My point was, they have stores in the US, and their stores in the US also do this. Which is unusual for US stores. Trader Joe's, for example (which is also owned by one of the Aldi companies) just has regular carts without the coin chain things.
I'm in the US. We don't get most of the Cadbury stuff here, and what we do get (mostly Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs, sometimes Dairy Milk bars) is made by Hershey under license so it's kinda crap.
Unless, of course, you get it from an importer like World Market or these guys. Though I don't think I'll be buying from these guys in the future.
No, I really don't think this is going to change anything. Though I'd be pleasantly surprised if it did.
Honestly, I just wanted to share this horrifically tone deaf email I received. It's so fucking terrible that it makes you laugh about it. Like, some marketing goon somewhere actually thought this was a good idea, and the mere fact that that goon exists is both sad and kinda funny. It's like when McDonald's used "I'd hit it" in an ad for their double cheeseburgers, only racist as fuck to boot.
Meh. Being a wrestling fan in the late 90s/early 2000s and watching WCW fall apart disabused me of the notion that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Definitely, yeah. But there's the baseline offensive there always is when Capitalism appropriates its critics and criticisms and turns them into commodities to further profit from, and then there's... well, this.
Like, this is an onion of bad choices. There's layers to this shit.
As a tech geek, I tend to look at "alpha" as it is used in software. In early development, unstable, not feature complete, and unsuitable for the public.
It's a direct quote from him, from the documentary "The Mindscapes of Alan Moore." Slightly abridged, as he also mentions reptiloid conspiracies in the actual quote.
The thing is, you're not looking at this as a job, or an investment, or a profit-generating enterprise. You have a friend who is staying with you, and helping you with the bills. I don't see any ethical issues at all with this.
I actually find myself in a similar situation, as my friend just left her partner, and, well, I had a spare room. She kicks me a little money to help with the bills, and I keep a roof over her head until she has somewhere better to go. In my mind, that's different than looking at landlording as a job, or worse, an investment to generate passive income.
I disagree. Creating a legitimate marketplace creates room for regulations and law enforcement and kills black markets.
Human traffickers get a lot easier to catch if the trafficked can turn their traffickers in without fear of being arrested themselves for the things they were forced to do.
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Yes, I know Aldi started in Europe.
My point was, they have stores in the US, and their stores in the US also do this. Which is unusual for US stores. Trader Joe's, for example (which is also owned by one of the Aldi companies) just has regular carts without the coin chain things.