loremipsom
displayname
loremipsom

Update 6:43pm EST: Anonymous Amazon sources are particularly angry about my last update.

No business model has a guarantee to work in all eternity. The problem is not the least that a lot (though by far not all) of booksellers are quite a traditionalist lot and have a set concept of how a bookstore has to work. If they changed their offering a bit, they might have far more luck. One model I’ve seen is

i love the people that decry horrible companies but keep shopping there ..

Amazon is not a monopoly (or even close to it) just because other businesses have lost money and left the marketplace. That’s market competition (which can be ugly). Amazon does not have sole or majority control over the production of books, is not the only bookseller available to you online or offline, and does not

All Amazon has done is revolutionize and modernize. You can’t fault them for coming up with an extremely profitable idea and adapting it to the age of technology.

Looking forward to buying records at the Spotify brick and mortar store!

Terry Richardson, sexual assaulter and sometime photographer.

Nobody cares if you whine on the internet.

I think it’d be an interesting idea if during storms Seamless/Grubhub/any other online food ordering sites put up a little notice on the payment & tip page being like, “FYI - it’s terrible outside and the weather is definitely making your delivery person’s job difficult! Since he or she depends on tips, won’t you

If you order takeout in terrible conditions, you are a garbage person. End of story.

There should be a special state law that says if you make a delivery guy deliver without tipping him in the middle of a storm, he should legally be able to throw you down the stairs. The higher up you live, the more steps he gets to use.

So we’re supposed to go all covert and create a file on a dude before we start dating them? That’s not reality and you know it. Besides, controlling men don’t respond well to being “just friends.”

Duh, but you can’t tell which guys are going to be abusive until it happens. Knowing that going out with a guy could end in my death is just kind of a mood killer.