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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: McGiver on January 06, 2012, 09:49:44 AM
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Their are a lot of costs to the low prices.
Fuck them
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Retail sucks ass. :thumbdn:
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Don't have 'Walmart's'
reckon its a bit like poundland
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Don't have 'Walmart's'
reckon its a bit like poundland
Actually, Poundland is more comparable to Dollar Tree (where everything is sold for 1 USD).
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Don't have 'Walmart's'
reckon its a bit like poundland
Walmart owns Asda, although I'm not sure how similar the shops are.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember someone telling me that Americans bought houses out of Walmart. I don't mean as an Estate Agent, but they would buy a plot of land, and then go and buy the house in kit form out of Walmart.
Those funny Americans with their strange customs :laugh:
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It's fun going to poundland (yes where everything is a pound) and trying to barter, say offering 99p :zoinks:
The staff are no fun, and have little patience. :zoinks:
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Don't have 'Walmart's'
reckon its a bit like poundland
Walmart owns Asda, although I'm not sure how similar the shops are.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember someone telling me that Americans bought houses out of Walmart. I don't mean as an Estate Agent, but they would buy a plot of land, and then go and buy the house in kit form out of Walmart.
Those funny Americans with their strange customs :laugh:
It wasn't WalMart, but Sears and Roebucks in the late 19th and early 20th century. This model cost between $1,548 and $1,845 dollars.
(http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/images/1908-1914/1911_0158_small.jpg)
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Didn't know about Asda. There is not one round here. I had no idea they were that big.
I use Tesco.
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Don't have 'Walmart's'
reckon its a bit like poundland
Walmart owns Asda, although I'm not sure how similar the shops are.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember someone telling me that Americans bought houses out of Walmart. I don't mean as an Estate Agent, but they would buy a plot of land, and then go and buy the house in kit form out of Walmart.
Those funny Americans with their strange customs :laugh:
It wasn't WalMart, but Sears and Roebucks in the late 19th and early 20th century. This model cost between $1,548 and $1,845 dollars.
(http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/images/1908-1914/1911_0158_small.jpg)
That house looks lovely. I had visions of the houses being one step up from a garden shed, but I could happily live in something like that.
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Don't have 'Walmart's'
reckon its a bit like poundland
Walmart owns Asda, although I'm not sure how similar the shops are.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember someone telling me that Americans bought houses out of Walmart. I don't mean as an Estate Agent, but they would buy a plot of land, and then go and buy the house in kit form out of Walmart.
Those funny Americans with their strange customs :laugh:
Yes you can do that at some of them. Walmart is like a super store. You can get everything there. Everything. Food, computers, lawn fertilizer, clothes, haircuts, houses. It's huge. There are actually other stores inside walmart, there are like 5 other stores inside at the one by my house. I go there because it's the cheapest place in town. I dont make enough money to care about it, really. But I agree they are scum.
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Agreed, that house is very appealing.
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I wonder how many trips it took to carry the kit home. :P
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I wonder how many trips it took to carry the kit home. :P
It was shipped by rail and then hauled by horse and wagon to the site. I imagine most were put together by local carpenters.
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I wonder how many trips it took to carry the kit home. :P
It was shipped by rail and then hauled by horse and wagon to the site. I imagine most were put together by local carpenters.
Unless the homeowner was capable of assembling it himself, he had help either from local carpenters or in some cases the neighbors got together and helped the homeowner. Everything was precut to fit and labelled for reasonably easy assembly.
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I wonder how many trips it took to carry the kit home. :P
It was shipped by rail and then hauled by horse and wagon to the site. I imagine most were put together by local carpenters.
Unless the homeowner was capable of assembling it himself, he had help either from local carpenters or in some cases the neighbors got together and helped the homeowner. Everything was precut to fit and labelled for reasonably easy assembly.
Yeah, a kind of Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzle.
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Here's some more information on this model.
(http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/images/1908-1914/1911_0158.jpg)
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Here's some more information on this model.
(http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/images/1908-1914/1911_0158.jpg)
I do like that. It kinda reminds me of the old plantation houses you see in the Carribean.
I wonder if many of those old kit houses are still lived in.
Ive always liked old houses. So much better built than the modern ones, at least over here.
