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Well, it's finally happened, and about time too!

My town has, at last, opened up a Krispy Kreme donut shop   :cheers:
Before then, you had to go to Melbourne or Sydney for the donuts.  They have stores at the airports.  But this one is actually in the city so I can get some any time I want.  :thumbup:

I went past this morning and the line was out the door! 

And more good news, there's talk of Walmart opening up here too. I know that most people think it's an evil corporation and you're probably right.  But I love the stuff they sell and the prices are good too.

Be careful of those sugary treats, they're light as air going down but they can make you lose your girlish figure in no time.

They are so good though that like Lays Potato chips, no one can eat just one!

The only good thing about diabetes is that I can't eat any Krispy Kremes, so I get to keep my girlish figure... errr... my manly figure! Manly! Uhm... I'm gonna go eat some celery sticks!  :tongueout:

You are welcome to all the Krispy Krap you want ... personally I think they are just nasty. I know a lot of people like them, my wife buys the nasty little things. I think she does it because she knows I wont eat them, I prefer the hot, soft and fluffy glazed sin of the local bakery.
Wal-Mart you can have that too, haven't been in one in nearly 10 years. Ah yes America the empire of the chain stores. If you get a Wal-Mart, Lowe's is soon to follow. There are many Wal-Marts where there isn't a Lowe's a stones throw away. 

Yeah...what's not to love about Wal-mart?

Abandoned storefronts, depressed local economies, low quality products.

Don't forget to go around and say goodbye to some of your local mom and pop businesses when Wal-mart invades.

There has been talk of Wal-mart starting to bleed financially over the past two years; of course, this is just talk. Wal-mart has been over-expanding in the larger cities where their under-handed tactics have not worked. All they have succeeded in doing is splitting up their customer base among their new stores.

Wal-mart won't fall anytime too soon, but they don't have any friends and those that are loyal to them are in such fragile financial shape, depending entirely on Wal-mart for their existence, that they are in no shape to do anything to save themselves, and Wal-mart will sacrifice every one of them to save themselves.

Wal-mart sort of reminds me of Freddy Krueger. There is a scene in one of the Elm Street movies where all of Freddy's victims come back on him and destroy him (at least for that film). Wal-mart has made so many enemies and left so many corpses in their wake that when they need help, and they will, they will be taken apart piece by piece.

But, hey, if someone can save a buck or two, who really cares how much someone else suffers? :lookingup:

Zardoz has spoken!!!

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Yeah, I remember the fuss when Krispy Kreme opened up near where I used to live. Ridiculous what people would do. Of course, it didn't last here. It isn't often a homegrown Canadian business can completely repel an American invader, but loyalty to Tim Hortons is too strong in this country. Canadians are pretty serious about our coffee and donuts. But then, Tim's itself has become an ever-expanding empire, popping up all over cities, in malls, in stores and in small towns. I recall they've even been trying to push into the US. Weird that they've been around for 40 years, but in just the last couple of decades, they've exploded all over the place.

The Krispy Kreme thing, although it was a novelty for a while, wore thin pretty quickly. It was big with people who follow fads and buy into hype, but they eventually move on to the next big thing. And, of course, their hearts and minds belong to Tim Hortons. It's practically a club. I like Tim's, but I worry about what it does to pleasant local coffee shops when it comes to town.

Is their motto "Gooble Gobble" by any chance? :teddyr:

That sounds like pizza places around our neighborhood. Dominos and Papa Johns moved in over recent years, but the local pizza places have been here for decades and will never leave because Brooklynites hold their homegrown pies as gospel and everything else is crap. I've only been here for a few years, but I have to admit I'm drinking the Kool-Aid too. :drink:

What my town needs is a POOL TABLE!
There usted to be 3 bars and four pool tables. Two of them had pool tables. They changed hands some years back and now theyre more of restaurant type things...no pool tbles,no juke boxes...no pinball machines or pickled eggs or peanuts. Just 1001 fancy shmancy beers and food.

The only desent bar in town is Old Hat...they have blues and bluegrass bands play on weekends and a pinball machine. AND a juke box! It's a micro brewerey...I don't like beer. But the music is good!

I avoid Wal-Mart like the plague if all possible.  I really can't stand it since I have had some bad customer service experiences with them.  The only time I really go there is if I have to buy a bunch of underwear since I can get a good bit for a good price.

