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So what do water cooler conversations midnight movie premieres and tipping culture have in common?
They don't happen in europe one because they're too smelly to stand near the water cooler and talk to each other
two because they're too drunk by midnight to stay awake for a movie and three they don't tip in europe boom
A lot of controversial things just out of the gate there
Um, the original office was filmed in the uk so i beg to differ there's a whole show about them talking at the water cooler
Did you ever see them actually talking at the water cooler?
I don't even in the american one. I think it was more plotting at the water cooler than there was conversations being had
Okay, but plotting is still requires conversation. I feel like that's still the same thing. Anyway, we've
Diverted a little bit. Uh, that is not the common thread here
Okay, it's not the smell of europeans. That’s not the universal thing here
Does it have anything to do with pangolins?
It just might have something to do with pangolins shout out to Lorde so the rona things destroyed by the rona
Things destroyed by the rona. We need a little um like a trivia show thing when you get the answer right?
Well, ding ding ding
I'll add that to my list along those lines today's episode focuses on one of the things I miss most about pre-covid life
24 hour superstore. Do you shop at walmart a lot? More than I'd like to one day. I want to be target rich
But i'm not target rich right now. My heart says target my bank account says dollar tree dollar 25 tree dollar rich tree
Yeah, inflation don't mess around
I used to be the biggest fan of walmart because I I worked nights and so I would get off at like 11 30 or 12
And I didn't necessarily need anything like it's not like I absolutely need dental floss and batteries
1am, but it was always nice to just kind of like de-stress after my night at walmart when there was no one else there
I got so productive for so long and I feel like all of that got stripped away when cove it took away my 24 hour super stores
Yeah, I mean
Does anyone need to go get a new tv at 3 in the 3 in the morning? No, but have I done that?
Uh, you bet your sweet ass I have but I'm american and that is what being an american is freedom
It's freedom freedom to buy a tv at 3 in the morning. Yep. Yeah, that's that's out the window now
I think the last big blow to the the superstore and a lot of a lot of other things was cove it
It was so nice that we had access to stores that delivered kind of what we needed whenever we couldn't leave the house
walmart plus is a whole other separate grievance thing
But it was so nice to be able to get everything within like a day or so
Are we gonna get sued by the waltons for this? Can we not name drop walmart? I don't know
I don't know how that works actually. Do we need to rerecord our uh, no, I'll just bleep all of them out
Five minutes. All right. We have to do the uh the cartoon thing where they just switch it for like mcdonalds and mcdaniels
I was gonna say wallstones, but I think that's a british
It's an actual british store, right? I have no clue. Ask me nothing about britain
You started this talking about the europeans getting how smelly drunk and just altogether unpleasant they are
Wow, all right
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Three people have engaged it two people
Uh expanded the details in one person visited our profile with a single tweet on it
and a bio
bio that i'm pretty proud of it is um
Not important to this conversation, but I don't like how granular all of our data is now
I don't need to know exactly what you did with my my tweet. Is it still a tweet if it's not twitter anymore?
Is it an e-e-e-t? What would x e-e-t be?
Ajit. Ajit. Ajit. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's what i'm gonna go with. Ajit me, bruh
Uh, yeah, so if you want to come fight us because you are european or in staunch defense of the europeans
Which bold take uh just add us at
Cash exchange pod on x formally twitter formally twitter. I feel like they changed the name
But now every let's like the artist formerly known as print now
It's just the social media formerly known as twitter because everyone says x formerly twitter. Yeah, you have to think about it more
You have to think about it two times in that sentence. Sure. Elon's a freaking gene. Shout out to elon musk
We'd love to have you on the pod. Yeah, we can fit another another chair in this tiny ass room
I'm gonna put them in the closet. Yeah, there's no room in there. Anyway back to the super store
I
Tried really hard to avoid
Getting things delivered to me for the longest time because I didn't like what that kind of stuff like the
amazon's prime delivery or
Like walmart's home delivery kind of like spelled out. I think for the retail space. Um, I've gotten a little bit lazier
recently I still will not door-to-ash on principle, but
Um, I have gotten groceries delivered a couple times because I just have not felt like going out
But if they were still open 24 hours and I could do all of that shopping at two in the morning
I would never have to restock my fridge. There's another adult human that lives in my house with me
And if there is a curbside if there's a door delivery, you can bet that that is being taken full advantage of
So I think that that's one thing. I think it's nice in a pinch
Um, I feel I have felt myself abusing it sometimes. Um, just going into the store versus just parking and
Telling them I'm here or whatever
Have you noticed that on some for some stores?
