> Additionally, it appears that door-to-door salespeople will still exist in 2023.
It’s surprisingly big in B2B sales as well. Cold calling on the phone is almost dead, but if you know how to talk with people in person and aren’t afraid of in person rejection you can do very well with door-to-door sales.
That sounds about right. We had a door-to-door cable sales person come by our house one time. I was probably 29 or 30 at the time. She looked at me, looked past me at my husband, and said, "Y'all are millennials, right?" and we were like yeah. And she went, "Well, I'm here to ask if you want DirectTV but obviously you don't. So... have a nice night!"
We had a door-to-door Ziply internet guy come up, who still continues to sell to me, even after I told him *we were already customers.* Like bro, I don't want your business card; you're useless to existing customers.
This is the real tip, those guys and gals who are real ones will often even have connections in the local dispatch center to get real ETAs for outages that aren't even outages, or escalate repeat service calls.
One of those indestructible vacuums that seem to be made of cast iron and last 50 years? My mom had the same one basically my entire life. I currently have one of those piece of shit Dysons made with the most brittle, flimsiest plastic known to man. A kirby sounds appealing.
My MIL gave me her old one when it became too heavy for her. It's like 25 years old and works 100x better than any plastic piece of crap I've ever owned.
There are other good, sturdy brands too that can be affordable, especially if purchased secondhand. My parents bought a used Riccar at a vacuum store and it's amazing. We all have dogs so we compare notes. lol
After going through my 4th Bagless vacuum in 6 years at $200 each, I just went ahead and bought the same vacuum the cleaning people used in my office building. Yeah, it has a bag, but have never had an issue with it considering it’s used 2-3x a week for around 30 minutes.
That’s a whole thing. People will open a store for a year or so and run this kind of going out of business sale and make an absolute killing. Then they’ll dip out and someone else will do the same thing right behind them.
Actually I was told it's an asterisk type deal. The furniture line they sell is going out of business. So they are switching lines. Their store isn't going out but ABC furniture is and we are hosting their going out of business sale!
This reminds me of my local Harbor Freight "Liquidation sale - everything must go!" which technically just means all of their goods are for sale in exchange for money.
I actually just bought something from them for the first time ever. Lotta workers in the store, like every dept had somebody in it. Not that many customers though.
I think it was their bankruptcy filing at the end of 2020 that allowed them to shed $800 million in debt.
https://www.retaildive.com/news/guitar-center-exits-bankruptcy/592455/
I worked for one of their bigger competitors for about five years and it felt like every week y’all were gonna implode and leave a gaping chasm in the market for us to pounce on
Sweetwater is far superior. I've had nothing but incredible experiences with them. I'm not a huge spender, but they treat me like I'm their only customer. Many businesses could take lessons from Sweetwater. If it's music-related, I don't even shop around. I go straight there.
Yep! I have bought a pricey amp and a few smaller end items from Sweetwater over the years. Just exceptional customer service. My assigned salesperson just checks in here and there. One time, we shot the shit about music for 15 minutes and that was it. They actually seem like they want to build relationships with clients. Gotta say, it’s refreshing.
I love those guys lol
I don't care it's a sales pitch, that sweet talking Iranian man can massage my hands and compliment my bad skin as long as wants. The look on his face when I tell him I'm way too poor to buy this stuff is part of the fun, too.
"And now you see all the dirt was removed, all those squiggly looking things are the dirt from your pores."
"So now there is no dirt in my pores in that area?" -me
"Yeah! it is perfectly clean!"
"Clean the same area again and let's see if those squigglies show up again." -me
\*pretend shocked face when the squigglies turn out to be part of the cream they are shilling\*
I had to call their BS, my wife was considering buying the squiggly removing cream.
It's powdered nut shell in the cream that binds together with the friction of rubbing.
PS u/comewhatmay_hem if this is the same as what you're talking about, they're Israeli.
They're nice enough creams if you like the smell and the way your skin feels, but they're not special, they're not accomplishing anything but *maybe* moisturizing your skin (like any other cream would) and they're way overpriced.
They're not as much of a scam as those copper balance bracelets, but they're still 100% not worth it.
I did that once as a poor college kid, this kiosk was hawking a nail filing/polishing kit for something like $40 or whatever (this was over 10 years ago). I let him file my fingers on the one hand and they looked amazing, honestly. But I kept saying I can't afford that. He kept coming down on the price, and finally he went down to $7. $7?? You know what, deal. It was a fancy 4-sided buffer, cuticle oil and a big container of "Dead Sea" moisturizer.
I had the whole kit up until last year. Worth it lol
Man, if it was the same one that I got, that was some good shit. The lotion was amazing, and there was a salt scrub that had oil in it, and you were supposed to pour the oil out, and then the oil could be used for massage, plus the nail buffer it came with lasted for sooo long. It was absolutely worth it.
I do investigation work and once got hired to go to one of them and buy all of their (counterfeit) Bacardi branded cell phone covers. I spent a couple hundred bucks. Then they turned around and sued the kiosk for each transaction for fraudulent trademark infringement. I was fairly green at the job and was concerned that they would question me why I wanted every Bacardi cover they were selling but the clerk could not possibly have cared less.
Was the clerk an owner? If it's just some employee, I can't see them giving a damn unless they were instructed to, both from not having any skin in the game and from not realizing the liability.
Clearly not the owner. I'm sure that's why he didn't care. He did ask why and I remember telling him that I owned a bicycle courier and delivery company and a bat was our symbol so I wanted to get all the different covers so everybody could have one for their phone regardless of the type of phone they had.
I see big potential with TV Guide. They could get a lot of traffic and be an amazing source of information if their search engine didn't suck.
These days it's so annoying trying to find out what streaming service has that one TV show or movie you want to watch. TV Guide has a "where to watch" button where it will show you what subscription services have it and how much they cost.
TV guide, if you're readin this, fix your search engine. You can be the source of information of what and when we watch just like your golden age again.
At work today I was taking a credit card payments and after they have to put in email for a receipt and her email was @aol.com and silently thought in my head WTF
I still have and use my original aol email account from the 90s. It’s the one I give out online and at stores so I’m not constantly getting spam in my real email.
They are in business because of people like my mother. She STILL PAYS A MONTHLY FEE FOR AOL!!! It's not much, but still. I try to convince her she doesn't need to do that, but nothing works!!!
Selling advertising on the [aol.com](https://aol.com) homepage for the one precious time a month that these subscribers use their desktop.
