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I do not do business with businesses that employs tactics that reinforces classism and elitism
2022 Jun 30, 8:39am 450 views 9 comments
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TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
2022 Jul 1, 9:38pm
TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
2022 Jul 1, 9:38pm
This shit won't survive the unavoidable recession.
It was propped up by COVID, by the Kreative Klass, and by venture capital willing to lose a few dollars on each transaction to gain customers.
COVID is pretty much over, the KK is about to get purged for underperforming (see my Disney/Pixar post), and venture capital is bleeding cash from buttcoin and the stock market and soon, real estate losses - they will want to suck money out from the service sector.
It will come to a point where the dynamic is going to change and change rapidly - it will be the Skilled Blue Collars with the volume and cash (and kids), and the Hipster Millies in Kreative Klass suffering. Most of the former aren't going to pay $10 for avocado toast, or $12 to get "premium pickup" (won't be necessary as franchise places are going to get hit hard so no lines to beat), much less $25 to have it delivered via Door Dash.
It was propped up by COVID, by the Kreative Klass, and by venture capital willing to lose a few dollars on each transaction to gain customers.
COVID is pretty much over, the KK is about to get purged for underperforming (see my Disney/Pixar post), and venture capital is bleeding cash from buttcoin and the stock market and soon, real estate losses - they will want to suck money out from the service sector.
It will come to a point where the dynamic is going to change and change rapidly - it will be the Skilled Blue Collars with the volume and cash (and kids), and the Hipster Millies in Kreative Klass suffering. Most of the former aren't going to pay $10 for avocado toast, or $12 to get "premium pickup" (won't be necessary as franchise places are going to get hit hard so no lines to beat), much less $25 to have it delivered via Door Dash.
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AD
2022 Jul 1, 10:38pm
AD
2022 Jul 1, 10:38pm
AmericanKulak says
Saw this happen in 2000 and 2009. And now I see it in 2022. Really all the asset decline and now household belt tightening is just a continuation of the April 2020 stock market crash.
I remember following Microstrategy's CEO in the Washington Post when I was living near Microstrategy's corporate office in Fairfax County. Back in 1999 that company was living in decadence along with AOL. Then those companies did some significant financial belt tightening and lay offs.
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It will come to a point where the dynamic is going to change and change rapidly
Saw this happen in 2000 and 2009. And now I see it in 2022. Really all the asset decline and now household belt tightening is just a continuation of the April 2020 stock market crash.
I remember following Microstrategy's CEO in the Washington Post when I was living near Microstrategy's corporate office in Fairfax County. Back in 1999 that company was living in decadence along with AOL. Then those companies did some significant financial belt tightening and lay offs.
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joshuatrio
2022 Jul 2, 3:32am
joshuatrio
2022 Jul 2, 3:32am
Tenpoundbass says
I do not get the obsession with chickfila. There food sucks and is processed garbage like other fast food joints.
So Chick Filet has a drive through, but they are going to FastTrack those who want to pay a premium to fuck over and bypass their loyal customers. It just boggles my mind the mentality that would come up with this.
I do not get the obsession with chickfila. There food sucks and is processed garbage like other fast food joints.
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GNL
2022 Jul 2, 6:18am
GNL
2022 Jul 2, 6:18am
The movie theatre near me has a members only lane for the concession stand. If the members get served until their lane is empty and then nonmembers can go. We stopped going to the movies. Won't ever be back.
Edit: The members get served first. If any member is in the member line, they get served before anyone in any other lane.
Edit: The members get served first. If any member is in the member line, they get served before anyone in any other lane.
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1337irr
2022 Jul 2, 7:10am
1337irr
2022 Jul 2, 7:10am
WineHorror1 says
It seems like shortsighted thinking by management if they don't think about other customers and how they feel.
The movie theatre near me has a members only lane for the concession stand. If the members get served until their lane is empty and then nonmembers can go. We stopped going to the movies. Won't ever be back.
It seems like shortsighted thinking by management if they don't think about other customers and how they feel.
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GNL
2022 Jul 2, 7:45am
GNL
2022 Jul 2, 7:45am
1337irr says
It was not unlike a slap in the face. Like I said, we won't ever go back. Going to the movies is already priced insanely compared to renting a movie at home. Now this? Bye bye movie theatres.
WineHorror1 says
The movie theatre near me has a members only lane for the concession stand. If the members get served until their lane is empty and then nonmembers can go. We stopped going to the movies. Won't ever be back.
It seems like shortsighted thinking by management if they don't think about other customers and how they feel.
It was not unlike a slap in the face. Like I said, we won't ever go back. Going to the movies is already priced insanely compared to renting a movie at home. Now this? Bye bye movie theatres.
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2022 Jul 2, 8:10am
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2022 Jul 2, 8:10am
The neural programming that can be inflicted on the viewer of streaming services and internets can be subtle, but purposeful.
A very simple example:
A sitcom based upon the "average family" showing them, extrapolating from the studio sets, living in a well equipped, 4,000 sq. ft. mega mansion.
The message : This Is Normal. And as you don't have this, you must feel bad and work harder to achieve this.
