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CoraopoRocks t1_jajlt4l wrote

Reply to Thrift Stores! What are your favorites? :) by lucbuzz

trader jacks is an awesome outdoor and indoor space; i love going there if i'm bored on a sat or sun morning. always end up leaving with something that i got a good deal on.

...plus they sell beer at 6am 😂 win win!!

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-Zipp- t1_jajin22 wrote

Reply to comment by Lil_Phantoms_Lawyer in As construction begins on Atlanta’s “Cop City,” Pittsburghers are concerned about an allegedly similar local project by LostEnroute

Wait do you think the guy is gonna spend all $3000 on just fish? You do know that some people aren't fortunate enough to always have enough money for food aswell as other things like rent, clothes, etc.

(Not assuming the original replier struggles with food security btw)

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datcheezeburger1 t1_jajhkjo wrote

Reply to comment by imouttahereta in As construction begins on Atlanta’s “Cop City,” Pittsburghers are concerned about an allegedly similar local project by LostEnroute

Got any research to back up those big ideas or did you come up with them yourself? Because I’ve got plenty of studies on deck that show how direct cash payments help communities. The child tax credit was one of the most transformative policies in the country before it was cancelled and that was from a conservative government of all things lol

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Excelius t1_jajeq99 wrote

Reply to comment by OnyxFiskar in As construction begins on Atlanta’s “Cop City,” Pittsburghers are concerned about an allegedly similar local project by LostEnroute

> The cost of relocating all of those operations from the strip would dwarf the revenue from what they would recouperate from selling the land and the added tax revenue. Its not even close.

Certainly, I wasn't imagining those things would somehow recoup the entire cost, merely offset it.

Apparently not all of the existing operations are on city owned property, in their press release the city claimed that the move would "allow the City to save millions of taxpayer dollars on leases of private properties used by the Department of Public Safety and to move key City-owned properties and parcels back onto tax rolls".

It didn't specify which operations were on city owned properties, and which are on leased properties, nor the time horizon that the "millions in savings" might be realized.

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Rivarle t1_jajd06i wrote

Reply to comment by Excelius in Thrift Stores! What are your favorites? :) by lucbuzz

Found this relevant article from CBS Pittsburgh.
A for-profit business selling merchandise that was indirectly donated in the first place, and they're too cheap to factor in transaction fees? Pretty lame for the customers who have to deal with credit card fees. The website actually touts "ATM in store for your convenience" as a "feature".

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OnyxFiskar t1_jajbnim wrote

Reply to comment by Excelius in As construction begins on Atlanta’s “Cop City,” Pittsburghers are concerned about an allegedly similar local project by LostEnroute

Part of the stipulation of the federal govt selling the VA hospital and all the facilities was that the city HAS to use it for public safety. They legally are not allowed to use that property for any other purchase. The cost of relocating all of those operations from the strip would dwarf the revenue from what they would recouperate from selling the land and the added tax revenue. Its not even close.

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Excelius t1_jaj8g5j wrote

Reply to comment by Rivarle in Thrift Stores! What are your favorites? :) by lucbuzz

> It's not like their registers are too out dated to have a credit card feature.

A lot of times it's not the technology, as much as the processing fees.

From what I've seen transaction fees typically range from 1.5% to 3.0% of each transaction. According to this Square charges 2.6% of the transaction prices plus 10 cents per transaction.

These days nearly all businesses just accept that as a cost of doing business and raise their prices to match, but some don't.

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