A consumer thread

[Lord Chevy]

I don't eat at Denny's, so this doesn't impact me. But, once again, we see the bean counters doing all the wrong things in response to problems:







Denny’s Closing 150 Restaurants over Next Year, Reducing Menu

Denny's used to be a solid diner experience. But, with all the transfat rules, and bean counters running the business, quality has suffered greatly. Same with so many other reliable chains.

 

[Deus Irae]

Denny's used to be a solid diner experience. But, with all the transfat rules, and bean counters running the business, quality has suffered greatly. Same with so many other reliable chains.

Yeah.... The bean counter takeover of large companies is killing a lot of businesses. That's part of why we see so many companies being gobbled up by the megacorps, as the megacorps look for ways to overcome the declines in their formerly strong businesses (Disney's a great example of this).

 

[Lord Chevy]

Yeah.... The bean counter takeover of large companies is killing a lot of businesses. That's part of why we see so many companies being gobbled up by the megacorps, as the megacorps look for ways to overcome the declines in their formerly strong businesses (Disney's a great example of this).

You're Disney, you own Marvel, you own LucasFilms, the rights to WB Cartoons (IIRC). Your mine went from Gold to Platinum to Vibranium!

And you send the mining crew in there with instructions to find some damn copper, never mind the rest!

 

[HSanders]

I gave my ex-to-be some grocery coupons. he hates coupons like the plague but I said dude this one coupon is for $12 off a $125 grocery order. it's worth it . And now that we're not together anymore he actually takes my advice sometimes ha ha. so he texts me a picture of this ground beef he bought. it's $7 and fucking 50 cents a pound for ground beef !!!what the actual fuck??? I have not eaten beef in about 30 years but Jesus Christ! 7.50 a pound!what the hell is in it? platinum??

 

[Lord Chevy]

I used to buy a value pack of strip steaks - 5 thick cut choice grade -for about $25 a year ago ... Same pack is now closer to $35

 

[Deus Irae]

@everyone Attention Costco shoppers:

Costco has recalled multiple food items due to listeria concerns.

Costco Announces Recalls On Multiple Food Items

 

[Deus Irae]

Any thoughts on this:

 

[Deus Irae]

Lawsuit making more public one of the reasons the price of beef has become ridiculously high

 

[Lord Chevy]

View: https://youtu.be/7wXDhAYl62w

 

[Deus Irae]

Spoiler: Warning: This is a consumer issue and problem, but it is also very political

When the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine was hacked in early October, it looked at first like just another email-and-password smash-and-grab. But that was followed up by repeated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that crippled the service. The Internet Archive was hit again on Oct. 20, "this time with the threat actors gaining access to their Zendesk support email system."

The Wayback Machine came back but as a read-only service. What that means is, while you can search archived webpages from before the attacks, "you can’t currently capture an existing web page into the archive."

That matters bigly. When the New York Times, Washington Post, or anyone else stealth-edits a news report to hide the truth, you could still find the original on the Wayback Machine. That's no longer true. "For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time – since October 8-10 – since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time," the Brownstone Institute reported this week...

...But it gets worse.

Google killed off its cache feature — similar to the Wayback Machine — right around the time the Internet Archive got hacked. Coincidence? Probably. But I'm making a tinfoil hat, just in case.

The White House just got caught altering Presidentish Joe Biden's "garbage" remarks. "Nothing to see here," Sean Davis quipped, "just the Biden-Harris administration deliberately falsifying federal records."

They got caught this time, and sources like X still have the original video. But what happens next time, when some politician or MSM editor waits until the furor dies down before making their stealth edit — and there's no Wayback Machine to catch them?...

The Internet Is Getting Flushed Down Orwell's Memory Hole

 

[Lord Guts]

I started a side hustle
Setup an LLC
and got EIN # as well
Starting to build business credit without using my social currently what vendors do you guys recommend

 

[HSanders]

I started a side hustle
Setup an LLC
and got EIN # as well
Starting to build business credit without using my social currently what vendors do you guys recommend

what type of business?

 

[Lord Mayo]

I started a side hustle
Setup an LLC
and got EIN # as well
Starting to build business credit without using my social currently what vendors do you guys recommend

human trafficking across the border?

you hiring?

 

[Lord Guts]

what type of business?

Ecommerce , software service and app development

 

[Lord Guts]

human trafficking across the border?

you hiring?

You can be our mule

 

[Lord Chevy]

Ecommerce , software service and app development

Learn the Indian accent of English, Indian accent resources, Audio Study Syllabus, Accents for Actors

To learn the Indian accent, first find the voice placement. Put on headphones & speak simultaneously with this short clip.

www.thevoicecafe.net

 

[Deus Irae]

US central bankers slashed their key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point as they seek to keep the US economy on solid footing in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s blowout election victory.

As the Federal Reserve disclosed the widely expected rate cut — its latest attempt to prop up the US job market while tamping down inflation — the central bank said it believes “the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance.”

The Fed’s Open Market Committee, however, removed a line from its previous statement saying it has “greater confidence” that inflation is moving sustainably toward its long-term target of 2%. The committee added that it believes it has “made progress” toward its inflation goal...

Fed cuts interest rates a quarter point after Trump election victory

 

[Deus Irae]

This deserves so many face palms that I'm just going to leave the link and hope people read the whole article:



Costco forced to recall 80,000 pounds of butter for the dumbest possible reason

 

[Deus Irae]

Heads up on this, just in case it applies to you (in other words, in case you made a purchase):

 

[Lord Chevy]

This deserves so many face palms that I'm just going to leave the link and hope people read the whole article:



Costco forced to recall 80,000 pounds of butter for the dumbest possible reason

Well, we do have vegans bitching at BBQ owners for serving meat, idiots using Gorilla Glue as hair glue ... Are we really surprised that folks today don't know that butter has milk in it?