I Love Walmart!
Quote: EvenBobTo keep the skid marks off your
pants and to catch the drainage
when you put your weapon back
in your pants. Your jeans must
have a lovely aroma..
Lol, I guess I haven't reached the point where pee pants and skids are an issue. What age it happen to you? XD
I quit jeans awhile back, too, just use 'em for riding. I don't think I've worn proper pants since I suited up for grandpa's fune in '17.
I know a guy that didn't even own a pair of pants until maybe 6 months ago.Quote: FaceLol, I guess I haven't reached the point where pee pants and skids are an issue. What age it happen to you? XD
I quit jeans awhile back, too, just use 'em for riding. I don't think I've worn proper pants since I suited up for grandpa's fune in '17.
Quote: rxwineTenna shoes. I don't even bother with correct pronunciation....
This
A little story pole?Quote: FaceToday's the third day this year that I wore underpants. Now I no longer understand their purpose.
I went to bed fine, woke up one morning, swung my legs out of bed, stood up and immediately fell to my knees from pain. I looked down and my left testicle had swollen to nearly the size of a lemon. My wife called the hospital and they said that if I didn't get in there it could burst and that might kill me. Boy wouldn't that look good on my obit, "man dies from exploding testicle"? : )
Discovered I had a kidney stone with epiditmytus [swelling of the testy's], and it must not have been that common in the town I was in, because instead of giving me a room, they set up a bed in almost the foyer and rolled in those canvas walls around me. I think anyone that even remotely was curious about medicine, the doctors wanted to show my testicle to anyone they could? They would come in and ask, do you mind if so and so sees your swelling, they're a nurse or a med student, after a while it seemed like they had all called their friends to go look at the guy with the swollen nuts.
I could hear them whispering outside my enclosure saying things like, "that really looks like it hurts? I don't know how many people got to check me out? It got to be a bit comical, I would say sure, bring 'em on in, this is really something to see. I was a tad embarrassed, but I realized for the good of medicine, health workers ought to see things like this, so in the future they had something to compare to.
It finally went back to normal, and I went back to work. After work I would stop at a tavern and have a beer or 5 on my way home, and as it turned out, the bartender was also a hospital worker. She wouldn't hardly let me buy a drink.
So I wear undies for support, I don't like them swinging around or bouncing up and down.
Quote: FaceLol, I guess I haven't reached the point where pee pants
There's always a couple drops left
in the hose no matter how much
you shake it, that's a fact. You don't
see it because your underwear
catches it. Well, your's doesn't.
Why do you think people put
on clean underwear every day,
because yesterday's is still
pristine? Hardly.
Quote: petroglyphthe doctors wanted to show my testicle to anyone they could?
Almost never a good sign when they think your ailment is a good learning tool for multiple people. If they want to photograph it, it could even be featured in a medical journal somewhere.
For as many people as came and took a look, I did wonder if something like that might happen.Quote: rxwineAlmost never a good sign when they think your ailment is a good learning tool for multiple people. If they want to photograph it, it could even be featured in a medical journal somewhere.
The Mayo has you sign something like that, giving them permission if while you are under and they think it might help.
Quote: petroglyphA little story pole?
I went to bed fine, woke up one morning, swung my legs out of bed, stood up and immediately fell to my knees from pain. I looked down and my left testicle had swollen to nearly the size of a lemon. My wife called the hospital and they said that if I didn't get in there it could burst and that might kill me. Boy wouldn't that look good on my obit, "man dies from exploding testicle"? : )
Discovered I had a kidney stone with epiditmytus [swelling of the testy's], and it must not have been that common in the town I was in, because instead of giving me a room, they set up a bed in almost the foyer and rolled in those canvas walls around me. I think anyone that even remotely was curious about medicine, the doctors wanted to show my testicle to anyone they could? They would come in and ask, do you mind if so and so sees your swelling, they're a nurse or a med student, after a while it seemed like they had all called their friends to go look at the guy with the swollen nuts.
