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Jr. holding TFG's hand as he walks. Wearing a trashbag for a suit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1di5nwg/junior_has_to_hold_his_hand_as_he_walks_now/
Edit: the photo is a bit of disinformation since it's a single frame from a 2023 video.
The trashbag comment stands, though.
In some countries (Australia???) cigarette packs are required to have pictures of diseased lungs and such.
But by and large, people don't pay attention to notices like that...or signs...or traffic lights in some jurisdictions.
I have not read the article yet, but here's a link to a NY Times Article posted today entitled:
Surgeon General Calls for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms
Dr. Vivek Murthy said he would urge Congress to require a warning that social media use can harm teenagers’ mental health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/health/surgeon-general-social-media-warning-label.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U0.jzTS.LQKzzP2yU6tz&smid=url-share
Being with Kimberly is a special kind of humiliation. It's a fetish.
How exactly would that work?
Revenue: $ 100,000
Expenses (including Depreciation: $ XYZ
Net profit: $ 100,000 - $ XYZ
vs.
Revenue: $ 0
Expenses (including Depreciation: $ XYZ
Net profit: $ 0 - $ XYZ
taking probably more in tax write offs with it vacant.
A will can be amended at any time, Janice. If asked, Junior will go along.
Would Junior go along with it?
While social media is a worldwide phenomenon, I suggest it may be the most pervasive in the USA.
People who would otherwise be relatively happy with their lives see the (often manufactured) grandiosity of the lives of people on social media and come to the conclusion that they are losers in life because they haven't achieved the same level of wealth and success.
I believe there have been studies that have concluded that the increase in depression and suicide amongst teens can largely be traced to social media. Because of the aforementioned issues but also because kids are so easily bullied when on-line.
I am very glad that social media was not a thing when I was a youngster.
Indeed birds have knowledge in many disciplines. But when asked a question to which they don't know the answer they tend to wing it.
Someone I know explained to me that in commercial real estate, when it comes to borrowing against a property, the total amount of rent collected is less meaningful then the amount of rent per occupied square foot.
My lower than average rent PSF might reduce the amount the building owner could borrow against the property so better to leave the space vacant and not lower the average.
This was pre-COVID and the great push to WFH. If I came to the building owner now and made the same offer he might not have been insulted.
As it stands, I moved into a nice office space with a great landlord. Electric and gas are included in the rent and the entire building is covered by a generator.
Or maybe TFG can convince Junior to check himself into rehab and TFG will insist that he remain by Junior's side until he has kicked the coke habit..
Recall the sympathy that Biden got when he was pictured hugging Hunter at the airport following the HB's conviction. TFG might pick up a few votes from suburban women if he stands by his son the same way as Joe.
Result: TFG gets out of the debate and he cranks up the sympathy meter because his eldest son is going through a difficult time.
Bonus points when TFG asks his acolytes to cover the cost of Jr's rehab. Because there is no bottom to the grift.
Or maybe he could persuade Junior to get "lost" on a hunting trip.
It does but there's a WF about 4 miles from the space I'm referring to. That's probably too close to the existing store for WF to be interested. One of the long ago rumors was that TJ's was looking at the space but that fell through early on.
From what I was told, the supermarket chains have a standard lease that they present to a prospective landlord. While there may be some minor amendments to the document, for the most part the markets control the negotiation since they are considered a desirable tenant.
In the case of the nearby strip center, the owner has HIS standard lease and he wants the tenants to use that as a starting point for negotiations. That has turned off several companies that expressed interest. Meanwhile the space has been sitting empty for nearly 5 years, collecting $ 0 in rent.
When I was looking for office space about 6 years ago, I found a basement level (with windows) unit in a medical arts building that was quite nice. The owner's broker described the space as "undesirable." Broker said I should put in an offer, which I did. It was a lowball for sure, but it was meant to be a starting point for negotiation. The landlord never responded because, according to the broker, he was "insulted by the offer." My dentist is in the same building and every time I go in for a cleaning/check-up I look to see if the basement space is still available. Yup, still empty. By now the landlord would have received over $100,000 in rent money from me. Instead he has nothing.
