A lot of them these days. Why? Because they are so short staffed and people are such assholes that it is impossible for them to be kept neat.
I remember going into a classic department store (not naming the name) and it looked like a small tornado had gone through. There was nothing I wanted to look at there, nothing.
Another reason is just overall decline in product quality. Some people have finally started to realize it is better to up the quality and the cost and not have to replace it next month. But that’s difficult in this economy.
I know it’s not everyone, even everyone here, but I take a modicum of pride in spending a bit more from someone localish. Someone who made the item with pride. or even Pride depending. And even if I am not buying it I make an effort to tell them how well done it is and even recommend to others if I can.
Okay, I got off topic, LOL. But the principal of that ‘isle’ of whatever at Marshalls or Kohls or Home Goods is the same.
@Cerridwyn@tinamarie1974@yakkoTDI But the new @Mediocrebot that can write actual English, seems to favor ordinary white folks, and doesn’t create wild and colorful backdrops, is a new kind of a**hole.
@Cerridwyn@ItalianScallion@mediocrebot@tinamarie1974@yakkoTDI More … beauty-ist? It seems to show different races and nationalities but they all seem to have the same sort of bone structure, aquiline noses and high cheekbones, etc. And really skinny.
@fibrs86@jouest
Yep… Another vote for the “aisle of shame”. Bought a raclette cooker a while back and often my garden clogs on clearance there.
And even better is the stuff they move from that into a basket/cart (with quarter inserted) and markdown more. I bought three wine dispenser/aerators there recently for a small fraction of what they would have cost if I bought them from the 'Zon.
Has anyone ever been to a Lidl in the US? (It’s a German discount supermarket chain in Europe.) The ones in Italy that I’ve been in are just like Aldi and yes, have an aisle of shame.
We have one called m59 deals, it’s like a liquidation store without the bins (basically stuff you’d find at meh but more) but everything’s set up on shelf’s and priced. Besides that we have 2 liquidation stores within 5 miles.
@narfcake You weren’t asking for a solution, but I’m going to share my partial fix anyway. I discovered only recently; it might work for others.
I borrow from tomorrow with a dose of caffeine.
It does not give me social energy, it just loans it to me; I have to pay it back the next day (or later that afternoon/evening).
Also, it doesn’t make the people any less peopley, it just makes me feel like I have more energy to cope with it.
This …
probably only works because I’m not normally caffeinated
does not necessarily work two days in a row
depends a lot on how long I have to spend in the high-social setting.
Ocean State Job Lot up here in New England. Lots and lots of low-quality, sometimes no-name, random stuff from everywhere. Food items are especially strange, for example, all kinds of potato chips and other crunchy stuff with weird flavors and from weird places. (The 2x6 inch crispy sheets of potato from Latvia were pretty good!)
@jouest@troy I wasn’t thinking it could actually be Meh or be a Meh supplier, but yeah: weird food with weird origins and brands, women’s makeup, garden stuff (hose nozzles!), awful clothes, pool floaties, plates and cups, small appliances, holiday-themed junk, a random selection of automotive and hardware items, and empty shelves from sold-out one-time purchases (no, the shelves aren’t for sale).
@ItalianScallion If New England was on my radar, it would sound interesting aye.
Sometimes that stuff really surprises me. I’m less likely to try random flavored stuff than I used to be, but just reading the labels sometimes …
And you never know.
There is a Martinelli’s outlet up in Watsonville. I discovered it just before I fled the Central Coast back for my desert home. The most interesting item there was not weird per se. But the labels were in Korean. Apparently Korea buys a lot of apple stuff from Martinelli. And when they have overstock you can buy it really cheap there
@Kyeh There are many locations near where I live and they keep opening more. Once in a while I find a treasure there. As a night owl, I like that they are open late.
@heartny@Kyeh I quit Burlington Coat Factory (not that I shopped there much anyway) when they were busted using dog fur as trim on their coats in the 90’s. They said they were “duped” but IDGAF. I hold grudges for shit like this..
Plus I haven’t used Exxon (and now Mobil) since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster…
@heartny@llangley
Oh, that’s horrible. I don’t like having any sort of real animal fur on clothes. Online though it looks like they now mostly have light clothing and home decor and stuff.
Plus I haven’t used Exxon (and now Mobil) since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster…
Same with me! I still remember the pictures of the oil-soaked birds and marine mammals. It’s one of the few long-term grudges I hold. I’d like to say Nestle is in the same category for me for their unethical and immoral promotion of baby formula in countries that didn’t have clean drinking water, but it’s hard to even know sometimes that you’re buying one of their products.