I used to go there on a weekly basis, bu that was when I was in my impulse buying habit.  I used to buy like $40 to $50 worth of DVD's each week, and it really depressed me, so I'm trying to get rid a lot of those DVD's since I really didn't like most of the ones that I got.

Krispy Kreme donuts were something I enjoyed until I changed up my diet.  Then the place folded up because people out here can't seem to shake the Dunkin Donuts addictions.  Dunkin Donuts to me is mostly sh*t and sadly there is one on every corner in my area.  I find their coffee is always at a high inconsistency strength wise.  Some places you can't even taste it and then other places the hair on your chest grows in the first sip. 

I imagine the pool tables left when that guy came to town and started a marching band  :teddyr:

Tim's coffee is really good. Their donuts are no longer made fresh (trucked in half baked and finished off in the local oven), but still tasty. Most significantly, they've turned into almost a deli in the last decade or so, adding soup, freshly made sandwiches, etc. Competition for donuts alone won't hurt them.

I never really got into the Krispy Kreme fad either.
It's funny, most of their locations here have shut down.  They seemed to be doing fine and then all of a sudden they just closed.
Now, about the only places you can get them is at convenience stores.

I personally think Donutland has better donuts anyway.
They're thicker, tastier, come in more varieties and are generally the same price, if not slightly cheaper than the grossly overpriced Krispy Kreme's.

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As for Wal-Mart, I only go there occasionally to get a few groceries or to check their $5 DVD bin.  And I'll only stop there if I happen to be driving by one.  I never actually plan a trip to Wal-Mart.

menard- but let me guess,  target is okay?

My family (Mostly my mother) has a boycott on Sears and K-M art for one reason.  My mother needed a new washer and dryer for her business.  Well she got it at Sears and it was delivered to her business but it didn't work.  The whole kicker of the thing was that they people who brought it over KNEW that IT DIDN'T WORK to begin with.  Then they tried to tell my mom that it was "Because it was cold out" is the reason it didn't work.  Well long story short they kept delaying replacing it so my mom said I'm going some where else and got her new Washer and Dryer at Home Depot and had no problems since then.

We have no KK in the area expect for maybe a display case at the local gas stations.  DD are a dime dozen around where I live.  I tend to avoid those place since I don't always like their stuff, plus I am trying to change my diet so I can lose some of my extra weight that I put on since 06.

The only donut-shop/-francise we have over here in Germany is Dunkin' Donuts in some of the larger cities. I live in a rather small city, but Frankfurt is nearby. However, I don't like sweets anyway, so I don't care (but I would appreciate some Taco Bell somewhere near. Not one in the whole of Germany, I think).

As far as I know, Wal-Mart has pulled out of Germany one or two years ago (there used to be a store nearby). All the stores are some German Mega-Supermarket-chain now, so I don't know if that is much better...

Funny thing is, that in my city most pool tables have gone, too! Some global pattern, apparently.

Oh, but you have some great bakeries and small shops like that.  That's something I do like about cities, that I do not like about suburbia:  small shops.  In surburbia it seems like everything is chains.  In cities you get a lot more of those little family-owned shops.  We have an orchard in my hometown, and several farms that sell produce from little farm stores.  I go to get stuff from them all the time.

Yaa I don't like that about suburbia either, but the chains chose out the family owned shops and such.  Restaurants is another thing I sometimes I choose between.  While I like the larger chain ones since I can get some adult beverages with my meals I tend to go for locally owned or family owned restaurants that are near where I live.  If I want a quick meal some where I will usually hit one of the local diners and enjoy myself there.  Of course the food is not as good as the bigger chains but it is cheaper and I get out faster than if I went to the chain places.

 

Krispy Kreme isn't doing so well in Chicago, at least my part of it. I've seen several close down over the past few years. I don't know if they screwed up their expansion plans or Dunkin Donuts just plain beat them out or if people finally figured out that all you're paying for is whipped air and a little frosting. There are also some excellent little donut shops here if you know where to look. Just follow the cops and truckers :smile:

Ah Wal-mart. I bought clothes there when money was pretty tight. I don't think any of them lasted more than a few months of regular wear. While I do own my fair share of t-shirts that are molecule thin due to overuse, I don't expect most clothes to last forever. But it seems that decent quality clothes would last longer than a few months. But like someone may have already said, eventually a hungrier fish is gonna come along and eat them up.