Sounds like a natural for Whole Foods.
What makes you think that? Rory seems to have the full backing of the BOD. They gave him a new multi-year contract recently.
As long as everyone (BOD and Rory, specifically) has their payday they will keep the business alive, shifting from one bad idea to another bad idea.
His scam is coming to an end soon.
Who is "they" other than Rory? The company has been his alter ego, although I predicted more than a year ago that he would disassociate himself with anything that was VERB. He is very good about blaming others for the failures of his visions.
A bit earlier I was reading the transcript of the 2022 first quarter earnings call. Rory was talking up Market and how great things were going. Looking back nearly everything that he said wasn't true
"Fake it 'til you make it" seems to be his ethos.
They are honestly trying to find a model that can get some traction.
Well, that's certainly true. The challenge is to reinvent land and buildings so the outcome in a positive for the community/region.
Many people praise what Robert Moses did for the NY metro area, but there are plenty of critics who points out the neighborhoods that were destroyed and the implied racism of projects that he spearheaded. Hopefully we are more enlightened now.
It's America, we find new ways to see.
No offense taken and you're correct, I meant habitable.
If I drank I could use that as an excuse, but since I don't drink I'll have to blame it on something else. And don't get me started on the difference between flammable and and inflammable.
No offense, but should inhabitable be habitable in this sentence?
I though the story was going to take a different turn.
Woman walks into a delicatessen and asks how much the pastrami costs.
Guy behind the counter: $ 15 a pound.
Woman: $ 15 a pound? The delicatessen 1/2 a mile from here sells it for $ 12 a pound!
Guy: Well, then I suggest you buy it there.
Woman: Well I would, but he's out of it.
Guy: When we're out of pastrami we sell it for $ 10 a pound.
"Most" being an important key word.
Headline: Office Building Losses Start to Pile Up, and More Pain Is Expected
The distress in commercial real estate is growing as some office buildings sell for much lower prices than just a few years ago.
Gifted article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/business/office-building-foreclosures-losses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z00.2qU5.UrZhedZr3VGM&smid=url-share
The silver lining may be that with these buildings marked down from astronomical levels, it gives redevelopers a chance to repurpose a property in a way that would not have been possible when real estate values were sky high. Many cities are tragically short of affordable housing and, while not easy, some office buildings are being converted to residential. The jury is still out as to whether those new units will be affordable to the people who make cities inhabitable. The teachers, the cops, the line cooks, the sanitation dudes and dudettes.
Most real estate never goes bad.
At this point I'm puzzled by the business model. Is VERB in the business of coaching TikTok Shop sellers with valuable advice such as this:
https://www.tiktok.com/@market.live_official/video/7380520233347403050
How does VERB make money on that?
Is VERB in the business of buying crap on TEMU (such as the $1 plastic purses) and selling them, packaging them and mailing them out?
Remember how Rory divested the part of Sound Concepts because Rory said that the future was everything digital and handling physical stuff was a low margin business that was not worthy?
And why is VERB (or Market) not listed as a TikTok Shop Partner here? https://partners.tiktok.com/directory/pc/en?rid=rw1sp9zwsw
There are dozens of partners listed, but no VERB and no MARKET. Seems very odd.
The company appears to be a jumble of disorganized and disconnected nonsense. With a $13 million market cap.
In this case it's a strip center, and a rather high end one at that. As I understand it, the owner is a wealthy individual (who lives locally) and he's content to leave stores vacant until someone comes along that suits his fancy...and is willing to pay the sky high rent. The center is a stone's throw away from a newly built townhome development ($ 900k and up) that was built over the last couple of years, and soon there is a luxury apartment complex opening just behind the strip center.
I would think that a decent supermarket would do well in the space, especially if they cater (arr arr) to busy people who want to pick up either the ingredients for a quick meal or maybe an entree and a couple of sides.
