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htfmireport · 1 month

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#Spa Services Market #Services Market #spa services

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ict-123 · 5 months

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According to the report, the global location-based services market was valued at $45.4 billion in 2021, and is projected to reach $402.4 billion by 2031, registering a CAGR of 24.6% from 2022 to 2031.

#Location Based Services Market #Location Based Services #Location Based #Services Market

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liesmyth · 1 month

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the great dildo copyright war of 2024

#thank you ontd op for the your service 🫡#bad dragon #cornering the market on furry sex toys. I see. let people live

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root-analysis · 2 years

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DNA Synthesis Technologies & Services Market | Industry Analysis | Market Size | 2035

Roots analysis firm provides reports on the current scenario and future potential of the DNA synthesis technologies and service providers. Given the rising need for DNA across a wide range of applications, we believe that the DNA synthesis platforms and services industry is the potential to witness outstanding growth in the anticipated future. Further, the study and insights underline an in-depth analysis, highlighting the capabilities of service providers engaged in this domain.

#DNA Synthesis #services industry #Services Market #Industry Analysis

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mostlysignssomeportents · 11 days

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Greedflation, but for prisoners

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (Apr 21) in TORINO, then Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

Today in "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" news: The Appeal has published the first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices, revealing just how badly the prison profiteer system gouges American's all-time, world-record-beating prison population:

https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/

Like every aspect of the prison contracting system, prison commissaries – the stores where prisoners are able to buy food, sundries, toiletries and other items – are dominated by private equity funds that have bought out all the smaller players. Private equity deals always involve gigantic amounts of debt (typically, the first thing PE companies do after acquiring a company is to borrow heavily against it and then pay themselves a hefty dividend).

The need to service this debt drives PE companies to cut quality, squeeze suppliers, and raise prices. That's why PE loves to buy up the kinds of businesses you must spend your money at: dialysis clinics, long-term care facilities, funeral homes, and prison services.

Prisoners, after all, are a literal captive market. Unlike capitalist ventures, which involve the risk that a customer will take their business elsewhere, prison commissary providers have the most airtight of monopolies over prisoners' shopping.

Not that prisoners have a lot of money to spend. The 13th Amendment specifically allows for the enslavement of convicted criminals, and so even though many prisoners are subject to forced labor, they aren't necessarily paid for it:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

Six states ban paying prisoners anything. North Carolina caps prisoners' pay at one dollar per day. Nationally, prisoners earn $0.52/hour, while producing $11b/year in goods and services:

https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2024/0324bowman.html

So there's a double cruelty to prison commissary price-gouging. Prisoners earn far less than any other kind of worker, and they pay vastly inflated prices for the necessities of life. There's also a triple cruelty: prisoners' families – deprived of an incarcerated breadwinner's earnings – are called upon to make up the difference for jacked up commissary prices out of their own strained finances.

So what does prison profiteering look like, in dollars and sense? Here's the first-of-its-kind database tracking the costs of food, hygiene items and religious items in 46 states:

https://theappeal.org/commissary-database/

Prisoners rely heavily on commissaries for food. Prisons serve spoiled, inedible food, and often there isn't enough to go around – prisoners who rely on the food provided by their institutions literally starve. This is worst in prisons where private equity funds have taken over the cafeteria, which is inevitable accompanied by swingeing cuts to food quality and portions:

https://theappeal.org/prison-food-virginia-fluvanna-correctional-center/

So you have one private equity fund starving prisoners, and another that's gouging them on food. Or sometimes it's the same company. Keefe Group, owned by HIG Capital, provides commissaries to prisons whose cafeterias are managed by other HIG Capital portfolio companies like Trinity Services Group. HIG also owns the prison health-care company Wellpath – so if they give you food poisoning, they get paid twice.

Wellpath delivers "grossly inadequate healthcare":

https://theappeal.org/massachusetts-prisons-wellpath-dentures-teeth/

And Trinity serves "meager portions of inedible food":

https://theappeal.org/clayton-county-jail-sheriff-election/

When prison commissaries gouge on food, no part of the inventory is spared, even the cheapest items. In Florida, a packet of ramen costs $1.06, 300% more inside the prison than it does at the Target down the street:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24444312-fl_doc_combined_commissary_lists#document/p6/a2444049

America's prisoners aren't just hungry, they're also hot. The climate emergency is sending temperatures in America's largely un-air-conditioned prisons soaring to dangerous levels. Commissaries capitalize on this, too: an 8" fan costs $40 in Delaware's Sussex Correctional Institution. In Georgia, that fan goes for $32 (but prisoners are not paid for their labor in Georgia pens). And in scorching Texas, the commissary raised the price of water by 50% last summer:

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues

Toiletries are also sold at prices that would make an airport gift-shop blush. Need denture adhesive? That's $12.28 in an Idaho pen, triple the retail price. 15% of America's prisoners are over 55. The Keefe Group – sister company to the "grossly inadequate" healthcare company Wellpath – operates that commissary. In Oregon, the commissary charges a 200% markup on hearing-aid batteries. Vermont charges a 500% markup on reading glasses. Imagine spending decades in prison: toothless, blind, and deaf.

