A number of years ago, breyers ice cream was $2.99 at Walmart. It had been $2.99 for a couple of years. One day I walked in and there was a new sticker that said “rollback”, “was $4.29, new lower price, $3.59.”
@jaybird a number of years ago, breyer’s ice cream was actually ice cream. when the brand was new, their main selling point was the simple ingredient list, no weird additives and fillers.
then they sold out to unilever and the corporate conglomerate over the years has completely ruined the product to the point that now there are so many fillers and other ingredients that almost all their flavors can no longer be legally sold as ice cream, but instead must be described as “frozen dairy dessert” on the label.
anyway, all that to say, it doesn’t really matter what sort of price shenanigans walmart pulls, the better move is to not even bother with breyer’s these days
@OnionSoup What inter-konsenting adults do with their flanks is none of my business, though I hope they’re not cheating on anyone as part of the “side” deal.
@OnionSoup I have sometimes wondered if Shatner did the same thing with his dialog in Incubus that he became famous for elsewhere. (But not curious enough to watch the movie.)
In my opinion it’s not really much different than meh, as it has a lot of past (if not sold out when it finally ended up on meh to begin with) and future meh deals on it. I am not a huge consumer of stuff I don’t need so I seldom look there (or on morningsave for that matter) unless I actually need something (vs impulse purchase - yes I know, not your target customer in that respect).
SideDeal is the place that might have the thing I skipped on Meh because I didn’t need it then. Otherwise, I have too effing much Stuff, and need to cut back, so I buy when I have a use for a thing - and a Daily Deal won’t hit that target often.
@blaineg@jouest If the piece of random crap is a sticky spidersilk cable about three millimeters thick that I can just tangle everything into and then haul it out to the curb (perhaps with a winch), that would work.
Meh is a minimalist and only keeps one thing at a time. Except about once a month when Meh has a party and brings out a bunch of things.
And Meh has two sisters.
One of them is like a YouTube shorts fashionista. Not a TikTok one though. Like second rate. She’s got all this weird fashion shit, but it’s like Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin’s brand. Some of it’s right on the pulse, and some of it is a wave behind like the ladies in the Midwest (no offense to my Midwest ladies). She thinks she’s hot, and she wouldn’t be wrong if she didn’t think it so loudly. But every once in a while our interests will overlap and so I might ask her to share some of her shit. But a good bit of the time I don’t even want to listen to her. And she’s a morning person too.
The other one is a certain percentage of geek. She has a lot more vaguely interesting stuff by percentage and can be a fun hang. But she’s still related to her sister so there’s a lot of cruft around. I think maybe she messed around with Steve Harvey for a while back in the day, but she doesn’t want to talk about that now.
Oh, and both of them are the opposite of Meh about that minimalism thing. If you ask to see either of their collections, you will likely lose interest before you can see it all. So they both showcase little bits of it at a time that they really want the public to see. And if you’re good at searching, sometimes you can find just the thing you want… Or even two or three versions of it, and sometimes one is cheaper
Also they both respect Meh’s closest friends which is cool.
Oh, yeah
Candles burnin’ low
Lots of mistletoe
Lots of snow and ice
Everywhere we go
Choirs singin’ carols
Right outside my door
All these things and more (all these things and more)
Whoa, that’s what SideDeal means to me my love
(That’s what SideDeal means to me, my love) whoa, yeah
Yeah
And ya know what I mean
I see your smilin’ face
Like I never seen before
Even though I love ya madly
It seems I love you more
The little cards you’ll give me
Will touch my heart for sure
All these things and more, darling (all these things and more)
Whoa, that’s what SideDeal means to me my love
(That’s what SideDeal means to me my love)
@heartny@jouest@werehatrack You need Everything, it’s brilliant. It creates an index of all the filenames on your computer, so filename search is instantaneous.
@xobzoo Unless of course, you were the skunk in the middle. Then you got all sorts of people talking about you…, your big brother, your mom, your dad, the chief of police, the judge, and the Skunk King.
