Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.
I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
Say the quiet part out loud: they believe that black people could never earn their way into college legitimately, therefore all black students are affirmative action. That’s the foundation of their actual argument, not demographics. They don’t care about statistics and ratios, they care that schools aren’t segregated.
^ This part.
Not saying that having the information doesn’t help, sure it won’t change shitheels’ minds, but it’s good to have for the people they haven’t pulled over, and to help the people being harmed to know that YES the numbers DO say what you see, it’s NOT subjective.
oh seems very suspicious to see the barbie movie tumblr pop up on my dash after the strike. maybe it was made before, but I’m actually seeing it now
remember:
there’s no boycott on going to see new media
but there is a promotional blackout
don’t do the studio’s marketing work for them
I just checked their archive. They created it Today, July 17th.
prior to the strike they did not have an official tumblr lmaoooo
don’t reblog their shit
Reminder also, though, that the promotional blackout only officially applies to SAG-AFTRA members, Influencers working under the SAG-AFTRA agreement, and Influencers who may want to work under the SAG-AFTRA agreement in the future. If you are not being paid to promote the film as an influencer or paid to promote other things as an influencer so that “organic” promotion may appear to be sponsored, and are not a member of SAG-AFTRA, you are not included in the promotional blackout and any lack of interaction with official social media is up to you.
Also reminder that even if you decide not to interact with official social media in solidarity, there has been no request by the union for consumers to boycott the content made prior to the strike, and that would in fact be the opposite of helpful at this point, so if you want to go see the Barbie movie or w/e, you should absolutely do so.
Reblog if you’re comfortable receiving crabs on Crab Day (July 29th) so all your beloved followers know who they can comfortably crab on crab day (July 29th) without feeling nervous about crabbing someone 9n Crab Day (July 29th).
Its very annoying that we often use technology in contexts where the technology is by far the least convenient way of doing things.
@amethyst-sage-29 well the specific incident that prompted this was one in which we had to login online to get a student discount in a restaurant, which took forever and used up people’s data etc. Rather than the old fashioned way of just looking at our student cards and taking some money off the bill..
Another example was a while ago when the windows of a room could only be shut by scanning a QR code and then setting them to shut; these were the type that are too high for people to just shut them but a few years ago (or even just in buildings that arent brand new) there was just be a pole that attaches to them. Our lecturer didnt have a scanner so we had to stop to see who had one.
There are other things too menus only existing via QR code is a common one.
This is not only kind of annoying but ultimately just hugely increasing our dependance on phones, you can’t comfortably exist in society without a phone that connects to the internet anymore, having an option to do something online is fair - say someone forgets their student card or the pole breaks or something - but we dont need everything to be online especially with no alternative.
Why are people who have perfume as their hobby always so bizarre… anyway… obsessed with this review tbh
absolutely obsessed w her reviews
These are definitely with some self aware humor and most perfume reviews are at least subtly (source: I know perfume people) but also these are genuinely vivid descriptions of smell. We got some reason don’t have many words dedicated just to describing smells in English, not like how we just have “salty” and “umami” for flavors. We can call something a sweet fragrance but it’s not the same sweet as with food, so we have to draw comparisons to things everyone has smelled - this smells like roses, this smells like garbage, etc - and what do you do when it isn’t that simple?
I feel like I know exactly what kind of odors all of these are trying to capture in words.
As an ao3 writer just wanted to say that every time someone leaves a comment on my fic it makes my day. Like I know a lot of authors may not reply but trust me we love and treasure every single one of them and even reread them occasionally. So if you liked a fic just leave a comment it costs nothing and continues to motivate us to write
i feel like this blog is a great case study of how much an unreliable narrator can twist a story while still telling the truth and the biggest flaw with the original concept of aita. also this blog is very fun and it's very fun to imagine these characters going through (or putting someone else thru) something insane and immediately pulling up reddit to get some opinions on it.
@staff I gotta say, reorganizing the website like this is playing havoc with muscle memory. A little hard to engage with your product when I have to re-learn where everything is.
It’s almost like if something is the same for over a decade, instinct is key.
