Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

Originally posted by bilmore
So, the grocers are selling below cost, and WalMart will beat them by losing more?

(Won't work until the wholesalers decide to sell to WalMart for less than they sell to grocers.)

Can you take this to the Midwest board please?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
So, the grocers are selling below cost, and WalMart will beat them by losing more?

(Won't work until the wholesalers decide to sell to WalMart for less than they sell to grocers.)

Couldn't Walmart subsidize the loss in groceries (pricing them even lower than grocers) by their profit from other products for five years or until they knock grocers out of business? Isn't that what huge companies do? Economies of scope?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by bilmore
So, the grocers are selling below cost, and WalMart will beat them by losing more?

(Won't work until the wholesalers decide to sell to WalMart for less than they sell to grocers.)

Actually they do. Part of the Wal-Mart model is that they put enormous pressure on suppliers and wholesalers to give them product at a lower cost than anywhere else.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Speaking of music scenes, last night I went out to bOb. It's a cool little bar on the lower east side that has been around forever and plays hip hop and a little reggae.

I haven't been there in a long time and mostly remember it as a place where black people would go to just chill without being subjected to booty music and all the club crap that goes on in black (or any) clubs.

Last night, I was overwhelmed by the number of asians in the jurnt. The ratio was like 8-1, asian to non-asian. Is this a new phenomenon? No complaints. Same vibe, really, as the last time I had been there. Just different looking people. It was kind of cool.

Anyone else notice this in other spots?

TM

What? That there are tons of asians everywhere?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
If thinking about the revenue streams is confusing, think about it this way: Many grocery stores put products on their shelves in a way calculated to please their suppliers. Wal-Mart puts products on their shelves in a way calculated to please their customers. Which business model would you rather invest in?

SPIF's are a way of life as long as the manufacturers and wholesalers are battling for share. Once that sector matures and (probably) monopolizes, only then will the price fight fall to the retail level. Wal-Mart hasn't yet convinced the SPIF-payors that thye are the next big distribution channel, and thus valid targets for the system.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Listen, pally, I afford my rock and roll lifestyle the old fashion way. By whoring myself out to corporate America. Mummy and Daddy Flower never set up a trust fund, so I'm stuck with this motherfucking job if I am going to continue to afford to be able to see shows. Going to cooler shows before everyone else is all I got going for me.

I can't stop humming "American Pig," and its probably partly due to the fatties post...

"Is it good to be beautiful, when people watch when you walk, but they don't listen to you when you talk..."

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Can you take this to the Midwest board please?

This from someone whose last few posts have consisted of a picture of vomit, a constipated smiley face, and the word "whifferino!"?

Originally posted by bilmore
This from someone whose last few posts have consisted of a picture of vomit, a constipated smiley face, and the word "whifferino!"?

1) oh good, the pic took
2) that is not a constipated smiley face,. that is someone who is about to blow PLF.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Speaking of music scenes, last night I went out to bOb. It's a cool little bar on the lower east side that has been around forever and plays hip hop and a little reggae.

I haven't been there in a long time and mostly remember it as a place where black people would go to just chill without being subjected to booty music and all the club crap that goes on in black (or any) clubs.

Last night, I was overwhelmed by the number of asians in the jurnt. The ratio was like 8-1, asian to non-asian. Is this a new phenomenon? No complaints. Same vibe, really, as the last time I had been there. Just different looking people. It was kind of cool.

Anyone else notice this in other spots?

TM

Asian is the new Black. Pinstripes are out this year.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bilmore
This from someone whose last few posts have consisted of a picture of vomit, a constipated smiley face, and the word "whifferino!"?

I'll take whifferino over a Walmart thread any day.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'll take whifferino over a Walmart thread any day.

People who go to Walmart don't get laid, right?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by bilmore
People who go to Walmart don't get laid, right?

Are you kidding me? Those people breed like rabbits.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by bilmore
People who go to Walmart don't get laid, right?

No. I think the point is that they only get laid by other people who go to Walmart.

Ps. Don't try to pass off that Million Dollar bill there. They can't make change.

Namaste

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yay! After much hinting and anticipation, the "fatties are dumb, thinness is simple" thread is back!

It's almost as certain as death and taxes, and, apparently, as irresistible as a ho-ho.

Why is it so irresistable to note recurring threads, as though spotting the recurrence is somehow revelatory, clever or interesting? There are only about maybe 50 worthwhile topics to post about, 5 of which create incendiary discourse which tends to liven an otherwise often dull forum. "Oh, here it comes again" is kind of like Jimmy Fallon's angry punk character on saturday Night Live who says "Oh, that's real cool" to everything, but can't even recall whether he's being sarcastic anymore.

Which begs the question, why are fatties so fucking stupid?