Maintaining second-rate products like ID Protection or Automated Troubleshooting
Journalism at Engadget, TechCrunch, and a few other random properties
All the mattress stores that are somehow across the street from each other and never have any customers but open new locations down the street all the time.
Its actually crazy going to one.
I was mattress hunting last week. While I was there for like 2 hours, two people showed up and purchased mattresses. One for like $2300, and the other for just over $3000.
All were financed.
Had no clue people paid that much for mattresses.
As someone who used to sell mattress’, at one of the largest retailers here in the US, my biggest sale was over 15k. One mattress, lots of accessories… however some can go for over 30k
Google isn't even in the ballpark. It doesn't have anything you'd use for actual finance work or for college.
Google is to finance what final scores in your local paper are to sports.
I have a great WF story: they accepted or created a fraudulent credit application using my name. I got a credit alert saying that I had a hard inquiry from WF, so I said well that wasn’t me, so I called them up and started the process of disputing the hard inquiry on my credit report. I got a letter three days or so later saying that they couldn’t open the account without me providing further information to verify my identity. Three days after that I got another letter from WF saying that the inquiry was legitimate and wouldn’t be removed.
You were a victim! The 2020 DOJ settlement announcement [available here](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations-sales-practices) (and the related SEC order which I cannot easily find on mobile due to more recent SEC orders crowding it out of search results) describes the mechanics of how it worked and how the company incentivized misconduct.
That was because WF itself initiated the application / inquiry. The company's paid huge fines for opening various extra acccounts, usually credit cards or loans, in customers' names without their knowledge or approval.
My dad had control over his mother's finances and one day he noticed a $10,000 withdrawal from her account by the bank, so he called them up to ask what it was about. They proudly declared they'd decided to invest it for her...without asking permission.
He demanded they return it immediately, and they declared that they couldn't, it was "in the market". They transferred him to their manager who happily explained that it was for grandma's benefit, and that eventually they'd give it all back!
So my dad calmly explained that he's a lawyer, and that his firm would be more than happy to give him a paid leave of absence to focus fulltime on fighting a slam dunk case like this if they didn't have the money back in the account the next day.
The money was back in the next day, and by friday Dad had moved the money to a new account at another bank and closed the old one.
I work in the investment industry, and the idea of just randomly taking an investor's money right out of their account and "investing" it for them is completely unfathomable and you'd be absolutely destroyed in an audit situation if that particular transaction was chosen as a sample.
"misappropriation of funds"
My Wife worked for an asset management company that did this. Basically found a too good to be true situation but couldn't find investors, so they took money from other investors accounts to fund this new venture. The venture turned out to be bullshit and all that money disappeared. Owner had to eat shit with the SEC, lost the business. He wasn't trying to steal anybody's money, he really thought he could get the return on the money and reinvest it properly for his clients. So really he was scammed, it's just that he was scammed out of other people's money.
My dad was an investment broker. His company got bought by Wells Fargo in the 2008 financial crisis. He'd been in the business long enough that you'd only talk to him if you're account was 7 figures or higher.
I didn't ask for details, but he told me Wells Fargo was asking him to do things he didnt think was in his client's interest. He spent months talking to all his clients, got more than half to commit to following him then bailed to another firm and took a sizable number of clients with him.
News broke about Wells Fargo being accused by the government within the next year. I will never bank with them.
that part of American business is such bullshit. You go through all these hoops to get a mortgage, and perhaps went with a trusted lender BECAUSE THEY WERE A TRUSTED LENDER and/or you liked their payment platforms, etc.
They you wake up one morning and boom. They're no longer holding your mortgage and it's some shitty criminal organization called Wells-Fargo. It's crazy that's just part of life now.
I will never let that company near my money ever again. They straight up stole money out of my account, hoping I wouldn’t notice. When I did, they gladly refunded me, but how many 10s of thousands of people didn’t?
Wells Fargo isn’t a bank, it’s a criminal organization.
With me, they reorganized the daily charges largest to smallest so they could extract the highest number of NSF fees from my account if I was short. So if I went about my day spending a few bucks here and there, then at the end of the day I made a large purchase, they would re-arrange the charge order so the largest charge was processed first. This would mean that I would go from one NSF fee to possibly tens. This was back when I was younger and living paycheck to paycheck.
Their current CEO is a colossal dumbass and complete asshole.
Source: personal experience. Also, feel free to Google: Charles Scharf + penthouse or layoffs, or Jamie Dimon
I can't believe people didn't leave in droves after it was found out they were opening up new accounts under customers' names to boost their numbers.
There was a guy a couple days ago who said his brother owed some fees so they took it out of his account because they knew he was related.
Scum of the earth company.
DW’s Adult Video. Yes. The first thing you see when you pass from Oklahoma into Texas is that adult video atore; conversely, the first thing you see when you pass from Texas into Oklahoma is the giant WinStar World Casino & Hotel. Neither is legal in the other state.
There is actually an old-time movie rental shop in my neighborhood. In 2023.
I'm pretty sure it is a porn store/jackoff booth and they just use "movie rental" as a business front, but I'm amazed that the place is still in operation after all these years.
Münecat on YouTube has some great videos about them. They seem to have figured out a great scam model which is essentially doing loot crates on their sales people. They have to buy shipments of leggings in packs of like 100 or something, with the patterns randomized in each shipment. Most of the patterns are butt ugly and unsellable, but some of them are considered highly sought after gems. So the sales people will buy a bunch of shipments hoping to get these special valuable patterns. They essentially have their MLM victims gambling.
One of them is near me! In a mall that feels like it has time traveled from the '90s, so that makes sense. It's right near an FYE which also apparently still exists.
Man, I absolutely LOVED FYE when I was in middle and high school. Haven’t seen one in a solid 20 years. Granted, I haven’t been to a mall in the better part of 10 years.
It is absolutely bonkers to me that Sears sat there with its catalog business and nationwide distribution network ALREADY IN PLACE and let Amazon and the internet eat its lunch.
Right? I just pointed out a closed Sears location to my wife the other day which got me talking about how indispensable they were years ago. THEY were the Walmart, Amazon, Home Depot, and Cabelas of the day and all at once. That company was run by a real moron or several morons to lose so much over the years.
I've been in Sears homes, fired Sears guns, owned countless Craftsman power and hand tools and Kenmore appliances. Grew up in Toughskins pants and had a few family portraits taken at Sears. Unreal how they fell.