Then there's the religious items. Bibles and Christmas cards are surprisingly reasonable, but a Qaran will run you $26 in Vermont, where a Bible is a mere $4.55. Kufi caps – which cost $3 or less in the free world – go for $12 in Indiana prisons. A Virginia prisoner needs to work for 8 hours to earn enough to buy a commissary Ramadan card (you can buy a Christmas card after three hours' labor).

Prison price-gougers are finally facing a comeuppance. California's new BASIC Act caps prison commissary markups at 35% (California commissaries used to charge 63-200% markups):

https://theappeal.org/price-gouging-in-california-prisons-newsom-signature/

Last year, Nevada banned any markup on hygiene items:

https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/10425/Overview

And prison tech monopolist Securus has been driven to the brink of bankruptcy, thanks to the activism of Worth Rises and its coalition partners:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/08/money-talks/

When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Prisons show us how businesses would treat us if they could get away with it.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/#locked-in

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chiquilines · 2 months

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Silly togachako uni doodles since I havent drawn them in a minute

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blackg4te · 6 months

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gallusrostromegalus · 1 year

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"C: Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?"

You couldn't fucking PAY me to write a coffeeshop AU. Love might be able to bloom on the battlefield, but it withers and rots in the foodservice industry.

#people who do food service are stronger than any warrior and tremendously sexy #but a starbucks is a desolate place of Modern Marketable Minimalism and profoundly unsexy labor exploitation #Nothing hot happens behind the counter of a coffee bar #Except Osha-violation related steam burns

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nr1-logo-design-inspiration · 5 months

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Love or Hate? Creative typography

#love #i hate this #lord hater #typography #logotype #creative #letter #font #web devlopment #social media marketing #consulting services #usa #new york

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dandyads · 3 months

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WWI Poster, 1918

#world war 1 #war #civil rights #multicultural market #1910s #1918 #united states #military #propaganda #public service announcement

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searchsystem · 2 months

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Otl Aicher / Gruner + Jahr / Marketing Service / Poster / 1975

#otl aicher #gruner + jahr #marketing service #poster #1975 #illustration #typography

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pratchettquotes · 1 year

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"H-hello?" he called in the cavernous darkness of the hall. "Is there anyone there?"

There was, fortunately, no reply, but there was some scrabbling up near the roof.

"We're closed, you know," he quavered. "But we're open again at seven in the morning for a range of stamps and a wonderful deal on mail to Pseudopolis." His voice slowed and his brow creased as he tried to remember everything Mr. Lipwig had told them earlier. "Remember, we may not be the fastest but we always get there. Why not write your old granny?"

"I ate my grandmother," growled the voice from high in the darkness. "I gnawed her bones."

Stanley coughed. He had not been trained in the art of salesmanship.

"Ah," he said. "Er...perhaps an aunt, then?"

Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

#stanley howler #mr. gryle #moist von lipwig #going postal #discworld #terry pratchett #postal service #mailman #stamps #postage #marketing #sales #situational awareness #family ties #the art of salesmanship #perhaps an aunt #we always get there

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nanoa1foryou · 4 months

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Sanoma Media nominated the Käärijä DNA ad campaign as the campaign of the month. Käärijä is fucking winning at advertisements.

#he wins everything. as he should #to be fair. their reasoning for this is pretty solid. this is funny. it's heartfelt.#it actually advertizes the company and it's services in a faithful yet innovative way #and of course the käärijäpaperi craze. it's not even available everywhere anymore because they have started running out of it in some store #käärijä #also I just love marketing and the stuff that goes into it #y'all are so quick to dismiss any ad as a pointless waste of money #but looking at the people who were coming up with any product to buy from one of these stores to get the goddamn paper #it's not exactly a waste of money or pointless if it actually increases brand recignition and sales and notability #this is how and why ads work #so yeah sanoma media is based for recognizing it as the success it is #and käärijä deserves every damn win he can get

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diet-bathwater · 5 months

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horrid little man came into my work today to shop for crucifix necklaces

#tried to refuse him service (for being a gremelin) and he just said no and kept shopping #sphinx cat #hairless cat #thrift store life #thrift store #flea market #irl #crucifix #cross necklace #communes with the void

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haunted-xander · 1 year

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Kotoko's breakdown right before her boss fight honestly breaks my heart

She wanted to be saved. She wanted to be saved but she wasn't and thats at least half of why she hates the adults so much because she COULD'VE been saved she COULD'VE escaped the situation but no one helped her so she just had to take it all and just :(((((

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ghostopt · 5 days

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Trump was Right About Everything Political Mens Short Sleeve T-Shirt Graphic Tee

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