You say like I'm on my way and then it will say well
Can we track you that way we have already as soon as you get here? Yeah, there's a
Um, there's a craft store that I ordered something from recently that did that. Yeah, I really hate that
It's things like that that make me feel a little bit more like round swanson
Where I just want to be like off the grid in the middle of the woods
I don't want to be perceived by anyone like the I also had a
problem for the longest time with like rewards points things at retailers that like I don't want to put my phone number in
Every time I shop at Walmart
I don't need you to know every single thing I buy and like the
I eventually caved because I got a lot of like deals and stuff because you know, that's how they get you
They give you 30 cents off of one thing and then they get you forever
And then they have all your information. They have all my information
I was holding out for so long my my Alexa doesn't know who I am so
I find solace in that
I have a bad habit of
Signing up for these things
And then forgetting that I signed up for them and I mean usually it's a store that I don't go to very often
And I'll say do you have a rewards number? I was like, I don't think so, but I'll try and sure enough I do
and it's either that or
I'll
It'll be somewhere that I go to a lot and I just never use the points and so I have
Just a ridiculous amount of points on here and the cashiers like oh, what are you doing saving for a rainy day?
Hey, man, dad jokes are also how I get through my job. So I will not stand for the slander on cashiers
I mean, I'm just not slander. It's just come up with some new material. We can't we're all running on empty
When I was researching this episode. I found out that there's different classifications of the kind of big stores
so
Wallstones
Sorry if that is an actual retailer. Um, it's something called a hypermarket
Which is an experiential store air quotes
So the purpose of these stores is that you go in and you want to spend your time spend your money spend
And your energy in these places. So they're going to be the ones with like the cafes
So like the ones with starbucks's
Just throwing out all of the big names but the ones with cafes the ones with salons banks stuff like that
Or you could theoretically do everything you need to do for the day in one big building
Then there is the the supermarket, which is something that has
Like really really extensive food and then they have like your your pharmacy section your dry goods every once in a while
They have clothes stuff like that and I think that the hypermarkets are the ones that are going out of fashion
Because they're the ones that have just I feel like done a really weird thing
With marketing or with like the so they're all psychologically based is the only use for my marketing degree
Um, they are all built with a specific marketing goal in mind
So they have like the layout of your your meat section and your dairy and produce and all of that stuff is laid out
So that you're going to spend the most time at the store and that's kind of like compounded
Whenever you get a salon so you can get your hair done or your nails or if you do get your hair or your nails done at
Walmart, please add us that cash exchange pod. I want to know what they're like, but I don't want to go to one
No, I feel like getting your nails done
At Walmart you're pretty much getting what you're asked for. Yeah
I feel like those
Korean ladies are probably a lot meaner than the ones that just have their own shop as long as you're mean to me in english
We're cool
Have you noticed at like these the supermarkets or the the hyper stores that the the dairy sections always smell like
odd so
I think I actually know why that is so you are not supposed to leave cardboard in the refrigerator
It is a very big thing in food safety
That I only know because I live with a chef and I've gotten in trouble for it multiple times
You don't leave cardboard in the refrigerator because it will
Mildew it will get really gross really fast and the bacteria that stays in cardboard will infect all of the things in your refrigerator
So if you have the area where you're like restocking stuff back behind the actual
Like shelves and stuff that we can access as shoppers then all of that gross cardboard must translates to us
I got a confession to make
You put cardboard in the fridge. No, no, I mean
Yeah, but
Everyone does apparently not not the well-informed in kitchens, but no
My confession is that I was just setting myself up for for a joke. Yeah, what do you got back where they keep the milk?
This smells like dairy air
But hey, your thing is cool too
I was not I was not expecting that to lead to an actual reason why it smells different in the dairy section
But hey, it's
It worked out learning new things and having fun
So podcasts were made for
All right, so hypermarkets is that do they have to serve grocery or do they have to sell groceries?
