Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later[^][v]#873,466
maybe if they used a correctly oriented R, people could find them with non-Cyrillic keyboards
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#873,470
@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
Unfortunately, not even Russian bots can save them now.
Meta joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#873,473
I think Walmart was to blame much more than Amazon. People say Amazon killed bricks and mortar retail but Walmart is still going strong. Why go to Toys Я Us when you can just go to Walmart and get toys, groceries, a new pair of jeans, an AR-15, get your taxes done, sign up for Obamacare, and get new tires and an oil change all under one roof?
It's like in the olden days you had to go to the butcher, the baker, the brewer, the greengrocer, the dry goods shop and they were all separate stores. Until the supermarket put them all under one roof and killed them off.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 14 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#873,484
@previous (Meta)
Why do you need to go to Walmart to get your taxes done??
Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#873,485
@873,473 (Meta)
Is it weird that I flashed on the CostCo scene from Idiocracy while reading that?
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chili dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 16 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,486
Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 9 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,489
@previous (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
They do seem to be the way of the future.
Meta wasn't wrong about supermarkets. There are certain goods that you rely upon being able to go out and find immediately without the help of the Internet. Whether it's toilet paper and clean water or smokes and beer, there is a certain amount of stuff that people will always need from a local source. Retail won't die because you always need to run to the local dépanneur for Little Debbie snack cakes or enough Sprite to not care about hunger anymore.
Depressionman !KkOvSBFXwk joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 8 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,492
Running out of toy stores to frolic through, Joshy?
Depressionman !iAYoMftFR2 joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 7 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,493
@873,473 (Meta)
People who appreciate qualitgy still go to individual specialsts. Why would I want some crappy pork from Walmart, butchered by some high school student who is doing an untrained summer job, when I could get it right from the farm, butchered by a lifelong expert in butchery?
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 15 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,495
If you buy your potatoes from a large superstore and not hand picked from your local potatery, I genuinely pity you.
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Depressionman !iAYoMftFR2 replied with this 8 years ago, 24 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,496
They are closing because of their bad grammar. The name should be: We Are Toys.
chili dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,497
@873,489 (C)
You're right. I just hate being inside them, the fluorescent lighting and something about the atmosphere just makes me feel horrible.
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 8 years ago, 24 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,499
I don't like it when the retail space is bright and with mirrors and it just reminds me that I'm not looking very good and stick out like a thumb that doesn't belong in there in others' minds
Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,518
@873,497 (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
I think you're right. There is something about the atmosphere of those stores that just oozes inevitability. If you want to put it in Marxist terms, they'll be the last ones against wall, at the mercy of the masses, when the revolution comes. How dare they withhold the basics of survival from the people? Find me a prepper that doesn't think they'll be the first to conquer their local Walmart. Can't they see that they are the first to go, locally, in a social collapse?
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 31 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#873,522
@873,473 (Meta)
Wal-Mart usually has a shit collection of toys in comparison to Toys R Us.