I had similar incident when I was at the University. I woke up with a swollen testicle. For a few days it kept growing until it was the size of a baseball. I went into the doctor and they said immediately that it was a hydrocele. They scheduled surgery for a few days later and just suggested that I wear an athletic supporter for the next few days.
It was very uncomfortable walking around like that but it did not hurt. A few days later I went in for surgery and they basically just drained it and maybe reconnected something in there. Really it was a no big deal accept for being uncomfortable. They were nice enough to set up a mirror so I could watch the surgery. I like watching surgeries on myself, I have seen a few.
Quote: rxwineAlmost never a good sign when they think your ailment is a good learning tool for multiple people. If they want to photograph it, it could even be featured in a medical journal somewhere.
There was a whole episode of Seinfeld about that. "The Junior Mint."
Jerry was talking about those big operating room "arenas," and he said something like, "You never want to have something done where other doctors are like, 'Oh, I have to see this....'"
Walmart. As soon as I hit the
'place order' button, a page
came up saying order is on
it's way. When i think of what
happened in that split second,
I can't really comprehend it.
It went from my computer,
to whatever city has Walmart's
computer. From there it went
to my debit card's computer
in Salt Lake City. It approved
it, sent the info to Walmart,
which informed me, all in
less than a second. And it
also informed a warehouse
of the order.
Compare that to making an
order from Sears 50 years ago.
Send it to them by mail, it
gets sorted, sent to the right
dept, and maybe 3-4 days
after you sent it the warehouse
gets the order.
We take all this instant communication
for granted. And Mark Twain
didn't invest in Bell's telephone
because he saw no use for it
other than a novelty.
Quote: EvenBobI just placed a large order with
Walmart. As soon as I hit the
'place order' button, a page
came up saying order is on
it's way. When i think of what
happened in that split second,
I can't really comprehend it.
It went from my computer,
to whatever city has Walmart's
computer. From there it went
to my debit card's computer
in Salt Lake City. It approved
it, sent the info to Walmart,
which informed me, all in
less than a second. And it
also informed a warehouse
of the order.
Compare that to making an
order from Sears 50 years ago.
Send it to them by mail, it
gets sorted, sent to the right
dept, and maybe 3-4 days
after you sent it the warehouse
gets the order.
We take all this instant communication
for granted. And Mark Twain
didn't invest in Bell's telephone
because he saw no use for it
other than a novelty.
And yet the NFL still uses the same method to measure first downs that it did in 1940
Quote: EvenBob
Compare that to making an
order from Sears 50 years ago.
Send it to them by mail, it
gets sorted, sent to the right
dept, and maybe 3-4 days
after you sent it the warehouse
gets the order.
As I recall, most of our Xmas
presents came from Sears
and would have to be ordered
before Tgiving if you wanted
them by Xmas. My parents did
little in store shopping in the
50's, it was too expensive. Shoes
were about the only thing we
got in an actual store.
You sat in a chair and some Al
Bundy type would measure your
foot. Do they still even do that?
Quote: EvenBobAs I recall, most of our Xmas
presents came from Sears
and would have to be ordered
before Tgiving if you wanted
them by Xmas. My parents did
little in store shopping in the
50's, it was too expensive. Shoes
were about the only thing we
got in an actual store.
You sat in a chair and some Al
Bundy type would measure your
foot. Do they still even do that?
Hah! Last time I was at the shoe store I could barely find one, had to ask.
Quote: michael99000And yet the NFL still uses the same method to measure first downs that it did in 1940
I just found out the WFL tried to use a different method in the early 1970s and it was a dud.
Quote: EvenBobI love Walmart, but I really love Amazon. Especially Amazon pantry. If you buy 15 items in Amazon pantry, for orders over $35, you get 15% off the purchase price. If you pick price competitive items, 15% is huge. How they can afford to do this, with free delivery, is amazing to me. I get deliveries from Amazon 5 days a week. I buy most of my groceries now from Amazon and Walmart online. I still have to go to the store for meat and produce and dairy.
