You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by taxbuster

Gear grinding of a different sort - maybe Fata but my gears were ground, so....I'm a guy who has always supported smaller, local stores where possible, and bigger local ones when not. This occurred with the latter.



Went to a Home Depot y'day to buy some things; looked for a Dremel attachment - a chainsaw sharpening kit. Maybe $25 or so. Medium-sized Dremel display ... no chainsaw kits, not a bit surprised.


Got home, and online...checked...and all out of stock or not offered:

- Canadian Tire (3 local stores in the middle of BC here)
- Home Hardware (3 more local stores)
- Rona (2 stores)

- Home Depot (2 local stores..one with it in stock...a 1.5 hr drive from me - one way)


Amazon: 2 clicks and 2 minutes...$1 less than any of the others, will be delivered in 3 days for free.


I absolutely despise what Jeff Bezos stands for and dislike dealing with Amazon...but there are times when the local retailers have just locked themselves out of business because they just....don't....have....stock. How much does this cost the Canadian economy and the people who work in these places?


For the above kinds of stores, none of them small suppliers, how many times a day does that kind of thing happen? I can understand my local Stihl dealer not having a particular chain in for a saw...and he's happy to order me one...but large multi-store organizations...? Sheesh. Grinds my gears.

We're still behind the US but at some point you'll be able to get it the same day. Even schedule the delivery in a certain time window if you like.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Ped

I thought it as a portmanteau of "finally gonna"

[you&me]

Originally Posted by chemgear

We're still behind the US but at some point you'll be able to get it the same day. Even schedule the delivery in a certain time window if you like.

The OP is in the middle of (nowhere) BC, which is precisely why he had the problem in the first place and why I doubt he'll ever see the level of same day service common throughout a lot of the US...

For more common items, in bigger centres (such as Calgary), same day delivery is not uncommon. Heck, my wife ordered some things from Sephora a couple of weeks ago, and the package showed up in less than an hour... would have taken much more effort, cost more (gas) and only been marginally quicker (maybe by 10 minutes) for her to drive to the mall, buy it and drive back home.

[gallione11]

Based and tryna are my two recent trigger words. I feel like based is one of those internet only words. Never heard it in actual conversation

[Geraldsh]

Originally Posted by gallione11

Based and tryna are my two recent trigger words. I feel like based is one of those internet only words. Never heard it in actual conversation

First encounter right here, I don’t know what your ire is based on.

[The Fisher Account]

Originally Posted by chemgear

We're still behind the US but at some point you'll be able to get it the same day.

I get Amazon same delivery items all the time in Calgary.

[Weitz]

Yah me too and have for a while.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

You are just mad because they are the ones that beat you in the pools.

Of course it is. It's like randoms who enter poker tournaments and re-raise with K-4 off and make trip 4s. It's infuriating.

Anyway my gear grinder today is Subway. I'm pretty cheap when it comes to my ####ty, "just buying it because I need food" meals. Subway used to be great for this - footlong ham for about 8.50, footlong breakfast sandwich for under 8 bucks, and the app would often have something like 20% off to make it even better. Now, all of the app deals involve the "Subway Series" subs they introduced a year or two ago - doesn't apply unless you want one of those. And holy crap are those things ever a rip off. Worse still, they've now raised the price on my precious breakfast subs to $10. Basically the restaurant is pointless now - it might as well not exist. There's no circumstance where it's worthwhile.

Second gear grinder related to food: I've been eating a lot of the YYCExp meals lately - if you don't know what that is, there's a 2 week period every year where a bunch of restaurants do a 3-5 course prix fixe menu for $35-45 bucks a person, which I find is a good way to try new places and sample what's good about them. I've been to a bunch so far, which is sort of me trying to rediscover the Calgary restaurant scene since I've been dining out so much less since COVID. In three separate cases in under a week, the food has been so delayed that they had to take a chunk off the bill, or in one case the entire meal was free, without me asking for any compensation. They just recognized that the wait was too long as said "sorry about the wait, we'll buy your drinks", or whatever.

What's the deal? Have restaurants gotten worse at this in the last 3-4 years or is it just a fluke?

[Wormius]

A $2 price increase in a foot long breakfast sub (that seems like too much food, to be honest, I hope it’s shared amongst multiple people) is the reason a fast food chain is no longer worthy of existence is interesting.

[Engine09]

Adults using the word "yummy" to describe food.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Wormius

A $2 price increase in a foot long breakfast sub (that seems like too much food, to be honest, I hope it’s shared amongst multiple people) is the reason a fast food chain is no longer worthy of existence is interesting.