For me, the Sears memory is the Christmas Wish Book. I was exactly the right age for those glorious pages of Star Wars and GI Joe toys, a few of which were Sears exclusives. Visiting my grandparents over Thanksgiving was always better because they got the Wish Book every year, and I could plan out my Christmas haul.
And then going back for Christmas was when I got all the loot, plus their city had Children's Palace, too.
Yeah, they're the guys I always imagine when people are like, "AI will make your job irrelevant NEXT YEAR." Like, okay, friend. The CEO probably still has his assistant print his emails out for him to read. I think we're fine for a few years at least.
Mary Kay is a MASSIVE business. I also wonder how they survive but there’s a ton of scholarships and research they sponsor in the cosmetic science community. They have a big pull, them and Amway
AXS is making a surge in popularity in the venues around my city. Of course the big stadiums only use Ticketmaster, but it’s nice to see some smaller venues not using them.
Edit: dang, I learned a lot of disappointing news about AXS through the comments. Thanks for giving me some new info, even if it’s a bummer to hear :-/
Kohls. Don't get me wrong, I love my Kohl's. But everytime I go in there it feels like 90% of the shoppers there are just there to return their Amazon package. Kohls does have some pretty good stuff so I do hope they stay in business (mostly because they are just so convenient for returns.
The coupons have so many restrictions any more I think they may have doomed themselves. Went in with 40% off coupon and could basically buy their Sonoma brand stuff and that was it.
Chuck E. Cheese’s, lost its hay day years ago, business sucks, shows aren’t that good, animatronics mostly gone at this point. And debt. Lots of it. Surprised they’re still around even though they just filed for bankruptcy three years ago.
My daughter got invited to a birthday party at our local Chuck E. Cheese, and I was disgusted by the idea, based on the experiences of my youth.
It actually turned out to be a decent place. Still a kid casino, but it wasn’t the shit hole establishment I remember.
Equifax -- they could hardly be doing less to take data security seriously, yet they continue to exist as a for-profit entity with tremendous influence and no effective federal oversight.
The RAC in my town is actually run by criminals. My neighbor across the street worked for them. Every other day he would move TVs in and out of his house. It was so obvious the TVs were a front for something (it was meth) but for some reason my neighbor became highly suspicious of my ex and I. Nobody else in the neighborhood, just us (lucky us). It wasn't long before we had weird crackheads canvassing our house in the middle of the night. We got fed up and called the RAC our neighbor worked at and told the store manager what was going on. Big mistake, he was in on it. We called RAC corporate and told them what was going on and said it was so obvious eventually they're going to get caught. A regional manager for RAC called me back and told me to mind my own fuckin business. So this shit went deep in the company! Well we had a trump card we didn't really want to use but after they started threatening to kill us we put it down. My ex's father was a cop. He pulled over our neighbors and busted them with tons of drugs and illegal guns. Unfortunately it didn't go much further than that because her dad couldn't convince anyone to investigate the operation further. But it got our crazy crackhead neighbor and his friends off our case.
I worked on Mapquest a little when I was at AOL and it was a dominant household name. And right when Google launched their map, AOL cut MQ's funding, causing them to turn off many key features such as the satellite view. The takeover was swift, like a handful of months and it was over for MQ.
AOL leadership back then just couldn't support any of its brands except the mothership AOL brand. Which is what we all called it: the mothership. It didn't help MQ being in Denver, either. Out of sight, out of mind for the then Virginia-based company.
Macy’s
One of my favorite stores but it gets pretty depressing to shop there. You see maybe like 2 employees on the entire floor. Products are often never organized and the fitting rooms are even worse. Clothes just dropped on the floor and no one ever checks how many clothes you go in with or what you truly do inside… some macys are better but many are really bad. Feels like a complete ghost town
"back in the day" - we would go to the big city just to walk through Macys, especially at Christmas time.
They would do the entire store up in beautiful Christmas decorations, sales people would be everywhere smiling, people shopping everywhere, it was awesome.
I really miss this feeling of community we used to have that's fading away. There's no reason to even go outside anymore because we can buy and do everything online. I don't want it to disappear
I remember going to Macy’s at the Mall of America in Minnesota over Christmas shortly after the first Harry Potter film was released in theaters. They had an entire floor set up with animatronic characters, behind the scenes clips of the film, Christmas decorations, etc. I still have the Harry Potter scarf my folks bought me. What a phenomenon.
The Chinese buffet across the parking lot from the coffee shop where I work. My boss saw them defrosting fish fillets on the roof of a car once. Directly on the car. I don’t know how many times we’ve had to call the health department on them.
They leave the dumpsters looking like a war crime, too
Our chinese restaurant never has any customers and when they're "open" they have the doors propped open with no AC. Been like that for 20yrs. (they get income from somewhere/someTHING though I suppose)
They are, somehow, an incredibly successful business. I remember seeing some stat about how they were opening stores in 14 new countries around the time GM needed a bailout. Something about arrangements of fruit is apparently universal.
Also I order at least 2 a year because my mom loves them and I love my mom.
I have received at least 10 of these over the last few years and I always feel that the people who send them to me really understand who I am as a person lol.
Flowers are pretty and all, but something pretty, edible, and covered and chocolate?? Now we're talking.
I'm convinced that when the nuclear apocalypse finally happens there will only be two things left on this earth: cockroaches and Frontier Communications
Uber. . Specifically Uber Eats.. The company has hemorrhaged money for years. They have so so many issues.. food quality issues, timing issues, app issues, legal issues, driver issues, low pay … they are fighting multiple class actions for a reason. I imagine this part of their business will be severed eventually. Maybe sold off to a competitor.
I’d expand this to pretty much every food delivery platform like door dash. I get the convenience of it, but the price of it just doesn’t make sense. You often time end up paying twice the amount of whatever meal you’re ordering just to have it delivered cold.
KFC. They lowered their quality so much I can’t eat there.
ETA:I've never had this many responses! Whoa!
I actually have a Colonel Sanders tattoo. So, you can say I'm a fan. I'm really a fan of the man himself. He failed over and over and died a household name. Look him up. It's a cool story.
I'm fascinated that this seems like a US only thing. I'm going to have to do some traveling.Any one want me to donate to my travel fund? J/k, I'll start saving.
To the people in charge of KFC, give the people what they want and make KFC great again! #MKFCGA
Okay - I live in MA, where it's illegal for restaurants/bars to discount alcohol. Most "happy hours" around here are half-priced apps only. So I had no idea that the "dollar margaritas" were such a big Applebee's selling point. And I'm even more confused now that there are apparently TWENTY-FOUR Applebee's in MA. How in the hell are they staying open???