Basically they cannot afford to do it. AMZN is what, 3% net profit? So much of that comes from Prime. The base business will have problems when sales stop growing at abnormal rates. Also when AMZN ends up taking a union, which I kind of think is inevitable.
Quote: standbymymanAnd what does that have to do with Walmart?
Amazon and Walmart compete for online
business. They sell similar items and have
fast free delivery. I love shopping by going
onto my deck and dragging everything
inside.
Quote: EvenBobAmazon and Walmart compete for online
business. They sell similar items and have
fast free delivery. I love shopping by going
onto my deck and dragging everything
inside.
I am at the point that I don't remember the last time I bought something at a retail store other than food.
on Saturday and will be delivered Tue..
Ordered a spice grinder from Amazon on Sunday
and it will also be here today. Wow.
In the 70's if you ordered after Tgiving you
were lucky if you got it by Xmas. Even 10
years ago you better give it 2 weeks. Both
my deliveries are coming from hundreds
of miles away. Amazing.
Quote: EvenBobGotta say, I'm impressed. Ordered from Walmart
on Saturday and will be delivered Tue..
Ordered a spice grinder from Amazon on Sunday
and it will also be here today. Wow.
In the 70's if you ordered after Tgiving you
were lucky if you got it by Xmas. Even 10
years ago you better give it 2 weeks. Both
my deliveries are coming from hundreds
of miles away. Amazing.
Yesterday I had a package from amazon delivered 4 hours after I placed the order.
Quote: EvenBobGotta say, I'm impressed. Ordered from Walmart
on Saturday and will be delivered Tue..
Ordered a spice grinder from Amazon on Sunday
and it will also be here today. Wow.
In the 70's if you ordered after Tgiving you
were lucky if you got it by Xmas. Even 10
years ago you better give it 2 weeks. Both
my deliveries are coming from hundreds
of miles away. Amazing.
I keep figuring enjoy AMZN while it lasts. I have to wonder how much physical space they are now occupying, how many vehicles, and how their employee count relates to WMT and other traditional retailers. I figure AMZN starts taking unions the next few years, probably starting with the truckers. They may be following the FedEx model of selling routes, though. Still talking an army of distribution workers.
I think their margins are about 3%. Something will give sooner or later.
Quote: standbymymanWow, toilet paper online. That's what I call convenience!
If you find yourself in a real pinch (pun intended) then I think you'd choose Wal-Mart.
Quote: DRichAmazon just placed an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans. I believe they also bought a percentage of the manufacturer.
Ordering 100,000 vans from a company it partially owns and that has yet to deliver a single vehicle reeks of a publicity stunt.
Quote: EvenBobHow they can afford to do this,
They weren't a profitable company for something like 15 years... Plus they sell a kabillion different items. Even one penny of profit on something is going to add up.
Quote: billryanOrdering 100,000 vans from a company it partially owns and that has yet to deliver a single vehicle reeks of a publicity stunt.
Or they've found another massive tax loophole... haha...
Quote: AZDuffmanI keep figuring enjoy AMZN while it lasts.
I dunno. I read Amazon is in this
for the long haul, their aim is to
monopolize the delivery business
eventually. They are already putting
a lot of private companies out of
business. They can afford to operate
in the black for a long long time,
like Bezos did when he started the
company. They just delivered my
grinder on Xmas fricking eve, how
cool is that.
In the 50's my mom did all her Xmas
shopping between Hween and Tgiving
via Sears and Wards catalogs. There
was no UPS* then, no FedEx. You got
the orders in early and hoped the PO
got the stuff to you. It was a real crap
shoot.
*UPS existed as a company in the 50's
but didn't start delivering to all addresses
until the 70's. They mostly delivered
business to business.
