Shopping at Target

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• Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Customers are terrible. I feel bad for the employees who have to clean that mess.

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• GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Says more about the American consumer than Target.

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  • Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Spot on. You don’t see this at the targets I’ve been to thankfully

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• normal_user@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this only an American thing ? I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like this in the European countries I’ve been in

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never seen it in continental Europe, but Primark is on a whole different level in the UK

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    • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Once you enter Primark, it’s MadMax rules

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is true, UK super- and hypermarkets were like this when I went to some of them. The attitude of customers is just weird.

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    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I still have ptsd from some primark shops in uk…

      Scenes I saw are now how I picture the locust plague.

      How can some people be so unaware of basic society rules?

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    • rubikcuber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve never been into a Primark, but this looks very much like TK Maxx (which is what TJ Maxx is called here in the UK).

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m American and I’ve never seen this in a Target ever. They must be severely understaffed at this location.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same, the stores near me are never this bad

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    • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right, the Targets where I live are pretty clean and maintained but other stores however, tend to look like the photo in OP. Like Forever 21 and Ross always look like a fucking mess.

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  • espentan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me neither, nor do I ever think I’ve been to a shoe store that keeps boxes of shoes on the shelves like that. I’m used to display models; find something you like, then you ask an assistant what sizes you’d like to try on.

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    • nile@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been to plenty of places with boxes on the shelves, and it’s always been fine.

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I raise my hand- I’ve seen similar in Australia’s Targets and Kmarts, though I must admit that was years ago. I haven’t seen this much mess in yhe shoe section over the past couple years but I also haven’t been shopping for shoes there lately, so all I’m saying is it can happen here too.

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    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can confirm, did a mandatory highschool weeks work experience in kmart a few years back - was the only person who cared to clean up the shoes.

      Nowadays the shoe section is clean af. However I dont necessarily think it’s due to the workers - more likely less customers shopping for shoes offline.

      I don’t generally buy shoes from those stores anyway anymore, I have very small feet so the selection sucks, but also none of the shoes last very long. Id rather spend $100 on shoes that last rather then $25-35 on shoes that fall to pieces after a month or two of use.

      But when I do shop for shoes in these stores, I make a point to put the rejects back where they are supposed to go. That one week burned into my brain how painful it is to put away a mountain of shoes that people just tossed aside. So I’ll do my part to not be apart of the problem, and to make it easier for our poor retail workers.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TK Max is like this.

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  • whome@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well it sort of us getting there. But I think the stores sort of encourage that behavior.

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• bakachu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Used to work retail so I feel this. Crazy thing is that sometimes it only takes one or two customers (and their gremlin children) to cause this kind of chaos. I’d go into fitting rooms and shit would be thrown all over the floors. Every now and then there would be extra surprises…like food or drink containers, or used diapers, or urine in the wastebasket. Fun times.

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  • chrisphero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some people are really disgusting and simply don’t care about others… it’s a shame, really and that’s the reasons we can’t have nice things.

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  • SadTrain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m still in grocery retail and this is incredibly accurate. Corporate set expectations to be “Grand Opening Ready” throughout the entire day. Customers dig and dig through the produce department like there’s going to be a bag of salad that is magically better in the back of the case. If expiration dates went down to the second, they’d look for the furthest from expiry.

    It’s super frustrating because we get 7 trucks a week for produce, so we have a very healthy turnover on our stuff.

    This job has changed me (especially going through COVID in the South). People are animals.

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    • bakachu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I find the kind of behavior you’re describing as a sort of non-necessary survival mode behavior. They want to not just get the product they need, they want to get the best darn carton of strawberries in the entire batch. We’re not talking looking over a fee cartons, we’re talking those people that will go through EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. That side of the spectrum. I feel like people who do this might be predisposed to hoarding tendencies.l.or other obsessive disorders. Don’t get me wrong, fk those people, but I really want to believe there’s a reason behind the madness.

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  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the most unfair part and it expands to many areas of life. You can have a whole bunch of decent and normal people and just a handful of douchebags make it bad for everyone.

    I wonder if higher fines, maybe relative to the person’s income, would help or just lead to different problems…

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    • bakachu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Anecdotal, but it seemed like 80% of the time it was the poorer folks doing this shit. Have a sister with 4 kids, super close to welfare level and her and her kids do this shit (mostly her kids do this and she just lets them). Shes just tired and inattentive all the time. What I’ve noticed gets her attention is when a store clerk or other customer calls them out and shames them.

      So public shaming may help the problem, but in today’s world some of these people may turn rabid Mama bear on you.

      Side note: My sister has worked years of retail before so no idea how tf she does this.

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• Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As wages and the number of employees per store has decreased (not just target but everywhere), the more of this kind of shit I see.

  When there’s only two people running a whole store while making 10 bucks an hour this is the quality you get. Your next quarter earnings might be great but your entire chain of businesses will go fucking bankrupt when everyone starts avoiding your locations.

  I’m seeing this with retail and fast food places. Man I used to love Boston Market but I don’t step foot in there now. Same with Dunkin Donuts, total shithole, every one of em.

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Almost like moderate gains and taking care of employees takes care of the business. I’m baffled at how many CEOs force bad decisions in terms of immediate profits.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because cutting costs is a very quick way of showing you are improving the bottom line in the short term and you get a bigger bonus that quarter. Improving sales is harder to identify (was it the products? advertising? a mystery trend?) and take longer to appear on their charts. You’ll likely jump ship for the next job before the damage from your cuts shows up anyway.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yup. Lack of employees and the “broken window effect”. People see unmaintained areas and it just snowballs from there. This aisle probably had a few slobs leave boxes open and later customers figured no one cared and they got lazy too.