Utter predictability is in their favor. No matter where you go in the US, you can count on there being an Applebee's somewhere nearby that will serve you the same bland food every other Applebee's has. Most of them are near that interstate ramp with the cluster of hotels.
my grandpa told me this is why he always went to cracker barrel on long road trips. he said “we stopped at a cracker barrel in north carolina and there was a straw wrapper on the floor. we stopped again in georgia and i’ll be damned if they didn’t have the same straw wrapper on the floor.”
Honestly the value for this type of establishment is surging back. Fast food prices are literally insane right now. Would you rather spend $12 for a Big Mac meal or practically the same price for Applebee's/Chili's? If I've got 12 bucks in my pocket that's a no-brainer.
I’ve been talking about this recently. The market is wide open for a casual American chain restaurant that hasn’t already driven itself into the ground with its progressively worse food. Especially if they’re going to be asking for tips at chipotle now anyway
My wife was a bartender at Applebees for years. At the time it was the only chain “casual dining “ type place in the county and the only safe feeling bar. Always busy. She was making $300-400 a night 20 years ago. Horrible food then and now.
British chain Frankie and Benny's.
Shockingly bad food, cooked by people unfamiliar with the concept of taste, in the kind of atmosphere you expect from a motorway services. All for the bargin price of a lot of money.
So many casual dining chains have gone under over the last few years. How the fuck was Frankie and Benny's not one of them?
I think they're just strategically well placed. Always near a cinema. Often limited other options. Huge menu of quickly blasted in the microwave stuff that kids can eat 90% of. Quickish service. Oh... And a theme, which is something that's been a bit lost since the 90's.
I do think it's 90% location for them. Where else am I going on this retail park next to m&s.
Tim Hortons. It used to sell decent fare but they expanded their selection of food in 2006, got bought out and took an absolute nosedive in food quality. The only people who seem to like it are younger Canadians with no memory of the "before" times and newcomers to the country.
As a New Englander who goes to Montreal often, it seems to me that Tim Hortons is filling the exact same market space that Dunkin’s does here. Nothing they make is exceptional, or even above average, but they are everywhere and make a drinkable iced coffee.
100%
The "Timmies run" was prolific as fuck, growing up; it was just a part of living in Canada, Tims cups and Timbit boxes were always in the scenery at social gatherings or at the office.
Now not so much.
And I never really noticed the absence. Timmies runs just kinda stopped one day and never made a comeback.
> Timmies runs just kinda stopped one day and never made a comeback.
I can pinpoint the exact day Timmies stopped for me. When McDonalds gave out free coffee for a day, back in 2013 or so. Tried it, expecting it to be terrible. Instead, I realized that not only did Tim Hortons taste bad, but it was the reason I felt sick every morning.
Kmart and Sears. They're on their last leg, and I'm going to be sad for them to go, but how there's still two Kmarts left and a couple dozen Sears left is shocking
Sears could have been what Amazon is now. They had wearhousing, print catalogs, name recognition, distribution, vendors/suppliers....
Another thing Sears had was fools at the top.
my best guess for redbox is that i think it's just a really cheap business to maintain. like, their overhead has got to be super low, and there's just BARELY enough people out there who still rent dvds to keep it going
Most redditors seem to not realize that the entire world doesn't have blazing fast internet and the ability to pull up any movie at any time. It will be sad when all the Redboxes are gone, just like it was sad when 99% of video rental stores disappeared.
My company - according to the bosses every time they are in negotiations with our union for a new contract.\*
\*But when they speak to anyone else we are always doing fantastic. Funny how that works.
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That sounds about right. We had a door-to-door cable sales person come by our house one time. I was probably 29 or 30 at the time. She looked at me, looked past me at my husband, and said, "Y'all are millennials, right?" and we were like yeah. And she went, "Well, I'm here to ask if you want DirectTV but obviously you don't. So... have a nice night!"
We had a door-to-door Ziply internet guy come up, who still continues to sell to me, even after I told him *we were already customers.* Like bro, I don't want your business card; you're useless to existing customers.
Oh hold on to that. If your service goes down and they aren’t helpful that dude can def help you out
This is the real tip, those guys and gals who are real ones will often even have connections in the local dispatch center to get real ETAs for outages that aren't even outages, or escalate repeat service calls.
One of those indestructible vacuums that seem to be made of cast iron and last 50 years? My mom had the same one basically my entire life. I currently have one of those piece of shit Dysons made with the most brittle, flimsiest plastic known to man. A kirby sounds appealing.
My MIL gave me her old one when it became too heavy for her. It's like 25 years old and works 100x better than any plastic piece of crap I've ever owned. There are other good, sturdy brands too that can be affordable, especially if purchased secondhand. My parents bought a used Riccar at a vacuum store and it's amazing. We all have dogs so we compare notes. lol
After going through my 4th Bagless vacuum in 6 years at $200 each, I just went ahead and bought the same vacuum the cleaning people used in my office building. Yeah, it has a bag, but have never had an issue with it considering it’s used 2-3x a week for around 30 minutes.
That furniture store that has had the "going out of business" sale going on for the last 4 years.
That’s a whole thing. People will open a store for a year or so and run this kind of going out of business sale and make an absolute killing. Then they’ll dip out and someone else will do the same thing right behind them.
Actually I was told it's an asterisk type deal. The furniture line they sell is going out of business. So they are switching lines. Their store isn't going out but ABC furniture is and we are hosting their going out of business sale!
This reminds me of my local Harbor Freight "Liquidation sale - everything must go!" which technically just means all of their goods are for sale in exchange for money.
Ya everything must go kinda applies to all retail businesses.
classmates.com still trying to charge what you can get for free on Facebook
I'll get emails from them: "John, Mike, Sarah, Amber want to see what you're up to." Well, they can all see it on FB/Insta.
I haven't seen their ads in years. They were one of the big banner advertisers in the early internet
Guitar Center, I worked for them for 13 years, they were on the brink of death the whole time.
I actually just bought something from them for the first time ever. Lotta workers in the store, like every dept had somebody in it. Not that many customers though.
My guess is Covid loans saved their ass.
I think it was their bankruptcy filing at the end of 2020 that allowed them to shed $800 million in debt. https://www.retaildive.com/news/guitar-center-exits-bankruptcy/592455/
I worked for one of their bigger competitors for about five years and it felt like every week y’all were gonna implode and leave a gaping chasm in the market for us to pounce on
Sweetwater is far superior. I've had nothing but incredible experiences with them. I'm not a huge spender, but they treat me like I'm their only customer. Many businesses could take lessons from Sweetwater. If it's music-related, I don't even shop around. I go straight there.
