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superqueerpasta replied to your video “Life feels pretty terrible right now in general so I offer all of you…”

It’s tiered! I’ve never seen one like that, that’s neat!

It’s pretty cool! I was looking for the one-level trackball one that comes with a scratching bit in the center when I stumbled across them.

vr-trakowski replied to your video “Life feels pretty terrible right now in general so I offer all of you…”

I can see her zipper!

LOL yes. She does appear to have a seam where the spite was sewn into her. :D

thewittiestpartition replied to your post “Okay, so I did go to Target, which is very nearby, since I needed…”

The idea of needing to take a shopping cart up to another floor is just so alien??? Even in malls with stores that need an escalator, its just a normal one and you’re expected to either carry stuff (Its just clothing stores) or buy it on that floor. This seems so strange and unnecessary.

Well, that’s the thing. With Target, there are no purchase points in the departments – there’s just the one row of cashiers, the way there is in a grocery store. And if you’re, say, buying five pounds of flour and a two-liter of diet coke and a bunch of bananas and a 12-pack of toilet paper, expecting you to carry those upstairs, to then add three t-shirts, a box of baby formula, and some legos for your toddler, then carry them back downstairs to the purchase point, is a bit on the unfair side, or at the very least it’s consumer-unfriendly. Even if you start out on the upper floor, imagine having to cram all that shit into a hand basket and then carry it around a shop about twice the size of a grocery store, especially while minding a child or three.



I guess…think of it as if a mall only had one exit and you could only pay for stuff at that exit. Now imagine you had to hand-carry everything in the mall you wanted to buy to that one checkout point. You’d want to be able to load up a cart, especially if you were shopping for a family. And now imagine that you had your cart full of goods, but the last thing you needed was in a shop on the second floor.

Hence, cart escalators. Especially since it keeps the elevators from jamming up constantly.

akatonbo replied to your post “Okay, so I did go to Target, which is very nearby, since I needed…”



Maybe in Chicago most Targets have two floors (although I’m pretty sure I’ve been to a Chicagoland Target and it didn’t; could be wrong tho since as traveling Michiganders we usually stuck to Meijer), but I have never been to a two story Target in any of the… idk, half dozen states I’ve been to a Target in. If there’s room for a strip mall, there’s no need for two stories.

Yep, that’s why I mentioned specifically urban area Target stores in this configuration – that doesn’t include areas like Chicagoland, which are considered suburbs of the urban district. In urban Chicago, you know…there isn’t room for a strip mall. Of the three Chicago Targets I normally shop at, none are in a strip mall. Only one even has significant parking available.

Essentially, if you got to the Target you went to by taking a freeway exit to a strip mall? It’s in urban sprawl, but probably not an urban region. Two-storey Targets for sure aren’t the norm in most places, but that’s because most places hosting a Target have cheap enough land they can afford to spread out, rather than having to build up.