I own a house that is almost 200 years old. Its modernised, but it still has a working outdoors toilet :laugh:
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Working as in the hole in the ground hasn't been filled up yet? :LOL:
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Working as in the hole in the ground hasn't been filled up yet? :LOL:
It flushes, but I only ever used it once. I was drunk and needed to pee, but the indoor bathroom was in use.
Its full of creepy crawlies YUK.
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Wow, that reminds me of old days at summer camp. There were outdoor toilets and they were seriously nasty.
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thats the reason i don't go to music festivals anymore
- the toilet's.
i need a clean loo, with the seat down. i hate it when men leave the bloody thing up! it is my pet hate.
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That house even has a servant's room. Once upon a time Walmart had class.
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That house even has a servant's room. Once upon a time Walmart had class.
It was Sears that sold houses like those, not Walmart.
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Ah, for some reason I interpreted QV's post as "Sears and Roebucks later turned into Walmart" but that doesn't make any sense in retrospect.
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Toilets are pretty skanky
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thats the reason i don't go to music festivals anymore
- the toilet's.
i need a clean loo, with the seat down. i hate it when men leave the bloody thing up! it is my pet hate.
just for the sake of argument, takes two seconds for us to look and pick it up when you leave it down, why cant you take the two seconds it takes to look and put it down again, i can understand if its one man and 4 girls in a household but otherwise why the fuck!?
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thats the reason i don't go to music festivals anymore
- the toilet's.
i need a clean loo, with the seat down. i hate it when men leave the bloody thing up! it is my pet hate.
just for the sake of argument, takes two seconds for us to look and pick it up when you leave it down, why cant you take the two seconds it takes to look and put it down again, i can understand if its one man and 4 girls in a household but otherwise why the fuck!?
because in the middle of the night, we fall in
SPLASH !
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Sears Magnolia
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/rosethornil/Website_Photos/Magnolia_Piedmont_AL.jpg)
Here's more:
http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/tag/aladdin-catalog/ (http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/tag/aladdin-catalog/)
They really were nice homes, many of them have stood the test of time too.
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Sears Magnolia
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/rosethornil/Website_Photos/Magnolia_Piedmont_AL.jpg)
Here's more:
http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/tag/aladdin-catalog/ (http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/tag/aladdin-catalog/)
They really were nice homes, many of them have stood the test of time too.
Yes. I looked at the link, and some of them are even made out of brick.
They look a lot nicer than most of the houses in N.Ireland.
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Clarification....
Just because sears at one time sold nice looking homes that does not mean that walmart is good for anybody but themselves.
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i need a clean loo, with the seat down. i hate it when men leave the bloody thing up! it is my pet hate.
I keep my bathroom clean, and always close the lid.
I am the perfect man :M
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It's not just Walmart a lot of big retail places suck to work at so do a lot of big companies in general
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:indeed:
Maybe mass-market crap will go the way of TV and individualistic things, along with the internet, will be the next big trend.
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:indeed:
Maybe mass-market crap will go the way of TV and individualistic things, along with the internet, will be the next big trend.
I thought TV was still extremely popular and that the Internet was extremely trendy. :dunno:
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That's what I get for attempting to sound intellectual at the end of a long day. :nerdy:
I meant that TV and the internet seem to set the tone of people's interactions with media, and the more technology improves, the more it allows for individualized content. Like in the first days of TV there were only a few channels and advertizing had to be aimed at an audience of everyone. Now there's a bazillion cable channels and things can be more focused. Even more than that, the internet lets ads be targeted based on a single person's interests. Not that it's an upcoming trend, but it will shape upcoming trends. Both in the direction of more interactivity and more individualism. Even in business. The current trend being megacorporations squeezing out independent small stores, because they can be cheaper and more efficient, but I think that it's going to swing in the other direction, with people having more and more ability to sell things online and undercut the middleman.
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Peoples interests change over the course of their life. If they are only advertised to according to their interests how do they become exposed to something new?
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That is my confusion about walmart. They are just the middleman. All they do is sell space. Empty, vast space. They are simply a place for the manufacture and the consumer to meet. Yet, they wield sooo much influence on both.
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Aren't most? A place to meet can be a powerful thing for consumers and manufacturers alike.