> Hi, my name is...Slim Shady. No, really, my name is Slim Shady. Just kidding, my name is Mark Zuckerberg (for those of you that don't know me) and I live in a small town near the massive city of New York. I am currently 15 years old and I just finished freshman year in high school.
Zuckerberg was so young when he founded Facebook and became a huge (and largely negative, in my view) influence over how we lived our lives, just a few years from this point in time.
>"Saleem Abdulrasool is the release manager for the Windows platform (@compnerd), is a prolific contributor to the Swift project and the primary instigator behind the port of Swift to Windows." Saleem's github, https://github.com/compnerd, lists swift-win32 repo, which is a "a thin wrapper over the Win32 APIs for graphics on Windows." So it's one person wrapping Win32. Not too promising yet, but it's early and there's room for Windows programmers to get involved.
Amazing work by Saleem and the team at The Browser Company to devote years to this and make it a success.
When I need to cancel something that is hard to cancel, I get a free virtual card from Privacy (privacy.com), then switch my subscription to use the virtual card number, then pause or cancel the card in Privacy.
> Alaska Airlines maintenance workers had been instructed to determine why the warning light had repeatedly gone off, but the work was not done before the flight on Friday. Instead, Ms. Homendy said, workers reset the system and the plane was put back into service, though the airline restricted it from being used on flights to destinations like Hawaii.
> We find noncash payment types, earlier sale hours, product differentiation, and lower customer densities are associated with higher customer transaction size, as is the number of product groups (species) and item variety offered by vendors.
> We find noncash payment types, earlier sale hours
Man are researchers really this naive? These are small businesses, large cash transactions aren't gonna be recorded on Square. duh
Knowing a thing or two about the business side of farmers markets(having seen it from the farmer's side), I would expect that the correlation with earlier sale hours is related to those merchants having agreements with local restaurants/grocers or even other vendors at the farmers market to buy bulk quantities. You sell a good portion of your crops directly to a bulk reseller/food maker who pays you in credit. You record that in Square because it's your only CC transaction vendor.
> Maybe people want to rush their purchases when in a crowd?
Anecdotally, that does align with my experience. I tend to try to shop off hours, but now stores try to cram soo much into their brick 'n mortar footprint that even light foot traffic is a claustrophobic experience.
For me, the inability to freely navigate a crowded store and the short mean time between interruption (where you have to move because someone else wants to get by or look at the same thing), curb my desire to linger and peruse. I make my plan, I get in, I get out. And that's only when I can't order for pickup/delivery to avoid navigating the store entirely.
Yup, this is me. I have poor impulse control, so if shopping is easy my impulses take over and I buy stuff I want but don't need.
If the place is crowded then shopping is annoying and hard, and my impulse says to get the things I need and leave. I'm more likely to leave without things I need (eh, do I really want to trudge back across the store for milk or can I just deal with black coffee?)
Much more time for interaction with the stallholders. We definitely buy more when we have a good chat as there's more time for up selling and cross selling.
+ after having a chat you feel guilty not actually buying anything...
> the 'lower customer densities' twist is interesting. I wonder what creates that situation. Maybe people want to rush their purchases when in a crowd?
I know when I'm in a crowded environment I spend much less time browsing and just grab the stuff I need and get out the way. This sort of feels intuitive to me.
Lower customer density probably also correlates with harder to get to.
If your local farmers market is convenient to get to, maybe you go there for small orders, and if it's convenient for you, it's likely convenient for many. If your local market is hard to get to, you probably don't go as often, but when you do, you get more stuff.
If the market is near dense residential, it probably gets more customer density and more small orders; if it's out in the sticks, it probably gets less customer density and larger orders. You're not driving 30 minutes round trip to get one pepper that you need right now, but you might walk a 5 minute round trip for that.
I wonder if some of this reflects wholesale/restaurant purchases vs. stuff meant for a single household.
I'd expect a business to have a PO or at least a company card/checkbook, want very specific things (vs. whatever you can get from Sysco), and to purchase early/late because their business hours overlap.
> the 'lower customer densities' twist is interesting. I wonder what creates that situation. Maybe people want to rush their purchases when in a crowd?
Another interesting question: Are people buying more food with this vendor now, thus displacing future purchases, or is the extra food ending up going to waste?
I was at a store yesterday to spend some gift cards and had to wait several minutes to checkout because there was only a single employee working a register.
I could imagine vendors at a farmer’s market could easily run into a bottleneck of not being able to service customers fast enough.
>The lawsuit had sought at least $5 billion. Settlement terms were not disclosed, but the lawyers said they have agreed to a binding term sheet through mediation, and expected to present a formal settlement for court approval by Feb. 24, 2024.
I liked Bird's scooters the first few times I rode, until I hit a pothole while going a moderate speed. I kept my balance, but I felt like there would have been no way to recover gracefully if I was going a bit faster.
The bikes used in bikeshare systems feel much safer: they're heavy and have wide tires and a low center of gravity.
I hope this is successful. My dad is homebound, can’t get around on his own, and needs to get blood drawn on a regular basis at a Coumadin clinic. He can usually get a friend to give him a ride, but not always.
Zuckerberg was so young when he founded Facebook and became a huge (and largely negative, in my view) influence over how we lived our lives, just a few years from this point in time.