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Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

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GrinCDXX said:
Not sure if it will actually play out this way, but if Amazon and the like kills off places like toys r us, it may open up the brick and mortar space for smaller independent retailers to have more success. That would be a good thing.
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The smaller retailers were already killed off as well. But given this is the exact same arguments as when Montgomery Ward, Service Merchandise, and the other catalog companies started getting incredibly popular in the early 20th century (granted they didn't have the government subsidizing $1.46 for every package but that's an argument for another day), brick and mortar will eventually make a return, if only for showroom purposes.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
Toys R Us might be going out of business next week. And they won't be missed.
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Anybody remember Children's Palace, the toy stores with the palace logo and the guy in the Furry panda suit? I was watchin the documentary The Toys That Made Us on Netflix, and that store's name popped up with a five-second blip of its commercial. They were the #2 toys retailer in the nation, then went belly up with the advancement of K-Mart and Walmart.
 
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St. Clown said:
Anybody remember Children's Palace, the toy stores with the palace logo and the guy in the Furry panda suit? I was watchin the documentary The Toys That Made Us on Netflix, and that store's name popped up with a five-second blip of its commercial. They were the #2 toys retailer in the nation, then went belly up with the advancement of K-Mart and Walmart.
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Never heard of them. Regional?
 
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Kepler said:
Never heard of them. Regional?
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No, they weren't regional. They might not have made the east coast, but they were well known in CA, and had locations here in MN. I don't know their full reach, but they were the #2 toy store in the nation 30 years ago.
 
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St. Clown said:
No, they weren't regional. They might not have made the east coast, but they were well known in CA, and had locations here in MN. I don't know their full reach, but they were the #2 toy store in the nation 30 years ago.
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We had Child World. It's got a turret.

Edit: it looks like Child World owned Children's Palace which was rebranded from Kobachers which may have been a midwestern regional chain.
 
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Kepler said:
We had Child World. It's got a turret.
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Yeah, did a search, and I got the name confused. There's a current child's clothing chain called Children's Palace.
 
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St. Clown said:
Yeah, did a search, and I got the name confused. There's a current child's clothing chain called Children's Palace.
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Nope, you were right, there was actually Children's Palace too. It looks like Child World ran a bunch of either regional or down-market (or for all I know up-market) niche store lines and one of them was Children's Palace.

Child World itself had a very nasty end:

The biggest issue facing Child World was not the downturn in the economy and its effect on business. Instead it was a decision by Cole National to begin restricting the amount of capital they were providing to the stores, which consequently resulted in the company being unable to pay its bills. Vendors such as LEGO responded by refusing to accept orders for new merchandise from Child World, which left stores unable to maintain fully stocked shelves. Its profile was not helped by Toys "R" Us's continued growth, as well as the chain's being named a co-defendant in a lawsuit filed by the Consumer Products Safety Commission.
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It only gets worse after that.

Neat fact: Child World's whole look was adopted after they took over Children's Palace. I remember all the castle stuff. I also remember it was always in the bad mall and Toys R Us was in the good mall.
 
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https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595344980/can-facebook-move-past-latest-breach-of-user-data

I don't get it. WHere was the breach? As I understand it, people deliberately connected an app to their Facebook account without reading the warnings that came with it. There's a reason I don't let many apps get into my account. Especially not shady sounding ones like this. By giving apps access to your profile you are allowing them to do PRECISELY what CA did. Harvest your data and let them peek behind the curtain.

People are ****ing stupid. And unless there was something I'm not understanding, the media is completely misreporting this.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595344980/can-facebook-move-past-latest-breach-of-user-data

I don't get it. WHere was the breach? As I understand it, people deliberately connected an app to their Facebook account without reading the warnings that came with it. There's a reason I don't let many apps get into my account. Especially not shady sounding ones like this. By giving apps access to your profile you are allowing them to do PRECISELY what CA did. Harvest your data and let them peek behind the curtain.

People are ****ing stupid. And unless there was something I'm not understanding, the media is completely misreporting this.
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Isn’t the issue here that it harvested their friends data, and said friends didn’t give consent?
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I thought it just harvested your friends' names
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I read that it took a lot more than names, can’t remember the source.
I don’t want my info taken because some dumb azz relative took a “what kind of potato would you be” quiz
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I read that it took a lot more than names, can’t remember the source.
I don’t want my info taken because some dumb azz relative took a “what kind of potato would you be” quiz
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You took that quiz too?!
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595344980/can-facebook-move-past-latest-breach-of-user-data

I don't get it. WHere was the breach? As I understand it, people deliberately connected an app to their Facebook account without reading the warnings that came with it. There's a reason I don't let many apps get into my account. Especially not shady sounding ones like this. By giving apps access to your profile you are allowing them to do PRECISELY what CA did. Harvest your data and let them peek behind the curtain.

People are ****ing stupid. And unless there was something I'm not understanding, the media is completely misreporting this.
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It wasn't a breach in the traditional sense. Nothing was hacked. The Facebook platform allowed the app to harvest this data. However, the issue is the app was also able to harvest data of friends of those that consented to the app's use of their data, not just that user's data. approximately 250,000 gave consent to the use of their data, but the app was able to harvest data on 50 million people. I'm pretty sure this was done by an independent contractor hired by CA and then the data was sold/given to CA (no one consented to the disclosure of their data to CA).

Facebook found out about this in 2015, and requested that the data be deleted. CA told FB they did, but despite having a right to physically audit CA, FB did not verify the data was actually deleted nor did they file a lawsuit against CA. (FB probably didn't want to draw attention to the fact that their platform had allowed an app to harvest personal data of friends without their consent)
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I thought it just harvested your friends' names
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If you put your info out there, it can go anywhere. Even if you try to secure it as much as possible. I do look forward to the EU receiving the shock of how their upcoming GDPR provisions to remove data will not be enforceable.
 
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China fights back with their own tariffs.
What will the R base think when they waddle to Walmart and their Chinese crap is no longer so cheap? They can’t go to target, target might have dem gays in the bathrooms
 
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I’ve got panasonic’s Flagship plasma from when they last made plasmas. Assembled in Mexico. Likely manufactured in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, or the Philippines.
 
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Aren’t most TVs Korea or Japan?
I’d look it up but I’m still writing my ten page paper and my breaks are occasionally posting here
 
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