#department store sale

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The serious business of a lampshade sale, 1956.

Photo: Dan Weiner via the Int'l Center of Photography

[dreamaze]

BFFL 49/∞ ↪ mx fashion assessment: hyungwon has a good face

[lae-zels]

second hand shouldn't cost more than brand stuff??????????

[annapolisrose]

Just one look, that's all it took…

[curioscurio]

Yooooo you worked at Michaels too?

(Ex-Framing department employee here)

YEA LETS GO EX-FRAMING DEPARTMENT they never even got around to teaching me production it was all wrapping and taking orders :/ Idk how it is at other shops but we only had 3 people working the whole frame shop. One person did ALL the frame assembly and us other two handled everything else. Was absolutely not worth $11/hr. man fuck retail. FUCK Design Hub too, if I may

[furryprovocateur]

FUCK

[jhsharman]

present and accounted for

Conspicuous empty space in a word balloon is a sign of a good possibility for pre-production revisions. In this case, it would seem that they were really struggling on this opening -- Jughead 's suggestion Archie would wear this women's blouse, and the final panel -- Archie gifting it to Jughead.

Counter to the usual habit of adding color into the hair of the white haired oldsters.

Comma.

[gentlethorns]

fuck dude i have got to find a job where i can be self-employed and creative. i cannot be in fucking retail hell anymore

[evilhorse]

Whew! I made it in time!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ladies crowding the counter at Gimbel's during its sale on nylon stockings, January 28, 1946.

Photo: Frank Bauman for Look magazine via MCNY

[bunchanistan]

hanshin celebrating their win as the game ended - the text says "hanshin tigers are japan champions for the second time after 38 years"

it's a bit hard to tell in the picture, but one of the players is holding the jersey of yokota shintaro, a former hanshin player who died of brain cancer a couple months ago. they kept his jersey with them in the dugout throughout their playoff run.

across town, as the game was ending, cops were lining the sides of hikkakebashi in doutonbori, in an effort to keep people from jumping in the water.

people did anyway (飛び込み - jumping in)

(video and tweet source)

THE HANSHIN TIGERS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE OF THE COLONEL!

For the people who don't know, in 1985, the Hanshin Tigers won their first (and at the time, only) Japan Series victory. Traditionally, they've been hard luck losers, and they're often compared to the Red Sox in the sense of their being overshadowed by the Yomiuri Giants, who, like the Yankees, have won more championships than any other team in their league.

When they won, fans resembling the players on the team were jumping into the Dotonbori Canal in Osaka - the fans would yell out a player's name, and a fan who looked like them would jump in. The problem was when they got to Randy Bass, who none of the Japanese fans looked like. They needed to find something resembling him and selected a statue of Colonel Sanders, who was white and had a beard like Bass, and threw it into the canal.

Colonel Sanders sank underwater, and the Hanshin Tigers did...horribly after that, usually coming in last in the league or close to it, to the point where the team was considered cursed by his presence in the canal. The team made the Japan Series a few times after that in the 2000s and once in the 2010s, but lost each time.

In 2009, the Colonel was located and recovered from the Dotonbori Canal, save for his left hand and his glasses. He's now at a location near Koshien Stadium, where the Tigers play their home games (and where the famed national high school baseball championships are played), and can be viewed there to this day.

Fans were, however, not convinced that they had earned the Colonel's forgiveness, since his hand and glasses were missing. In the image above, he's been given some replacement glasses, but he still lacks a left hand.

This year, Hanshin beat the Orix Buffaloes, a team that plays roughly 20 minutes away by train in Nishinomiya, 4-3 in a seven-game series. The curse is thus considered broken...so the fans did what they do best, and threw a fan dressed like Colonel Sanders into the Dotonbori Canal.

For years, this has been my favorite baseball story, and I'm so happy that I was alive to see it seen all the way through. Congratulations, Hanshin fans!

[cherrychapati]

bought the cutest bright lime green asymmetrical top + lacy white bra w my birthday money feeling on top of the world

[annapolisrose]

Devalued.

[jepergola]

New story today: "Post-Thanksgiving Lethargy"

[egregiousderp]

Hi, yes! I work US Grocery and specifically the countries of origin MUST be posted accurately on fruits and vegetables in case of a recall. (We do indeed have to change the country of origin every time we cut you a fruit cup. Not to do so accurately merits legal action.)

If it happens repeatedly, especially in reference to avoidance of upcoming or current boycotts, photograph and document it with intent to report to the proper health authorities. (Let the store management know first if you want to be gentle, because you do get new people or genuine mistakes. A good chunk of our employees are exhausted teenagers saving up for their first cars and such.)

Health inspectors do check us for these things because it’s genuinely dangerous to the health of the consumer if you have product coming from an affected area and it’s mislabeled.

The way stores get caught lying all the fucking time about fruits and vegetables…

Carrefour says that the dates come from Algeria. Except Algeria doesn’t produce Medjoul dates (we make Deglet Noor) so it is impossible that these dates come from Algeria. You know who export Medjoul dates to France? Morocco and “Israel”. Mainly “Israel”. So once again a French store is caught lying to avoid the boycott and to support the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians without consequences.

(Reminder that Carrefour is a target of BDS so we’re boycotting regardless of their lies)

Again caught lying. This time it’s Auchan. The poster with the price says the avocados come from Portugal except the box says “Israel”.

In the video this time in Lidl you can see that the store says the avocados are from Columbia. Except at the person show it on the video the tag says “Origin: Israel”

Regarding avocados especially they lie all the fucking time. I actually stopped buying them because of the constant lies and because even in other countries it’s often produced at the expense of the local population using too much water to satisfy the needs of the West.

Either way I would suggest being super careful look at the box and tags not just what the store tells you. And if you live in France know that this is illegal and you can report all those instances to the DGCCRF (here). If you live elsewhere I suggest looking for the legislation and reporting those lies if you can.

[almonddirge]

Pokemon is truly a utopia