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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jdvbc2j wrote

Reply to comment by Optimal_Spend779 in 'If you're not growing, you're declining': Finding Giant Eagle's place in the market with a new leader by ddesigns

I grew up in a town where Walmart executed that strategy in the 1990s. Built a superstore ~1995 right outside town, and once everything on the main drag shut down all their prices got jacked way up. It doesn't have anything to do with the current state of inflation, that's their decades-long strategy.

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TrinCroft t1_jdvau71 wrote

Reply to Is Xfinity internet bad in Pittsburgh? by jayx468

To your edit, the apt office probably knows what is installed already, not what can be installed. I had them install it in an apt building I was in, everyone else had comcast. They did have to run wires though. They had to add a demarcation point (It was a box, it is where the line comes in to the building.)

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Middleagedacne OP t1_jdva7sz wrote

Reply to comment by just_an_ordinary_guy in Sherri Keefer updates?? by Middleagedacne

I saw more so by the railroad but that’s even farther away from the river? Let alone how would a person get down there. I’ve worked in the area daily for the last two years and I never fear my safety or nothing but it’s all just wacky and to just disappear from a nice area like that is crazy to me.

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stadulevich t1_jdv9mv4 wrote

Reply to comment by Romanfiend in Is Xfinity internet bad in Pittsburgh? by jayx468

Yes, FIOS and Google Fiber are fiber optic versions. So you dont get stuck with the slower cable versions like xfinity, comcast. armstrong. The further away from the city though, the less options because of infrastructure issues(I dont believe they get the same federal or state assistance as other utilities infrastructure) . So some areas dont have fiber optic options. A good thing to check before moving.

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toripearson_19 t1_jdv9gkh wrote

Reply to Is Xfinity internet bad in Pittsburgh? by jayx468

Also, a lot of apartment buildings here are only WIRED for Fios OR Xfinity. If you want the opposite company than what your building is wired for, the company will have to come and actually install wires, which most landlords won't do if there's already some type of internet available. We tried to get FIOS in our old apartment and just gave up because it was such a hassel trying to get the landlord and Verizon to communicate.

Our last apartment "didn't have FIOS available in the area" just because our block hadn't been wired for it yet. Even though 2 blocks away you could get FIOS.

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anonymous_agama t1_jdv989x wrote

Reply to “Kennywood’s Open” by Fuzzy_Baseball9006

I was having a beer with my neighbor this weekend and she told me this story about it. She was going into a big meeting with new clients for an investing firm, just her and her boss meeting them.

Right as the others walk in she leans in and whispers to her boss, “Kennywood’s open”

He apparently doesn’t know the meaning so as the room is filled up by the visiting clients he looks strangely at her and replies loudly “what do you mean Kennywood’s open, it’s December!”

Everyone else apparently knew what it meant.

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