We live in a capitalist dystopia
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On one hand, I genuinely believe that openly endorsing a specific candidate for office is something an ostensibly objective news source should not be doing, and ought to have been made outright illegal under the Fairness Doctrine. (You know, in the interest of fairness. 
) On the other hand, the timing for this could not possibly have been a worse look for them.
) On the other hand, the timing for this could not possibly have been a worse look for them.
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Did you know that the reason the McFlurry machines were always broken was due to DMCA?
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So good news for anyone who still goes to McDonald's, assuming that the store managers will be willing to pay for repairs.
McDonald’s finally has a solution to their busted McFlurry machine problem | CNN Business
A broken McDonald’s McFlurry machine, which is arguably one of life’s greatest nuisances, has finally been solved thanks to a court ruling.
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So good news for anyone who still goes to McDonald's, assuming that the store managers will be willing to pay for repairs.
What does Samsung think is the issue with their Exynos chipsets? Those lazy engineers limited to only 52 hours a week!
"Our chipset's lower quality is obviously the result of our engineers being allowed to waste their time engaging in nonsense like 'eating', 'sleeping', and 'being with their families'. Everyone knows that exhausted workers are the most productive workers."
It's like we are going back to the old-style of general store. You pick what you want out of the catalog and the clerk goes and gets it for you. They blame theft, but the real reason is they think it will pad their profit margins my some minuscule amount.
I'm not following your logic. How does locking up toys pad their profit margins other than by minimizing theft? If anything, it seems like this will lower sales (and therefore profits) by discouraging in-store customers from making a purchase because they now have to jump through the extra hoop of needing to seek out someone to open the case.
It's also gonna make it so much worse for the employees, who will have to drop whatever they're doing to open the cases while some impatient Karen yells at them about something beyond their control, then get grief from managers about not finishing their previous task quickly enough.
Well, the employees have to do something now that they've gotten rid of paid cashiers and gone to full self-checkout.
This feels like a "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" kind of solution.
Yeah, it'll do a lot to stop theft, but it won't completely stop it. And it adds a huge level of inconvenience and annoyance to the customer base while at the same time causing problems with your already understaffed stores.
Like, I can see the logic behind this, but I just really wish someone had thought this through a bit more.
Yeah, it'll do a lot to stop theft, but it won't completely stop it. And it adds a huge level of inconvenience and annoyance to the customer base while at the same time causing problems with your already understaffed stores.
Like, I can see the logic behind this, but I just really wish someone had thought this through a bit more.
They saw the next quarters profits go up a tiny bit: thought ends there.
The question becomes, will the lowered theft rates compensate for the lower sales from people who don't think it worthwhile to hunt down an employee for a toy. Toys are often impulse buys, something you (or your kid) grabs and throws in the cart because, eh, why not, this looks like some harmless fun. Having to get someone to get it for you takes the impulse out of it.
Not to mention the annoyance of toys shipped in assortments, which the customer can't look through to find the ones they want. If I see all the pegs full of first wave Transformers while I'm looking for the third or fourth, is it worth the effort of getting the case opened, or am I just gonna shrug and move on? (Let's not even go into the Hot Wheels Guys who are there every day.....)
Not to mention the annoyance of toys shipped in assortments, which the customer can't look through to find the ones they want. If I see all the pegs full of first wave Transformers while I'm looking for the third or fourth, is it worth the effort of getting the case opened, or am I just gonna shrug and move on? (Let's not even go into the Hot Wheels Guys who are there every day.....)
Didn't say it would work, but that's the reasoning they will give. I'm of the mind that if you treat all your customers as criminals, eventually that's the only type of customers you'll have left