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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Was making small talk to the man at my bodega at 93rd and Broadway last night. They tore down the Europan next door and are fixing to built a tall apartment or condo. I miss the Europan. But I said “well you guys will be getting lots more business right?”
He said “that’s what people said when they built the apartment on the other side, but everyone gets everything from Amazon now.”
A bodega isn’t for considered shopping. There is a market a block down. The bodega is for walking back after dinner and realizing you need Pellegrino. I don’t get how Amazon impacts it. But it does.
I’ve two kids trying to sort out careers now (my son is back!!!) and I have no advice where to go that will have legs for 40 years.
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At the beach a few years ago, we were running up to a corner store to get Q and Fever Tree tonic for drinks (stuff is addictive... so good). A buddy with Prime said we were wasting money. Case of Q arrived two days later. Saved us a bunch of money.
I like the savings, but it kind of creeps me out. People are already “bowling alone,” as that famous book was titled. I think all of this home delivery stuff is making us even less socially connected, and a lot weirder.
Millennials can’t even hold proper conversations. They get mad if you call them instead of texting. And the even younger kids are still stranger yet.
If you can’t hold a conversation, you aren’t going anywhere. Unless you’re some freak in Silicon Valley or a quant fund. Tell your kids to become “personality coaches.”
Fucking coaching... That’s another sad development. Executives need coaches? For what? Nobody did that shit in the past. It’s McWork. Fucking nonsense.
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