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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

RaceBoarder said:
The one down by me is about the same as it always has been. It's usually better stocked and cleaner than the Wal-mart closest to me, which is why I go there.
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Yeah, I’ve never had a good experience in a Walmart ever.

I used to get my meds there because they were cheapest and always in stock. Always terrible everywhere else in the store. I really tried grocery shopping there a few times and I just couldn’t.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Maybe, maybe not. I don’t doubt your experiences at all. I think it’s probably local and regional management that make the biggest differences.
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Sure, the local management knows the c suite is in the same city 24/7 so you don’t want them walking in and seeing a slop

Reminds me of where I used to once work. A large product was going…askew? Someone suggested that our employees shouldn’t be subject to said shit product and he screamed “we’re gonna eat our own dogfood” hahahahaha I still think about him
 
I am in a Target maybe once a year and the one I used to work at (Plymouth #664) is always low on soft lines stuff and it is not well organized. Better than say Kohls or Wal-Mart but pretty awful compared to what it used to be. That was one of many reasons I avoid them. Grocery department is sometimes better but from what I have heard it has gone down hill.

note: this was before Target decided to go public with their hypocrisy...no idea now as I have no need to ever spend a second in those hellholes. Wal-Mart may suck but I can deal with the Maple Grove one if I have too. Costco, Sams Club and HyVee are all way better than Target at this point.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Tesla sales down 89% in Quebec

Quick, someone tell them it’s illegal to boycott
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I believe it is halved in Europe...and while Elmo pretended that was because all vehicle sales are down in Europe every other EV seems to be doing just fine.

Hopefully when I get my EV in Scotland this summer its another Polestar because I really loved that car :)
 
Handyman said:
I am in a Target maybe once a year and the one I used to work at (Plymouth #664) is always low on soft lines stuff and it is not well organized. Better than say Kohls or Wal-Mart but pretty awful compared to what it used to be. That was one of many reasons I avoid them. Grocery department is sometimes better but from what I have heard it has gone down hill.

note: this was before Target decided to go public with their hypocrisy...no idea now as I have no need to ever spend a second in those hellholes. Wal-Mart may suck but I can deal with the Maple Grove one if I have too. Costco, Sams Club and HyVee are all way better than Target at this point.
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Ok, but I’ve been to multiple targets around the cities multiple times the last month and your experience is just not what I’ve seen. On any of them. The grocery department is usually quite good in the super targets. Sometimes our local target has stocking issues, but it’s also incredibly undersized for the area it serves. Which is a big issue, don’t get me wrong.

Costco is much better, but they don’t have everything we need. Hy-Vee is typically 50% more for the same products. Cub is fine too but they are still more expensive than target by a wide margin.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Ok, but I’ve been to multiple targets around the cities multiple times the last month and your experience is just not what I’ve seen. On any of them. The grocery department is usually quite good in the super targets. Sometimes our local target has stocking issues, but it’s also incredibly undersized for the area it serves. Which is a big issue, don’t get me wrong.

Costco is much better, but they don’t have everything we need. Hy-Vee is typically 50% more for the same products. Cub is fine too but they are still more expensive than target by a wide margin.
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The food at smaller targets is absolutely laughable. Oakdale feels like the walking dead after having Edina target as my closest for years. Just gross, hardly ever has much stock, half the vegetables are gone on any given day. It’s downright depressing

Festival foods rocks
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
The food at smaller targets is absolutely laughable. Oakdale feels like the walking dead after having Edina target as my closest for years. Just gross, hardly ever has much stock, half the vegetables are gone on any given day. It’s downright depressing

Festival foods rocks
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Oh yeah, the fresh food at GDO is fucking terrible. It’s the only time I’ve ever written to a manager in my life.

I wish we lived closer to Jerry’s. I would give my left arm for a Jerry’s where the GDO target is.

Edit: that said, it’s just REALLY hard to beat target’s prices. And with a kiddo coming, we’re going to need to be price conscious for a while.

Edit 2: thank god our daycare is going to be close to a super target
 
Regarding Target, perhaps the most frustrating thing for me is that their stock’s CUSIP ends in “E106”. Do you have any idea how that fucks up data output when pasting info into a workbook. Reviewing long lists of text strings, and then…a cell displaying a numeric value using scientific notation. 😡 Now I have to remove the data, create an entirely new column, change the formatting of the cell, and only then can the data be reinserted. 🤬🤬
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Ok, but I’ve been to multiple targets around the cities multiple times the last month and your experience is just not what I’ve seen. On any of them. The grocery department is usually quite good in the super targets. Sometimes our local target has stocking issues, but it’s also incredibly undersized for the area it serves. Which is a big issue, don’t get me wrong.

Costco is much better, but they don’t have everything we need. Hy-Vee is typically 50% more for the same products. Cub is fine too but they are still more expensive than target by a wide margin.
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I used to be Cub loyal (my first job was at a Holiday Plus which is now a Cub) but their prices are stupid. Since there is a Hyvee equidistant I shop there. Funny thing is they post Cub's prices on most of the stuff I buy and their prices are always better. Ahh competition ;)

Sam's Club as a supplement to Costco is very helpful...and they deliver! Plus they take Amex which is my preferred payment. They usually have a 50% membership deal every couple months and it is worth it.
 
St. Clown said:
Regarding Target, perhaps the most frustrating thing for me is that their stock’s CUSIP ends in “E106”. Do you have any idea how that fucks up data output when pasting info into a workbook. Reviewing long lists of text strings, and then…a cell displaying a numeric value using scientific notation. 😡 Now I have to remove the data, create an entirely new column, change the formatting of the cell, and only then can the data be reinserted. 🤬🤬
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Ticker symbols are people reading news sites. CUSIPs are the assigned ID for the real work of trading asset via computers, servicing assets, etc.. They’re a standardized length, and there are rules in place as to how that value is assigned to a stock, bond, bill, note, mutual fund, and so on. Unless you’re going global, then it’s going to be an ISIN for the lion’s share of global trades, or a CEDOL ID when working with GB assets.
 
I visited 3 Targets during my last trip and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. One in Mpls, one in Tonka and one Plymouth.

But I get what DGF is saying as far as location so that may not add anything anecdotally.
 
Depends on the Target. Around here there seem to be "nice" Targets and "crappy" Targets, and it's aligned exactly the way you'd expect - by how bougie (or not) the burb is. The Troy/Royal Oak Target is always clean, always stocked, always organized - especially softlines. The Madison Heights Target? Not so much. I swear that one was also the last one to convert its Pizza Hut Express to a Charbucks.

Not that it matters to me of course, we've stopped shopping there.
 
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