Then again, I surely would not to work in such a store. That clientele tends to be a bit, shall we say, demanding. DEMANDING!
Your statement is based on the business fundamentals and the massive dilution that has taken place. Seems sensible enough, but there are posters on ST that proclaim themselves "chartists" that feel the stock is due for some upside movement. Those folks ignore the business fundamentals, the dilution and the market cap. They are, at heart, degenerate gamblers.
There are even people who saw the recent filings and believe that since the issue price was in the 35 to 70 cent range that it means the stock is guaranteed to rise to those levels. Pure ignorance.
And it's always possible that Rory will release one of his pie-in-the-sky PRs about some new partnership that will give the stock price a temporary kick in the pants. Maybe this time the "partnership" will be with McDonalds. Or some other clown.
This has much more room to drop though now with the market cap so inflated.
There is a long vacant supermarket space in my neighborhood. Over the years there have been rumors about various markets moving in. The most recent rumor is that Giant has, or is about to, sign a lease. What's the mojo there?
I think the CEOs are hoping for a White House scene similar to this:
Remember when Rory announced a relationship with a firm who was supposed to track down the meanies and turn evidence over to the SEC so they could be brought to justice?
The stock price being in the sewer has nothing to do with 1st quarter revenue of $ 7k, expenses of $ 3.2 million, an operating loss of $ 3.4 million and massive dilution.
And I won't be surprised if the 1st quarter turns out to be the best financial performance of the entire year.
Selling dollar store plastic purses is not the road to prosperity.
the fault of “message board bashers” is just insane.
JR30 started cheerleading for VERB in the spring of 2018. Around that time the stock price was (adjusting for the cumulative 1:600 reverse splits): over $ 1,000 per share. Now those shares are worth around 13 cents each.
And all the toddler can do is complain when people speak the truth about Rory's incompetence and the trashiness of VERB.
JR30's money is gone. Spent. Wasted. Never to return.
I feel sympathy for people like SUSA, but for people like JR30 I just laugh.
>> And there it is, proof you are here to just bash the stock
And if you define "bash" as calling attention to any prospective buyers that the company is trash and they should stay away because during its entire existence the CEO has done nothing but lie and waste shareholder money then, sure, I'm here to bash the stock.
You, on the other hand, are here to accuse those of us who know EXACTLY what is going on here of having ulterior motives. That is projection at its finest.
>> and spread propaganda like the rest of the weenies here.
Citing facts is not propaganda.
>> Your words mean nothing since that's what you own.
Of course you should put me on ignore and then you won't see me calling out Rory's scamming ways. Clearly you are better off in your safe space on the other board where you will be shielded from anyone who are shielded from anyone reminding you about the poor investment decisions that you've made.
Rory spent your money and, unless you are buying some of the tens of millions of new shares he is printing, he doesn't care about you.
tl;dr Go cry somewhere else.
The Rs have no choice at this point. They've put all their eggs into the whack job basket. It will be a generation or two, at least, before they are again taken seriously.
Lots of blame to go around, starting with the Turtle, who had his chance to lead his party back into sanity. Instead he took the cowardly path and we all have to suffer with the ramblings of not only TFG, but MTG, Vance, Stefanik, Gosar, Biggs, Bobo, Gaetz and far to many others.
And Cruz...just ewww.
From the TJ's Wikipedia page:
Trader Joe's is named after its founder, Joe Coulombe. The company began in 1958 as a Greater Los Angeles area chain known as Pronto Market convenience stores.Coulombe felt the original Pronto Markets were too similar to 7-Eleven, which he described as the "800-pound gorilla of convenience stores", and was concerned that the competition would be too heavy.
Coulombe developed the idea of the Trader Joe's South Seas motif while on vacation in the Caribbean.The Tiki culture craze was still widespread in the United States in the 1960s, so in a direct nod to the fad, the Trader Joe's name itself was a spoof on Trader Vic's, the famous tiki-themed restaurant that had opened its first southern California location in the Beverly Hilton in 1955.