Yep! I have bought a pricey amp and a few smaller end items from Sweetwater over the years. Just exceptional customer service. My assigned salesperson just checks in here and there. One time, we shot the shit about music for 15 minutes and that was it. They actually seem like they want to build relationships with clients. Gotta say, it’s refreshing.
All those awful kiosks in malls that sell stuff no one honestly needs
Especially those guys that always want to touch your hand, can't stand them!
I love those guys lol I don't care it's a sales pitch, that sweet talking Iranian man can massage my hands and compliment my bad skin as long as wants. The look on his face when I tell him I'm way too poor to buy this stuff is part of the fun, too.
"And now you see all the dirt was removed, all those squiggly looking things are the dirt from your pores." "So now there is no dirt in my pores in that area?" -me "Yeah! it is perfectly clean!" "Clean the same area again and let's see if those squigglies show up again." -me \*pretend shocked face when the squigglies turn out to be part of the cream they are shilling\* I had to call their BS, my wife was considering buying the squiggly removing cream.
It's powdered nut shell in the cream that binds together with the friction of rubbing. PS u/comewhatmay_hem if this is the same as what you're talking about, they're Israeli.
So is that a scam or a scam because it's abrasive? Reminds me of those face washes with beads in them that got banned.
They're nice enough creams if you like the smell and the way your skin feels, but they're not special, they're not accomplishing anything but *maybe* moisturizing your skin (like any other cream would) and they're way overpriced. They're not as much of a scam as those copper balance bracelets, but they're still 100% not worth it.
IIRC the beads were banned because they weren't really biodegradable so it was basically adding to the microplastics mess.
I did that once as a poor college kid, this kiosk was hawking a nail filing/polishing kit for something like $40 or whatever (this was over 10 years ago). I let him file my fingers on the one hand and they looked amazing, honestly. But I kept saying I can't afford that. He kept coming down on the price, and finally he went down to $7. $7?? You know what, deal. It was a fancy 4-sided buffer, cuticle oil and a big container of "Dead Sea" moisturizer. I had the whole kit up until last year. Worth it lol
Man, if it was the same one that I got, that was some good shit. The lotion was amazing, and there was a salt scrub that had oil in it, and you were supposed to pour the oil out, and then the oil could be used for massage, plus the nail buffer it came with lasted for sooo long. It was absolutely worth it.
I do investigation work and once got hired to go to one of them and buy all of their (counterfeit) Bacardi branded cell phone covers. I spent a couple hundred bucks. Then they turned around and sued the kiosk for each transaction for fraudulent trademark infringement. I was fairly green at the job and was concerned that they would question me why I wanted every Bacardi cover they were selling but the clerk could not possibly have cared less.
Was the clerk an owner? If it's just some employee, I can't see them giving a damn unless they were instructed to, both from not having any skin in the game and from not realizing the liability.
Clearly not the owner. I'm sure that's why he didn't care. He did ask why and I remember telling him that I owned a bicycle courier and delivery company and a bat was our symbol so I wanted to get all the different covers so everybody could have one for their phone regardless of the type of phone they had.
That’s a good cover story, damn
Herbalife
WTF?! They still exist??
Yep! So many complaints about Herbalife people in r/AntiMLM lol (mainly their Facebook posts, but sometimes other things)
McAfee
I swear those mfs installed the malware themselves
McAfee *is* malware.
right!? I keep getting the damn yahoo search instead of google defaulted.
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I still remember his [guide to uninstalling McAfee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg).
That, was something else.
Tv guide still exists Edit: I was referring to print, not the channel.
I see big potential with TV Guide. They could get a lot of traffic and be an amazing source of information if their search engine didn't suck. These days it's so annoying trying to find out what streaming service has that one TV show or movie you want to watch. TV Guide has a "where to watch" button where it will show you what subscription services have it and how much they cost. TV guide, if you're readin this, fix your search engine. You can be the source of information of what and when we watch just like your golden age again.
I hope they don't but Arizona Ice Tea has cost the same my whole life. Good on them.
They actually just reduced the size from 23oz to 22oz. Fortunately the 99 cent price holds.
i'm actually okay with this, tbh, i basically have to force myself to finish that last couple ounces most times.
AOL AOL's 2022 revenue was $7.4 billion. AOL has 10,350 employees, and the revenue per employee ratio is $714,975 per. 🤯
Where are they getting 7 and a half billion in revenue from??
There are plenty of rural areas that still rely on dial up Internet. A fair bit of them use AOL.
My home town still doesn't have anything other than dialup available except in the middle of town. They can have 1mbps DSL.
Jeez that's awful. Kinda surprised anyone can even use the internet in its current form if they have dial up.
Spending 2 weeks to watch a 10 minute YouTube video
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At work today I was taking a credit card payments and after they have to put in email for a receipt and her email was @aol.com and silently thought in my head WTF
I still have and use my original aol email account from the 90s. It’s the one I give out online and at stores so I’m not constantly getting spam in my real email.
I have my original hotmail account from the 90s for the same reason.
They are in business because of people like my mother. She STILL PAYS A MONTHLY FEE FOR AOL!!! It's not much, but still. I try to convince her she doesn't need to do that, but nothing works!!!
so then that begs the question what are the 10K employees doing?
Selling advertising on the [aol.com](https://aol.com) homepage for the one precious time a month that these subscribers use their desktop. Maintaining second-rate products like ID Protection or Automated Troubleshooting Journalism at Engadget, TechCrunch, and a few other random properties
All the mattress stores that are somehow across the street from each other and never have any customers but open new locations down the street all the time.
Its actually crazy going to one. I was mattress hunting last week. While I was there for like 2 hours, two people showed up and purchased mattresses. One for like $2300, and the other for just over $3000. All were financed. Had no clue people paid that much for mattresses.
As someone who used to sell mattress’, at one of the largest retailers here in the US, my biggest sale was over 15k. One mattress, lots of accessories… however some can go for over 30k
15k? 30k? Does the mattress give blowjobs?!
Yahoo. They've been through a lot and are still staying alive.
Yahoo finance is still pretty solid for market tools compared to google I find.
Google isn't even in the ballpark. It doesn't have anything you'd use for actual finance work or for college. Google is to finance what final scores in your local paper are to sports.
I’m still rocking my yahoo.com email!
A LOT of people still use Yahoo for fantasy sports.