And other stuff
I don't think they necessarily have to so say if you had a
A furniture store
That also had a lot of things that weren't furniture. I think that would still be considered a hypermarket
So like if it had the the kind of like food court in it
Basically like a mini mall. So what about like a massive
Sporting goods store with a fairs wheel or a rock climbing wall or both?
I think I think that would be considered a hypermarket as long as you're able to do something that is
A service not a good on top of being able to buy goods
I don't think that there's necessarily like a specific
Combination of the thing that you have to be selling or the thing that you have to be able to do
Also, what sporting goods store has a fairs wheel?
I mean, it depends on if they want to sponsor us or not. Oh, all right
Or they're all name drop them, but there's one that is relatively close to us and
It's got a full-fledged fairs wheel in it. It's insane and a life-size animatronic of Nolan Ryan
Oh, I hate that we went there for my birthday
Three years ago, maybe and I took a video with Nolan
All right, then I kind of want to check that out. I don't like fairs wheels. Well, what's crazy is that this place also
has
An outdoor like huge fairs wheel in the parking lot
The mystery deepens. So the fairs wheels per capita in this area
is
Through the roof. I wish that we could divide our actual like property values that way
There's those per capita. Yeah, I would be much more content with the fact that I'll never buy a house
Yeah, I mean we I wonder where
The one at the fairground sits as far as worldwide
The biggest one has to be the eye, right? I would think so in London and then I couldn't tell you any Coney Island
Maybe Vegas. I'm I mean, I'm sure there are fairs wheels in Vegas, but I couldn't tell you one of them
but um,
little
sidebar we went on
a fairs wheel two days ago on
a pier
which is already
Pretty sketchy. Yeah. Yeah, I did fine. Uh, the rest of my party not so much
We did get stuck for a little bit
Uh, it was real squeaky real like screechy
So all in all it's probably a miracle that we were able to get off, but
I'm here today to have this conversation about super stores with you
So everything worked out. Shout out to our hopefully first sponsor fairs wheels. Just the concept of a fairs wheel
I
Want to be endorsed by the fairs's actually my big fairs my big fairs
I
I've only been on two fair three fairs wheels. I think in my entire life and the most recent one that I was on was
a famous ferris wheel
That could be built and taken down in a day
Um, but it was famous because it was on stranger things and I think that love
Simon movie maybe
and Branson
now, um
They built it outside of our apartment, which oh, I am absolutely against built in a day amusement park rides
But it was free. So I mean if I die I die
Did you ask them how many bolts they had left over the person that I spoke to you didn't have enough teeth that I could understand the response
So
Oh, yeah, I mean, you never know could be genetic
Hey, man, I also survived to be able to have this conversation on superstoresity. There we go. That was unplanned
Who would have thought that we would have been on ferris wheel so close together?
Coincidentally, yeah crazy world man crazy world. So we got we got the big one
We got I guess I don't know if I'm gonna keep the names in here or not probably not
Maybe I will I don't know. I need to look up the legality of all of it
I was trying to figure out a way to do it without saying
The one big name and I could not for the life of me figure out how to have that conversation where you're like talking about Voldemort
He who must not be named. I mean, we haven't been disparaging. No, I about it. So maybe it could be a good thing
Yeah, I don't think they need any marketing from us, but probably not. It's still marketing
But if I could get a clothing line at Walmart like Miley Cyrus used to have or like the elson twins
It's the ultimate dream. Did they have clothes at Walmart? Huh?