Now my plan is that once I win the lottery I will bribe enough legislators to make my chain of b movie themed brothels( with Drive-Thru) a legal reality. :twirl:

KRISPY KREME is poison, plus I don't think they taste good at all.  As CHEEZEE said, "nasty." 
WALMART is an illusion; they misrepresent their pricing, they purposely understock advertised items, treat their underpaid employees like chattel... no wonder you can't get friendly or even decent service in a WALMART. 

 

About Walmart, I do shop there for the basics like paper towels and toilet paper.  I often find their customer service, from the cashiers to the corporate office, rather awful.   I did my time (or sentence as I all it) in retail and know how customers act at times.  Still, I only complain if my experience really sucks and on several occasions at Walmart, it has with their products and their staff.  Most places will go the extra mile to make a mends if their customer service sucks.  (Gift certificates, follow up phone calls, etc.)  Walmart has never offered a single thing to me and I've called them a few times for both complaints and praise.  All I've gotten is a "We'll try to be better" in so many words. 

No, I'm not out for free junk but don't you think a billion dollar corporation would at least try to please the customer after unfavorable experience?   I believe feedback is very important and Walmart seems to more a less say "F-you" when you have something to say about their store. 

I buy most of my clothes at Tractor Supply, I got some shirts my grandmother gave me for x-mas that she bought at Wal-Mart and being a good grandson I accepted them in spite of the fact I can not stand Wal-Mart. Well the shirts started falling apart after about 2 or 3 washes and the seams were coming apart and they shrunk about a full size. Within 3 months I had thrown them all alway. reaffirming why I don't go there.


Wal-Mart doesn't care what you think, or I think or anyone thinks, they have brainwashed so much of the public into thinking they are getting a good deal that they never shop around and don;t know where else to go. I live in a small town and people are amazed I can get everything I need with never setting foot in Wal-Mart. They've been so Wal-Martized there completely unaware there are other stores and Wal-Mart knows this so they don't care. The only thing Wal-Mart is rolling back is IQ points and merchant diversity.
I get ill every time I hear someone say, "Oh I just love Wal-Mart." I want to say "Oh you love buying cheap crap from China huh?" Little FYI 80% of all products sold in Wal-Mart are made in China, most of the rest are made in 3rd world countries. Very little is American made.

I'm still waiting for that to make sense.

In the meantime...

Let me count the number of Target stores that opened shop in small towns, sold below cost to drive small shops out of business, then raised prices to anything they want and provided crappy customer service and products, while leaving a wasteland of empty storefronts and crushed local economies in their wake.

Presently the count is at "0".


Still waiting for your remark to make sense...

I'd give ya karma for that..., but, alas no kin dew. 

The Krispy Kreme donut line was out the door again this morning.  I just laughed and went to catch my bus.  I'm assuming the furore will die down when the novelty wears off.  I haven't bought any yet but I might in the future.  I don't actually eat much in the way of junk food but I just like to know that the KKs is there if I want them.

We have a couple of donut stores called Dreamy Donuts.  I believe they are similar to KKs products and they come in plain glazed and all kinds of other yummy flavours.  But each donut is about $2, so you'd go broke if you bought one every day.

My saving grace is that donuts don't exactly agree with me, so it's not possible for me to overeat them.

As for Wal-Mart, we already have K-Mart and Target plus our own chain stores of the same ilk like Best and Less and Big W and they seem to do pretty well.  What you guys call Mom and Pop stores, there don't seem to be too many of them from what I can see.  But I'm assuming that even if Wal-Mart do open up here, they'll stock lot of brands Aussies are already familiar with.

While Target did exist in other towns for a while, where I live we got a Target built last year.  I've only been there a few times, but I enjoyed it every time I went there.  I haven't been there in a while, but when Gas prices come down (Which may take a long time) I'll go there again, that or if I need clothes.
 

When MacDonalds came to South Africa a few years back, there were a few resturants that had to change their names because of too much similarities between those names and MacDonalds'. We even had a 'MickDonalds' in Johannesburg at one time. Other than that, not many eating franchises have popped up here since 1994: it's mostly car dealers and other industries. :teddyr:

Really?

Wow.  So the existing businesses had to change their name so a new, offshore company could come in to compete with them?

I find that totally incredible.  And more than just a little corrupt.

Worse than that, ulthar: some of those businesses had to close due to legal action by MacDonalds as they refused to change their names. So it seems, MacDonald's doesn't like competition.  :question:

Reminds me of the movie "Coming to America" when McDonald's was suing the restaurant McDowell's for sounding and looking to much like them.