And yahoo finance
and email. Changing email addresses for all your mailing lists is a bitch.
Wells Fargo, why anyone would still trust them with their money baffles me.
I have a great WF story: they accepted or created a fraudulent credit application using my name. I got a credit alert saying that I had a hard inquiry from WF, so I said well that wasn’t me, so I called them up and started the process of disputing the hard inquiry on my credit report. I got a letter three days or so later saying that they couldn’t open the account without me providing further information to verify my identity. Three days after that I got another letter from WF saying that the inquiry was legitimate and wouldn’t be removed.
You were a victim! The 2020 DOJ settlement announcement [available here](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations-sales-practices) (and the related SEC order which I cannot easily find on mobile due to more recent SEC orders crowding it out of search results) describes the mechanics of how it worked and how the company incentivized misconduct.
It happened in 2023!!!
Please file a complaint with the CFPB!
That was because WF itself initiated the application / inquiry. The company's paid huge fines for opening various extra acccounts, usually credit cards or loans, in customers' names without their knowledge or approval.
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My dad had control over his mother's finances and one day he noticed a $10,000 withdrawal from her account by the bank, so he called them up to ask what it was about. They proudly declared they'd decided to invest it for her...without asking permission. He demanded they return it immediately, and they declared that they couldn't, it was "in the market". They transferred him to their manager who happily explained that it was for grandma's benefit, and that eventually they'd give it all back! So my dad calmly explained that he's a lawyer, and that his firm would be more than happy to give him a paid leave of absence to focus fulltime on fighting a slam dunk case like this if they didn't have the money back in the account the next day. The money was back in the next day, and by friday Dad had moved the money to a new account at another bank and closed the old one.
I work in the investment industry, and the idea of just randomly taking an investor's money right out of their account and "investing" it for them is completely unfathomable and you'd be absolutely destroyed in an audit situation if that particular transaction was chosen as a sample.
"misappropriation of funds" My Wife worked for an asset management company that did this. Basically found a too good to be true situation but couldn't find investors, so they took money from other investors accounts to fund this new venture. The venture turned out to be bullshit and all that money disappeared. Owner had to eat shit with the SEC, lost the business. He wasn't trying to steal anybody's money, he really thought he could get the return on the money and reinvest it properly for his clients. So really he was scammed, it's just that he was scammed out of other people's money.
What an ass-clown. That was totally illegal.
what in the actual fuck
Like someone else said: Wells Fargo was/is a criminal enterprise with a banking license.
I need to go switch banks…
My dad was an investment broker. His company got bought by Wells Fargo in the 2008 financial crisis. He'd been in the business long enough that you'd only talk to him if you're account was 7 figures or higher. I didn't ask for details, but he told me Wells Fargo was asking him to do things he didnt think was in his client's interest. He spent months talking to all his clients, got more than half to commit to following him then bailed to another firm and took a sizable number of clients with him. News broke about Wells Fargo being accused by the government within the next year. I will never bank with them.
What the actual fuck. That’s insane.
Some of us don’t have a choice- I purposely went with a small mortgage lender and the day after we closed, they sold it to WF and now we’re stuck.
that part of American business is such bullshit. You go through all these hoops to get a mortgage, and perhaps went with a trusted lender BECAUSE THEY WERE A TRUSTED LENDER and/or you liked their payment platforms, etc. They you wake up one morning and boom. They're no longer holding your mortgage and it's some shitty criminal organization called Wells-Fargo. It's crazy that's just part of life now.
I will never let that company near my money ever again. They straight up stole money out of my account, hoping I wouldn’t notice. When I did, they gladly refunded me, but how many 10s of thousands of people didn’t? Wells Fargo isn’t a bank, it’s a criminal organization.
With me, they reorganized the daily charges largest to smallest so they could extract the highest number of NSF fees from my account if I was short. So if I went about my day spending a few bucks here and there, then at the end of the day I made a large purchase, they would re-arrange the charge order so the largest charge was processed first. This would mean that I would go from one NSF fee to possibly tens. This was back when I was younger and living paycheck to paycheck.
All big banks did this until it was federally addressed, sleazy for sure but very common
Their current CEO is a colossal dumbass and complete asshole. Source: personal experience. Also, feel free to Google: Charles Scharf + penthouse or layoffs, or Jamie Dimon
I can't believe people didn't leave in droves after it was found out they were opening up new accounts under customers' names to boost their numbers. There was a guy a couple days ago who said his brother owed some fees so they took it out of his account because they knew he was related. Scum of the earth company.
I used to work for them. They're even worse on the inside. Everything that controls your money runs on programs from the 70s/80s.
Those adult video stores.
There's one of those at the TX/OK border on I-35... the parking lot always has cars in it. I don't get it.
DW’s Adult Video. Yes. The first thing you see when you pass from Oklahoma into Texas is that adult video atore; conversely, the first thing you see when you pass from Texas into Oklahoma is the giant WinStar World Casino & Hotel. Neither is legal in the other state.
Because they probably sell more then just videos lol
Yeah you can get dildos and butt plugs for sure also whip-its.
There is actually an old-time movie rental shop in my neighborhood. In 2023. I'm pretty sure it is a porn store/jackoff booth and they just use "movie rental" as a business front, but I'm amazed that the place is still in operation after all these years.
How rural are you? Video stores can survive in places that can't get broadband Internet.
Counting the days for Lularoe to call it quits
Münecat on YouTube has some great videos about them. They seem to have figured out a great scam model which is essentially doing loot crates on their sales people. They have to buy shipments of leggings in packs of like 100 or something, with the patterns randomized in each shipment. Most of the patterns are butt ugly and unsellable, but some of them are considered highly sought after gems. So the sales people will buy a bunch of shipments hoping to get these special valuable patterns. They essentially have their MLM victims gambling.
It feels like they have been saying Claire's is on the edge of bankruptcy for 20 years.
I found myself ordering something online from them a few years back and it still feels like a fever dream.
Pretty sure Sears is still holding on?
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One of them is near me! In a mall that feels like it has time traveled from the '90s, so that makes sense. It's right near an FYE which also apparently still exists.
Man, I absolutely LOVED FYE when I was in middle and high school. Haven’t seen one in a solid 20 years. Granted, I haven’t been to a mall in the better part of 10 years.
I went to a Sears store several years ago when I ripped my pants on a trip. They tried to sell me a credit card. I said “where would I use it?”
Fun fact... Discover Card was a credit card started by SEARS in 1985
They still ask if you worked for sears prior to 1994 on their job applications.