It's the combined effect of all of those cascading changes - the Subway Series being the biggest one - that lead to there being no reason for it to be there. This is just the straw that broke the camel's back; basically, before this, I could still at least say, "well at least I can still get a decent breakfast sandwich there when I'm hungry". But I ain't paying 10+ bucks for that, so there is no longer anything for me to bother with there, and thus, for me, the restaurant might as well not exist.

Clearer?

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

It's the combined effect of all of those cascading changes - the Subway Series being the biggest one - that lead to there being no reason for it to be there. This is just the straw that broke the camel's back; basically, before this, I could still at least say, "well at least I can still get a decent breakfast sandwich there when I'm hungry". But I ain't paying 10+ bucks for that, so there is no longer anything for me to bother with there, and thus, for me, the restaurant might as well not exist.

Clearer?

No complaining in this thread, what are you thinking?

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Second gear grinder related to food: I've been eating a lot of the YYCExp meals lately - if you don't know what that is, there's a 2 week period every year where a bunch of restaurants do a 3-5 course prix fixe menu for $35-45 bucks a person, which I find is a good way to try new places and sample what's good about them. I've been to a bunch so far, which is sort of me trying to rediscover the Calgary restaurant scene since I've been dining out so much less since COVID. In three separate cases in under a week, the food has been so delayed that they had to take a chunk off the bill, or in one case the entire meal was free, without me asking for any compensation. They just recognized that the wait was too long as said "sorry about the wait, we'll buy your drinks", or whatever.

What's the deal? Have restaurants gotten worse at this in the last 3-4 years or is it just a fluke?

Labour shortages. Especially in the service industry and anything that involves being out in the world dealing with people IRL.

[you&me]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

It's the combined effect of all of those cascading changes - the Subway Series being the biggest one - that lead to there being no reason for it to be there. This is just the straw that broke the camel's back; basically, before this, I could still at least say, "well at least I can still get a decent breakfast sandwich there when I'm hungry". But I ain't paying 10+ bucks for that, so there is no longer anything for me to bother with there, and thus, for me, the restaurant might as well not exist.

Clearer?

IMO, the bright side of the fast food inflation is the relative attractiveness of 'real' food now... I haven't had Subway for probably 10 years and every time I even consider it, I'm easily able to find a higher-quality alternative for a relatively modest amount more... Why spend ~$10-15 at Subway when Alumni exists (for just one example)?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Labour shortages. Especially in the service industry and anything that involves being out in the world dealing with people IRL.

Just hire more TFWs like everyone else does. Added benefit is you can treat them like garbage and they’ll still work hard because they’ll be fearful of losing their visa. Helps keeps labour costs low too. Win-win for everyone.

[taxbuster]

Originally Posted by you&me

The OP is in the middle of (nowhere) BC, which is precisely why he had the problem in the first place and why I doubt he'll ever see the level of same day service common throughout a lot of the US...

For more common items, in bigger centres (such as Calgary), same day delivery is not uncommon. Heck, my wife ordered some things from Sephora a couple of weeks ago, and the package showed up in less than an hour... would have taken much more effort, cost more (gas) and only been marginally quicker (maybe by 10 minutes) for her to drive to the mall, buy it and drive back home.

Exactly this...which is why although Amazon is "convenient" all the more that stores should be in stock on everything possible, especially in rural areas...but big retailers focus on cities.



We ordered some Gardenia gloves ($20!! for 10 pairs) from Costco in 2020 right at the beginning of COVID and had 'em delivered to our door in 2 days. Amazing.

[taxbuster]

On the language gear-grinder: the trend to drop "-ed" on past participles.



eg: I am bias on x subject.


And yes. i happens on CP.


Won't even go to the your/you're/its/it's etc ones. Hopeless educational system. And no doubt that has been discuss to misery (see what I did there? Ugh.)

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by taxbuster

On the language gear-grinder: the trend to drop "-ed" on past participles.



eg: I am bias on x subject.


And yes. i happens on CP.


Won't even go to the your/you're/its/it's etc ones. Hopeless educational system. And no doubt that has been discuss to misery (see what I did there? Ugh.)

On the case of bias, I don't think anyone drops it on purpose, they actually think that's how it is. The -ed is a bit silent.

Like all intensive purposes.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by fotze2

On the case of bias, I don't think anyone drops it on purpose, they actually think that's how it is. The -ed is a bit silent.

Like all intensive purposes.

Its 'All Intense Porpoises.'

[btimbit]

"on accident" instead of "by accident" is the one that drives me up the wall lately