quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

that market is the only place in town where i get visibly agitated. it can be hard. the customers are very very oblivious to their surroundings. people are constantly knocking into me or not seeing me trying to get around them as they have long conversations in the middle of aisles. but i like the stuff there. even if 3/4 of the surrounding "community" could never afford to shop there very often.

well also it isn't that hard to have access to cheap vege in CA so whatever, you NYers are just lost causes.

A better solution to the shift problem would be for members to pool their money and use it toward bringing 'perma-shift-workers' to take over all of the shifts -- a far more efficient way to manage the work. The "perma-shifters" could be brought in from outside the co-op membership -- say, for example, from nearby low-income communities, and they ccould be compensated with "hourly shift compensation fees" in exchange for their work.

its true vegetables are less expensive in california

do you want to hear something weird and sad?

yes

YEAH!

or maybe its just sad. or maybe its...i dunno, anyway:

at the market they used to sell these big glass bottles of local milk and they stopped selling them there because people were coming in and buying them with food stamps and then going into the alley and dumping the milk and going back in the store to get the $2.50 deposit for the milk.

that is sad

sad but . . . creative

those people should be working on wall street

yes! that's the combo i was looking for.

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Wait, there was $2.50 bottle deposit?

~economics~

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?

yeah the deposit was big cuz the bottles were huge or whatever. great bottles.

that's what you get for being super-restrictive about how food stamps can be spent

way to go, legislatures

hey you yuppie lady yeah over here a minute in this ally, wanna buy some artisanal milk

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

IT IS CALLED REALITY BITES DAMMIT

haha erica i knew you'd take care of that for me <3

;)

I speaketh not its name

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.

does he screen the customers or what? that seems... spiteful, somehow.

park around the corner imo

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

credit card companies are the worst fwiw

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.

oh for sure, only business that can really get away w/it are like restaurants that are always packed

I use my credit card all the time

mostly because change sucks and who wants to carry around a bag of pennies

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.

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.

would be interested to see what happened if a whole foods moved in next door to the pk slop coop

ally, wanna buy some artisanal milk

would be interested to see what happened if a whole foods moved in next door to the pk slop coop

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:01 PM Bookmark

Um, how far is it from the future WF in Gowanus?

looks like a 15 minute walk on the map maybe

yeah but not a super convenient walk for most people in park slope

its less than a mile, coops goin doooown

but...lots of parking space

odd future WF gowanus shop them all

Well maybe the WF will clear out all these NANNY-SHOPPIN POSEURS and free up the co-op for REAL HARDCORE SOCIALISTS

i wonder if they saw any impact from the trader joes on atlantic

man i am interested in some boring shit

solitary posts that effortless describe etc

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."