Another simple example: The average luxury car ad showing models as owners driving to a multi-million dollar luxury pad. Yes, you can achieve this feeling by financing 70 grand large as you drive to your overly leveraged crapshack in the hood.
It is all neural programming, so in-your-face that people have no defensive shields anymore. IMHO, add marijuana to the equation, and for many, reality based scrutiny is defeated.
The same is applied to correct-think political view programming.
You think you've cut the cord? Not if you are watching streaming dreck or even professional sports. I am assuming no one watches or reads MSM propaganda anymore.
A very simple example:
A sitcom based upon the "average family" showing them, extrapolating from the studio sets, living in a well equipped, 4,000 sq. ft. mega mansion.
The message : This Is Normal. And as you don't have this, you must feel bad and work harder to achieve this.
Another simple example: The average luxury car ad showing models as owners driving to a multi-million dollar luxury pad. Yes, you can achieve this feeling by financing 70 grand large as you drive to your overly leveraged crapshack in the hood.
It is all neural programming, so in-your-face that people have no defensive shields anymore. IMHO, add marijuana to the equation, and for many, reality based scrutiny is defeated.
The same is applied to correct-think political view programming.
You think you've cut the cord? Not if you are watching streaming dreck or even professional sports. I am assuming no one watches or reads MSM propaganda anymore.
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NDrLoR
2022 Jul 2, 9:15am
NDrLoR
2022 Jul 2, 9:15am
WineHorror1 says
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
I decided for the first time in I don't know how long to go to a movie last week, The Black Phone. I like suspense thrillers and there's just something about going into a theater on a blazing hot day into that dim, pop-corn aroma setting that I enjoy, plus I get a senior pass. It ostensibly started at 3:05, but what you do is not go until 3:30 because now there are now 30 minutes of previews "rated for general audiences" to sit through. I liked the movie because it had a good ending where the good guys won but had lots of surprises.
The movie theatre near me
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
I think it was on this site that someone made the observation that there are lots of parallels between now and the 70's: shortages, inflation, high gas prices, everyone angry. There was that series in the summer of 1973, An American Family, which would have been a forerunner to today's reality shows. A camera crew lived with the Loud family in where else but California for the rest of the year and shot scenes of what were supposed to an "average" family. They had five children (this was a married to each other couple from the World War II generation), five sons and two daughters. Much of the focus was on Lance who was flamboyantly gay in an era before it was cool. During the show, Bill asks Patricia for a divorce and they split, fitting right into the culture of the 70's. In a retrospective in 2019, we learn that Bill died in 1996 at 97 but that Patricia is still living at 93. Lance became an icon of the LBGTQ123 community and not surprisingly died of AIDS in 2001 at 50.
the "average family"
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Tenpoundbass
2022 Jul 2, 10:12am
Tenpoundbass
2022 Jul 2, 10:12am
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
Publix used to make homey commercials centered around middle class people in middle class settings.
Today they have people celebrating in a huge kitchen with a center island and the Anderson storm windows along the back wall of the family room over looking a lake in and exclusive neighborhood, cooking a dinner they bought with their SNAP cards. This has been the formula for them for well over 15 years at least. But now they are injecting Biracial and LBQ&*!@#$% nonsense as well.
Another simple example: The average luxury car ad showing models as owners driving to a multi-million dollar luxury pad. Yes, you can achieve this feeling by financing 70 grand large as you drive to your overly leveraged crapshack in the hood.
It is all neural programming, so in-your-face that people have no defensive shields anymore.
Publix used to make homey commercials centered around middle class people in middle class settings.
Today they have people celebrating in a huge kitchen with a center island and the Anderson storm windows along the back wall of the family room over looking a lake in and exclusive neighborhood, cooking a dinner they bought with their SNAP cards. This has been the formula for them for well over 15 years at least. But now they are injecting Biracial and LBQ&*!@#$% nonsense as well.
Like Universal and Disney lines would go at least 1/3 (Or more!) if not for the express lines.
Then another thing that kills me is the "Curbside pick up" in the most ridiculous businesses, where their patrons would do good to get the exercise to step in the store and browse and buy at the register. They always reserve the best parking often taking away Handicap parking spots, which always sit empty. Nobody is doing curbside pickup for a pair of Second and Irregular Levi's at Ross.
Not really a business but the same mentality and level of stupidity.
The most dumbest thing every though of by humanity, the express lanes on highways, that the only reason they passed, because people erroneously assumed they would save gas. When in reality those two to three new lanes(in some cases no new lanes were created they were taken from regular lanes) was just what the current highway needed to ease up traffic congestion, those express lanes double the gridlock load, and most often those express lanes end up in a slow crawl, as folks up at the front need to exit the lanes, or are just slow driving shits anyway. Pro express lane people assume everyone drives that their speed.
So Chick Filet has a drive through, but they are going to FastTrack those who want to pay a premium to fuck over and bypass their loyal customers. It just boggles my mind the mentality that would come up with this.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/chick-fil-a-tests-express-drive-thru-lanes?dicbo=v2-000c9e61ca6c9b318262c64d6aba52b2
Oh and people who try to shave time by doing little bits of a process prematurely out of order, most always fuck themselves over in the long run and screw up what ever they were trying to do to save time. Some folks will cut material now and measure later if they think it will save them time.