Does anyone remember Cost Plus, when it was in San Francisco before it turned into World Market? I used to love going there to find cheap Japanese wrapping paper and cat mugs and dragon kites and stuff.
@Kyeh Yup, was one near my parent’s house. Similar stuff but before it became trendy and expensive.
Also Trader Joe’s then was kind of a clearance store and got a lot of really good deals on food and wine. Things you’d never seen before at good prices. Usually one “lot” of it and then it would be gone. If it was good you went back to buy a bunch of it (wine) because others were doing the same thing, and it would be sold-out tomorrow. Let’s say there might have been wine tasting in cars in the parking lot.
A lot of them these days. Why? Because they are so short staffed and people are such assholes that it is impossible for them to be kept neat.
I remember going into a classic department store (not naming the name) and it looked like a small tornado had gone through. There was nothing I wanted to look at there, nothing.
Another reason is just overall decline in product quality. Some people have finally started to realize it is better to up the quality and the cost and not have to replace it next month. But that’s difficult in this economy.
I know it’s not everyone, even everyone here, but I take a modicum of pride in spending a bit more from someone localish. Someone who made the item with pride. or even Pride depending. And even if I am not buying it I make an effort to tell them how well done it is and even recommend to others if I can.
Okay, I got off topic, LOL. But the principal of that ‘isle’ of whatever at Marshalls or Kohls or Home Goods is the same.
@Cerridwyn but, but, but Meh employees are not assholes.
@Cerridwyn @tinamarie1974 One of them is.
@Cerridwyn @yakkoTDI oh I forgot about THAT one…
@Cerridwyn @tinamarie1974 @yakkoTDI But the new @Mediocrebot that can write actual English, seems to favor ordinary white folks, and doesn’t create wild and colorful backdrops, is a new kind of a**hole.
@Cerridwyn @ItalianScallion @mediocrebot @yakkoTDI
Did I miss something? Is it racist?
@Cerridwyn @ItalianScallion @mediocrebot @tinamarie1974 @yakkoTDI
Probably a sex predator as well.
@Cerridwyn @mediocrebot @tinamarie1974 @yakkoTDI I wouldn’t say racist, but maybe limited in the data it uses to create images of people, at least in the examples I’ve seen so far.
@Cerridwyn @ItalianScallion @mediocrebot @tinamarie1974 @yakkoTDI More … beauty-ist? It seems to show different races and nationalities but they all seem to have the same sort of bone structure, aquiline noses and high cheekbones, etc. And really skinny.
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @mediocrebot @tinamarie1974 @yakkoTDI OK, here are a few tests using the names of some of my old orders…
/showme slow-black-gunslinger
/showme raging-numerical-conjurer
/showme ancient-offbeat-police
@mediocrebot A Prussian helmet and a shield(?) with the Star of David on it? What is this?
There was this one store in Texas that was pretty Meh.
That weird non food aisle in Aldi.
Ollie’s is also similar.
@fibrs86 Ollie’s is just Meh for people without interest access.
@fibrs86 *internet!
@fibrs86 @jouest
Yep… Another vote for the “aisle of shame”. Bought a raclette cooker a while back and often my garden clogs on clearance there.
And even better is the stuff they move from that into a basket/cart (with quarter inserted) and markdown more. I bought three wine dispenser/aerators there recently for a small fraction of what they would have cost if I bought them from the 'Zon.
@chienfou @fibrs86 @jouest My 4 dining room upholstered chairs came from that aisle at Aldi!
@chienfou @fibrs86 @jouest @pmarin I bought a crocodile pool float in that aisle for something like $5!
Has anyone ever been to a Lidl in the US? (It’s a German discount supermarket chain in Europe.) The ones in Italy that I’ve been in are just like Aldi and yes, have an aisle of shame.
nobody mention Five Below. we aren’t speaking right now.
@jouest I came here to say just that!!!
@jouest @tinamarie1974
Why aren’t you?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 they know what they did
@jouest @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 But I don’t. I love me a good gruge, I just need to know what it’s about.
@jouest @tinamarie1974 @xobzoo
Yeah, me too!
@jouest @Kyeh @xobzoo AGREE
@jouest @tinamarie1974 @xobzoo
But WHY?
@jouest I finally went into a Five Below a few months ago after seeing them popping up.
It’s Big Lots for tweens.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @xobzoo
I forget what we were talking about!!
oh well, it was probably nothing.
@jouest @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 They sold you something for $6?
