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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 12:48 PM Original message |
Electronics Repair shops closing - Another Walmartization casualty... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. No. It's a continuation of a disposable society. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. It is not Wal-Mart in this situation as much as we have become |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. But the reason it's a disposable society is that things are cheap |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I was using Wal-Mart that is the focal point of us buying this stuff... |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Some enterprising educator should start a system of shops |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. and instead of being repaired here... |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 02:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
22. Come On! |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
4. The flip side of course.... |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
5. At the beginning of the CD era, I bought a CD player |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I still have laserdiscs that I want to play... |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. My Denon LD player still works, though I have to coax the drawer |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 04:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Do this with them: |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 04:16 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. For basic Laserdiscs this isn't a problem... |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. Too bad you don't live in this area. My husband repairs |
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B3Nut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I thrift-dive and go garage sale-ing for 70's hi-fi gear |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 02:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. He does stuff like that too. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-05 06:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Well, repair shop guy just said it would cost $75 to fix... |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. This is nothing new, just a chapter in our disposable society |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. People are dying all over the world |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 02:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. No, you are correct friend, |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 02:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yup there are "two buck chucks" around... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 04:54 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Canned peas (yuk) |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 05:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. My old bartending instructor used to say buy Popov instead of Smirnoff |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
14. my eyeopener: my dad, a depression-era man, told me to buy a new watch |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
17. This also conditions us more to impulse buy goods *and* concepts... |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
19. Its a knock on effect of electronic miniaturization |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
21. This is one thing that Walmart did NOT do.. |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-05 04:08 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. No, Wal-Mart didn't create this, but they thrive on it... |
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