2y ago

Lies! Deception!

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I worked there in college. I had to straighten these all the time because people tried to reach up and take one... Instead of the nicely folded ones that were within arm's reach.
- We were hoping they hadn't been pawed over by the unwashed masses
  
  I wipe my ass with nice store towels.
Where is this? (Sorry, I'm an European, on the edge of the map)
- Bed Bath and beyond, a piece of shit home-goods store
  
  May they rest in peace.
- A soon to be extinct retailer called Bed Bath And Beyond. Watch the Adam Sandler movie 'Click' for a full rundown of the brand.
  
  My understanding was that overstock.com bought them for their brand only, and then changed their own name to Bed Bath & Beyond. So the old BB&B is now extinct, and overstock.com is now masquerading as BB&B.
  If you go to overstock.com or o.co, both actually redirect to Bed Bath & Beyond now (which is presumably just a re-skinned version of the old overstock.com?)
- I second this question, where is this?
- We live on a ball of mud so the edge of the map is the beginning of the map.
- Edge of the map, you say? Svalbard?
Like the fake Marshall amp stacks at concerts.
- Or the fake lifeboats on cruise ships.
  
  Hey wait a minute
Well there goes my dream of quitting my job and living in a towel fort at Bed Bath and Beyond
- Sorry, but your dream also died when they closed all of their stores earlier this year.
  
  Hey! No spoiler tag!? Some of us are still getting caught up on the last two seasons of reality
  
  Not all yet, the one with the ridiculous mark ups near me is still open somehow.
Wait till you hear about the plastic and play-dough "food" they use in advertisements and the glamour shots on a restaurant menu or order board.
- Watching a video that showed how they do cheese for pizza makes seeing those commercials absolutely hilarious to me knowing its basically nothing but glue.
That's why you never go beyond
- If you ever go Beyond, and find the Fell Beasts, just remember the Words of Power to banish them:
  “Bed, Bath, and BEGONE!”
- but whats the point of pretending to be a dangerously overstocked warehouse? they would have done better with just a gigantic poster of ferris bueller in a towel.
  
  It demonstrates they have stacks and stacks of towels and that they are to be fully trusted as your local towel authority.
  
  I have seen a doc about Home Depot (not the pictured store) some time ago. Apparently the overstocked facade was a big deal because those big stores want you to think they have everything that can possibly exist in their inventory so you only always go there and make no further stops.
  Of course, it's smoke and mirror and a lot of stores adopted the big warehouse style for the same reasons. Some stores have legit empty boxes filled with crap all over. If you ever went into one of those store looking for something very specific tho, it is pretty apparent that they only overstock a few profitable items and the rest is no better, or worse than smaller locally-owned shops inventory-wise. Only exception around here would be Costco, which is a.legit warehouse.
  
  My guess is that you never had the (dis)pleasure of shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond or Linens & Things.
  Both stores featured stuff like this. A relatively small footprint for a "superstore", that did a lot by drawing your attention upwards to generate a sense of space. Every "department" had stuff like this, showing inventory 10-20 feet off the floor on very high shelves. Meanwhile the floorplan was rather claustrophobic and not somewhere you want to be on a busy shopping day. But if you needed to outfit a kitchen, bathroom, and a bedroom all on one trip, it was the the place to go.
  Anyway, it's no surprise that there was stuff like this going on purely for show. Makes sense, actually. You wouldn't want staff restocking on ladders half the time.
- It's probably just marketing, the super high stack is visible from far away and advertisers many available colors. If one catches your eye, you then have to walk through a bunch of other aisles to actually get to the towels. It's like putting the milk at the back of the grocery store.
- I could see this be a way to show how the towels look like when neatly stacked. And to show what belongs into that shelf if it were empty.
It's real? Bro
Instead they just have hundreds divided by 5.
- They have twenties of them
  Edit: Scores, they have scores of them
I'm 40 and I just found out right now!
I prefer it tbh, less waste this way.
- How is it less waste?
  
  Takes more resources to produce all those extra towels that won't be sold than the foam stand with one cleverly manipulated towel.
why yes I'd like to buy all of your towels
....sir, um.
now I'd like to sue you for fraud!
I worked at K-Mart in the towels section when Martha Stewart started her line. Trust me when I say there were hundreds, there were. I was in a very busy store at Green Acres mall in NY Queens and people loved to mess up my wonderfully folded towels.
Is this an Ikea reference? I'm not trendy enough to get it.
- No. Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
  
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- The title is a reference to Rogue One.
  
  You wouldn't use towels as greebling 😲
Real towels would certainly flatten over time and look really unappealing anyway. But it's a good reality check for sure!
Very odd that this same account is going ravenously against GME and BBBY.
Seems suspect a day before earnings.
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