I know that. Jack has a line at Walmart. Uh, I saw one recently that that threw me for a loop
I don't remember who it was. It was just
Out of nowhere. Yeah, I'm sure it's a pretty sweet deal if you can get it
Yeah, so you got a Walmart endorsement
This is us, uh
Open-faced chilling for for Walmart if you guys want to sponsor us. Hey, man, we gotta start somewhere
Yeah, we've got to start somewhere in that somewhere is Walmart. All right. Okay. So pros three AM TVs
Three AM TVs
Two AM grocery shopping
Two AM grocery shopping by yourself making poor decisions
Getting seven different types of pop tarts. I spent so much more money at Walmart whenever I was allowed to shop whenever
I don't know if this was really a
Direct rona thing
But there have been a lot more things behind lock and key
And it's it's not just it's not just at the the big ones. It's like all over the place
That was actually one of the points that I had for a little bit later on in the episode that the surveillance state of
The walmarts that we have now are the main reason that I don't shop there anymore. Yeah, I don't I'm not taking anything
I'm aware that in every store that I go into that I'm constantly on camera
But the fact that you're just like like if you're doing self-checkout and it has that live feed of you in your worst state
Checking out your own groceries. I don't want to see that. I don't want to know what I look like
I'm at walmart. I'm already not making the best decisions. Yeah, that one might have been a little bit more
Disparaging can at least cut that I don't know. Well, I might get a little worse because I saw something of course on tiktok
so
Apparently this is I can verify this on
More than two sources self-checkout at walmart. They have a camera on the floor pointing up
Oh god, what?
For them to be able to see the bottom of your basket, but there's a conspiracy that they're actually pointed up to
Do exactly what you think check out the goods up skirt camera looks like or does that's
horrifying. All right
yeah, so um
You're being more surveilled than you thought you were fun
One of the things that always gets me with walmart is sometimes I go in there
And I don't end up buying the thing that I want a lot of times because the crowd at self-checkout is
Obscene don't want to deal with it
And I hate so much that I can't just walk back through the entrance
I have to walk through that mass of people that already doesn't want to be around other people or else
It's going to beep at me and then check out greeter is just gonna stare at me
Like I've somehow wedged a 32 inch tv under my hoodie. I just want to be able to leave
Freely. Yeah. Well, I mean you can you can thank your fellow man for that. Yeah, I mean on one hand
I don't blame them because I'm sure they lose an insane amount of money every single day from theft
But at the same time
Having the gates that don't do anything
All they do is they beep if you go the wrong way
Having a 90 year old woman work the door checking receipts
At least now because before when they used to just like take your receipt they'd glance at it and they
Sharpie it. Yeah, whatever. They weren't able to check everything
But now they'll take your receipt and they'll scan the barcode on it and they'll like the they'll get a picture of
The big stuff that is on your receipt that wouldn't fit in the bag. Yeah, so they can just check those things
Okay, so I mean at least I mean, I guess that could be some sort of deterrent, but not really
Yeah, I mean I've been to it's and it's not just it's not just Walmart
So it's all kinds of stores where almost everything is behind a glass case or behind a cage or something like that
Something that you have to call someone over for like, okay. Yeah, I'm constipated
So can you give me this egg flax here?
Please and maybe I'll just chug it right here and we'll see what happens
All of the like the family planning stuff like that whole section of walmart is usually blocked off
And I wonder how often they actually sell things because they have to get an employee to unlock the cabinet
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would think that once once they put the the protections up there that
Sales probably went down a bit like yeah, sure not getting stolen
But I can't imagine anyone is still buying it think of all the walmart babies because the people were too embarrassed to buy condoms
To ask someone to get the condoms out for them. So they're like, you know what? I'll risk it
I think I've met some walmart babies. Yeah, I don't know that for a fact
But they give off real walmart baby vibes makes sense. Yeah, you know, I if it's behind a lock
I will not I will not go find an employee to open it for me
I won't and I'm not going to press the button to call an employee saying hey
Associate associate someone's constipated over here
I would press it if it actually gave that announcement over the loudspeaker in the store
There is a constipated person on aisle 23. We can get an associate's assistant
And help is on the way
