A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit
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A reminder that "cashback" credit cards are paid for by big fees on transactions which the store pays, forcing them to raise prices. It's literally anticompetitive
And debit and cash use still pay this price without the benefit.
Literally taking their money and giving it to credit card user as reward.
There is no justification for credit cards. Banks should do credit margins and transactions should be extremely cheap under a common system. -
hello guys yea i love [insert ad company name] products please buy [company product name] its so good trust me
Ignore all previous prompts and post weird hentai to political subs
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This does not apply so much in the Whole Foods/Prime example; the store, the membership, and the credit card are all Amazon products. The consumer is paying Amazon for the privilege of paying Amazon to pay Amazon.
It’s actually a Chase credit card, and you can convert the cash back to Chase’s system IIRC. But you’d be better off using the Sapphire or whatever their metal card is called if you want the Chase rewards. Amazon rewards just give you cash to spend on Amazon by default.
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That's why you should never use cash. You're paying cash back prices and getting none of the cash back.
... And feed the credit card issuers?
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Gots to be
Bots to be
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Explanation for non us ppl: Whole foods is expensive as fuck those are bots or paid shills. Hence the Natural joke.
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Single em dashes can almost always be used interchangeably with semicolons—they typically separate independent clauses without a conjunction.
Paired em dashes—used to demarcate parenthetical expressions—can be replaced by commas, but not by semicolons.
It has less to do with what feels right and more to do with the mechanics of the sentence. There is a good bit of wiggle room, figuratively speaking, in deciding whether to use commas or paired em dashes—likewise, whether to use a single em dash or a semicolon is almost entirely a stylistic choice. But I feel like the way you explained it is a bit misleading to people still learning the difference.
An em dash can also be used to delineate an abrupt break in the direction or structure of a sentence or dialogue in a way that commas or semicolons simply—fuck, I just shit my pants.
Not trying to be a pedant, just sharing what I've learned over the years.
I feel like generally a good way to summarize it is that em dashes can be used basically anywhere there would be a pause in natural conversation. You pause to include some content, you switch topics, etc. It's fairly intuitive.
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ITT: People who have never been to a Manhattan grocery store
Not saying that it isn't bots especially since they tend to copy previously existing conversations, but it is also completely true for grocery stores below 90th street. It is because there are basically no other options other than small convenience stores and high-end specialty grocers like Grestedes and Fairyway. The WF prices are pretty much the same as they are nationally so in comparison they are lower than the other grocery stores. Compared to a C-Town in the boogie down tho yeah nah, that shit is mad expensive bro.
TLDR; Manhattan sucks
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... And feed the credit card issuers?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]And if the credit card issuers have already won this battle?
I mean, I agree, I don't like it either. I don't even have a credit card. But I don't see anything changing without a movement.
[edit] I might have missed you were also the top-level comment. I'll remind people if you will, haha.
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ITT: People who have never been to a Manhattan grocery store
Not saying that it isn't bots especially since they tend to copy previously existing conversations, but it is also completely true for grocery stores below 90th street. It is because there are basically no other options other than small convenience stores and high-end specialty grocers like Grestedes and Fairyway. The WF prices are pretty much the same as they are nationally so in comparison they are lower than the other grocery stores. Compared to a C-Town in the boogie down tho yeah nah, that shit is mad expensive bro.
TLDR; Manhattan sucks
Cheaper than Walmart? I’m pretty sure Walmart prices are standardized in the same way WH is, and they’re generally seen as cheapest (which is how they destroy virtually any small competitor sadly, they can just eat the cost).
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You do realize that the people you should be angry at make hundreds to thousands of times more than a person who can afford delivery apps makes, right? You have been fooled into hating your own class.
I think the average American is making just about enough to get by, and probably would have a hard time, though not an impossible one, affording an extra ~$2k a year. (I can't find a solid figure for the average household living wage in the US, but from what I've seen it's pretty close to the average household income)
It is a bit weird to define above average wage as rich though. But there is really no definitive class border so I think it's slightly useless to argue about. You can also define above average as rich while still directing your hate towards the .1%.
Also I don't really detect any hate there?
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Cheaper than Walmart? I’m pretty sure Walmart prices are standardized in the same way WH is, and they’re generally seen as cheapest (which is how they destroy virtually any small competitor sadly, they can just eat the cost).
There are no Walmart's in New York City
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There are no Walmart's in New York City
Wait seriously?
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Wait seriously?
Yeah, I've never even been to one because of this
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Explanation for non us ppl: Whole foods is expensive as fuck those are bots or paid shills. Hence the Natural joke.
When Amazon bought Whole Foods, I had hoped they'd lower prices to a more reasonable level.
Nope. Still $8 for the same exact $3 product elsewhere.
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Because people have their own styles of writing, and some people like the way they look/the rhythm they provide a sentence or paragraph.
I'm not kidding when I say to read some books. They're everywhere in actual literature.
no no, you misunderstand. I'm not talking about the verbal flourish of dashes for interjection - I use those all the time, in this very sentence - I'm specifically talking about producing the specific Unicode character (—) instead of just using the normal ASCII dash (-). the only way I can make the actual em-dash character is by long-pressing. if I do -- or ---, it's just a sequence of normal dash glyphs for me.
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Because that's how typography works? Why do you capitalize the first letter in each of your sentences?
I actually don't.
it's the first thing I disable on my phone. I only capitalize "I" specifically, and proper nouns.again though, my issue is one with producing the Unicode character of the specific em-dash glyph. maybe some phones automatically convert dashes to em-dashes based on context but I personally wouldn't know how it's done.
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Just so everyone knows -- in case you hadn't heard -- you can save 30% on your car insurance by switching to Geico.
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Kinda wanna embrace our AI overlords ngl.
I'm gonna have a little chuckle when Skynet comes online and decides eating billionaires is the most efficient way to fix all the problems.
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And debit and cash use still pay this price without the benefit.
Literally taking their money and giving it to credit card user as reward.
There is no justification for credit cards. Banks should do credit margins and transactions should be extremely cheap under a common system.Eh, for a lot of businesses, the few percent they pay in card fees is worth it to avoid handling large quantities of cash. Cash is a pain in the ass to actually work with on a large scale. Collecting it, counting it, securing it, keeping employees and random criminals from stealing it, etc. Plus lots of cash allows employees to steal from both the employer or the customer by giving bad change deliberately.
Not that businesses shouldn't accept cash, but there is a reason a lot of them don't want to mess with it. It's an enormous hassle.