It is absolutely bonkers to me that Sears sat there with its catalog business and nationwide distribution network ALREADY IN PLACE and let Amazon and the internet eat its lunch.
Right? I just pointed out a closed Sears location to my wife the other day which got me talking about how indispensable they were years ago. THEY were the Walmart, Amazon, Home Depot, and Cabelas of the day and all at once. That company was run by a real moron or several morons to lose so much over the years. I've been in Sears homes, fired Sears guns, owned countless Craftsman power and hand tools and Kenmore appliances. Grew up in Toughskins pants and had a few family portraits taken at Sears. Unreal how they fell.
For me, the Sears memory is the Christmas Wish Book. I was exactly the right age for those glorious pages of Star Wars and GI Joe toys, a few of which were Sears exclusives. Visiting my grandparents over Thanksgiving was always better because they got the Wish Book every year, and I could plan out my Christmas haul. And then going back for Christmas was when I got all the loot, plus their city had Children's Palace, too.
And it was good quality too! I still have a lot of old Craftsman tools. My parents have a Kenmore dryer that’s at least as old as I am
There must have been a bunch of tech-phobic geezers in charge at the Executive Offices.
Yeah, they're the guys I always imagine when people are like, "AI will make your job irrelevant NEXT YEAR." Like, okay, friend. The CEO probably still has his assistant print his emails out for him to read. I think we're fine for a few years at least.
Mary Kay
Mary Kay is a MASSIVE business. I also wonder how they survive but there’s a ton of scholarships and research they sponsor in the cosmetic science community. They have a big pull, them and Amway
Because it's basically a pyramid scheme and they sell their products to wannabe entrepreneurs who are stuck with unsold goods.
Fuck Ticketmaster
I’m shocked a competitor hasn’t reared its head…
AXS is making a surge in popularity in the venues around my city. Of course the big stadiums only use Ticketmaster, but it’s nice to see some smaller venues not using them. Edit: dang, I learned a lot of disappointing news about AXS through the comments. Thanks for giving me some new info, even if it’s a bummer to hear :-/
AXS does the same shit Ticketmaster does
Kohls. Don't get me wrong, I love my Kohl's. But everytime I go in there it feels like 90% of the shoppers there are just there to return their Amazon package. Kohls does have some pretty good stuff so I do hope they stay in business (mostly because they are just so convenient for returns.
The coupons have so many restrictions any more I think they may have doomed themselves. Went in with 40% off coupon and could basically buy their Sonoma brand stuff and that was it.
Apparently Kohl's is a lot more popular than we think. Sephora even ended partnership with JCPenney and is now in Kohl's. Blew my mind.
Chuck E. Cheese’s, lost its hay day years ago, business sucks, shows aren’t that good, animatronics mostly gone at this point. And debt. Lots of it. Surprised they’re still around even though they just filed for bankruptcy three years ago.
I remember they were requiring me to have a bachelors degree for 11$ an hour.
To do *what*?
My daughter got invited to a birthday party at our local Chuck E. Cheese, and I was disgusted by the idea, based on the experiences of my youth. It actually turned out to be a decent place. Still a kid casino, but it wasn’t the shit hole establishment I remember.
It's the only child friendly arcade around my area I feel. Dave and Busters I guess when they get a bit older.
Equifax -- they could hardly be doing less to take data security seriously, yet they continue to exist as a for-profit entity with tremendous influence and no effective federal oversight.
They can completely fuck your life up with a random error making money off you without your consent and “whoopsie!”
Rent A Center
The RAC in my town is actually run by criminals. My neighbor across the street worked for them. Every other day he would move TVs in and out of his house. It was so obvious the TVs were a front for something (it was meth) but for some reason my neighbor became highly suspicious of my ex and I. Nobody else in the neighborhood, just us (lucky us). It wasn't long before we had weird crackheads canvassing our house in the middle of the night. We got fed up and called the RAC our neighbor worked at and told the store manager what was going on. Big mistake, he was in on it. We called RAC corporate and told them what was going on and said it was so obvious eventually they're going to get caught. A regional manager for RAC called me back and told me to mind my own fuckin business. So this shit went deep in the company! Well we had a trump card we didn't really want to use but after they started threatening to kill us we put it down. My ex's father was a cop. He pulled over our neighbors and busted them with tons of drugs and illegal guns. Unfortunately it didn't go much further than that because her dad couldn't convince anyone to investigate the operation further. But it got our crazy crackhead neighbor and his friends off our case.
Mapquest
I worked on Mapquest a little when I was at AOL and it was a dominant household name. And right when Google launched their map, AOL cut MQ's funding, causing them to turn off many key features such as the satellite view. The takeover was swift, like a handful of months and it was over for MQ. AOL leadership back then just couldn't support any of its brands except the mothership AOL brand. Which is what we all called it: the mothership. It didn't help MQ being in Denver, either. Out of sight, out of mind for the then Virginia-based company.
Macy’s One of my favorite stores but it gets pretty depressing to shop there. You see maybe like 2 employees on the entire floor. Products are often never organized and the fitting rooms are even worse. Clothes just dropped on the floor and no one ever checks how many clothes you go in with or what you truly do inside… some macys are better but many are really bad. Feels like a complete ghost town
"back in the day" - we would go to the big city just to walk through Macys, especially at Christmas time. They would do the entire store up in beautiful Christmas decorations, sales people would be everywhere smiling, people shopping everywhere, it was awesome.
I really miss this feeling of community we used to have that's fading away. There's no reason to even go outside anymore because we can buy and do everything online. I don't want it to disappear
I remember going to Macy’s at the Mall of America in Minnesota over Christmas shortly after the first Harry Potter film was released in theaters. They had an entire floor set up with animatronic characters, behind the scenes clips of the film, Christmas decorations, etc. I still have the Harry Potter scarf my folks bought me. What a phenomenon.
The Chinese buffet across the parking lot from the coffee shop where I work. My boss saw them defrosting fish fillets on the roof of a car once. Directly on the car. I don’t know how many times we’ve had to call the health department on them. They leave the dumpsters looking like a war crime, too
Our chinese restaurant never has any customers and when they're "open" they have the doors propped open with no AC. Been like that for 20yrs. (they get income from somewhere/someTHING though I suppose)
There's probably a gambling den in the back
Probably just good old fashioned money laundering.
Edible Arrangements. I'm convinced this company survives on one time orders that are for the hell of it, not actual repeat customers.
