How much did they pay to have Prime? Have to add that in.
Readit NewsNobody in this comment chain was saying it was good for the customers. The GP was saying that they clear out room for new businesses, and if brick-and-mortar-fabric-superstore were still a viable model someone would be doing it.
I am looking for fabric right now and am terribly frustrated not to have anywhere but limited quilting shops available. Online is not an answer, because you can't handle the fabric for weight, exact color, and stretchiness.
JoAnn drove all the medium-sized fabric stores out and left us with nothing.
Jill_the_Pill commented on It's true. Your devices are listening to you cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg... · Posted by u/tempestn
Anyone know how this relates to some states' two-party-consent laws?
E.g., suppose person A is carrying a smart phone, and has an apparently private conversation with person B.
Is person A civilly and/or criminally liable for allowing his cell phone to record the conversation?
And, for example, if Cox Media Group made commercial use of that secret recording, could they be liable because they had no good reason to believe all parties consented to the recording?
Maybe they don't need to record the conversation at all -- maybe they interpret on the fly and just preserve observation notes (likely to need tires and a birthday gift for 15 year old male).
Jill_the_Pill commented on What pains you about call-in customer service? · Posted by u/inquisitiverab
Absolutely you can make customer service a much better experience for callers!
Here is how . . . . listen very closely now . . . .
Hire and retain many more human workers. Train them well, treat them well, and pay them well. Give them the resources, autonomy, and time they need to solve problems.
Chop down all the phone trees.
Jill_the_Pill commented on Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/fortran77
I have been reading a lot of criticism of PE here at HN, with similar arguments as TFA. In the case of small companies - vet offices, medical practices, etc - it is usually claimed that a PE acquisition enforces a bunch of changes that are ultimely detrimental to the end product, like quality of care. However, if that's the case, shouldn't we see non-PE companies flourish in competition? Or PE firms emerging that respect the end product at the expense of short term profits?
I understand why enshittification and all these others process's occur when you have a monopoly or a large market share. I fail to see why it should not be punished by the market when applied to easily disruptable sectors.
>> shouldn't we see non-PE companies flourish in competition?
It's seldom clear to patrons WHY things have changed. People get stuck in their habits and are hesitant to start somewhere new, particularly with things like medical services. My mom wouldn't recognize PE as the source of a problem at her doctor, dentist, vet or mechanic.
Jill_the_Pill commented on Why don’t Americans eat mutton? modernfarmer.com/2023/09/... · Posted by u/elorant
It doesn't, because shipping 1 tonne of food by sea costs about 0.02kg of CO2, and it's already part of the calculation (under "transportation").
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/emission-factors-food-tra...
... per kilometer ... and it's about 8000 km from Australia to New York
Jill_the_Pill commented on Why don’t Americans eat mutton? modernfarmer.com/2023/09/... · Posted by u/elorant
Lamb had the highest carbon footprint of all animals last I checked. Now I took another look and beef is back on top!
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-cha...
I think it depends on if you include shipping from Australia to North America in the footprint calculation.
Jill_the_Pill commented on Do not put plastic in the microwave bonappetit.com/story/can-... · Posted by u/say_it_as_it_is
No way is it faster. I can heat a bowl of soup up in 1 minute in the microwave. The pot is barely heated up after 1 minute in the stove, much less the contents.
And it makes another pot to clean.
But the warmth in the food heated on a burner is nicer than the warmth generated by the microwave (more even, cools slowly).
Maybe we slow down and expect our lunch to take 10 minutes to heat and 5 minutes to clean up?
The “acting responsibly” part costs money in labor, if you apply it to the parts of the supply chain that really matter. This is just another way of arriving at “raise food prices”.
How does "don't buy more than you know you can use" and "don't produce more than you know you can sell" cost more labor?
Also Canada has far better yogurt.