Message-ID: <68743487@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <20250620103703.00004ee7@gmail.com> <1035m0l$u0ib$5@dont-email.me> <20250623142902.00001ef8@gmail.com> <103cqjq$1ip4g$7@dont-email.me> <20250701141023.00003c97@gmail.com> <1041t1s$349i3$3@dont-email.me> <10421sd$35564$4@dont-email.me> <1042qem$3dil1$1@dont-email.me> <1044eug$3p5ha$3@dont-email.me> <104as16$1d2v4$3@dont-email.me> <6868fbb4$0$11443$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <104au7q$1dse1$1@dont-email.me> <104bg1e$1igkp$1@dont-email.me> <104davd$220mr$4@dont-email.me> <686a51b6$0$8598$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <104ed5k$29dh6$1@dont-email.me> <68716003$0$423$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <104uk4q$276dl$1@dont-email.me> <104vjom$2bqoq$3@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.4-20241224 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 14 Jul 2025 08:34:47 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 36 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69557 rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:45:04 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> That might be deliberate. I've noticed the local Safeway often arranges >> (and periodically re-arranges) things in ways that make no sense at all >> - >> unless the goal is to make you wander the entire store, more likely to >> grab items on impulse that you never would have bought otherwise. > > We no longer have Safeways. Another one! Amazing, I had some idea there was one of either Target or KMart in the US, but never realised they had both, and Safeway as well! Facinatingly the Australian Target and KMart (now owned by the same company, but with KMart largely taking over) never had a business connection to the US brands. It's not clear how deliberate the name-stealing was. Reading up on the Australian Safeway, it was a direct Australian branch of the US company but sold to Woolworths in 1985, a company that Wikipedia claims did deliberately steal its name from the US Woolworth but was another Australian business (now the largest business in the country). Safeway stores have now all been rebranded to Woolworths, although not until 2007 here in the state of Victoria. Recent news is that The Reject Shop, an Australian retail chain that doesn't seem to have stolen any branding from overseas, was sold to Canadian company Dollarama in March, who might rebrand the stores under that name over here. Now that I'm talking Australian off-topic stuff instead of US off-topic stuff, people are probably going to start complaining. I wonder if there's a group for discussing international retail chains? I'm facinated. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#