, less worse government. I'd even advocate making polling stations hard to find....keep the stupidest of the riff raff away....make the address some sort of riddle or skill testing math question lol.

 

[CITIZEN F16]

by the phrase "watch TV" we primarily mean watching pro-government or propaganda channels. we have all the federal TV channels solid trash. has a very detrimental effect on the human brain, especially on older people.my father is 68 years old and as soon as he discovered the internet he stopped supporting Putin after years of support. I think on television brainwashing plus or minus is the same

If Democrats are in charge most of the mainstream TV media is a pro government propaganda channel. If Republicans are
in charge most of the mainstream media is anti government in the states. The extreme bias is laughable.