Quote: mcallister3200How are people’s attention spans and compulsiveness such that they need crap delivered to them four days a week; it’s absurd.
Evenbob's gonna be on Hoarders probably.
Quote: mcallister3200How are people’s attention spans and compulsiveness such that they need crap delivered to them four days a week; it’s absurd.
Four? Try seven, Amazon delivers on Sunday.
Attention span ans compulsiveness have
nothing to do with it. I cook every day
I often need things so I just order them.
It's terrific.
Quote: rxwineEvenbob's gonna be on Hoarders probably.
I can't stand having crap anymore. I'm trying to sell most of it. I'd throw or give it away but I'd rather try to get a few bucks for things first.
I have heard (and seen first hand) how many people who grew up during the Depression were/are hoarders. I don't get it... I would think it would be the complete opposite. If you grew up having nothing when things were scarce, you should be used to not having anything and being able to live without it. If anything, these people should be minimalists!
Quote: TigerWu
I have heard (and seen first hand) how many people who grew up during the Depression were/are hoarders. I don't get it...
How is buying things I use every day
'hoarding'. It's the polar opposite.
Quote: TigerWuI can't stand having crap anymore. I'm trying to sell most of it. I'd throw or give it away but I'd rather try to get a few bucks for things first.
I have heard (and seen first hand) how many people who grew up during the Depression were/are hoarders. I don't get it... I would think it would be the complete opposite. If you grew up having nothing when things were scarce, you should be used to not having anything and being able to live without it. If anything, these people should be minimalists!
Same here. I hate having stuff around I don’t need or use often. I get mildly angry with people when they buy gifts for me when I tell them not to.
Quote: EvenBobHow is buying things I use every day
'hoarding'. It's the polar opposite.
I wasn't talking about you personally.
Quote: TigerWu
I have heard (and seen first hand) how many people who grew up during the Depression were/are hoarders. I don't get it... I would think it would be the complete opposite. If you grew up having nothing when things were scarce, you should be used to not having anything and being able to live without it. If anything, these people should be minimalists!
Not at all, they see they can get things and are afraid of running out and having to go back to what they were. They become preppers, not minimalists. If you grew up with food scarce then you stock up on food. You don't want to run out and do without.
It is the same reason why workaday gangsters have all those outfits and houses brimming with stuff even if the house is not in a great area. Why Blood and Crip members have 100 pairs of sneakers. Why the lucky few who get a sports contract almost always overdo it with stuff and end up broke instead of socking away their wealth.
Who among us even in a small way doesn't always have this or that on hand because as a kid it was a treat you rarely got? I used to be that way with Pepsi-Cola. I never ran out. Wegman's would have a crazy sale a couple times a year and I would have 10+ cases sitting in the basement.
I became more minimalist after living amongst too much crap and junk. And Pepsi-Cola is now too sweet for my taste most of the time.
Quote: EvenBobI dunno. I read Amazon is in this
for the long haul, their aim is to
monopolize the delivery business
eventually. They are already putting
a lot of private companies out of
business. They can afford to operate
in the black for a long long time,
like Bezos did when he started the
company. They just delivered my
grinder on Xmas fricking eve, how
cool is that.
The laws of retail have to catch up with them sooner or later. 20 years ago they had just a couple warehouses and did just books and music. the dotcom in their name gave them "tech" valuation, something the money men still have not learned to tell the difference in, but that is another thread. And they hired out delivery.
Now they have many distribution centers, who knows how many SKUs, fleets of their own vehicles, and a problem in that the private gig workers will not deliver cheap forever. Instead of having a bunch of retail stores and employees like WMT, they have simply moved the real estate and employees back to the distribution center and truck dispatch.
IOW, their stock should value like a retailer, not like a software company. If we get a recession or their sales otherwise slow, the gears of their machine may jam and hard.
Quote: AZDuffmanThe laws of retail have to catch up with them sooner or later.