But all this leads me into
My conspiracy. Yeah, and what is that that all of this is just so they can move completely online
No theft. No, I mean you're probably going to get theft from employees in the warehouse or whatever
But for the most part you bring the theft down to zero
Your
Workforce can be cut way down because if they're in a warehouse you can get robots to do most of that stuff
I think the some of those bigger stores are trying to
Kind of move in the opposite direction with that because they don't think that you can infringe on amazon space in a lot of ways
And so their differentiator is always going to be the brick and mortars
Like the the walmart near me just took away every one of their self checkouts
And I know it's for the greater good, but I am a little annoyed by it that I don't get a single self checkout option
Wait, they took them all out all of them. So we're doing a 180 now
because so before
Whenever we first moved in so that would have been like 2022
um, it was 50 self checkouts and 50 actual like
man cashier stations
And then it switched to the whole thing was just a divider in the middle
There was the people with the like the cigarette counter and then it was just 50 50
All self checkouts. Yeah
But in the last
Two months or so they've taken out every one of the self checkouts. Hmm. There's 30 ish
Probably cashier stands of which two of those are manned. Yeah. Yeah, they're there, but no one's working them
Yeah, this this one is the ends
Are our self checkout and then in the middle they have maybe 10
Yeah, 10 lines that are manned by someone who's probably gonna let me get away with more than I would have gotten away with
At the self checkout. Yeah, I mean, I do think you're right that amazon has such a
stranglehold on the
online marketplace and they've gotten so efficient at
At doing that that most other businesses wouldn't be able to compete
but I still think that
It in the end it would be more
profitable for them to move to a solely online
Yeah, and really places like walmart already have the already have the space
So all they got to do is shut their doors. Yeah, and then take orders online and they can just deliver them out
I think that it's really telling though that amazon right now is moving two more brick and mortars
I think they're trying to get a model together. That's more of that hybrid
Yeah, like walmart and amazon are coming at the same kind of consensus from two different sides. It's like
Amazon bought out Whole Foods. There's a couple other ones that I think they have under their umbrella now
But they have Whole Foods and then in like Seattle and a couple of those like big tech centers
They're trying to do like actual amazon stores. Mm-hmm like with the palm reader. God those things creep me out
All of it is just registering their palms like but also does that mean that palms are unique like fingerprints because I didn't know that either
Yeah, I mean even my from one to the next. I don't understand it amazon
I was reading an article in ad week about like amazon's growth versus the brick and mortar
And I didn't realize that they were actually cited in the bankruptcies of at least three different companies
They got cited in borders bookstore. Uh j crew, which did not know they were out of business
And uh toys rs, huh?
Which I kind of assumed that the first and third ones were true
But I didn't know that that was actually like uh, well borders makes the most sense. Yeah, because they started out as a book
Amazon star. All right. You ready for this list? It's let's go. That's extensive. So they have amazon web services
Which I mean, I'm pretty sure that they either started that on their own or they bought one and just changed the name
But then they have audible Whole Foods zappos ring a book
Amazon books blink amazon fresh woot arrow amazon pharmacy zooks
comicsology amazon games amazon mgm studios, uh, one jury, which is a podcast platform. Yeah
Uh pill pack kiper systems amazon air amazon air exactly what it sounds like planes. They have planes
they
Yeah, I've seen them municipal air or not municipal airport. Um
regional airport just up the way they have
Amazon planes coming out of time
Okay, uh amazon clinic amazon robotics anapuma labs. What?
Anapuma labs
We make great products even better an israeli micro electronics company
Owned since 2015 be an interesting rabbit hole to go down all the stuff that amazon actually does
So this also says mgm holdings. I'm wondering if they just bought mgm studios
They're just in like a partnership with them those mgm holdings. Yeah a lot a lot of uh
One medical
body labs
Just stuff that
Stereotypically like whenever you see an apocalypse movie and it's like there's just you just get inundated with this one brand
That just took over everything and destroyed the world. This is what you would think of
I'm sure you're thinking more sky net
But the first thing I thought of was the taco bell Verizon carls jr hybrid in idiocracy
Welcome to costco. I love you
God that's a chicken movie
What else you got?