To me, SideDeal is like a second chance sort of thing to Meh, it’s not as deeply discounted but if there’s something on Meh that I am getting, often, SideDeal has a complimentary deal I could use.
it’s basically the water cycle, but for fine consumer products
Here I thought it was one of those big game show slides that has shoots off the side that land in fed ex bins but eventually some of the stuff lands at the bottom in bins called irks, trash irks, etc except they are actually labeled as $10 bins, $20 bins…$100 bins and sold to suckers on meh and sometimes these same suckers are tricked into hunting on sidedeal for them.
@richseibert not sure if that is really better though. You might be like on the old site, where you add to cart and then it warns you it might sell out, and later you find stuff has sold-out.
A number of years ago, breyers ice cream was $2.99 at Walmart. It had been $2.99 for a couple of years. One day I walked in and there was a new sticker that said “rollback”, “was $4.29, new lower price, $3.59.”
@jaybird monsters.
@jaybird Walmart is also really bad about marking something as $1 and then you get to the cash register and it rings up as $5.
It happens so often, I swear it is done on purpose.
@jaybird a number of years ago, breyer’s ice cream was actually ice cream. when the brand was new, their main selling point was the simple ingredient list, no weird additives and fillers.
then they sold out to unilever and the corporate conglomerate over the years has completely ruined the product to the point that now there are so many fillers and other ingredients that almost all their flavors can no longer be legally sold as ice cream, but instead must be described as “frozen dairy dessert” on the label.
anyway, all that to say, it doesn’t really matter what sort of price shenanigans walmart pulls, the better move is to not even bother with breyer’s these days
To mean, Side Deal means flanka interkonsento.
@OnionSoup What inter-konsenting adults do with their flanks is none of my business, though I hope they’re not cheating on anyone as part of the “side” deal.
But I thought we were talking about sidedeal.com…
@OnionSoup I have sometimes wondered if Shatner did the same thing with his dialog in Incubus that he became famous for elsewhere. (But not curious enough to watch the movie.)
@werehatrack yes, I haven’t seen that yet, but someday I shall.
In my opinion it’s not really much different than meh, as it has a lot of past (if not sold out when it finally ended up on meh to begin with) and future meh deals on it. I am not a huge consumer of stuff I don’t need so I seldom look there (or on morningsave for that matter) unless I actually need something (vs impulse purchase - yes I know, not your target customer in that respect).
SideDeal is the place that might have the thing I skipped on Meh because I didn’t need it then. Otherwise, I have too effing much Stuff, and need to cut back, so I buy when I have a use for a thing - and a Daily Deal won’t hit that target often.
@werehatrack This, exactly.
A place to buy an IRK, sometimes.
I’ve got way too much crap to go looking for more random crap.
@blaineg maybe you just need one more piece of random crap to really tie the room together
@blaineg @jouest If the piece of random crap is a sticky spidersilk cable about three millimeters thick that I can just tangle everything into and then haul it out to the curb (perhaps with a winch), that would work.
@jouest @werehatrack Is Meh selling that? Did I miss it?
@jouest Yea, probably.
Why do I keep coming back here?
Meh is a minimalist and only keeps one thing at a time. Except about once a month when Meh has a party and brings out a bunch of things.
And Meh has two sisters.
One of them is like a YouTube shorts fashionista. Not a TikTok one though. Like second rate. She’s got all this weird fashion shit, but it’s like Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin’s brand. Some of it’s right on the pulse, and some of it is a wave behind like the ladies in the Midwest (no offense to my Midwest ladies). She thinks she’s hot, and she wouldn’t be wrong if she didn’t think it so loudly. But every once in a while our interests will overlap and so I might ask her to share some of her shit. But a good bit of the time I don’t even want to listen to her. And she’s a morning person too.
The other one is a certain percentage of geek. She has a lot more vaguely interesting stuff by percentage and can be a fun hang. But she’s still related to her sister so there’s a lot of cruft around. I think maybe she messed around with Steve Harvey for a while back in the day, but she doesn’t want to talk about that now.