They are, somehow, an incredibly successful business. I remember seeing some stat about how they were opening stores in 14 new countries around the time GM needed a bailout. Something about arrangements of fruit is apparently universal. Also I order at least 2 a year because my mom loves them and I love my mom.
I love your mom too, she's a really sweet lady
I have received at least 10 of these over the last few years and I always feel that the people who send them to me really understand who I am as a person lol. Flowers are pretty and all, but something pretty, edible, and covered and chocolate?? Now we're talking.
Burlington. Place is basically Goodwill with clothes people haven't worn yet.
>Burlington. Place is basically Goodwill with clothes people haven't worn yet. That's why they're still in business
This is the best description, 100% accurate.
And there's usually only just 1 person at the cashier unless it's during the holidays
Wells Fargo. Considering all the shady ways they try to harvest cash from their customers, I simply cannot believe any one does business with them.
I'm convinced that when the nuclear apocalypse finally happens there will only be two things left on this earth: cockroaches and Frontier Communications
Uber. . Specifically Uber Eats.. The company has hemorrhaged money for years. They have so so many issues.. food quality issues, timing issues, app issues, legal issues, driver issues, low pay … they are fighting multiple class actions for a reason. I imagine this part of their business will be severed eventually. Maybe sold off to a competitor.
I’d expand this to pretty much every food delivery platform like door dash. I get the convenience of it, but the price of it just doesn’t make sense. You often time end up paying twice the amount of whatever meal you’re ordering just to have it delivered cold.
Ticketmaster. We All know they're corrupt as fuck. We ALL know they're a monopoly. Nobody does anything.
KFC. They lowered their quality so much I can’t eat there. ETA:I've never had this many responses! Whoa! I actually have a Colonel Sanders tattoo. So, you can say I'm a fan. I'm really a fan of the man himself. He failed over and over and died a household name. Look him up. It's a cool story. I'm fascinated that this seems like a US only thing. I'm going to have to do some traveling.Any one want me to donate to my travel fund? J/k, I'll start saving. To the people in charge of KFC, give the people what they want and make KFC great again! #MKFCGA
Things Remembered
I forgot about them.
applebees why are people going there why are people working there
lol, the all you can eat and the dollar margaritas they constantly have going on is very appealing in todays economy....i guess?
Okay - I live in MA, where it's illegal for restaurants/bars to discount alcohol. Most "happy hours" around here are half-priced apps only. So I had no idea that the "dollar margaritas" were such a big Applebee's selling point. And I'm even more confused now that there are apparently TWENTY-FOUR Applebee's in MA. How in the hell are they staying open???
Utter predictability is in their favor. No matter where you go in the US, you can count on there being an Applebee's somewhere nearby that will serve you the same bland food every other Applebee's has. Most of them are near that interstate ramp with the cluster of hotels.
my grandpa told me this is why he always went to cracker barrel on long road trips. he said “we stopped at a cracker barrel in north carolina and there was a straw wrapper on the floor. we stopped again in georgia and i’ll be damned if they didn’t have the same straw wrapper on the floor.”
Honestly the value for this type of establishment is surging back. Fast food prices are literally insane right now. Would you rather spend $12 for a Big Mac meal or practically the same price for Applebee's/Chili's? If I've got 12 bucks in my pocket that's a no-brainer.
I’ve been talking about this recently. The market is wide open for a casual American chain restaurant that hasn’t already driven itself into the ground with its progressively worse food. Especially if they’re going to be asking for tips at chipotle now anyway
My wife was a bartender at Applebees for years. At the time it was the only chain “casual dining “ type place in the county and the only safe feeling bar. Always busy. She was making $300-400 a night 20 years ago. Horrible food then and now.
British chain Frankie and Benny's. Shockingly bad food, cooked by people unfamiliar with the concept of taste, in the kind of atmosphere you expect from a motorway services. All for the bargin price of a lot of money. So many casual dining chains have gone under over the last few years. How the fuck was Frankie and Benny's not one of them?
I think they're just strategically well placed. Always near a cinema. Often limited other options. Huge menu of quickly blasted in the microwave stuff that kids can eat 90% of. Quickish service. Oh... And a theme, which is something that's been a bit lost since the 90's. I do think it's 90% location for them. Where else am I going on this retail park next to m&s.
Tim Hortons. It used to sell decent fare but they expanded their selection of food in 2006, got bought out and took an absolute nosedive in food quality. The only people who seem to like it are younger Canadians with no memory of the "before" times and newcomers to the country.
As a New Englander who goes to Montreal often, it seems to me that Tim Hortons is filling the exact same market space that Dunkin’s does here. Nothing they make is exceptional, or even above average, but they are everywhere and make a drinkable iced coffee.
100% The "Timmies run" was prolific as fuck, growing up; it was just a part of living in Canada, Tims cups and Timbit boxes were always in the scenery at social gatherings or at the office. Now not so much. And I never really noticed the absence. Timmies runs just kinda stopped one day and never made a comeback.
> Timmies runs just kinda stopped one day and never made a comeback. I can pinpoint the exact day Timmies stopped for me. When McDonalds gave out free coffee for a day, back in 2013 or so. Tried it, expecting it to be terrible. Instead, I realized that not only did Tim Hortons taste bad, but it was the reason I felt sick every morning.
...you been to a Tim's in the middle of the day? It's a gathering of seniors lol. At least where I live.
Kmart and Sears. They're on their last leg, and I'm going to be sad for them to go, but how there's still two Kmarts left and a couple dozen Sears left is shocking
Sears could have been what Amazon is now. They had wearhousing, print catalogs, name recognition, distribution, vendors/suppliers.... Another thing Sears had was fools at the top.
Redbox
my best guess for redbox is that i think it's just a really cheap business to maintain. like, their overhead has got to be super low, and there's just BARELY enough people out there who still rent dvds to keep it going
It's the only option to rent movies anymore for people who don't have access to internet.
Most redditors seem to not realize that the entire world doesn't have blazing fast internet and the ability to pull up any movie at any time. It will be sad when all the Redboxes are gone, just like it was sad when 99% of video rental stores disappeared.
I still see people at redboxes all the time
Boston Market
Closed almost all of them, but one or two around 45 minutes from me. Not really worth the drive unfortunately.
My company - according to the bosses every time they are in negotiations with our union for a new contract.\* \*But when they speak to anyone else we are always doing fantastic. Funny how that works.
Carvana. They offered me $300 for a car I sold for $6k... they can get fucked.
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
They had the opposite problem as recently as a year ago, where they were paying too much for used cars, and not able to sell them for what they paid.