Maybe. I remember in the 90's
they laughed and laughed at
Bezos and his business plan.
It was sure to fail, what a moron.
Wasn't he the richest man in the
world until his divorce? I trust
they know what they're doing
far better than I do.
Quote: AZDuffmanIt is the same reason why workaday gangsters have all those outfits and houses brimming with stuff even if the house is not in a great area. Why Blood and Crip members have 100 pairs of sneakers.
Loretta Lynn wrote that when she
started making real money she
bought 3 of everything. 3 electric
frying pans, 3 toasters. For when
the money ran out and she was
broke again.
When I had the bar there was a
Black couple in their 50's who owned
a successful car business. I went to
their house once 40 years ago and
still haven't gotten over it. A two
story four bedroom house that had
every room stuffed with canned
goods and clothes. They had
thousands of cans of food that
would last them a decade. And
clothes! Room after room of
expensive clothes with the orig
price tags on them, just hanging
there covered in plastic.
It was the only hoarding I've ever
seen in person. And they wore the
nice clothes maybe 5 times a
year. A lot of it was 20 years old
but they wouldn't part with any'of
it. They grew up dirt poor in MS..
Just as McDonald's isn't a fast food company, and Tesla is so much more than a car company.
Quote: EvenBobLoretta Lynn wrote that when she
started making real money she
bought 3 of everything. 3 electric
frying pans, 3 toasters. For when
the money ran out and she was
broke again.
That 3 part is extreme. but what I am talking about. If you grow up broke or have a brush with being near BK and are broke, your mentality changes. You want to sock away months worth of income and keep the pantry full. Loretta still tours though she is on Oxygen, clearly she wants to not be broke again no matter how much she may enjoy performing.
Quote: billryanAnyone looking at Amazon as a retail outfit is only seeing a very small part of the big picture. They are much more than that. They are a tech company, as well as a logistics one. Very soon, they may be a real estate company.
Just as McDonald's isn't a fast food company, and Tesla is so much more than a car company.
Stock advise from Billryan is priceless.
The guy owned everything over the years and has never lost a dollar on any of it. Resting on his laurels in every celebrity hotspot in the Western Hemisphere while drinking Mai Tai’s. Truly an idol for almost everyone.
Of course the long term posters understand it and have made small fortunes following his life choice advice.
But to anyone new here, this guy makes Jim Cramer look like an amateur.
Follow this stock guru, your stock portfolio won’t regret it.
Quote: AZDuffmanLoretta still tours though she is on Oxygen, clearly she wants to not be broke again no matter how much she may enjoy performing.
She's pushing 90, her audience
probably is too.
I'd hate to wait for the replacement parts for any Tesla. Stuff happens...
And I'm a "Take your nickle and go home investor", and doing well since late 2000.
There are many paths to success.
Regards
Suited89
Apparently, they won't even allow an individual to order replacement parts, you have to goQuote: Suited89Bill...
I'd hate to wait for the replacement parts for any Tesla. Stuff happens...
And I'm a "Take your nickle and go home investor", and doing well since late 2000.
There are many paths to success.
Regards
Suited89
through their authorized dealers.
Quote: Suited89Bill...
I'd hate to wait for the replacement parts for any Tesla. Stuff happens...
And I'm a "Take your nickle and go home investor", and doing well since late 2000.
There are many paths to success.
Regards
Suited89
That's why you buy two of them.
You are absolutely right about there being many paths to success. There are singles hitters in the Hall of Fame alongside Homerun hitters. For years I was a Ronco type, set it and forget it investor. In recent years, I've evolved a bit.
What works for me may not work for you, and vice versa. What you do at thirty may not be the best at sixty. The best advice I've ever gotten or gave is to invest early and often.
Quote: EvenBobShe's pushing 90, her audience
probably is too.
All these casinos have given career extensions to these kind of performers. She need only fill 1000 seats at most for a successful show.