Oh, and both of them are the opposite of Meh about that minimalism thing. If you ask to see either of their collections, you will likely lose interest before you can see it all. So they both showcase little bits of it at a time that they really want the public to see. And if you’re good at searching, sometimes you can find just the thing you want… Or even two or three versions of it, and sometimes one is cheaper
Also they both respect Meh’s closest friends which is cool.
@djslack TL:DR
@djslack a great write-up. I had to LOL at the Steve Harvey rumor. It probably is true, though.
@pmarin it’s totally true.
@djslack nailed it
@Cerridwyn @djslack
You missed out.
(Yikes, three typos in three words. Must be too early to be typing.)
Oh, yeah
Candles burnin’ low
Lots of mistletoe
Lots of snow and ice
Everywhere we go
Choirs singin’ carols
Right outside my door
All these things and more (all these things and more)
Whoa, that’s what SideDeal means to me my love
(That’s what SideDeal means to me, my love) whoa, yeah
Yeah
And ya know what I mean
I see your smilin’ face
Like I never seen before
Even though I love ya madly
It seems I love you more
The little cards you’ll give me
Will touch my heart for sure
All these things and more, darling (all these things and more)
Whoa, that’s what SideDeal means to me my love
(That’s what SideDeal means to me my love)
/image Stevie Wonder
Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about SideDeal and Meh:
On Sidedeal, treasures you find,
Deals that linger, yet well-timed,
A click away, a shopper’s dream,
Value waits, like a steady stream.
But on Meh, the fleeting chance,
One day’s offer, a quick glance,
You take the plunge or walk away,
Tomorrow brings another sway.
Two paths diverge in deals anew,
Both delight, the choice is you.
@heartny Microsoft’s AI “Copilot” would probably accuse Meh of something sinister instead.
@heartny @werehatrack copilot can do anything accept locate the file you need when you search by its exact name
@heartny @jouest @werehatrack You need Everything, it’s brilliant. It creates an index of all the filenames on your computer, so filename search is instantaneous.
https://www.voidtools.com/
It also has best error messages of all time, on the rare occasions when it crashes:
Everything has stopped working.
Hey, I was a middle child, but nobody talked about me when I wasn’t in the room.
Did they?
@xobzoo Unless of course, you were the skunk in the middle. Then you got all sorts of people talking about you…, your big brother, your mom, your dad, the chief of police, the judge, and the Skunk King.
@Jackinga @xobzoo Only later would the dirty details about the Skunk King become known, but too late to undo the reputation you could no longer shake.
@xobzoo just kidding. nobody thinks about the middle child in the first place.
@jouest @xobzoo Or the last child, when there are three at a spacing of 11 years each.
To me, SideDeal is like a second chance sort of thing to Meh, it’s not as deeply discounted but if there’s something on Meh that I am getting, often, SideDeal has a complimentary deal I could use.
@mikesmells this is the magic right here
Sidedeal is a place I can sometimes get a chance at something I regret skipping on meh.
2x I bought something that I had previously bought on Meh & liked. Other than a couple irks, not much there for me.
Deals that ran on Meh that didn’t sell, so they put them on side deal for the same price where they still don’t sell.
@regnowsin And then they end up in some of the irks…
@Kidsandliz @regnowsin it’s basically the water cycle, but for fine consumer products
@jouest @regnowsin
Here I thought it was one of those big game show slides that has shoots off the side that land in fed ex bins but eventually some of the stuff lands at the bottom in bins called irks,
trashirks, etc except they are actually labeled as $10 bins, $20 bins…$100 bins and sold to suckers on meh and sometimes these same suckers are tricked into hunting on sidedeal for them.I might buy from side deals, if you could add several items to a basket, before purchasing!
@richseibert not sure if that is really better though. You might be like on the old site, where you add to cart and then it warns you it might sell out, and later you find stuff has sold-out.
It is another chance to find the stuff that is on Meh that I missed or decided I didn’t want and changed my mind later.