So when it comes to amazon, I think we've also passed the point where
Things have gotten too convenient. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I agree with that because it's
I admittedly I'm on both sides of the fence on this because if I could buy a tv at 3am
I still want to be able to buy a tv at 3am
but
One of the reasons that I I stopped ordering
Like door-dash uber eats any of that stuff is because if I can't go
Out to the restaurant to go get that food then I don't need to spend that much money on it. Yeah, like I just I didn't
deserve to get that thing
and
so like the
That's kind of my problem with amazon as it stands right now is that I get so easily into like
This is a problem that I'm having right now
And it's a problem that I'd like to fix right now and then by the time it comes in even if it's like a day or two later
It's not a real problem. It's not a thing. I actively need to fix
And it annoys me that I bought it. I'm not going to return it because who returns things all you got to do is take it to your local
Whole Foods. I know I'm not going to do that
I want to be a person that returns things that they bought and don't need but no
I think that we got a little too comfortable with having um too many people
Get their hands on our food. Yeah, no, uh, all of those services have always grossed me out
I spent too much time on tiktok whenever the pandemic hit. Yeah, I try to avoid them
But I still have to use them every now and then and I never get everything that I ordered
So it's it's a last resort. But I mean, I understand why
Why it exists. I don't I don't see how it is a viable income option for anybody
Yeah, but hey, if it works for you it works for you
So on the the topic of kind of the hyper store, do you think that they're going to go the way of
Malls is essentially the same thing. It's just all of the mall being closed into one building
And I couldn't tell you one mall that's anywhere near me that I would want to spend time in
I don't think so because I think if it comes down to that then all their buildings are just going to be turned into warehouses
So I don't think that they'd be abandoned. I think that they would be used. They would just be repurposed
Okay, but wouldn't it be kind of a nightmare logistically to have every
One of those big stores turned into a distribution center. I mean, it's it's not really much different than because really
Okay, say you have someone that say you want to do this cheap as possible
So all you're going to do is you're going to lock the doors from the public
All all the people except for the cashiers are still employed doing their same schedule doing their same routine every day
So instead you have these people that go fetch these items and then just load them into a truck truck delivers it out
Or you take out all the shelves just 20 foot shelves all over the place
yeah, and
You already have the parking lots because walmarts have some of the most wasted space and parking lots
And as far as any other stores concerned except for maybe a mall
Yeah
Unless you need to sleep in your car always go to the walmart. Yeah, but
Now well, they're not 20 per hour anymore. Exactly. Okay one more point in the the pros of 24 hour walmarts
Yeah, you'd have to go to a truck stop or something. Oh god getting lot lizards knocking on your window all night
I don't think i'm their target demographic. I mean if you got the money
Anyone's their demographic. That's a fair point
But so I think that is it is the superstore dying? Yes
Um, is it going to be dead in our lifetime? Probably not. It's probably still gonna hold on
Just like there's still malls that are holding on right now
Yeah, I mean you can even see though in a lot of the the bigger stores that they have a lot of
Like just empty shelves. Yeah, like the supply chain issues that I guess just never got fixed after covid
Yeah, I mean supply chain issues was like the buzzword of of the pandy
Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, I can't do that because supply chain. Oh, you gotta raise the prices on this because supply chain
That's yeah, and then the supply chain
Supposedly it was gonna get fixed after the world went back to normal ish. Nothing got cheaper and nothing got cheaper. Yeah
I think that that's
I think that we will see the end of the superstore in our time
And I think that's specifically because of inflation because these big stores pride themselves on being an experience
It's a one-stop shop where you get to buy tires and toothpaste if that's what you want or get a
manicure and for some reason a chiropractic adjustment because that's in my Walmart now
Well, and it's instantaneous gratification
but I think because
so much of
The way that we view money has changed in just the little amount of time that I've had my own money
It's changed from like I'm gonna go do this to I'm constantly thinking about the amount of money that I'm spending
While I'm doing something. Mm-hmm. Everything is just so expensive. Yeah, and I think it completely
de-incentivizes
Going to any of those stores because all I'm gonna be thinking about is how much money I'm spending the longer that I stay there
Yep, and if I'm being surveilled then I see really no upside to it like it's not doesn't really seem like a fair trade-off
would you
Say that you decided that you want this widget. It's
X amount of dollars it could be here at two in the morning
Delivery a window of two to five in the morning or you can go to Walmart and get it for two dollars more
But you just go up there come back with it real quick. What should you do?
I know this isn't the point of the question
But I can't do overnight shipping because they have to go through our leasing office
And I've had a lot of really annoying early morning phone calls from amazon drivers. They're like, hey
We can't get to your package locker. I'm like, hey, I don't care try again later. Okay, you're on a vacuum
I was still
About your leasing office and whether they're open or not
Um, I I would go to Walmart and do the thing I would go buy it for two dollars more
Would you enjoy it or would you be thinking about how I could have saved two dollars and the trip up here?