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I use to travel pretty much all the time internationally and it was not uncommon to see "Americanish" restaurant in some countries, I remember in northern Italy there was a "Mendy's" which looked a lot like Wendy's right down to the square burgers, in Lebanon there was a "KPC" which looked like "KFC" ... no idea what KPC stood for.
I've seen in various countries more than a few McDonald's type ripoffs, why anyone would want to be like McDonald's is beyond me, any thing with a "special sauce" I'll pass on.

Krispy Kreme are the worst donuts I've ever tasted.  I've not spent money at a Walmart in almost five years, but when I went to college it was impossible to avoid them because Columbia, MO was where Sam Walton went to college so the city had three of them! 

What I want to know is...
Is Tars Tarkas a male or female?
"They" have a girl avatar here on this board.  But I've been to Tar's website and forum and "they've" purposely made it unclear as to whether they're a girl or a guy.  (or both)

So what are you Tars?  Do you have a penis or a vagina? 
I'm sure I'm not the only one here to wonder...

(I was gonna make this an entirely seperate thread...but I didn't want to embarrass you)

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 Me TOO!!!!

Sounds like a creepy way to ask someone out.

Right now I am thinking of someone who belongs in the 'creeps me out' thread.

The Martian is a guy, and he has alluded to that in other threads on this forum.

I don't get that high handed attitude by those companies.  McDonalds and Coca Cola never have to advertise again and they'd still be raking in the millions.  McDonald is a very common, very old name.  It's not like anyone is going to mistake the Golden Arches for something else.

I think when you get to their level of income and brand awareness, paranoia set in and it seems like anything even vaguely related to the name is designed to bring them down.  But I don't think that can happen. They are just too big.

Not necessarily so. Look what Kmart did to themselves. If someone had suggested 20 or 30 years ago that Wal-mart would be bigger than Kmart, that would have garnered some odd looks.

Of course, what McDonald's does to the competetion puts them in about the same ethical sewer that Wal-mart is in. McDonald's has gone after companies which have been around long before them to have the 'Mc' removed from their name.

McDonald's is branching out by offering non-food items, such as their DVD rentals. Such a move suggests a company that is looking to increase revenue either by alternative means or a means to bring back customers it is losing to competition.

Subway put a dent in McDonald's market, and both of them are riding the coattails of Wal-mart. Though a good move for Subway (if not a shabby way, though, to screw your franchisees), it seems to cast McDonald's in a secondary, if not Wal-mart's whore, light.

Neither tactic is a sign of a company that is doing as well as it used to be doing.

McDonald's has become an institution, but that is the same thing that is hurting it. People are always going to associate McDonald's with burgers. They have tried other things, often to much failure.

Maybe they should have Ronald McDonald come out of the closet. It seems to have worked for Burger King; at least I presume it has as they keep making those commercials with the King being in some guy's bedroom or in bed with him.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Creepy_King_Bed.png)  (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Ronald_McDonald.jpg)
BURGKING GON' GITCHOO TOO!!!

They've tried, but it just wasn't the same
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TrekGeezer ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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I went past Krispy Kreme this morning and there were only a few people in the store.  Seems like we Aussies have short attention spans   :teddyr:

I must admit that when I'm buying stuff, I usually go to the Aussie stores of Best and Less and Big W instead of K-Mart and Target.  Target used to be for the poor people, but it's getting pretty pricey lately.  Haven't been there in ages.

I like K-Mart for some things.  But Big W is just awesome for all kinds of things.  Their prices are even cheaper than K-Mart and it seems that, in my end of the world at least, the selection of goods is much better.  The store is brighter and better laid out and the shelves are always full.  K-Mart is haphazardly laid out and the shelves are often empty.

I don't eat in fast food "restaurants".  The food actually makes me ill.  I don't understand why McDonalds would branch out into other avenues under their own name.  Menard is right.  They will only ever be known for their burgers.

It's always been a peeve of mine. All of these companies are trying to be everything to everybody. When did it become a bad thing to do one thing really well? Now they all do a half-assed job of a whole pile of things that might only make sense together if you have a business degree.

I agree Andy.  I think it just boils down to greed.  Pure and simple.

Pretty soon, we'll have our own Umbrella Corporation, but it will be called The McDonalds Corporation.

You are correct, I've always heard and repeated to my guys "It is better to do one job extremely well then to do a variety of jobs half ass."
To many companies try to do to much and rarely do any of it very well, case in point Wal-Mart. Given enough time the shine loses it's luster and they to one day well fall.

I just never get tired of hearing it. :teddyr: