Wait, there was $2.50 bottle deposit?
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
~economics~
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
those people should be working on wall street
― mh, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:18 PM Bookmark
food stamp arbitrage
I mean wait, couldn't they just sell the milk to some co-op member at cost instead, like Wynona Ryder with her gas card in that shitty movie?
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the deposit was big cuz the bottles were huge or whatever. great bottles.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
that's what you get for being super-restrictive about how food stamps can be spent
― goole, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
way to go, legislatures
hey you yuppie lady yeah over here a minute in this ally, wanna buy some artisanal milk
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
i think the people's pint growler bottles are $2.50 deposit too. just around the corner. also nice bottles.
http://beergeekdude.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/p_2048_1536_42D0F9AC-1F31-4E32-A680-C2BFAFF899A2.jpeg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
IT IS CALLED REALITY BITES DAMMIT
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha erica i knew you'd take care of that for me <3
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
;)
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
I speaketh not its name
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
guy who owns the people's pint is so locavore that he actually doesn't like the idea of people driving to his restaurant. ideally its for local people who walk or bike there.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
does he screen the customers or what? that seems... spiteful, somehow.
― america's next tot mom (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
park around the corner imo
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
get yr nanny to drop you off
haha! no, he just likes the idea of a local pub being local i guess. no credit cards taken in 15 years either.
"Why should any faceless, greedy corporation from a thousand miles away that doesn't give a damn about what we're doing here—why should they make a dime off me or my customers?"
http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=13557
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
credit card companies are the worst fwiw
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't do credit cards for about a year in my store and it was kinda like shooting myself in two feet and both hands. had to do it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
oh for sure, only business that can really get away w/it are like restaurants that are always packed
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I use my credit card all the time
― dayo, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
mostly because change sucks and who wants to carry around a bag of pennies
― dayo, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
i love this thread by the way. since i moved to my milky paradise i don't read the paper every day like i used to. read 60 papers/blogs/magazines/books a day when i lived on that godforsaken island.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
The coop I used to belong to had different discount rates for working members and nonworking members, which seems like a nice compromise.
I don't even know if there are any coops in Chicago since I only shop at Trader Joe's and Walgreens now.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
would be interested to see what happened if a whole foods moved in next door to the pk slop coop
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
ally, wanna buy some artisanal milk
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:01 PM Bookmark
Um, how far is it from the future WF in Gowanus?
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
looks like a 15 minute walk on the map maybe
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but not a super convenient walk for most people in park slope
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
its less than a mile, coops goin doooown
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
but...lots of parking space
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
odd future WF gowanus shop them all
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
Well maybe the WF will clear out all these NANNY-SHOPPIN POSEURS and free up the co-op for REAL HARDCORE SOCIALISTS
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if they saw any impact from the trader joes on atlantic
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
man i am interested in some boring shit
solitary posts that effortless describe etc
― dayo, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/fashion/life-in-the-fishbowl-for-jared-kushner.html?_r=1&hpw
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/06/26/fashion/26KUSHNER_SPAN/26KUSHNER_SPAN-articleLarge-v2.jpg
"Oh hi, I'm the smug little shit scion of a corrupt real estate family. I haven't actually succeeded at anything -- in fact my first and only two business moves were extremely bad. But I'm married to Donald Trump's daughter. Why don't you do a section-front-page profile of me that opens into a two-page spread."
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Sunday, 26 June 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
a seraphic figure with neatly sculptured chestnut brown hair and fair skin
― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Sunday, 26 June 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
It's true, young women do try to marry a man who's like dear old dad.
― mh, Sunday, 26 June 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
One day in early 2009, a security breakdown in The Observer’s computer system allowed employees access to one another’s hard drives. A few staff members with prying eyes went into Mr. Kushner’s and found a file with an intriguing name. They opened it and found pictures of their boss and Ms. Trump, his girlfriend at the time, and Billy Joel aboard Mr. Murdoch’s sailboat, Rosehearty.
For a group that had seen its ranks shrunk by layoffs and demoralized by pay cuts, the sight of their young publisher surrounded by such decadence was a sore one.
this is so stupid
how exactly were they unclear about him being rich
― iatee, Sunday, 26 June 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
"I already know you're a spoiled rich kid who owns our paper...but a picture with billy joel!! that crosses the line!"
― iatee, Sunday, 26 June 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
observer staffers HATE billy joel
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 26 June 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing says hedonistic conspicuous consumption like chillin with Billy Joel.
― o_O the humanity (Jesse), Sunday, 26 June 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
He charges $3,500/hour for that shit.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Sunday, 26 June 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone actually read the New York Observer?
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
what counts as "anyone"
― ☂ (max), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
ah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Observer
The New York Observer asserts to advertisers that it delivers Manhattan’s most affluent, educated and influential consumers, with the average net worth of its readership exceeding $1.7 million and 96% of readers being college graduates. It has a paid circulation of 51,000.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
the average net worth of its readership exceeding $1.7 million
what
― mh, Sunday, 26 June 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, seems low
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 June 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link