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    • ArthurParkerhouse@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everything is a K-Mart these days.

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  • misterundercoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, don’t expect me to pay Target prices if I’m getting the Wal-Mart experience.

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• cicapocok@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This tells you more about the people who go to buy shoes there… It takes 10 sec to put back the shoe to it’s box and the box to it’s place.

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  • electrogamerman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even if it took 5 minutes. When I try on clothes, I usually bring back anything I dont want back to its original place and do my best to fold it/hang it how I found it.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll pick clothes off the ground by racks and put things back on hangers while waiting for my wife to finish her shopping. lol

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    • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s still the stores responsibility to clean isle up after asshole customers like that.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably the same people who leave trash on the ground literally within a few feet of a trash can. Right up there with the people who drop bottles and cans (you were able to carry the full one), dump their car trash on the ground (saw a woman do this at a beach parking lot), etc.

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  • Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably had shit parents who never taught them about basic respect and decency when they were growing up (which they’ll now pass on to the next generation of dropkicks they squeeze out)

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  • IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same people who don’t return the shopping cart. Absolute animals.

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• bpalmerau@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The customer is not always right. Sometimes the customer is a douchebag.

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  • instamat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We should change it to the “customer is not always a douchebag.”

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fun fact, that’s not even what “the customer is always right” is supposed to mean, although it’s how it’s used most I guess.

    It was coined in relation to what shops should or should not stock - if customers wanted to buy something, then the shop should stock it, regardless of what they thought of the product.

    It’s not meant to mean everything the customer says is correct.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is still a stupid way of looking at that sentence.

      Shops should stock whatever they want.

      Just because shoes are suddenly all the rage doesn’t mean they should stock shoes at coffee shops.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably the same lazy slobs who leave frozen meat on random shelves in supermarkets because they changed their mind but are too lazy to put it back.

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• the_q@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A very large group of Americans are just awful people.

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A very large group of people are just awful people.

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    • TheInsane42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Check, where ‘very large’ can even be 2+ in worst case scenarios.

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    • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True. But some cultures produce a bigger proportion of “awful” people.

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  • FormerlyChucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Woah easy on the racism pal

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    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “American” isn’t a race but the internet commenter love affair with shitting on the USA is kinda played out. We’re not perfect, sometimes we’re not even all that good but it takes a special kind of delusion to ignore our efforts to promote peace and stability over the past century or so.

      An easy counterpoint would be things like forever wars in the Middle East, shady CIA bullshit pretty much anywhere they think they can get away with it and other agencies that probably know me more intimately than my proctologist. Generally, I’d agree that there’s a lack of effective oversight and some poor decision-making at play. There’s a lot of work to be done but our slow, drunken stumble is still moving toward a better future more often than not.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure “American” describes a mixing of a bunch of different races. Unfortunately not harmoniously enough.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    American. Can confirm.

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• Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you think it is bad at Target, go to the local Walmart.

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  • Reddit_Is_Trash@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Target is quickly turning into the new walmart

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    • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on if the Target is in the ghetto too like many Walmarts are near.

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• CIAtrackingaccount@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this normal? I’m in Canada and we would never ever leave things like that in a store.

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  • Sawzall@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t blame the consumer, blame target for not hiring/paying for staff.

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    • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      American: shits all over the toilet floor despite a toilet being right there “that’s disgusting, they need to hire more toilet cleaners!!” Probably leaves without washing their hands because there’s no designated staff for hand cleaning and heads off to McDonald’s to go buy more burgers.

      Absolutely shameful attitude.

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    • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean… blame both. just because there’s cleaners you shouldn’t mess the place.

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  • Discoslugs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol workers in america are not paid enough to give a shit.

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    • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In Britain, if you take something off the shelf and then decide you don’t want it, you put it back rather than just dropping it on the floor.

      Despite their being no punishment for being a dirty, lazy bastard. Nor a reward for being tidy and considerate for the people that come after you, it’s basic self governance that makes things nicer for everyone.

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  • cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve seen similar at Walmart here in Canada. Jackasses are everywhere.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reminds me of kmart in the 90’s.

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  • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not quite as bad as the nightmare fodder that is 2010s Kmart.

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    • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like the post apocalyptic Kmarts that are almost barren but there’s like one parked car out front and most of the windows are boarded up but the store is some how still open.

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• stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Literally every big box store in the US

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  • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    places like Forever 21 also often look like this.

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    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A lot of retailers tbh - people don’t take time to clean up after themselves for whatever reason

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• CodyCraftTwelve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is just the shoe section at every Target.

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Inconsiderate wankers.

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• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is how a couple of my local targets are in all sections all the time. Thankfully it’s not all of the targets so I can go to one of the decent ones if I need something

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just target?

  That’s like most shoe stores for me.

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  • electrogamerman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where trash place do you live in? I have never seen that.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shopping Cart Theory at full exposure…

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• baruchin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I bet Ross is way uglier than that.

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  • Mdotaut801@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who is Ross?

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    • Osnapitsjoey@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some ugly fuck

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• Compactor9679@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeap, target sucks

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• hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like the retail equivalent of the feed trough.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Based on what’s been happening at Target this summer, someone must have thought those were LGBT shoes.

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love Target but they don’t have shoes that fit me so I’ve never experienced this.

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• ThirdNerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I see continued guaranteed employment for someone who needs a job. Can’t clean up after meatheads with AI - yet.

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• TheWoozy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Walmart: Hold my big gulp

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• Mdotaut801@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m blaming the guy in the picture. Never trust a dude with a ponytail. I also bet that he owns reptiles, and has a katana somewhere in his home. You also can’t trust people like that either.

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• penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is literally all the Targets in Denver

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