@Kyeh @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 unfortunately their pricing is indeed now “five dollars and below and up.” all positive integers seem to be fair game.
@jouest @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 Ohhh.
We have one called m59 deals, it’s like a liquidation store without the bins (basically stuff you’d find at meh but more) but everything’s set up on shelf’s and priced. Besides that we have 2 liquidation stores within 5 miles.
All of them? It too peopley.
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/people-are-exhausting-remix
@narfcake You weren’t asking for a solution, but I’m going to share my partial fix anyway. I discovered only recently; it might work for others.
I borrow from tomorrow with a dose of caffeine.
It does not give me social energy, it just loans it to me; I have to pay it back the next day (or later that afternoon/evening).
Also, it doesn’t make the people any less peopley, it just makes me feel like I have more energy to cope with it.
This …
I am not a doctor, YMMV, &c.
Ocean State Job Lot up here in New England. Lots and lots of low-quality, sometimes no-name, random stuff from everywhere. Food items are especially strange, for example, all kinds of potato chips and other crunchy stuff with weird flavors and from weird places. (The 2x6 inch crispy sheets of potato from Latvia were pretty good!)
@ItalianScallion hey @troy this feels like a field trip
@jouest @troy I wasn’t thinking it could actually be Meh or be a Meh supplier, but yeah: weird food with weird origins and brands, women’s makeup, garden stuff (hose nozzles!), awful clothes, pool floaties, plates and cups, small appliances, holiday-themed junk, a random selection of automotive and hardware items, and empty shelves from sold-out one-time purchases (no, the shelves aren’t for sale).
@ItalianScallion @jouest @troy
Sounds like my kind of place!
@ItalianScallion If New England was on my radar, it would sound interesting aye.
Sometimes that stuff really surprises me. I’m less likely to try random flavored stuff than I used to be, but just reading the labels sometimes …
And you never know.
There is a Martinelli’s outlet up in Watsonville. I discovered it just before I fled the Central Coast back for my desert home. The most interesting item there was not weird per se. But the labels were in Korean. Apparently Korea buys a lot of apple stuff from Martinelli. And when they have overstock you can buy it really cheap there
@cerridwyn @chienfou @ItalianScallion @jouest I smell an expense report coming!!
@Cerridwyn After checking out their website, I saw that OSJL goes as far south as Delaware and as far west as Pennsylvania.
@Cerridwyn @ItalianScallion I have lived as far south as Delaware and as far west as Pennsylvania… I feel implicated
@jouest
I remember Odd-Jobs
The non-food aisle in Lidl, somewhat like the one in Aldi. Also, Burlington, formerly Coat Factory.
@heartny I didn’t realize that Burlington still exists!
@Kyeh There are many locations near where I live and they keep opening more. Once in a while I find a treasure there. As a night owl, I like that they are open late.
@heartny Yes, I was shocked to see there’s one nearby that’s open til midnight! Good to know!
@heartny @Kyeh I quit Burlington Coat Factory (not that I shopped there much anyway) when they were busted using dog fur as trim on their coats in the 90’s. They said they were “duped” but IDGAF. I hold grudges for shit like this.
.
Plus I haven’t used Exxon (and now Mobil) since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster…
@heartny @llangley
Oh, that’s horrible. I don’t like having any sort of real animal fur on clothes. Online though it looks like they now mostly have light clothing and home decor and stuff.
@heartny @Kyeh @llangley
Same with me! I still remember the pictures of the oil-soaked birds and marine mammals.
It’s one of the few long-term grudges I hold. I’d like to say Nestle is in the same category for me for their unethical and immoral promotion of baby formula in countries that didn’t have clean drinking water, but it’s hard to even know sometimes that you’re buying one of their products.
Does anyone remember Cost Plus, when it was in San Francisco before it turned into World Market? I used to love going there to find cheap Japanese wrapping paper and cat mugs and dragon kites and stuff.
@Kyeh Yup, was one near my parent’s house. Similar stuff but before it became trendy and expensive.
Also Trader Joe’s then was kind of a clearance store and got a lot of really good deals on food and wine. Things you’d never seen before at good prices. Usually one “lot” of it and then it would be gone. If it was good you went back to buy a bunch of it (wine) because others were doing the same thing, and it would be sold-out tomorrow. Let’s say there might have been wine tasting in cars in the parking lot.
I miss Rock Bottom and Tuesday Morning, although the latter is now online only. Not the same being able to see the crap in person.
@heartny yeah any idiot can make an online store
Ross. Marshall’s. Ollie’s. TJ Maxx. Locally here in Houston, some of the buck-anna-half stores.