I
It's gonna be a case by case thing because if I needed like to fix something
My brain is not gonna stop thinking about the thing I need to fix until I fix it in which case I'm gonna go to Walmart
Get the thing to fix it right now. It's not a necessity
Non-essential then I would get it something you just decided that you wanted and you can get it now for two dollars more or save two
dollars and have it brought to your door
By the time you wake up, but it's something you really want. Oh, then I would wait
Yeah, if it's a like if it's actually important to what I'm doing right now
Or I need it in like a certain time frame. I'm gonna go get it because I've also had a lot of problems with
Ordering things online that have ended up somewhere in the ether. Yeah, and I don't want to
Leave the task that I had on my to-do list to just whenever the thing decides to come in
Yeah, I mean this isn't this isn't really
Superstore per se, but there have been a couple times where I have ordered something from phone store ebay whatever
Something like very expensive laptop phone, whatever ipad
And I would much rather arrive 30 miles away go pick it up today then wait a week and a half for it
Did you do the same thing if it is?
So technology I feel like is a little bit different because I've gotten some crappy things in the mail
For those of you listening our dad is a big ebay person when it comes to technology. I do not understand it
I will not understand it. They didn't use Amazon until like six months ago. He buys every phone from someone on ebay
And I can't do that. No, but if it's a technology thing that one's gonna depend more on price
If I can buy it in a store, I will buy it in a store
I would rather be able to like see it in my hands make sure that I know that it's not busted
For I leave I don't want to put 800 dollars in limbo while I'm making sure that the thing that I'm getting is usable
So I've had this happen to me
You go to a store you go to a phone store you say you're buying a tablet
You see the tablet you hold the tablet you decide. This is the one I want
They can get it to you in a week or you can go drive to it. Let's say
45 minutes one way so hour and a half all in to go pick it up from a different store
Would you do that versus waiting a week knowing that you've already you've already had the the hands-on experience
You already decided that this is the one you want. What are you gonna do?
so
In that case
I've actually had that situation happen to me before and I've driven the I think that drive was like an hour
What was it for?
That was for my most recent iPad
Yeah, it was when I still lived in Fort Worth and I drove to Dallas for it
But I will say that every time that I've done that
Every time that I've decided to forego the this amount of time that it would take it to get shipped
I regretted it because it's just it's not been that important to me once I got it. Yeah, it's the
the kind of anticipation and I think that that's
Something I miss but I don't give myself that opportunity to have that anymore
Like I usually opt for the quicker option, but realistically I know that I would
Appreciate the things that I bought more if it took me a little bit longer to get them
Yeah, yeah, like sometimes on Amazon. I'll buy something
And it'll say an arrival
Tuesday or get it on your Amazon day Wednesday
What are you talking about? I think I'm gonna wait 24 more hours. How dare you?
I'm not some peasant
I will I will always opt for the the lesser packaging if I buy multiple things from Amazon though
So I will always do like if it comes on Tuesday by itself or Thursday with the other stuff I bought
I'm gonna get it Thursday because that just seems wasteful. Yeah. Yeah, I mean some of the packaging that they can send me
Stuff in is pretty pretty crazy how minimal it is. Yeah, but then you also get these giant boxes
For the smallest thing. So I mean, I guess it all evens out eventually
I got earplugs a couple weeks ago in a box that was probably like
Two feet by a foot and a half like what what is this for? What are you doing Jeff?
What are you doing Jeff? He's off living his Lex Luthor life. Hey, don't you disrespect pit bull like that?