Bitter about the stock? I've never had a dime invested in this trash. Over the years I have come to know more than a few con artists and have seen people lose significant amounts of money to the con. Poor Susa put most of her retirement fund into this garbage and she lost it all. A woman in her 70s brought to financial ruin because she believed the lies that came out of Rory's yapping maw.
As for the poster that I quoted, he is now being attacked on the other board by your fellow pumper "Redspeed" because said poster isn't being rah rah enough about Verb. Red says that the poster should be realistic about what Verb can do with the limited amount of money that it has to spend on its software. And, best of all, Red is complaining that the poster has not upvoted enough of Red's posts so therefore he is not sufficiently servile to Rory and other posters on the site.
The Market.live site is a heaping pile of trash. No one except shareholders even knows that it exists. The national TV campaign that was supposed to bring eyeballs to the site never existed, despite what Rory put out in a PR. Almost every livestreamers, from the most professional (Tiffany and Sergio), to the most whacked out (Crackhead Mike Lindell) have abandoned the platform because they came to the conclusion that streaming on the site was a waste of their time because NO ONE IS BUYING ANYTHING.
The Market live events on TikTok also fails. They couldn't sell $ 100k of product over a 24 hour period? And the livestreaming from earlier this week consisted of two twenty-something wanna-be influencers dancing and preening in front of the camera while they hawked $1 plastic purses. Even Drew Dorsey demeaned herself to appear on that event. She had a look of pain on her face but I guess the $ 50 an hour (guessing) that Verb was paying her was too much for her to pass up.
This scam is nearing its conclusion. Your money is gone. Don't be mad at me. Be mad at Rory.
Many politicians are conmen (and conwomen). George was simply more committed to it than most.
You can purchase a customized message from George, BTW. Looks like he's been injecting that weight loss drug. Maybe he can become their spokes-liar.
https://www.cameo.com/gads
At first glance of that map I thought it said "George Santos."
Following the volcano and earthquake, he was a hero leading people to safety, you know. Carried dozens on his back crossing a raging river.
TJ's is a German company. They can be...very stubborn.
JR30 went back into his hole of despair. I'm certain he will rear his ugly head again, probably after the next 1:30 or 1:50 RS and subsequent 80% freefall.
On the inside he's crying over his 99.99% loss. Blaming others for his stupid decisions by lashing out.
Like a toddler.
The person who made the post complaining about the sucky Market.live web site is a prolific poster on the other site.
If you have issues with the accuracy of what he wrote, take it up with him.
Better do so quick because the comment over there will likely be taken down.
Btw, why is Rory too chicken to tell the truth about what’s really going on, rather than continuing to dangle the rotting carrot?
Can’t wait to see what the second quarter numbers look like
Here is the full post, which to me makes it worse than the snippet that I originally posted...
Lajet, again thank you the store front updates. I shopped yesterday directly on market.live and can not find the store front links to search. Your links you post here send me but if someone goes to the base website, it is not easy to navigate and find all that it's for sale. How do you see these updates? I’ve given gift certificates to family and they all say the same thing…. Can’t find anything they want. I think Market can make this a fix and have a much better static site that is consumer friendly.
From a post on the other VERB board:
I’ve given gift certificates to family and they all say the same thing…. Can’t find anything they want
Their logistics are probably not set up to be a distributor to retailers other than their own stores.
And they rather insist that they be the exclusive retailers of their branded products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Joe%27s
From a 5-year old Reddit post, FWIW:
I am in Pittsburgh as well. From what I understand after talking to a TJ’s employee, we are unlikely to get wine at our stores because alcohol sold at grocers still needs to be purchased through the state system, so TJ‘s would have to provide their brands to the state. So TJ’s would not be able to sell their proprietary brands here without first putting them into the state system. But then any store could also purchase them. to sell.
BMXI to shareholders:
Kiss my ash.