TrumpetX

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • TrumpetXtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldBlack Friday
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    22 days ago

    Retailers operate on exceptionally thin margins so that they make nothing or next to nothing outside of major consumer holidays. The day after Thanksgiving became a day when most were off work so they’d take advantage of the extra time to go get some Christmas shopping done. Retailers would go from “in the red” to “in the black” from a profit and loss perspective.

    Retailers noticed and started offering sales to lure in these shoppers who were spenders.

    Door buster sales as loss-leaders became a thing and soon everyone was in on the consumer holiday.



  • TrumpetXtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlBest Alternatives to GitHub?
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    2 months ago

    Gitlab really pissed me off with their paid plans for work. We moved to GitHub, and while that’s not popular here, they offered everything we needed at nearly 1/4 the price.

    Gitlab kept saying $99/user per month, no way to have different “classes” of users at different paid plans. Just awful.

    I told them we were switching unless they came back with a fair offer. Ignored. Renewal time came up and I told them we weren’t renewing… Oh NOW they want to bargain and try to retain us??? F right off. Microsoft might be the devil, but they offer a good product for the price.

    I used to self host gitlab, but they kept putting things behind the pay wall. GG.

    Self hosting, Forgejo all the way!!