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Disney views itself as too big to fail. And they may be right.


Im not so sure. Read "Built to Last". It examines companies that have stood the test of time vs competitors in the same space. Disney is one, and these companies are successful due to the philosophy and vision that set the apart from others.

Its pretty clear Disney is slowing moving further and further away from the vision and philosophy the company used to have.
Fired only the ones that brought it on themselves for whatever reason. Never lost anyone I wasnt ok replacing either. Its way easier when they do some malicious or dumb shite. Parting with the genuinely nice ones that simply couldnt meet the standards are the most difficult conversations.

Only ever managed or owned private businesses so no layoffs or cuts due to corporate decisions.
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So you go eat at a restaurant and they present the bill, did you not you create a debt by eating? And now you are obligated to settle it.


Im sure there is ample signage indicating they dont accept cash.

Why do we want governments dictating private business policies?
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No one should be able to force you not to use cash, if that's how you want to pay.


Why should you be forced to accept cash as a business owner if you dont want to accept it?
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maybe Ole Miss


Losing the best head coach in the history of your program, your entire offensive staff, a few key players, and having a drunk as a first time head coach has to matter.
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who, here, in this conversation has issues with small business making a profit?


This conversation? I don’t know. I know plenty of people that view particular industries as places where they view businesses being profitable as a negative.
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Build it into your pricing. It's not complicated.


Build an unknown increase in cost into your pricing model. Yeah just raise your prices while every consumer is complaining about the price of everything currently.

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Who has issues with a small business making a profit?


The same people that complain about PE/corporate taking over everything are the same ones complaining about small business pricing.
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It's called the cost of doing business.


Do some of yall not realize the “cost of doing business” continues to go up. Yet consumers act like small business aren’t allowed to make a profit. If they don’t, you will be left dealing with corporate for everything.

Credit card usage by customers has taken an exponential increase. CC companies started charging fees just to hold and tokenize the card info on top of the fee to run the card.

These companies change rates and increase fees without notice to the businesses all the time. 3% may sound small, but now has a much larger impact than it used to. Small business often run at 15-20% profitability with a lot running less than that. 3% is a lot more money than you think it is to that business.
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Imagine if a business was forced to survive with -3% profit.
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Well a 3% change is a shite ton when a lot of industries are barely running at 10-20%.

And yeah debit has a smaller charge than credit and credit card companies started charging the business for storing the cards too on top of the rates.

So that’s why people are “passing” on the charge. You can get around most laws surrounding it by giving a cash discount instead.
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I think the OOC opponents are usually scheduled multiple years in advance. Is it garbage? Yup. Unfortunately, OOC is gonna be garbage until 2030 when they play Notre Dame (OOC through 2029 have already been determined).


Ok, now address that dogshit B1G schedule
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Women gets kids ready for daycare/school and get them there and pick them up. A lot take them to sports/after school events, grocery shop, cook dinner, make sure there’s toilet paper/shampoo/soap, prepare for holidays, and many work. A lot of men work while women do the majority of extras.


Maybe that’s the majority, I don’t know. But I can tell you most of the dads I know do way more than the previous generation.

More than half of what you listed I do, not her.
Basically every Council on Aging in the different parishes
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I don’t tip at all.


That’s a great way to guarantee nobody wants to take care of you. And not show appreciation.
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They will have no chemistry, anticipation, timing.... its going to be rough


Well shite then why even play
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They have the best QB and RB in the SEC. Return a lot of contributors and upgraded several positions via the portal. I get the hype.


They also lost the brains behind the offense, have a new head coach, and have a much tougher schedule.
For every claim of “oh I feed them ribs and whatever all the time and it’s never been an issue”, I have different stories where it didn’t turn out well.

You couldn’t begin to imagine the amount of things and food dogs ingest that can be fatal.

I’ve seen a dog have underwear surgically removed 3 separate times. The 4th time it didn’t make it.

I’ve seen one dog eat a full bag of grapes, get treated, and be fine. I’ve seen a different dog eat less than a handful of grapes and die.


It’s your animal, feed them whatever you want. Just know you are essentially rolling the dice each time you feed them something you’re told not to.
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All depends on Leavitt


Does it? While I agree hes probably our best shot at our potential ceiling, what about OM last year?

Sure its probably an outlier but no one thought OM was going to be what it became once Simmons went down.
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Oh please, keep other food costs down? Have you been to a restaurant lately?


Yes. Food costs would have to go up even further if they reduced their markup on soft drinks. Thats just basic business. You act like restaurants are money machines. Standard restaurants shoot for 10% profit margain and most run between 5-10%. Do you realize how low that is?

You are bitching about the price of soft drinks. Think about that, not health care, not water, not education. Soft drinks.