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by dazc 3y ago
In the UK, Waitrose sell a re-usable bag or £1 ($1.25). It's a good quality bag and you're not going to throw it away. Not sure on the actual data but other grocery stores have gradually increased the price of re-usable bags to th
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by dazc 3y ago
Look again... 'Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor' ___Security Week 'Thanksgiving 2023 security incident' ___Cloudflare
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'That means in the Post Office example, people were convicted because they couldn't prove the software had bugs, they were just saying "you have to prove I'm guilty, because I'm not", and the court said "n
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by dazc 3y ago
The argument was for electronic payment against cheques.
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Yes, plenty of stores do this and it doesn't turn off that many people. Think of an online retailer that has been around a while and is solvent though and I'll bet they don't do stuff like this.
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The difference in those days is that people had to present an actual coupon that they had gone to trouble of cutting out and keeping. The advent of search 'business-name voucher code' brought this to anyone and everyone.
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Turned out to be a huge waste of time and if I had actually billed them it would have been such a high sum that they would never be able to pay me anyway. For example, several meetings in the local coffee shop where subjects covered could b
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by dazc 3y ago
OK, good to hear.
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Not many genuine businesses have a margin of 20%, especially in retail. If you can get such a discount then it's already been priced-in.
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Because they are throwing money around which means they either have ridiculous margins or are just desperate for cash.
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I once did a free gig for a neighbouring business, that was a lesson for me and not one I intend to repeat.
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by dazc 3y ago
Recent example, a piece of furniture costing over £3k and I can get 10% off if I sign-up to their newsletter. As someone who works in retail marketing, this is a guaranteed way to ensure I don't spend a penny in your store.
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My 3rd party option is based in Canada, I'm not sure I'm any better off regarding privacy?
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In the UK we have anti-money laundering rules for banks commonly known as 'know your customer' where they are obliged to inquire about how one's business works. I can imagine a few interesting conversions as a result.
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The money isn't instant though. People paying for such services with a cheque would do well living a few weeks in someone else's shoes.
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by dazc 3y ago
We have some small traders in the UK who insist on a minimum spend for accepting cards because of the fees levied. It doesn't really make any business sense although I appreciate the sentiment behind it.
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In the UK we have £50 notes which are notoriously difficult to use as cash since there are many counterfeits in circulation and it's hard to differentiate between genuine and fake. We also have notes issued by Scottish banks which are
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by dazc 3y ago
What the police and other authorities 'can do' is a world away from what they 'actually do', in 99% of cases. You could be unlucky if your crime passes a certain threshold or affects someone with power but, most of the t
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by dazc 3y ago
'Replacing notes from memory' is not ideal but it's far removed from 'make up evidence' used in the headline.
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Feeding results back into the algorithm was indeed the reason it was abused. 'They don't have to do that' is correct though, I don't know the reason for that.
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Because they tried that already and it was gamed to death.
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DDG still often returns results that closely match the exact search term, something Google seems increasingly determined not to?
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Maybe with so much linking being reliant upon social media these days it is becoming increasingly difficult to trust new sources? I notice even regular sites that do link out are increasingly using nofollow as a default.
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Using the example given 'best headphones, I didn't find the results to be so bad as I expected. That said, can anyone suggest an alternative method of providing a viable result for such a query that is not monetized and biased in
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by dazc 3y ago
Reminded of the story where a dead body was taken to a post office in Ireland in an attempt to withdraw pension money... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60091753
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You know what I meant.
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'According to another ex-employee' should be enough of a red flag to answer your question.
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Waitrose are in the process of updating the self-checkouts to full trolley-style machines. My local store is not that large but has 12 of these now in place of the previous 4 old-style machines. Despite many claims that people don't li
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by dazc 3y ago
Of all the difficulties in life I can safely conclude that fitting a duvet cover is the one which has had the least personal negative impact.
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by dazc 3y ago
True, ITVX or whatever it was called before actually worked OK but then they updated it and made it quite terrible.

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