Posted on 11/01/2007 11:31:00 AM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad
[Wal-Mart] Wednesday said it would start its Black Friday and holiday pricing early on some items, in a move to drive sales during the increasingly competitive holiday shopping season. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, said it will offer Black-Friday prices three weeks early by unveiling "secret" in-store specials. The company said it will offer discounts on five popular gift items. Wal-Mart plans to reveal discounts on its Web site on Thursday. The items will be available in stores beginning Friday morning, Nov. 2 as it officially opens its special Christmas shops. The day after Thanksgiving is one of the biggest shopping days of the year and is known as "Black Friday" in the retail industry because retailers earn so much on this single day they are able to swing to profitability.
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Cheaper always wins out over better.
There’s an Ace store next to my wife’s office; a couple of weeks ago I needed a fitting and gave her a note to take over there.
What I wanted was a 1/4” NPT close nipple and that was all I wrote down.
When she got home from work she gave me the bag and I took out a 3” long nipple.
I told her it wasn’t close enough and drew a sketch on paper while showing her the difference.
The next day I noticed that she had left the wrong nipple at home so I figured I’d just wait another day, but no, when she got home she proudly showed me a small plastic pouch with the correct item that was clearly labeled 1/4” (npt)close nipple; she had gone back over, couldn’t find the salesman and just browsed the rack until she spotted the match to the sketch.
On an earlier occasion at the same store she picked up a package of small springs after I told the guy on the phone I needed the part number for a pair of springs about 2” long and the diameter of a pencil eraser.
I still have the springs in the garage, they are the size of a pencil lead.
Oh, well.
Most folks who shop at Walmart are Republican - I shop there. Feel free to be superior - "push past" me or not - my next stop will be at the bank to count my savings...
When Black Friday comes
I’ll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor
When Black Friday comes
I’ll collect everything I’m owed
And before my friends find out
I’ll be on the road
When Black Friday falls you know it’s got to be
Don’t let it fall on me
When Black Friday comes
I’ll fly down to Muswellbrook
Gonna strike all the big red words
From my little black book
Gonna do just what I please
Gonna wear no socks and shoes
With nothing to do but feed
All the kangaroos
When Black Friday comes I’ll be on that hill
You know I will
When Black Friday comes
I’m gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it ‘til
I satisfy my soul
Gonna let the world pass by me
The Archbishop’s gonna sanctify me
And if he don’t come across
I’m gonna let it roll
When Black Friday comes
I’m gonna stake my claim
I’ll guess I’ll change my name
I switched from Blockbuster to Netflix because Netflix rents Blu-Ray...And I don’t have to go to the damn store AT ALL.
And I should add that they rent HD DVD also.
40”? What are you, a girl?
Hey, Bud! I resemble that remark.
I have the S52, the previous version. I love it. Got it FREE! with the purchase of my LCoS tv. The picture is outstanding and audio is top notch via optical since my reciever doesn’t have HDMI.
I got plans for my millions, and it ain't for overpriced department stores.
I use the PS3 as a DVD player too. It works great on upscaling, and my favorite feature is the 1.5x fast forward. Its like all the actors are on speed.
The Dan Rules!
Never bet against Sony’s ability to screw up a clear market advantage.
The source data is stored on the disc (HD-DVD or Blu-ray) at 1080p/24 and is interlaced to 1080i/60. Your television should be able to properly deinterlace the signal to 1080p, and you will see the exact same picture. This 1080i/p thing is worthless marketing talk.
If you have a 1080 set that can play in 24Hz multiples, then you probably have the money to buy a better player that can output the native 1080p/24 signal to the set.
For the rest of us with 60Hz televisions, this 1080i issue is moot.
Sorry, but all the figures I've seen show that you are incorrect; HD DVD has more than 300 released titles and counting since September, and that's without counting the many HD DVD releases from Europe and Japan of both American and foreign-language films (which will play in any HD DVD player, hence the advantage of not having region coding, which has always been anti-consumer despite your apologetics) or 'adult' titles (hey, just mentioning it, as it's the chosen format for many XXX producers), while Blu has not, to my knowledge, even cracked the 300-release barrier. If you know differently, show me the figures.
The desireablity of one title over another is, of course, purely a matter of taste; for me, Paramount, Universal, and Warner's have far more titles I enjoy than does, e.g., Sony Pictures.
I went to 6, count 'em 6, movie rental places in my neighborhood, and not one of them had a copy [of Hot Fuzz - a great flick, BTW], or even one on order.
It's unfortunate that you couldn't find "Hot Fuzz" in your neighborhood. It's in rental stores in my neighborhood, including Blockbuster, which is supposedly Blu-Ray exclusive (and the exec who made that deal was canned, shortly after Paramount went HD DVD exclusive). But few rental stores carry anywhere near the entire inventory of HD media, whether it's HD DVD or Blu-Ray, which is contributing nicely to the Netflix bottom line.
I don't think the format war will last for years, though; Fox and Disney have 'stuck' with Sony because of promises about advanced content that Sony just hasn't kept - thus explaining the dearth of titles from those two studios, and the continual cancellations of announced titles (Fox has released virtually nothing in the last year; almost every title they announced was later cancelled). I believe there's a rational limit on the studios' patience with Sony's broken promises, and that limit is fast approaching.
The XBOX HD-DVD add on is 1080p with a VGA connection.
There is a lot of excitement about this on other forums. Looks like my dad is going to be joining in on HDM for Christmas with a new HD-DVD player! If not the A2, then maybe an A3.
I’m waiting for an HD DVD player/recorder with 250 gig hard drive and recordable floppy to come out. Otherwise, I’ll just have one more box and the boxes are driving me out of my house.
Save on the work. Send your money directly to China instead. And for the record, I make less than 30 grand a year, drive a 10 year old car, and live in a home I paid a lot less than a hundred grand for. On further thought I can say there are plenty of oafs in many other stores as well. Go to a supermarket on a weekday night. See the people who are there at 11 at night with their school age kids? Oafs. But then, this part of AZ has a VERY high dropout rate. Higher than other parts of the state. Can pretty much figure where they will be forced to shop when grown.
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