What about bulk stores? Do you think they're safe? Your Sam's clubs, your Costco's
So I think in the long haul the warehouse stores are going down too
And the reason I think the warehouse stores are going down is because people aren't having kids
And those memberships only really make sense if you're feeding a family or a small army
But the deal's on pants
And tires
We've discussed it. I don't know
The biggest thing about the warehouse stores is that they're not just a small store
Their deals on pants don't affect me. So I have I have a Sam's Club membership and a Costco membership
I only ever use either of them for paper goods
So I use them for toilet paper for paper towels. I used to be like a snack food person, but I've
Cut out snack foods
And so now there's really no other point for they don't have the litter that I need for the cats
Because that would be the other like big purchase that I would need. I don't eat enough to make sense of doing
yogurt by the gallon
Costco any of those bulk stores great for diapers wipes formula
formula is the same stuff. It's
It's same exact ingredients as you'd get
with the other ones but similar in Kirkland. Yeah, but it's
They're bigger and
cheaper per ounce. So
If you got one on the way definitely take advantage of that
Trying to think we have an upright deep freezer that we received and have yet to use
But I think that when we move we would be more likely to use it
And then that's when that's when a warehouse store would come into play
That's fair because you drop well you drop like
300 bucks maybe
And you have like six months worth of meat. We've been talking about like once we get moved into the new place that we're getting
Eventually going to get an upright freezer
Because the the plan is to get like a half cow because it's basically like a whole year worth of meat
Ferd I don't remember how much it was
try not to think about how
much all of that stuff costs, but
I'm sure it it pans out to make a lot of sense
We could each get a quarter cow and we'll split it. I'm down for that
I am a little bit traumatized since under the dome came out and I watched two full seasons of that show where for some reason the
intro scene was them cutting the cow in half with the dome
Hmm. That was a weird show. Don't you mean the Simpsons movie?
The show? I wish I did
Now I watched all three. I think seasons of under the dome
Do you have anything left for this one? Uh that covered all of the things that I had
I missed the 24 hour store
I would still love if they would bring it back. I would make so many stupid purchases and it would so be worth it for these retailers
Yeah
Yeah, I mean
I think there's
Probably a lot more involved that we're not really taking into consideration
the safety level
Because I'm sure I've seen some sketchy people at Walmart at three in the morning
Um having just gotten off of work. I've probably been the sketchy person at the Walmart. Probably. You know, you got a point
Uh the staffing which I worked overnight at Walmart too
And so I mean they had maybe this was before the big like the huge push for self-checkout
So maybe three cash years on and all the other people are gonna be are gonna be
Working anyways to get the store ready for the next day the front people in their downtime will straighten up the front of the store
I mean, it's not like there's not work for them to do but I think that they see the money that they've saved on
payroll
On just not being open a more dangerous hours of the night. Yeah that I don't think it would take something
Massive for them to go back to it. Yeah, I don't see it ever realistically coming back
Just a bummer. It is now. I have to make my purchases at 2 a.m. On amazon
We'll just make our own superstore. It's how I got my ukulele. So
It's not all bad. We make our own superstore and our selling point is hey, we're gonna be open 24 hours a day
Yeah, that sounds think about it. They close Walmart closes at 11. They don't open back up to like seven
What if we were only open from 11 to seven? That's even better. That's eight hours. Yeah
Everyone gets there 40 hour weeks and we make a ton. I like it
Yeah, and uh, we'll have all the emergency stuff like emergency buys up front like plungers
I didn't need a plunger and then not been able to get one
I I don't think I can say that I have
If you if you think back, I'm sure it's happened to you
But maybe maybe you had a 24 hour store that you could go to
To get plunger. So it wasn't an issue. Oh, not exactly a plumber
But in the same vein when my ceiling started raining at my last apartment. Yeah, I had to
Rally all of my nearby friends to see if I could get totes or things to collect all the water
And I lived across the street from a Walmart was not 24 hours. I would have bought probably all kinds of things
I would have stress bought junk food on top of all the containers that I needed for my living room rain
Good old days. I miss the 24 hour superstore. Did you think at
25
You would be able to say I miss back when
Are you confident in that in that number that you just threw at me?
Yes, okay
Let's check in
Because you already had your birthday this year
99 yeah
I um
I had really hoped that I wouldn't be one of those back in my day people by 25
But you know, here we are living in unprecedented times
And I would kill
To live in precedented times again
Everything is banana pancakes
Is that gonna be your sign-off?
Just waiting for the times to be precedented again. We'll see you next time
I do like that one
I won't give it and give it a shot
Here we are just hanging out until times are precedented again
Y'all stay safe. Hey
Have the day you deserve
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